News and Information Solutions

INKnife is newsroom software designed for professional news and information management, with all the essential features to support high-end journalism, corporate, government, and non-profit publishing. It provides a complete newsroom authoring and publishing system, workflow management, support for columnists, bloggers, and citizen journalists, and a templated approach to news portal design that eliminates much of the unnecessary layout work required to maintain a news site.

Our hosted SaaS solution supports online and mobile publishing as well as traditional print, including an offline option for newsrooms that need to operate when the Internet connection is down, especially useful in countries with less reliable Internet connectivity. Optional business directory integration and email campaign (newsletter) management enables news providers to achieve additional revenue streams. Based on proven principles of information architecture, the system supports advanced search capabilities, powerful SEO, social networking, and communities.

Unlike competitors that offer hard-to-configure, expensive newsroom systems, our turnkey solution is simple, virtually IT free, and entirely managed by us as a service platform.

Professional Newsrooms: our “newsroom of the future” includes workflows tailored to the throughput needs of a busy newsroom, management of video using YouTube and Brightcove, collaborative authoring and easy publishing from the field, breaking news alerts and daily newsletters, realtime reporting of article popularity, drag-and-drop slideshows, membership management and members-only premier content, a built-in digital asset management system, and integration with Facebook, Twitter, business directories, visitor tracking, paygates, and ad servers to optimize revenue streams.

Corporate Pressrooms: maintain a comprehensive online pressroom and media kit, store company-approved and partner-approved boilerplate, provide a searchable archive of press releases and financial reports, store executive bios and photos, maintain product images, deliver online newsletters and media alerts, handle future-dated content scheduling and expiration, and create not just text-based press releases but complete news articles and advertorials in rich multimedia with video and images, making it easy for journalists to cover the story the way you want it covered.

Government, University, and other Non-Profit news and information departments will appreciate all the professional journalism and corporate newsroom features, plus the added benefits of a wide range of distribution options across many web properties and news outlets. INKnife can support either centralized control or distributed departmental publishing, strict or loose approval workflows, high-security CMS access controls, and the ability to build a centralized, searchable, cross-referenced multimedia knowledge base across departments or distribution channels.

All systems are competitively priced, and include classification and tagging systems used for “see related” links, advanced search, search engine optimization (SEO), the separation of content from layout templates, realtime business intelligence and reporting, multi-language support for a global audience, and single-sourcing: compose-once and publish to print, web, and mobile, including iPhone apps.

Leading Technology: INKnife provides the world’s most powerful information architecture engine built on top of a SaaS (hosted) system design that can support thousands of individually-tailored newsrooms and agencies. The cloud-based, elastic computing platform provides high-availability, performance, and scalability, including integration with Amazon S3 cloud storage. An online/offline option enables content to be managed on servers located in the newsroom, so that if an Internet connection is down, newsroom staff can continue to work on stories and meet print deadlines.

 
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