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Discover cutting-edge solutions that redefine digital landscapes
Hello
We are News Systems AB, nice to meet you! Founded in 2002 as a digital publishing solutions provider, we have worked with many of Sweden’s largest publishing companies (Bonnier Publication, Dagens Nyheter, Brunswick Marina and Stockholm City). Over time, we have expandedour digitalization mission to include digital banking, digital media and digital citizenship solutions.
What do we do?
Our operations are broken into three core development silos, digital publishing, bespoke solutions, and our rapidly expanding digital citizenship ecosystem which is designed to improve the quality of our lives by automating many of the mundane processes of everyday life.
Our bespoke work is based around building client-drivensolutions for their very specific business challenges. From strategy guidance to delivery and 24/7support we deliver efficiently and reduce risk by utilizing our proven agile methods. We take an All-Screens approach to development in order to ensure that the end user can interface through the device of their choice. This helps clients avoid business bottle necks such as vendor locking and ensures that our solutions are scalable and based on future proof architectures.
With an eye on the fast-growing markets of the westernBalkans, our team (through local partners) have delivered end-to-end mobile banking solutions to clients including Telenor Bank, OTT solutions to Deutsche Telekom operations in the region, and more recently a dynamic civic engagement platform for municipalities in North Macedonia.
How we do it?
We are a USER FIRST company, where the user experience guides our entire development ethos. As avid consumers ourselves we understand that solutions that don’t deliver an enabling and intuitive end user experience (no matter how sophisticated they are) cannot deliver value to our client’s business. Ours is an environment which encourages the kind of interdisciplinary, multi cultured discourse that feeds out of the box thinking. We believe that collegial, creative and highly motivated people, when given the space to flourish, deliver game changing solutions.
We use experienced consultants able to work across the full Business Management spectrum, delivering actionable and measurable results that transform our client’s user experience while meeting their business needs. The quality of our services has secured relationships with some of the most prestigious, well-known and discerning clients across two regions. Our End User first approach, means that each projectstarts around our solutions design team who are all senior UI (user interface) and UX (user experience) experts with deep experience designing for web, desktop, mobile and connected TV interfaces.
From design wireframe our team of DB and Sysadminspecialists then focus on creating the complex database architectures (from MySQL to PostgreSQL and MongoDB) necessary to ensure that business value can be derived from every user interaction.
• Back End Technologies: Java, Python, Ruby, Dot Net, Node JS, Swift
• Front End Technologies: Native IOS, Native Android,React, HTML5, JavaScript, Angular
· Project Methodologies; Kanban, Scrum, Agile, Waterfall
· Tools; JIRA, Trello, Microsoft Project, Assana,BaseCamp Developer Tools xCode,
Coda 2, TextMate, InteliJ
Digital Publishing
xPrint
xPrint is a page planning, creation, and monitoring tool for print publications. It allows the association of pages in a publication in groups of zones, editions, sections. Through page inheritance - only minor adaptations are needed to pages when published in different zones and editions. This significantly reduces the need for manual editing of pages in an issue.
Zoned ads and articles are automatically placed on pages and output. In some publications ( Vi i Villa, Idenyt ) the number of pages needed to be manually edited in each issue decreased from 3000 to 160 on average, this significantly reduced the production cost. xPrint creates empty publications by applying appropriate InDesign templates and allowing the editor (through using drag and drop ) to place ads and articles on the pages. It automatically creates Classified ad pages. Supports output to multiple print houses of the same page scaling and page paring the content of the page accordingly, It applies color matching through the use of PDF Print Presets.
xEdit
xEdit is a tag-based text editor used to create articles for print and WEB publication. Users type in text and apply appropriate tags to paragraphs. Each tag corresponds to one Paragraph or Character style in InDesign and one CSS from the WEB publishing platform.
Users can select an InDesign template to be used for the production of the article or a WEB template to publish the WEB version of the article. At any time user can receive a preview of the article in InDesign ( Print Edition ) or WEB and open the corresponding InDesign document and do the final retouch. Publishing of articles to the WEB is done directly from xEdit by selecting the page, position, and time to publish and unpublish the article. Web publishing platform provided a preview of the present version of the article should it be published now.
xCatalogue
xCatalogue is a catalogue production tool that continuously imports and updates internal data base of products, assign and associate images to products , create article groups and edit all meta text on products.
