Wolters Kluwer employees around the globe will use Arbortext publishing software to create and publish market-driven, customized products and services in the media format that best suits the customer. These can include internet-based products, CD-ROMs, books, newsletters, professional journals and loose-leaf publications. As a result, Wolters Kluwer is able to increase revenue and open new market opportunities.
"We publish information to many different industries, in many different languages, and in a number of different formats," said John K. Roth, Wolters Kluwer's Vice President of Technology Operations and Publishing - North America. "We wanted to standardize on a publishing system that was flexible, powerful, and capable of being implemented at our offices around the world. We chose Arbortext because their products most closely accommodate our current needs and future opportunities."
Arbortext's Enterprise Publishing Software eliminates manual publishing processes that can be inflexible, time-consuming and costly. Using Arbortext's powerful publishing software, employees at Wolters Kluwer will be able to author content in a way that relieves them from the prolonged, inefficient task of manual design and layout. Arbortext software enhances Wolters Kluwer's power to easily deliver highly tailored information based on select language, audience, media type and other factors.
"Wolters Kluwer is a premier publisher of information to the health, tax, accounting, corporate, financial services, legal and regulatory, and education markets, and I am pleased that we are expanding our relationship with them as they roll out our publishing software throughout their enterprise," said Raymond Schiavone, President and CEO at Arbortext. "Organizations such as Wolters Kluwer keenly understand the advantage of adopting enterprise publishing applications in order to achieve cost reductions, quality improvements, market expansion and increased customer satisfaction."
About Wolters Kluwer
Wolters Kluwer (Euronext Amsterdam: WKL) is a leading multinational publisher and information services company. The Company's core markets are in the health, tax, accounting, corporate, financial services, legal and regulatory, and education sectors. As of 2003, Wolters Kluwer has annual revenues of EUR 3.4 billion, employs approximately 19,500 people worldwide, and maintains operations across Europe, North America, and Asia Pacific. Wolters Kluwer is headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Its depositary receipts are quoted on the Euronext Amsterdam (WKL) and are included in the AEX and Euronext 100 indices.
Wolters Kluwer (Euronext Amsterdam: WKL) is a leading multinational publisher and information services company. The Company's core markets are in the health, tax, accounting, corporate, financial services, legal and regulatory, and education sectors. As of 2003, Wolters Kluwer has annual revenues of EUR 3.4 billion, employs approximately 19,500 people worldwide, and maintains operations across Europe, North America, and Asia Pacific. Wolters Kluwer is headquartered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Its depositary receipts are quoted on the Euronext Amsterdam (WKL) and are included in the AEX and Euronext 100 indices.
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Arbortext is the leading provider of Enterprise Publishing Software that enables organizations to create and automatically publish large amounts of information, such as technical manuals, pharmaceutical product information, legal information and software documentation. Enterprises around the world use our software to publish in multiple languages to multiple audiences in multiple hardcopy and electronic output formats. Arbortext's software is installed at over 1,400 organizations worldwide. Arbortext is a founding member and active participant in the XML Activity of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, Arbortext has offices around the world.
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