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COMPANY PROFILE Four C Plus (Internet) Company Limited (An ISO 9001:2008 Certified Company) B-14, Shashi Garden, Mayur Vihar Phase - I, Delhi - 110 091 India T +91.11.22756496, 22750658 F +91.11.22791327 U www.4Cplus.com 4Cplus: Company & Infrastructure 4Cplus is a technology solutions company with a core focus on print and new media. 4Cplus has developed products and solutions for newspapers that include editorial systems, page planning systems, digital asset management systems, e-paper/ digital publishing systems and an ERP that has modules for all business areas like advertisement, circulation, subscription, CRM, business analytics, materials management, financial accounting, fixed assets and HR & payroll. The team at 4Cplus has been working with the leading newspapers of India since 1989 and has developed cutting edge applications for the newspaper publishing industry. 4Cplus is a total solutions company that strives to provide all technology related services to newspapers and magazines. 4Cplus today is a 150 people company with development facilities in New Delhi and Mumbai. The 110 software engineers and consultants at 4Cplus have deep domain knowledge of the mission critical working of newspapers and are skilled on latest programming languages using industry standard RDBMS. 4Cplus provides managed web server hosting services for mission critical applications like editorial systems, ERP modules, corporate Intranets, high traffic media websites/ portals and e-commerce websites. 4Cplus has over 70 web servers in India and USA. 4Cplus is an authorized Quark XTensions Developer ®, Adobe ASN partner, member of the Oracle Partner Network (OPN) and Microsoft Empower/ ISV. The development facilities of 4Cplus have Macs, Intel PCs and staging servers. The offices have 100% power backup through UPS systems and diesel generators. Internet connectivity is through multiple leased lines and radio link. DSL, ISDN and telephone lines are also available for redundant connectivity to the Internet. 4Cplus is a financially sound and profit making company managed by a team of first generation entrepreneurs. The 4Cplus products, solutions and services drive most of the major Indian newspapers. 4Cplus also has installations in Nepal, Dubai, Qatar and Mauritius. 4Cplus has a subsidiary – Vast Digital Publishing Pvt. Ltd. – a media hub that provides outsourcing services to publishers led by a skilled team backed by cutting edge technology. The media hub provides desk top publishing, page designing, content outsourcing, color correction, digitization, billing and collection services. Vast Digital Publishing also manages an online magazine store www.eZineMart.com that provides turnkey digitization, e-commerce, online archival solution that is multimedia and social networking enabled. Four C Plus (Internet) Company Limited. B-14, Shashi Garden, Mayur Vihar Phase - I, Delhi - 110 091 INDIA T +91-11-22756497, 22750658, 22754177 F +91-11-22791327 U www.4Cplus.com E [email protected] Domain Expertise 4Cplus has executed large and very complex implementations for newspapers and new media companies. Areas of domain expertise of 4Cplus are • Editorial Systems for Newspapers and Magazines • Digital Asset Management and Archival Systems • ERP Solution for Media Companies Display and Classified Advertisement Management (Booking, scheduling, billing and accounts receivable/ credit control) Circulation, Subscription and CRM Press Analysis Module (Business Analytics) Human Resource Management System and Payroll Materials Management (Newsprint, Stores and Procurement) Financial Accounting and Fixed Assets • Page Planning Systems • e-Paper and e-Magazine Solutions • Indian Language and Non-roman font face design and solutions • Development of News and Classified Portals • Hosting of High Traffic Media Portals, Secure Intranets and Enterprise Solutions • Media Hub for Outsourced Services (Vast Digital Publishing Pvt. Ltd.) The above solutions have been implemented at many newspapers in India and abroad. Some key customers are: • Dainik Jagran is India’s largest read newspaper (Source: Indian Readership Survey) published from 32 printing locations. Dainik Jagran has a circulation of over 2 million and has a readership of over 19.2 million (Source: Indian Readership Survey 2005, round 2). The group has been using 4Cplus software CIO|365™ since 1988. The group was the first customer to implement NewsWrap™ editorial system and also uses eDaily™ • Sakshi is a new Telugu newspaper launched in 2008 simultaneously from 24 printing centers with a starting print run of over 1.4 million copies. Sakshi went live from the launch day on NewsWrap™, CIO|365: Media™, Layout-X™ and eDaily™. • Daily News and Analysis (DNA) is an