The world’s most popular word-processing and spreadsheet program is now fully integrated with WoodWing Software’s powerful Smart Connection Enterprise editorial solution.
With the introduction of Smart Connection Enterprise for MS Word/Excel, users of Microsoft Word and Excel 2003 can now take full advantage of the power and flexibility of Smart Connection Enterprise, the industry’s leading editorial solution for Adobe InDesign and InCopy.
WoodWing officials say this new version of Smart Connection Enterprise — available on the Windows platform only — offers a wide range of benefits for users of Word and Excel.
“What we’re always hearing from our customers is that they love the versatility of Smart Connection Enterprise,” said Erik Schut, President of WoodWing Software. “Now that the system is fully integrated with Microsoft Word and Excel, it’s become even more versatile. Users working with Word or Excel now have direct access to the Smart Connection Enterprise database. That’s an incredibly convenient new component to this system.”
WoodWing officials say this new version of their powerful editorial solution will be beneficial to customers across the publishing spectrum.
“Smart Connection Enterprise is being used by a wide variety of publications and companies — everything from large newspaper and magazine publishers to smaller locations with only a few users,” said Brian Kruger, CEO of WoodWing USA. “At a lot of companies, there are going to be people using Word or Excel to do the majority of their work. In the past, it was a tedious process to integrate Word or Excel with a publishing solution. Now, though, we’ve made it simple and convenient. People are going to love when they see how seamlessly this works.”
Among the advantages and features of Smart Connection Enterprise for MS Word/Excel:
- Publishers who deal with external writers who produce all their articles and stories using Word can now seamlessly integrate the documents into the Smart Connection Enterprise database. “This can be very useful for book publishers, for example, who have a lot of external writers writing about various subjects,” Schut said. “With other systems, it’s cumbersome and time-consuming to integrate the copy into the database. But with this product, it’s a snap.”
- A Smart Connection Enterprise menu gives Word users direct access to the SCE database. Users can use the menu to browse the database by publication, issue, section or any other factor. The user can also access the In Box to see files routed to him or his group.
- Existing files can be opened, and new documents can be saved directly into the Smart Connection Enterprise database. The Smart Connection Enterprise server takes care of access rights.
- Once the Word files are integrated into the Smart Connection Enterprise database, they’ll be converted into InCopy files for write-to-fit purposes.
- The Excel feature allows for spreadsheet files to be directly stored in the Smart Connection Enterprise database.
“It’s easy to see why Smart Connection Enterprise has become the world’s most popular InDesign editorial solution,” Kruger said, noting that WoodWing recently installed its 100th SCE system. “No matter what size your company or your publication, Smart Connection Enterprise is going to make your life easier. That’s even more true now.”
About WoodWing
Since 1997, WoodWing Softwar (www.woodwing.com) e engineers have worked with the Adobe InDesign engineering team to develop plug-ins and solutions for Adobe InDesign and InCopy. Through a combination of publishing industry experience and a deep knowledge of the Adobe InDesign/InCopy architecture, WoodWing Software offers solutions, productivity tools and plug-ins that make publishing with these programs faster, easier and much more effective.
Its products include Smart Catalog, Smart Layout, Smart Styles and the acclaimed Smart Connection family of editorial solutions. WoodWing is based in Zaandam, The Netherlands, with U.S. operations headquartered in Detroit.
About Smart Connection Enterprise
Smart Connection Enteprise is a highly scalable editorial workflow solution. It serves complex workflows and environments, where searching files and/or the content of a story or specific keywords or metadata is required. It comes standard with support for every common SQL database, including MySQL, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server and Sybase. The server runs on many different operating systems, including Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Solaris. SCE relies on a three-tier architecture to ensure scalability and flexibility, with all business logic centralized on the application server.
This article was last modified on January 10, 2022
This article was first published on September 28, 2005
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