Reduce Complexity

Managing production communications is a complex process. Ensuring that everyone knows what is expected of them and when, as well as knowing what stage a piece of work is at, is a challenge.

The Matrix CMS allows you to assign ownership of various processes within the system, setting time-scales, tracking changes in a detailed audit trail and most importantly displaying information about the status of a publication in an easily viewable format.

Improve Efficiency and Communication

Access to a shared view of a project can minimise the administrative overhead of a publication and improve collaboration across the organisation. This means improved efficiency, cost reductions and potentially an improvement in the overall quality of your communication.

Two of the simple and key ways the CMS does this, is by displaying a live view of what every page looks like. This means that you can see at a glance how far a catalogue has progressed. Another way is to colour code production stages. For example if one page was still awaiting artwork whilst those around it were already at "final proof" you would instantly notice this as it's colour in the page listing would make it distinct from it's neighbours.

Project Brief

If you require a powerful dedicated project management application, the Matrix CMS integrates directly with Cashman Bell's "Project Brief" system which helps manage the process of collating product information before importing into the CMS. More information can be found at Cashman Bell's website

Using the Matrix CMS you can have clear responsibility and task allocation, better communication and co-operation and greater clarity of the status of project.