Gannett Co. Inc. is installing Layout 8000 from Software Consulting Services LLC to anchor display ad dummying at all of its daily and weekly publications, SCS said.
The first sites, in Nashville, Tenn., Louisville, Ky., and Asbury Park, NJ. are running the software with others slated to follow in 2011 and 2012. By the end of the project all 83 dailies and over 450 weeklies and special sections will be using Layout-8000.
A single server farm, or Gannett "Cloud" in the eastern US will host users nationwide.
The deployment is integrated with the rollout of CCI Europe’s Enterprise NewsGate CMS, which Gannett is implementing to consolidate content for system wide sharing. They will also create 5 design centers groupwide. SCS and CCI have developed an enhanced XML feed that will allow all daily and weekly publications to use a single XML data scheme.
Centers slated to go into production with Layout 8000 are those in Asbury Park, N.J., Des Moines, Iowa, Phoenix and Nashville.