Agence France Presse streamlines multimedia document management and boosts productivity for journalists using Nuxeo's Open Source ECM platform

Nuxeo, pioneer and leader in Open Source ECM (Enterprise Content Management) solutions, announces today that Agence France Presse (AFP) has successfully deployed its ECM platform as part of its wider multimedia strategy. A key component of this strategy was to overhaul its multi-language Internet journal production system into an Open Source system that is very user friendly in terms of being able to manage text and images. This powerful new system also supports the international NewsML standard. Since the “new generation console” first went live in Berlin in August 2006, it has been rolled out in Paris and is delivering significant boosts to journalists’ productivity.

“Nuxeo’s entrepreneurial spirit and positive attitude really won our trust along with their excellent track record implementing their zero-cost licence ECM software platform,” says Daniel Oudet, AFP’s Engineering Director. “With their Open Source platform, we have been able to develop our own completely secure applications and easily integrate any additional proprietary components.”

AFP chose to initially pilot the new console in their Berlin office, which has resulted in a 40 percent productivity increase to date. Following the success of the pilot, AFP was able to quickly migrate the implementation to the multi-media desk in its Parisian headquarters. Paris-based journalists have benefitted from the same productivity gains as their Berlin colleagues after only ten days of use and continue to this day on the production-ready system.

“After one of our project leaders trained the Berlin staff, AFP was confident enough to use the platform independently. However, we continue to develop and improve the system to support specific requests relating to metadata and special formats for cell phones, for example,” says Eric Barroca, VP of operations at Nuxeo.

In early 2008, AFP plans to roll out the multimedia production system in English to support AFP sites in Hong Kong, New Delhi, London and Washington. Consequently, around fifty journalists responsible for the Internet AFP news online production will use the new system to provide content to approximately 100 clients in Germany, 200 in France and 180 in English-speaking countries. AFP also plans to migrate its multimedia services in Spanish, Portuguese and Arabic.

Publié le: 17/12/07 - Dernière mise à jour: 17/12/07