About GN4 Content Management Suite
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More than any time in the history of our industry, a newspaper’s bottom-line and ability to compete is impacted by the capabilities of its content management system.
With Miles 33's Tera GN4 Content Management Suite, now in its fourth generation, your business has the tools to compete in the multi-channel publishing environment
An editorial content management suite is measured by its support of the diverse media formats and wide spectrum of publishing channels, support for geographically dispersed workforce and its total cost of ownership. With GN4, Cloud-based computing and SaaS are now a standard part of the CMS metrics.
Built upon the Content Management Services Architecture (CMSA), Tera GN4 was designed in anticipation of today’s world rather than in reaction to it. Tera GN4 is constructed of integral, rather than integrated, components together with a single content store for both production and archive. Content ingestion, complete with data and metadata validation, transformation and normalisation, is part of the same integral architecture.
Customer-configurable article structure means that your content is organised to support the fluid publishing environment in which you work. As new titles, websites, zones, content formats and presentation technologies come along, GN4 can be reconfigured by the customer to meet these changing needs. All of the elements of a story, no matter what medium, can be associated and then worked on together to keep the integrity of the piece. Yet, the story can be edited at the same time by multiple individuals.
GN4 Suite features following modules:
GN4 Content Acquisition System is a breakthrough in web-based Content Acquisition (Content Ingestion). Before I4 there was no way to easily define, accept, transform, process and manage web-acquired content without custom-written code. I4 change the rules. In today’s landscape, new content will be defined frequently and modified often. The amount of content that comes via the web is increasing in volume and variety. Targeted websites are quickly developed and discarded to match the changing needs of the readership and the newspaper’s marketing strategies. With this changing scenario comes the need to acquire structured content that is reliable, validated and standardised. Newspapers also want to accept user-generated content (UGC), content from staff, stringers and other contributors via the web without relying on VPNs, Citrix or other complex, difficult or expensive technologies. The goal of newspapers is to ingest any type of content, using a uniform method and a consistent metadata structure that is powerful, flexible, secure, and low-cost but does not require customisation or large amounts of implementation effort. I4 meets all these requirements. I4 reads an XML schema to understand what the content looks like, to define the web form to acquire that content and to perform validations and transformations. I4 can also be configured to accept content from customer-defined pages that will better match the look and feel of an existing web site, or via electronic means such as SOA or RSS feed. An article-based content storage organisation makes the management and support of new content a matter of configuration not customisation. I4 uses article-based content storage to define the web form (if necessary) and validate content at the web-page level or through a workflow. The Tera CMSA architecture makes I4 unmatched in its ability to transform and transfer content to the GN4 content management system or third-party CMS or editorial systems. This means that content, such as images, text and video can be automatically processed and converted to the right format. Like all Tera CMSA products, I4 is 100 percent XML-based. Our forward thinking, industry-leading technology not only permits ground-breaking products like I4 to be developed, but helps explain why more than 99 percent of our customers are still our customers. This module runs in a standard browser on any operating system, also on mobile devices, and typically appear to users as fully-operating browser access to newsroom content, that allows to create stories and articles, to upload, review and send/slug content, look at editions, events and tasks. See I4 for further information. |
This dedicated GN4 client application runs on Microsoft Windows operating system, and allows to create, retrieve (through semantic search), edit and manage text and multimedia content (articles), and publish them to any channel. It also provides a channel-specific preview (paper page, Web output, etc). Most of content retrieving and enrichment for digital assets management is available also in Ted4. See Ted4 for further information. |
This dedicated GN4 client application runs on Microsoft Windows operating system, and allows to create, retrieve, edit and manage editions, pages, paper production tracking. Fred4 also includes all Ted4 functionalities. See Fred4 for further information. |
By using VirtualCom, GN4 users publish to the web as easily and seamlessly as publishing to print. One-Click-to-Web feature instantly publishes any article with the correct graphics, headlines, byline, body copy, metadata and electronic content. Newspapers using VirtualCom are able to continuously update fast breaking stories and keep readers returning to their website to view those updates. See VirtualCom for further information. |
In today's world, a Digital Asset Management System is not merely a repository of materials for research and reuse, but an active component of production and revenue generation. TARK4 takes a leadership role in Digital Asset Management by providing the features necessary of a modern DAM. TARK4's Service Oriented Architecture, Cloud-friendly design, content ingestion facilities, XML-based structure and publishing destination management set TARK4 apart from all other DAM products in the market place. While TARK4 can be deployed as a stand alone Digital Asset Management solution, it is when coupled to the rest of the Tera GN4 suite that it truly shines. Sharing a single content store and user interface, TARK4's 100% XML support and configurable content structure, provide a digital publishing environment like no other in the industry. TARK4 functionalities are included in the User Browser, Ted4 and Fred4m and TARK4 configuration is available through Administrative Browser and EdAdmin4. TARK4 runs in a standard browser on any operating system, also on mobile devices. It provides content retrieving through semantic search and enrichment for digital assets management for users that can't/shouldn't/don't need to use Ted4 and Fred4 that, however, offer most of archive research and enrichment functionalities. |
For today's newsrooms, the key to success in the digital age lies in the ability to deliver news to customers, regardless of what device or platform they use. When Miles 33 introduced GN4, a true multi-media newsroom system was born, presenting editors with a system to author content for any destination. Now, with GNXpedio, that content can be delivered to practically any device in use, including iOS devices such as iPhones and iPads, Android phones and tablets, HTML5 websites and even to the Samsung SmartTV platform. With GN4 and GNXpedio, the focus of publishing returns to being “all about content” as the technology becomes transparent and no longer gets in the way of interacting with your readers. Using a single system, with simple, common workflows, newsroom staff can now create, archive, edit and deliver any content to any device, easily and without navigating technical hurdles or needing to switch between systems. See GNXpedio Mobile Publishing for further information. |
The GN4 plugin for Adobe applications adds a GN4 connection and related user inteface to InDesign CC, CS6, CS5 and CS5.5, Photoshop CC, CS6, CS5 and CS5.1 and Premiere Pro CS6, CS5 and CS5.5. See Using Adobe Applications with GN4 for further information. |
Back office modules manage the system and provide core functionalities, and configuration functions.
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