How does it Work?
The vjoon Unified Publishing Process®
Saving time starts with planning. In publishing, preparations begin well before editors begin designating topics and sizing up ads. The first step – choosing the right publishing platform – is a milestone move. Opt for vjoon K4 and you will get a platform that sees publishing as a continuous process, intelligently integrates standard solutions, and puts highly automated workflows at your disposal. Fully in line with the strategy behind the Unified Publishing Process, this platform is engineered to achieve utmost efficiency.
Right time, right place: Just-in-sequence content delivery
Embedding workflows in a process as structured as this has huge benefits. Any team from small to large with thousands of users can easily plan, produce and deliver sophisticated publications to any and all media channels. Internal sub-processes within vjoon K4 and external flows to and from integrated systems are synchronized to correlate smoothly.
All tasks are performed precisely at the right time. Contents are tailored to fit and delivered exactly when they are ready to go and needed.
The publishing effort usually kicks off with planning and research. To this end, editors and project managers use K4 Collections™, where they can work in the familiar surroundings of Adobe InDesign, InCopy, or the K4 Web Portal™.
K4 Collections™ is a perfect repository for preparing topics, collecting suitable pictures, videos, texts, graphics and links for background research, and getting the story off the ground. Best of all, all this can be done for any channel. Integrated page planning, asset management, PIM/ERP and agency systems enable even more detailed planning and afford access to more comprehensive contents. And from hour one, K4 Overview™/ K4 Overview Advanced™ provide a comprehensive overview of the entire projected issue for all contributors to see.
vjoon K4 enables every team member to works with familiar tools. They can draw on Adobe Creative Suite's entire toolbox to create layouts, format articles, and write text as well as on Office products such as Word and Excel. The taskbased workflow ensures jobs get done and the work approved in the right sequence. The system makes it all so easy – even for infrequent users. Utmost reliability is assured with individually configurable dependencies, rewinds, and emergency assignments. Many routine manual tasks can be automated for the system to perform autonomously. The same goes for contents that are automatically dispatched to third-party systems, retrieved after remote processing, and routed smoothly back into the mainstream workflow.
vjoon K4 enables samples to be generated for testing, presentation to management, or final production in two ways – manually at any time and fully automatically at a predetermined point in the publishing process. All the steps necessary to create a printable PDF, generate, edit and provide a complex folio file for tablet editions, and export files to archives and asset management systems may be automated. Creat and edit content directly in K4 Web Editor HTML™, upload all the content to a Web CMS and update or delete it later on from your website.
Keeping on top of the publishing flow and in the know is easy with K4 Overview/K4 Overview Advanced. They indicate every status and each object to keep editors, project managers and the head of production posted on the project's progress. Different view modes make it easy for them to get their bearings and check out the details of different portrait and landscape formats, layout variants and designs. Access for editing could not be any quicker: If the user has the requisite authorizations, the target layout will immediately open and can be edited in the appropriate application. Teams can communicate effortlessly much in the way of a live chat. Comments posted on digital sticky notes instantly arrive at the right place across all K4 clients.
