Racing Post is first to choose Knowledge

The Racing Post has chosen a ground-breaking digital content management and publishing solution from Wolverhampton-based PCS Ltd to drive forward its editorial production systems.

In choosing Knowledge, the UK's leading racing daily is also first past the post, becoming the first national title to install the mainly browser-based solution to manage its entire content input from in-house editorial, remote writers and contributors, plus processing and output to print and digital media.

The 140-seat Knowledge system will link to a new 10-seat installation of PCS's recently upgraded advertising production solution, Pulse. Together they will replace currently outsourced services and will be managed by PCS's dedicated managed services team. They will be hosted from PCS's own data centres.

The installation, which uses Adobe InDesign and InDesign Server for pagination, will replace a number of existing systems for pagination and archive, taking in legacy data.

It will also introduce real time text mining for seamless delivery and real time integration with the Racing Post's own CMS. Knowledge will interface to PA, feed the Newspaper Licencing Agency, Ebiquity, for e-vouchering and Newspapers Direct.

Mark Whittaker, head of newspapers at Racing Post, said: "We are delighted the Racing Post has become the first UK national newspaper to choose Knowledge."