As the publishing marketplace becomes increasingly global, the relentless drive to remain competitive is inevitable. Adding value is essential, but so too is cost reduction. Working with these growing pressures for years, our team of publishing workflow experts has developed a range of products to help your business constantly innovate and streamline the publishing process. Each product combines collaborative software capabilities with best practice techniques that are tailor made to meet your challenges, head on.
PlanSystem4 is our most flexible solution which gives indepth control of the planning and workflow processes involved in the production of magazines, books, catalogs and in-house publications. Providing realtime communication between everybody in the value chain, including outsourced services such as Ad design, it improves cycle times and optimizes profitability.
Gwen Wylie - Hachette Filipacchi Media
"PlanSystem has been very well received by the editorial groups. Once people see it, they get it, and they get excited about it."
Laura Capasso – Reader’s Digest
"We always get the ‘personal touch’ from the Van Gennep team as well as comprehensive training and ongoing support."
Ben Petersen – Programmabladen AKN
"What is more Van Gennep’s ability to evolve the system together with our ICT department has made it a truly customized solution."
"We have enjoyed a very happy marriage with PlanSystem since 2001, and are still enjoying the system's benefits - the time saved and the elimination of costly mistakes have been invaluable to our business."
Oliver Wagener – Bauer Verlagsgruppe
"We needed to replace or upgrade QPS. For the price of a domestic system, we were able to get a global one."
Raimo Moysa - Reader’s Digest
"Since installation of PlanSystem, tracking the status of magazines is now much easier."
"It's been a good partnership from the beginning."
"Our company ethos is ‘creativity over technology’ and PlanSystem certainly helps us stay true to this."
"PlanSystem supports the entire production chain and injects bottom-line efficiencies into the process, from capturing the initial idea for an article to sending final print-ready PDF’s to the printer."
"Van Gennep was very flexible and responsive to our needs, which included integration with our other systems."
"With PlanSystem’s PlanMaker Hachette Filipacchi has experienced massive timesavings."
"We wanted something that allowed us to be collaborative without having to be in the same physical location."
"Van Gennep’s close working relationship with our industry has provided all the answers for AKN."
