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EDIT 4 - DIGITAL PUBLISHING Sit-Moon exploitation
plan (rev. April 1999)
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Market analysis (april 1999)

• According to our marketing analysis and the Adapt
  project, in 1999 Edit 4 customers begin to ask
  new services in MM production.
• Three publishers have seen the Sit-Moon
  environment and they are interested to buy the
  system or services provided by Edit 4.
• Edizioni San Paolo is another Edit 4 customer
  that is interested to buy MM services.

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Market analysis (april 1999)

• The Edit 4 business plan expected to 1999-2003
  has been revised because there is a new interest
  by the traditional publishers in MM products.
• Market analysis demonstrates that in Italy there
  is a strong increment of home computers
• The Minister of Public Instruction has released a
  big program of computer diffusion in all italian
  schools

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Old plan vs New plan
Old business plan (July 1998, Deliverable 6.1)
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employees
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Old plan vs New plan
New business plan (April 1999)
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employees
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Edit 4 advantage with Sit-Moon

• In this moment Edit 4 has an advantage vs.
  competitors because it can produce traditional
  page layouts, MM off-line and on-line
  applications.
• Edit 4 competitors (at Milan) have skills only in
  one or two publishing sector, but publishers
  prefer only one contact for all services.

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An example of Sit-Moon application

• McGraw-Hill Italy has entrusted Edit 4 to realize
  the italian version of a color book, development
  of enclosed CD-ROM and the related Web Site.
• Starting with high-res images and texts for
  printing, Edit 4 re-uses the same materials to
  produce CD-ROM and Web site.
• Using Sit-Moon environment its expected to gain
  about 20 of production time.

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The Edit 4 production 1998 vs. 1999
Production 1999 (4/99) 73 film for offset
printing 5 CTP 6 PDF - Web 4 digital
printing 10 multimedia 2 others uses
Production 1998 81 film for offset printing 4
CTP 3 PDF - Web 2 digital printing 6
multimedia 4 others uses
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Edit 4 Sit-Moon configuration

• Optimized installation

EDIT4
Mirror server
NT Server Oracle Workgroup Server Video Encoding
- Archive
Router
Sit-Moon Client
ISDN ADSL
Customers
Sit-Moon Clients Editing tools Authoring tools
AIT Backup System (Alexandria) DAT Backup System
(Retrospect)
Sit-Moon Client