Provide with K4
Multichannel publishing
With vjoon K4, you can rely on a powerful and professional publishing system. Proven in enterprises, creative agencies, associations, and publishers, it ensures efficient editorial workflows and delivers content for any channel. To put it in a nutshell, with K4 you can:
- Automate manual routine tasks
- Deliver content to any channel
- Build your own digital archive
Provide content anytime, anywhere.
In most publishing systems, content delivery is the final step, which means that the corresponding connections focus only on the associated publishing channels. But K4 does more than that. Do you want to receive content from a planning system or Web CMS? Transfer content to AI tools for interim processing and then retrieve it again? Or archive content in a DAM after publishing? K4 does all this for you. Highly automated and extremely efficient.
Automate routine tasks
Say goodbye to wasted time on tedious manual routine tasks. Automate various internal and external processes.
- Need an XML file of your content, a printable PDF, or want to archive all your publications? Using K4, all this can be done easily using automated tasks.
- If content needs to be processed by AI-powered solutions or third-party systems, K4 takes care of it. With monitored automated processes running in the background.
- Even importing content, for example from an editorial planning system or Web CMS, can be automated easily.
- And you can also execute custom scripts that run as automated Adobe InDesign Server tasks.
Deliver to any channel
Create a seamless digital ecosystem of connected platforms and tools to provide content for any touchpoint and channel.
- With K4, you’ll deliver your brilliant content to any website and social media platform. All you need is the maintained integration with WordPress or a simple XML export. K4 has been successfully integrated with a bunch of different Web CMSs in numerous projects. Take advantage of this experience.
- You need professional print PDFs for your magazines, newspapers, or even corporate reports? No problem. Thanks to the integration with axaio MadeToPrint, it’s just a click away.
- However, you may also be required to publish your financial figures in an official online publication by the authorities, such as the Federal Gazette. K4 not only assists you in preparing annual reports, but also ensures that the most important figures are submitted automatically.
Build your digital archive
Store all your publications in a digital archive. Structured, searchable and with assets whose relations to each other are retained.
- Free your publishing system from the data of older productions and archive all your publications in seven DAM.
- With the digital archive in seven, your archived content remains searchable and all relations between issues, images and layouts are retained.
- Content from the digital archive can easily be transferred to a new production process, modified and monetized again.
Create with K4. Publish with WordPress.
Publish your brilliant content with WordPress at the push of a button or via automated workflow tasks. Images, videos or social media posts included in the story are also transmitted and appear in the text at the same position as seen in K4’s Content Editor. Depending on the configuration, a content story can be reserved exclusively for K4 for editing, using WordPress as a headless CMS.
While creating the content story, a preview rendered by WordPress allows K4 users to verify how the story will look like in WordPress. K4 Integration with WordPress is offered via a serviceable WordPress plug-in, allowing vjoon to maintain and update the plug-in independently of K4.
This smart integration of K4 with WordPress, which is suitable for everyday use, also serves as a blueprint for any other Web CMS integration. Implemented with one of the world’s most popular Web CMS, this demonstrates the enormous potential of K4 for creating, managing and providing online content.
Easily import and export content
Do want to process content from third-party systems within vjoon K4 or publish content created in K4 on third-party systems? That’s no problem. Just like a central hub, K4 enables you to import from and export content to third-party systems. Automated and embedded within the workflow or at the touch of a button – depending on your preferences and without using the API. Content is imported via one or more monitored hot folders, while export is done as XML, for example via email or FTP.
Import articles, layouts, images, Microsoft Excel files, and any other content via hot folders. Create dedicated hot folders as needed to obtain content from various external systems, such as Web CMS, or ad management. As part of online-first strategies, importing content from the Web CMS complements your content strategy and offers huge potential for secondary use in print.
Is your strategy content-first or print-first? And do you want to publish the content created by your team in K4 online at any time? K4 supports you with maximum efficiency for this as well. Easily export your great stories in media-independent XML format and repurpose them for websites or social media.
Task AI powered solutions and third-party systems with content processing
One of the key advantages of K4 is the ability to automatically outsource tasks for interim processing. Such smart workflows save a lot of time by relieving teams of time-consuming manual routine tasks. K4 manages this efficiently with K4 External Task Dispatcher (XTD).
For example, texts can be easily translated outside of K4 using AI powered solutions such as DeepL. The translated text is automatically returned to K4, saved as a new version, and made available for further use.
The same applies to images. Transfer them effortlessly to automatic image editing tools such as Pixometry (formerly Elpical Claro). After forwarding and editing, the image automatically returns to the K4 workflow as a new version.
These are just two examples of how vjoon K4 automatically provides content for processing by specialized solutions. Everything is fully automated, with versioning and within the actual workflow in K4.
Archive and repurpose published content
Why keeping your published publications with all their issues and associated images in the production system, eating up space? Or why simply store them as a random collection of files? Why not building a digital archive with links between all assets and the opportunity to repurpose and even monetize this content again?
seven will manage this for you. Automatically and silently in the background. You don’t even have to do anything. Thanks to the deep integration with K4, the archiving process can be easily configured as an automated task at the end of every production cycle. The entire issue with all associated content is imported into seven, including all layouts, all assets, and with all relations to each other, keeping everything in a structured and searchable context. And even better, all relations are clickable, and you can quickly access the corresponding assets, variants or collections you need.
What’s more, you can repurpose stories that have already been archived. Simply download and edit it to meet your needs. All these capabilities make the digital archive in seven so valuable for your business.
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K4 integrated with seven
The integration of vjoon K4 and vjoon seven is probably the most intelligent connection between a next-Gen DAM and a leading workflow system.
vjoon seven DAM
seven is your central content hub and single source of truth. Its intelligent use of metadata lets your assets become valuable parts of your brand.
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