IT-MANAGEMENT

Challenges and outlook

INNOVATIVE CONTRACT MANAGEMENT IN A NETWORKED MEDIA ENTERPRISE

• Technology is indispensable today: bolster your publishing concepts by utilizing modern, specialized software from muellerPrange.
• Help your networked media enterprise take off with an efficient, next-generation IT concept.

THE MEDIA SECTOR IS UNDERGOING CHANGE

• Coordinated IT systems with extensive functionalities can help you shape traditional and advanced processes in the departments for classified ads, reader services (subscriptions, shop), and editing.
• You can plan, realize, and administer modern cross-media brands in an effective, next-generation system environment from muellerPrange.

ONGOING PROCESSES FOR GREATER VALUE CREATION

• Boundaries between departments in a networked media enterprise are counterproductive: the IT system is designed to overcome such infrastructural limitations.
• The IT system from muellerPrange is based on interactive applications that allow you to support general processes, through a platform designed to utilize new synergies within your media firm - across departments, business models and enterprises.

NEXT-GENERATION INDUSTRY STANDARDS

• Go for muellerPrange systems based on various industry standards: SQL, XML, Web services (SOA), .NET, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, smart clients, and browsers.
• Take advantage of valuable building blocks for your IT applications landscape, made feasible by the system's high interoperability and easy integration into your existing infrastructure, such as:
  • Virtual servers, SAP, and other accounting applications, portal environments, business intelligence, archiving systems, and business process management
  • Vertical applications like production systems, OBS, event management and Web sites, or
  • Specific systems for your applications development group.
• Use the expertise within your in-house development group to customize and extend particular applications: SQL, XML, Web services, .NET, Java

PREDICTABLE IT COSTS AND RISK MINIMIZATION

• The slogan is "ongoing innovation": go for a system that permits use of ongoing innovations within standards for subscription updates, and thus cuts costs of release changes by ensuring strict management of software versions.
• Go for a company that has been in the business for over two decades creating software exclusively for the media sector, and which has earned the reputation as the industry's innovative motor.

MOTIVATE YOUR EMPLOYEES WITH ADVANCED TOOLS

• Enjoy success through software technology: only applications that are as user friendly as those of muellerPrange can achieve the desired level of acceptance at work.
• Make sure you always have the right tools matched to the roles of employees:
  • Information workers use Microsoft Office. The software systems of muellerPrange have smart clients that integrate them seamlessly into the world of MS Office, maintaining the same look and feel, on the road or offline.
  • Home offices, remote locations and field staff are connected directly via IP connections or via remote desktops.
  • Core users of database management, marketing, sales, and contract management applications use browser-based user interfaces and highly functional client and smart client applications.
  • Mobile users work with key data and functions, even offline.
  • Managers use aggregated information in browser or Excel based reports and analyses (Executive Elements, sales pipeline reports, customized BI)
  • Users of external systems, for example internally in production and accounting or externally via self-directed Web UIs, can use, enhance or synchronize the information in the systems of muellerPrange through the most advanced technologies like SQL, Web services, and XML.