RI: what is “a single media newsroom”?
TDP: The ability to produce content for all mediums from one location. We can be described as a content management system for newspapers, Solely for Newspapers.

RI: why are newspapers coming to you?
TDP: they are seeking to consolidate into a single newsroom. Financial pressures have forced the issue.

RI: What is the main product?
TDP: GN3 is the main product.

RI: With all the consolidation, is the business is booming?
TDP: Yes, we are doing well. Big jump in foreign interest especially in Latin American companies.

RI: do you deal with large chains like gannett or advance
TDP: Not so much as our foreign sales, but it’s changing.

RI: How do you sell?
TDP: Through resellers mostly.

RI: Who are your biggest competitors?
TDP: We like to think we are in a league of our own, but Saxotech is a competitor.
RI: innovation at Tera ?
TDP: GNportal (good news)
RI: What’s that?
TDP: Laura our project manager will tell you about that.

Laura Koval: GNportal is a central content store for getting content from remote places so it’s publish ready. It’s a direct user interface and works on any platform, any browser (regular contributors, connect upload enhance the metadata and then publish. There is also an “upload and publish mode”.

You can also connect via email (parses out attachments and performs validation on the pictures for example) or the website. Content in the form of stories, videos, pictures, etc… reside on the portal and remains there till someone chooses to publish it.

The portal archives are full text searchable and also return other related info like “how many are videos and stories, location, who the author is, related articles, etc…

RI: View this image to get a visual representation of how the portal works.  Click to see a larger version:

RI: Where can people find out more?
Laura: Visit our website to learn more about GNportal and our other products and services.  Or contact us directly for a demo. Thanks!

About Tera digital publishing:

Tera is a leading provider of integrated multi-media editorial solutions for the newspaper publishing. Dominant in many of our worldwide markets, we are best known for the quality of our engineering, our products’ ease-of-use and very low cost of ownership.

Tera’s product line includes multi-media editorial, archiving, advertising and prepress solutions. All our products deliver the highest performance, maximum reliability and low operating costs. Our solutions are installed quickly and easily, with the smallest impact on the organization.

In the US, we publish over 100 titles and are the dominant vendor to Spanish-language newspapers. We are the dominant vendor in Brazil and Croatia.

The high quality of our engineering contributes to the low cost of ownership of a Tera system. Tera has never released an upgrade that invalidated any customer’s data nor required the risk and expense of a so-called major upgrade. And yet our software is an engineering leader. Our installation times are measured in weeks, not months or years. The addition of new titles is a routine matter.