KnowledgeView demonstrates cross-media publishing and syndication solutions at Gitex

KnowledgeView will be highlighting the new versions of RAPID Publish and RAPID News products, developed to serve the media, governments and information markets. In addition, the company will demonstrate the advanced solutions that it is implementing for leading organizations that include CNNarabic.com, Al Hayat Newspaper, Emirates Media Inc., the Yemen e-Government, Boeing USA and Digitorial (UK Newspaper Licensing Agency).

"KnowledgeView is deeply committed to the Middle East market, as reflected by our recent expansion plans of opening development offices in Dubai Internet City, Beirut and Riyadh," said Ali Al-Assam, Chairman, KnowledgeView. "In fact, the new KnowledgeView Saudi Arabia, which will be announced at GITEX Dubai 2002 will have a full-fledged sales, marketing, development and customer support team to cater to the large Saudi market potential."

"GITEX Dubai 2002 provides us with a strategic platform to showcase and demonstrate our award-winning RAPID systems for media, government, and enterprises. It enables us to pursue our goal of consolidating our position in this market, following a number of new prestigious wins in recent times. KnowledgeView's RAPID Publish has won a number of

high profile customers worldwide and in the Middle East, that include CNNarabic.com and Dubai Press Club who launched its portal www.dpc.co.org. This enables us to ensure that RAPID Publish is made available with a short implementation cycle and affordable costs for on-line publishing by newspapers, enterprises, broadcasters and governments," said Ammar Al Assam, Director of the Middle East operations of KnowledgeView. "We will use this event to highlight our unique solutions that enable our customers to collect news content from multiple sources, enhance it editorially, and create targeted and personalized value-added content services delivered to multiple channels such as web, PDA, SMS, Email, 3D Avatars, syndication etc."

KnowledgeView has developed the RAPID products suite, to handle all aspects of content acquisition, management, publishing and syndication. RAPID Publish is a powerful, lightweight news management engine for automating acquisition, classification and enhancement of news and media content as well as creating packages for cross-media publishing and syndication, designed to streamline production and create additional revenues.

The core strength of the RAPID Publish systems is the high degree of automation to acquire and auto-classify and deliver news. It provides tools for publishers and enterprises to provide customized and targeted services to countless groups of information consumers. It makes its possible for different editorial and business units to collaborate, while retaining control and ownership of their content.

RAPID Publish performs several functions that make it easy to classify and display news. It collects content from multiple sources, including editorial systems, photo workstations, wire feeds, legacy systems, online-databases and remote authors. It normalizes text, photos and graphics to industry standard formats and XML representations (such as NITF, NewsML and RSS). It edits and combines content items to create value-added, context-specific articles. It facilitates creation of targeted services, such as public and private websites, email newsletters and syndication feeds. It can deliver content anywhere, anytime, via the web, email, wireless or back to print.