English language newspaper launched on July 30, 2005 from Mumbai. DNA is the second largest English newspaper published from Mumbai and Four C Plus (Internet) Company Limited. B-14, Shashi Garden, Mayur Vihar Phase - I, Delhi - 110 091 INDIA T +91-11-22756497, 22750658, 22754177 F +91-11-22791327 U www.4Cplus.com E [email protected] has a circulation of 250,000. The newspaper consists of 5 to 6 sections a day with the financial pages branded DNA Money printed on salmon pink newsprint also being sold as a stand alone financial newspaper. The newspaper went live from the day of launch on NewsWrap™, CIO|365™: Media (All modules), Layout-X™ and eDaily™. The implementation was completed in 4 months. • Bhaskar Group is India’s largest newspaper group. The group publishes Dainik Bhaskar, a leading Hindi daily of India and Divya Bhaskar, Gujarati language frontrunner. According to the national readership survey (NRS) 2006, Bhaskar Group of Newspapers has been described as ‘Number One’ in the country (all languages). It is the largest read newspaper group in India with 26.5 Million readers. The Bhaskar group along with Zee TV launched Daily News & Analysis (DNA) from Mumbai in July 2005. The Mumbai edition was followed by editions from Pune and Bangalore. The Bhaskar group uses NewsWrap™ the 4Cplus editorial system at over 40 print locations. The digital editions of the group are powered by the eDaily™ ePaper solution. The group has also installed the CIO|365™ advertisement management system and Layout-X™ page planning system. • Mail Today is a startup newspaper launched by a joint venture between Daily Mail (UK) and India Today group. Mail Today has been live on NewsWrap™, 4C|DAMS™, CIO|365™, Layout-X™ and the ePaper of Mail Today www.MailToday.in is outsourced to 4Cplus Four C Plus (Internet) Company Limited. B-14, Shashi Garden, Mayur Vihar Phase - I, Delhi - 110 091 INDIA T +91-11-22756497, 22750658, 22754177 F +91-11-22791327 U www.4Cplus.com E [email protected] NewsWrap™ - Editorial System NewsWrap™ is an Integrated Editorial Management System (IEMS) for print media. 4Cplus started development of the product in 2000, and NewsWrap™ was launched at Ifra Publish Asia 2002, Bangkok. Today NewsWrap™ is the largest selling editorial system in India. It has been implemented at 29 newspapers and has over 5,000 editorial users across 100+ printing centers spread all over India, Nepal, Dubai, Doha and Mauritius. The second version of NewsWrap™ launched in 2006 is browser based making NewsWrap™ the only multilingual web based editorial system for print media. Customers • Daily Ajit • Indo Asian News Agency • Dainik Jagran (IANS) • Divya Bhaskar • The Qatar Tribune (Qatar) • Hindustan • The Indian Express • Rajasthan Patrika • The Financial Express • Dainik Navjyoti • The Emirates Post (Dubai) • Sakshi • The Hindustan Times* • DLA Media • Mail Today • Lok Satta • Business Standard • Jan Satta • The Himalayan Times • Annapoorna Post (Nepal) • Nai Dunia • DNA • Kantipur • Republica (Nepal) • Rashtra Deepika • Le Matinal (Mauritius) • Dinakaran • Deshonnati • Daily Thanthi • Hari Bhoomi • Prabhat Khabar • Pudhari • Dainik Mahamedha • Swadesh • Prahaar • Daily Kantipur (Nepal) • Peoples Samachar • Nava Bihar • Pudhari • Aaj Samaaj • Economic & Political Weekly • Punya Nagari Four C Plus (Internet) Company Limited. B-14, Shashi Garden, Mayur Vihar Phase - I, Delhi - 110 091 INDIA T +91-11-22756497, 22750658, 22754177 F +91-11-22791327 U www.4Cplus.com E [email protected] 4C|DAMS™ - Digital Asset Management System 4C|DAMS™ is the Digital Asset Management System (DAMS) designed specially to meet the unique requirements of media companies. 4C|DAMS™ helps media archivists to archive content that may be retrieved by editorial and advertisement users. The system is capable of tracking copyrights, syndication/ reuse conditions, track usage history and many other powerful features that help journalists make stories more analytical. 4C|DAMS™ has a web based retrieval module. 4C|DAMS™ helps a publication manage the digital files and provides the following benefits: Search archived articles Search images (Photographs, Graphics and Cartoons) Search archived audio, video and multimedia files Press clippings from other publications Advertisement Material Customers • Daily Ajit • Indo Asian News Agency • Dainik Jagran (IANS) • Divya Bhaskar • The Qatar Tribune (Qatar) • Hindustan • The Indian Express • Rajasthan Patrika • The Financial Express • Dainik Navjyoti • The Emirates Post (Dubai) • Sakshi • The Hindustan Times* • DLA Media • Mail Today • Lok Satta • Business Standard • Jan Satta • The Himalayan Times • Annapoorna Post (Nepal) • Nai Dunia • DNA • Kantipur • Republica (Nepal) • Rashtra Deepika • Le Matinal (Mauritius) • Dinakaran • Deshonnati • Daily Thanthi •