Chennai-based Cadgraf Digitals has partnered Anygraaf to help the Helsinki, Finland-based publishing system developer expand its geographic market reach.

Both will be involved in strategic sales and distribution with the newspaper industry.

Cadgraf's activities already include newspaper publishing, workflow, colour management, software correction for presses, training, print-to-digital conversion and Indic fonts.

Managing director A. Elangovan says the company has worked with 500 publishing clients over the past 25 years, including the Times of India, Hindustan Times, Ananda Bazar Patrika, The Hindu, New India Express, Daily Thanthi, Dinakaran, Dina Malar, Vasan Publications, Malayala Manorama, Mathrubhumi, Deccan Herald, Eenadu, Sakshi and Manipal Media. It employs about 150 and has just reported annual turnover US$2.7 million.

Cadgraf will offer the complete line of Anygraaf's publishing solutions, which include the AProfit ad management system for display and classified ads, Neo multichannel CMS and CProfit content access and subscription management system. "Our customers have been looking for a solution that would facilitate true multichannel publishing - a single interface platform that could plan and monitor editorial content for newspapers, magazines, web, mobile devices and social media," he says. Anygraaf's Neo was found to be "the most versatile" solution, allowing for page and edition planning, integrated archives and feeds, and automatic pagination for ads and editorial content.

"Our customers have loved Neo's 'write-once, publish-in-many' environment for content management in English or Indian languages."

Anygraaf managing director Hannu Inberg sees "tremendous growth potential" for newspapers in India: "In Cadgraf we see a partner that shares in this philosophy by offering its customers strong knowledge of and broad depth in the solutions they deliver their customers.

"In this we see a long-lasting relationship."

Founded in 1996, Anygraaf maintains offices in Helsinki and Turku, Finland, and has sales, service and support subsidiaries in Sweden and North America, and partners Anygraaf Deutschland in Germany, Penthion Media Technologies in the Netherlands and Intergraph Corp and Ultragraph Corp serving the Caribbean and Central and South America. Its user base of more than 400 includes newspapers, magazines, book publishers and corporate and government agencies.

Elangovan says Cadgraf's journey began in desktop publishing in 1988, then marketing Apple systems, Adobe software and a host of prepress equipment including imagesetters, scanners, proofers and digital printing systems. It Cadgraf diversified into the development of Indian language fonts and interfaces for Mac and Windows, colour management and training modules in prepress and ePublishing.

With the focus on digital solutions for the print and publishing, it has consolidated activities into four verticals - publishing automation, prepress, digital solutions (web CMS, digital asset management and mobile/tablet apps), and publishing services (archival, conversion and making print publications interactive for tablets).

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Pictured: Anand Jeeth (director, Cadgraf), Sami Kauranen (Anygraaf head of international projects), Hannu Inberg, , A Elangovan, and Andrew Hunn (president of Anygraaf USA)