Webvision – market leading CMS

Empowering the Publisher

Webvision is our flagship CMS aimed squarely at the media and publishing sector, and allows magazine and newspaper publishers to maximise their content and revenue opportunities across multi-channel outputs including web, mobile, email, syndication networks and print.

Our depth of experience and our specialist knowledge has enabled us to develop a unique CMS, designed and developed for journalists and publishers, to streamline the production and editorial process. Webvision v3 is powering and empowering some of the biggest players in the media sector – Centaur, Emap, Thomson Reuters, TSL and UBM – to create truly flexible, dynamic, feature-rich sites, with all the control of professional web design, optimization and usability.

Click on the headings below to explore the key benefits of the Webvision CMS.

Reduce total cost of ownership

At Abacus e-Media we take a partnership approach which is proven to save you time and reduce your costs.

Webvision provides your organization with a truly scalable solution for the web. The platform is easily accessible to non-technical staff allowing them to focus their time on content creation and innovation and at the same time drives down the cost of technology and technical support resources.

If your organization has many publications or websites, then operating a shared platform can realise significant cost savings not only in terms of the initial design, build and implementation, but also developing future functionality which can be deployed across your platform quickly.

“Our focus on digital integration – and realizing economies of scale – is epitomized by our use of Webvision. For each of our publications, we are able to use the same templates, relying on their inherent flexibility to retain the strong individual brand identities of each magazine. Having developed a specific function within Webvision for one magazine, we are then able to roll this out extremely quickly to all the others."

Digital Director, UBM

Increase revenue opportunities using SPIN2 technology

Our unique SPIN technology truly empowers the publisher, providing control of all page elements, including content, plug-ins, advertising and sponsorship blocks. Non technical users can quickly and easily change page layouts, navigation items or completely overhaul the look and feel of the homepage via the drag n’ drop interface.

This allows publishers to quickly react to the latest news and events in their industry or respond to the many new revenue opportunities that spring up each day.

Using SPIN2 technology and advanced grid layouts, coupled with the UI Framework (a package of web pages individually branded and tailored to suit your business), publishers can create a homepage today which meets the digital demands of tomorrow.

SPIN2

Grow your audience with mobile web

Our new mobile UI web page templates provide support for the majority of devices such as the iPhone, all major smart phones, and Blackberry devices that can render XHTML.

The templates retain full control of the navigation and layouts, just as they do on the desktop version using our SPIN technology; this includes support for HTML Blocks and XML feeds from third parties; plus blogs, search, mobile advertising and access control for pay-walled content.

UBM recently launched three new mobile sites – Property Week, bdonline and Building – using our templates with great success.

“Abacus’ mobile templates allowed UBM BE to efficiently deliver three branded mobile websites via the core CMS using SPIN technology, providing full control of content layout and distribution. Since launch the sites have achieved strong audience growth and reach."

Head of Digital, UBM Built Environment

The core mobile UI will give publishers new revenue stream opportunities from targeted advertising around content controlled by Webvision CMS, whilst offering their subscribers greater value from a focused mobile browsing experience.

Mobile

Save time and increase productivity with the new Media Library

The Webvision user interface (UI) utilizes the latest browser technologies to vastly improve usability and minimise page-refresh, providing a simplified, optimized content workflow.

The latest version now ships with Media Library, a digital asset management module, to help users organize and publish their digital assets (images, audio/video and files).

“We have about fifty staff using Webvision. Routine work can be done much easier and much faster, which leaves them with time to really use their creativity and, for example, consider how they can introduce more video or blogging."

Digital development director, EMAP

The new system feels more like an e-commerce experience with many time saving features to improve production workflow – add all your assets in one trip via the shopping basket; or save your favourite or most frequently used assets in a lightbox.

Watch the video clip demo below to see how the Media Library makes the process of finding and adding digital assets to pages more efficient and faster, saving your staff time so they can focus on quality and increase value for your products and services.