iConnect Roadmap Review

Agenda Since iConnect 2014 – Highlights Release Process Execution Quality Improvements Strategic Partner Programs Customer Enhancement Forum Product Releases Available Today Roadmap Review Recently Released In Progress What’s Coming Imagine a world…….

Product Release Management Process Involves Core Release Team All Departments Represented Frequent Meetings to Track Progress Core Members inform their Teams Release Requires 100% Approval (GO)

Quality Improvements 2014 – Quality Baseline Established 2014 – Established Executive Dashboard Visibility into Quality 2014 – Introduced Continuous Integration (automated quality checks) 2015 – Standardized Quality Metrics across all Product Lines 2015 – Testing in lock-step with Development 2015 – Formal Escalation Process – Quality Certified before Release

Quality Improvements Master Test Plans Maintenance Release Test Plans Product Release Management Meeting Major Releases Unit, Feature, System, Regression Maintenance Release Test Plans Unplanned Releases EAP, Patch Escalation (P1)

Strategic Partner Program Many Distinct Programs One topic each / Clear goals Run by Product Management Upstream from Development Open to all customers Signup & Registration spp@newscycle.com Web portal coming soon

Strategic Partner Program Sign-up on Customer Portal ------ Coming Soon

Customer Enhancement Forum Currently evaluating Layouts In talks with the user group board Process Focus areas Committees Liaisons Tools Confluence Logging Voting Discussion

Customer Enhancement Forum

Client Enhancement Forum

Product Releases Available today

Released

Released NCS Content 2014-1 Version (7.2) Released Aug 2014 Jan 2015 NCS Digital 2014-1 Version (7.4) Dec NCS Reporter Client 2014-1 Version (4.0) WebManagerPro 2014-1 Version (5.3) Sep NewsEditPro 2014-1 Version (6.1) 2014-2 Version (6.2) May Content Publisher 2014-1 Version Feb

Released NCS Advertising 2014-1 Released Sep 2014 AdManagerPro 2014-2 Version (5.8) Oct NCS Circulation 2014-1 Version (4.0) CirculationPro 2014-1 Version (5.3) Nov Saxo Circulation 2014-1 Version (6.6)B NCS Audience NCS Circulation Insight 2014-2 Mar 2015

Roadmap review

Roadmap - Our four Pillars Kelli Chmielorz Media Product Solutions Donna Beasley Marketing Solutions Dana Midby Commerce Solutions Jim Williams Big Data Solutions ENTERPRISE NCS Content NCS Digital NewsEditPro WebManagerPro ContentPublisher JazBox NCS Advertising AdManagerPro Ad/Class-Speed AdManager MediaPlus NCS Circulation CirculationPro Saxo Circulation Matrix NCS Analytics NCS Audience PRO UNLIMITED

Product Roadmaps – A Deeper Dive Pillar Product Day Time Marketing Solutions NCS Advertising Tuesday 9:45 Ad Manager Pro 11:00 Media Solutions Enterprise NCS Digital & NCS Content NewsEditPro & WebManagerPro Content Publisher Commerce Solutions NCS Circulation Monday 1:30 Circulation Pro 2:45 Saxo Circulation Wednesday 1:45 Data Solutions Circulation InSight Audience 4:00

Three Categories Recently Released In Progress What’s Coming

MEDIA PRODUCTS SOLUTIONS

Media Products Solutions Recently Released Content Planner using InDesign Server Common Pages Digital Access control Granularity Galleries, CCE, Stories

Roadmap - Media Products Solutions In Progress Production reports – page flow, cost Page tracking (pro) Quick tags Social Media Management Native advertising workflow Data Journalism Personality central “PlanR”

Roadmap - Media Products Solutions What’s coming Pervasive Content Creation Digital workflows Stats Research / Discovery Digital Technology Upgrade

Roadmap Overview Enterprise Products

Roadmap Overview Pro & Unlimited Products

Product Roadmaps – A Deeper Dive Pillar Product Session Day Time Media Solutions Content Creation Demo Monday 2:45 Enterprise NCS Digital & NCS Content Roadmap Tuesday 9:45 NewsEditPro & WebManagerPro Content Publisher

MARKETING SOLUTIONS

Marketing Solutions CRM pipeline management Recently Released CRM pipeline management MediaLink Digital & Outsourcing Digital Affiliate Management Self Service Private Party and Commercial Workflows

Roadmap - Marketing Solutions What we are working on now Digital ad booking templates CRM for Mobile

Roadmap - Marketing Solutions What’s coming early ‘16 Full browser based solution Cloud Optimized Clients User interface enhancements Digital Ad Campaigns Audience segmentation

Roadmap Overview Browser Based Solution

Product Roadmaps – A Deeper Dive Pillar Product Session Day Time Marketing Solutions NCS Advertising Scheduled Demo Mon - Wed See Kelly Smith Roadmap Demos See Jamie Fuller or Donna Beasley MediaPlus Advertising New Features Monday 11:00

COMMERCE SOLUTIONS

Commerce Solutions Communication Preferences Newsletters & Alerts Recently Released Communication Preferences Newsletters & Alerts Day Passes PCI, HOP, Tokenization

Roadmap - Commerce Solutions What we are working on now CRM Emails From customer service Add templates as needed Premium Days Billed in advance Separate from subscription $$ Does not update expiration date

Roadmap - Commerce Solutions What’s coming early ‘16 Loyalty / Membership E-commerce Personalization / Targeted offers

Roadmap Overview

Product Roadmaps – A Deeper Dive Pillar Product Session Day Time Commerce Solutions NCS Circulation What’s New Monday 1:30 Circulation Pro 2014-2 Review 2:45 5.3 Review 4:00 Pro Roadmap Tuesday 11:00 Intro to SPP 9:45 Saxo Circulation Purpose & Intro Tokenization Wednesday 1:45

DATA & ANALYTICS SOLUTIONS

Data & Analytics Solutions Recently Released Audience segments into DFP 2-way Circulation integration Audience data export to Circulation Subscriber import to Audience Analytics Performance Improvements

Data & Analytics Solutions What we are working on now “Big data” architecture MongoDB / Kinesis Audience move to AWS 3rd Party Data APIs Synching with 3rd Party data aggregators Digital Access reporting & trending A number of new reports

Roadmap – Data & Analytics Solutions What’s coming early ‘16 Content and persona repository Understand all points of Content, User & Consumer engagement Analytics across product areas Loyalty data aggregation

Roadmap Overview

Product Roadmaps – A Deeper Dive Pillar Product Session Day Time Data Solutions Circulation InSight InSight Update Monday 2:45 Audience Audience Review 4:00

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