The tool enables browsing through categories of articles, search, sort, apply discounts to selected articles, update price lists, print shelf labels with price and description of the articles. It will also create catalog pages from all selected articles in InDesign. It allows editing of article pages from multiple workstations by just locking the edited field using internal notification system to publish the lock/unlock on article assets between workstations printing multiple editors to change same property at same time.
epsPrint
epsPrint is a page paring and composition tool used to output and monitor page creation in newspaper production environment. It provides a OPI functionality, Print Spooler and Post-Script preflight of the output. Converted Postscript to PDF and receives 4 colour separation plates back from the RIPs to create rasterised preview of the combined pages prior photo-setting and print. User interface of epsPrint was created in Objective C.
It was running on a Indigo workstation operating under NextStep operating system. Simpler version of the user interface (without control possibilities ) that had only preview possibilities was done using HTML and C on the Back End and was accessible on any browser on the WorkStations. User interface was displaying preview and status of all page pairs in the production of each issue.
xArchive
xArchive is archiving tool creating PDF, Text and Image archives from the produced pages. The tool supports creation of structured publications respecting Zones, Editions, Sections and Inserts. It can create page by page or multipage PDF for each of the issues of the publication.
xAds
xAds is a simple traffic tool used to monitor the ads in each publication, run preflight checks and generate reports. It allows user to match the ads arriving through mail, ftp and other sources and match them to booking info gathered from the Ad Sales system. Integration was done to Atex booking system, AdSales and Dynamics. System is preflighting the ads using integration to PitStop. It changed status of the ads allowing easy filtering of ads according to preflight status. It send reminders to delayed advertisers.
TTEditor
TTEditor is a editor used to create complex text articles structures such as pages for TVTablå. DataBase was Oracle. Tool allowed for easy creation of a TV and Radio program schemes and automatic creation of InDesign documents used to publish the program scheme on publishers WEbPages and print publications. The system automatically switched between long and short versions of each program synopsis to adjust the size of the content.
Customers:
- Stockholm City AB
- Bonnier Publication AB Vi i Villa
- Bonnier Publication A/S -Idenyt
- Dagens Nyheter AB
- Brunswick Marina AB
- TT Tidnigarnas Telegram Byro
Bespoke Solutions
Data Retention
Proprietary system designed to meet the legal andbusiness data archiving requirements of telecom operators especially in the fulfilment of the policies of persistent data and records management according to the Data Protection Act from 1998. Dataretention generally refers to the storage of call data records (CDRs) of telephony and internet traffic and transaction data (IPDRs) by governments and commercial organisations. The data that is stored is usually of telephone calls made and received, emails sent and received, and websites visited. Location data is also collected. The system has extensive activity logging, strictly defined user roles and case assignment and tracking functionalities to prevent system misuse.
Max TV Go
A state-of-the-art OTT digital TV platform which allowstelecom operators and digital tv broadcasters to rapidly deploy Multi-Screen OTT Video-On-Demand (VOD) and or Audio Streaming Platform services. Native IOS, Android Apps, Android STB, Samsung, Sony and other major TV OSs supported.
Loop
An intuitive simple to use content management app foriOS, Android, PC, MAC and STB’s. Which allows users to Synchronize, share andlive stream content (videos and images) across all connected devices.
SMS Gateway
A Telco solution that enables incumbents and new startoperators alike to deploy SMS enabled functionality myriad systems.
USA
The Universal Service Application (USA) is a customeraccount management application that enables the service subscriber to manage all existing services and subscriptions or purchase new ones.
Customers:
- Deutsche Telekom (North Macedonia, Montenegro)
- Deutsche Telekom (North Macedonia, Montenegro)
Banking
Bank2Go
An innovative digital banking services platform, that issimple to use and available anytime and anywhere. Our team built an interactive ‘all screens’ user interface that allows the banks clients to fully manage all their financial affairs. The solution includes Android, IOS Application clients and the SMAP layer between the Front End and the Core Banking System. The interface facilitates:
- Control of peer to peer and peer to business(bill payment) transactions
- Credit and debit card transactions
- Application for all bank services includingcredit card and loan applications (consumer credit and mortgage)
- Money transferCustomers:
- Telenor Bank (Thefirst mobile only Bank in the Western Balkans)
- Stopanska Banka Bitola
Media
Billboard Management System
This is planning, booking and payment management system designed for the outdoor advertising and street furniture industry. It includes booking and maintenancemanagement of all types of signage solutions, with a database of formats, location, and condition status. A full history of location booking, duration of lease, and other relevant financial data. The solution encompasses rich vendor and client user interfaces.
