1. iConnect Roadmap Review

2. 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…….

3. 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)

4. 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

5. 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)

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

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

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

9. Customer Enhancement Forum

10. Client Enhancement Forum

11. Product Releases Available today

12. Released

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

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

15. Roadmap review

16. 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
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17. 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

18. Three Categories
Recently Released
In Progress
What’s Coming

19. MEDIA PRODUCTS SOLUTIONS

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

21. 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”

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

23. Roadmap Overview
Enterprise Products

24. Roadmap Overview
Pro & Unlimited Products

25. 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

26. MARKETING SOLUTIONS

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

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

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

30. Roadmap Overview
Browser Based Solution

31. 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

32. COMMERCE SOLUTIONS

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

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

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

36. Roadmap Overview

37. Product Roadmaps – A Deeper Dive
Pillar
Product
Session
Day
Time
Commerce Solutions
NCS Circulation
What’s New
Monday
1:30
Circulation Pro
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

38. DATA & ANALYTICS SOLUTIONS

39. 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

40. 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

41. 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

42. Roadmap Overview

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

44. Imagine a world…