SoftCare K2: From the makers of K4

PRESS RELEASE

This new pub­lish­ing solu­tion com­bines the secu­ri­ty and sta­bil­i­ty of large edi­to­r­i­al sys­tems with the require­ments of small pub­lish­ing hous­es and cor­po­rate publishers.

SoftCare GmbH will be pre­sent­ing its new prod­uct SoftCare K2, an edi­to­r­i­al sys­tem that is tailor-made to the demands of small pub­lish­ing hous­es, agen­cies and com­pa­nies, in the lead-up to the IfraExpo 2006. The sys­tem is ide­al for small work­groups that want to com­bine cre­ative know-how with effi­cient process­es. It is com­plete­ly inte­grat­ed with­in Adobe InDesign and Adobe InCopy and is a high-quality pro­fes­sion­al solu­tion, which has the same basic tech­ni­cal fea­tures as its “big broth­er” SoftCare K4. This includes, for instance, the data­base sub­struc­ture and also the proven, test­ed and effi­cient oper­at­ing ele­ments. SoftCare K2 aims at ensur­ing that clients can imme­di­ate­ly start putting the sys­tem to prac­ti­cal use in a short peri­od of time whilst being very user-friendly.

Classical work­flow sequences are already pre­con­fig­ured by SoftCare K2 and can also be tailor-made to the user’s needs. A work­flow that can be set inde­pen­dent­ly for lay­out and arti­cles, admin­is­tra­tion of lay­outs and arti­cle tem­plates, rights cat­e­gories, users, group and cat­e­go­ry admin­is­tra­tion, ver­sion­ing, intel­li­gent data­base queries with dif­fer­ing modes and palettes that can be freely con­fig­ured are also avail­able right from the start.

Small ser­vice providers in par­tic­u­lar or depart­ments with­in com­pa­nies need to be able to opti­mize process­es with­in the pub­lish­ing sec­tor in order to gen­er­ate deci­sive com­pet­i­tive advan­tages and reduce costs. “SoftCare K2 is the ide­al starter prod­uct to access the world of pro­fes­sion­al pub­lish­ing,” says Andreas Schrader, Managing Director of SoftCare. “Parallel work­flow between edi­to­r­i­al and design, a very user-friendly prod­uct, the essen­tial tasks are always auto­mat­i­cal­ly put in front of you and the prod­uct rep­re­sents excel­lent val­ue for mon­ey – these are the clear ben­e­fits of this small but inge­nious work­group solution.”

The sys­tem is not just extreme­ly easy to use in con­junc­tion with Adobe InDesign and InCopy, the admin­is­tra­tion also fol­lows a sim­ple user guid­ance con­cept. SoftCare K2’s intu­itive admin­is­tra­tion inter­face makes it easy for inex­pe­ri­enced users to quick­ly get to grips with the sys­tem. Self-explanatory Wizards guide the users step-by-step through the var­i­ous tasks. So hard­ly any time pass­es before the first pub­li­ca­tion has been set up and users can access it.

SoftCare K2 is con­fig­ured for up to twen­ty five users and can so to speak grow in line with the require­ments of its clients. If nec­es­sary you can switch to SoftCare K4 with­out much dif­fi­cul­ty and at lit­tle expense. “Softcare K2 is tailor-made to the require­ments of those clients for whom a sys­tem such as SoftCare K4 is still too large at the moment, but who want to achieve pro­duc­tiv­i­ty increas­es by mak­ing use of effi­cient work­flows,” accord­ing to Birgit Rosenthal, Director of Business Development at SoftCare. “The sys­tem can pay off and the inter­nal process­es can be great­ly opti­mized for as few as three users.”

SoftCare – Professional Publishing Solutions.

SoftCare Software-Service GmbH with its head­quar­ters in Bönningstedt near Hamburg spe­cial­izes in the devel­op­ment of pro­fes­sion­al work­flow solu­tions for edi­to­r­i­al work with Adobe InDesign and InCopy. The pow­er­ful inte­grat­ed pub­lish­ing solu­tion SoftCare K4 com­bines effi­cient work­ing process­es with ver­i­fi­able time and cost ben­e­fits for users and is regard­ed as a stan­dard prod­uct with­in the indus­try. SoftCare K2, the work­group solu­tion, is excel­lent base prod­uct for peo­ple enter­ing the world of pro­fes­sion­al pub­lish­ing. Simple and secure use as well as flex­i­bil­i­ty and sta­bil­i­ty rep­re­sent deci­sive ben­e­fits for the user. The sys­tem has been com­plete­ly pre­con­fig­ured and peo­ple can thus imme­di­ate­ly start work­ing on it. What is more, SoftCare plug-ins help edi­tors and lay­out design­ers be more pro­duc­tive in their dai­ly rou­tine tasks.

An ever increas­ing num­ber of high­ly qual­i­fied employ­ees and com­pe­tent inter­na­tion­al sales part­ners make SoftCare’s prod­ucts acces­si­ble to cus­tomers through­out the world. This is why SoftCare solu­tions are now being used suc­cess­ful­ly at pub­lish­ing hous­es, cre­ative agen­cies and com­pa­nies for var­i­ous pub­li­ca­tions such as mag­a­zines and news­pa­pers and also in the field of cor­po­rate pub­lish­ing. These include pub­li­ca­tions such as FOCUS, Capital, Playboy and New York Magazine.

SoftCare Software-Service GmbH was found­ed in 1990 and con­cen­trates many years of expe­ri­ence in the field of soft­ware local­iza­tion, con­sul­tan­cy, train­ing, devel­op­ment and inte­gra­tion of edi­to­r­i­al solu­tions with pro­fes­sion­al pub­lish­ing exper­tise. SoftCare rec­og­nized the great poten­tial of Adobe InDesign and Adobe InCopy at an ear­ly stage, and became a pio­neer plug-in devel­op­er and one of the first com­pa­nies, to total­ly devote itself to the devel­op­ment of work­flow solu­tions with Adobe InDesign. The world’s first mag­a­zine to be pro­duced with InDesign also used SoftCare’s K4 right from the start – it is thus no sur­prise that SoftCare is one of the most inno­v­a­tive and suc­cess­ful com­pa­nies in its field.