MFlixx
A standalone OTT VOD and live streaming platform forcontent providers, broadcasters. Telecom operators and non-traditional media companies. The platform incorporates one of the most advanced upscaling technologies available, which allows for example, content streamed in HD to be viewed on enabled set top devices in 4K. Uniquely this solution facilitates the upscaling of live content such as sport.
ShowRoom
A cloud-based VSS (Video Signage System) solution formanaging information for digital signage. The system is managed via a user-friendly interface that is accessible via the browser of any connected device.
Digital Citizenship
Komuniti
Komuniti facilitates active engagement with citizens on all issuesrelated to their local government, whether in the dissemination of official documents/reports et al, or facilitating the reporting of complaints, whether it’s applying for municipal services/permits or reading reports on the municipalities progress on its formal agenda, real-time traffic or pollution.
The News Systems team are deploying a system that incorporatecitizen voices in decision-making processes, and thereby increase the responsiveness of government programs to people’s real needs. Real-time citizen feedback will allow the community leaders to make more relevant financial investment decisions.
Komuniti is a localised social media platform which provide social discourse on locally relevant issues, by verified local residents. It provides local business with very targeted tools to communicate at a hyper-local level, optimising their ad spend and the impact, in the process making a positive impact to the local economy.
A unique proprietary end-to-end solution for central andmunicipal government deployment that integrates with GOVTECH and SMART CITY solutions. It provides an interface for all types of citizen-to-government interactions
o Personaland ID document applications
o Troubleticketing for complaints and fault reporting
o HealthService system integration for secure access to medical records
o Emergencyand amber notifications
o Pay2 Gov solution for payment for all services
o Bookingsystem for interviews with institutions and local government
o Accessdigitized versions of all local and central government publications
o Cadasterinformation requests
o Weather& Environmental information
o Trafficinformation
o Allforms of permitting
o Crimereporting and digital evidence submission
o Personaldigital certification issuing for access to personal data, voting, banking and other secure services
mWallet
A digital wallet service that lets users pay theirutility bills, using iPhone or Android smartphones. The mobile application allows for seamless one-click payment with stored credit cards. Application is preinstalled on all mobile devices sold by Deutsche Telekom in North Macedonia.
Multi Brand Loyalty Engine
An end-to-end digital loyalty program solution designedto integrate multiple partners into a unified loyalty program.
o Supports all leading ePoS systems
o PCI compliant
o Supports partner specific points allocation andredemption
o Gift redemption
o Peer to peer points transfero Multi validity points allocation
o Segmented customer points allocation
o Inter-partner reconciliation
o End user App and card
o Supports NFC, RFID and Acoustic readersOn-App & SMS Parking
Single or multi-client solution for delivering closed and on street parking locations
serviceso Endto end solution (including all front and back-office functionality)
o SMSand on-App booking and reservation
o SMSand on-App payment (prepaid or stored card)
o Payper use or subscription options
o Payand display ticketing machineso AutomatedLicense Plate Recognition technology to support seamless service user and abusemonitoring
o Pre-paidplatform for ticket purchase at vendor and kiosk locations
o Automatedpenalty issuing solution
o Attendantdevice solution
o Towingvehicle in vehicle solutionService Industries
Bilpriser
Bilpriser was the best-selling app on Appstore in Sweden in theyear it was published. This IOS application allows users to take a photo of a car and returns details about the car such as production year, milage, recommended selling and buying price to car dealer or private persons. Bilpriser also offers different options for financing of the car purchase, insurance and transportation to destination. Solution included: Gaussian Transformation of images, sharpening, CTM transformations and vectorisation neural network for character recognition.
Genova Fastigheter
Genovais a one Sweden’s largest property management companies. Its extensive house
building and property management, operations are supported by its project management, finance, marketing and legal services. Part of Genova’s strength is its willingness to deploy cutting edge solutions to streamline and augmented their operations.News Systems builds and manages Genova’s digital estate including its client applications.
Customers:
- Kvarndamen AB (largest reseller of previously owned cars)
Inuheat
Is a company creating innovative heated clothing. The desired heating of the clothes is controlled directly on the heat system Power Packs, or by using a smart phone app with additional functionality. The app works conveniently with all Inuheat compatible garments from any partner brand. It automatically adapts to partner brand’s graphic profile and feature set up.
- Kvarndamen AB (largest reseller of previously owned cars)
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