Unprecedented function integration

PlanSystem3 is a unique and proven planning and collaborative editorial and creative workflow management system for magazine publishers, catalogers, ad agencies, book publishers and others in the communications industry. Developed with their needs in mind, this proven system enables communication among multiple departments and locations to reliably facilitate enterprise-wide collaboration – boosting productivity, timesavings and profitability.

Connecting merchandising, editorial and advertising.

PlanSystem3 lays the groundwork for you to build a more efficient way of managing – one that works the way you want it to work. With clear, consistent communication and coordination across all processes and procedures, you can be confident your product will be accurate, timely and efficiently produced.

Using PlanSystem3, you can:

• Know the status of every job on every page in every edition in real time, 24/7
• Share and manage content across geography and multiple departments, including marketing, advertising, editorial, production and prepress
• Improve deadline accountability and avoid costly overtime charges
• Support a globally dispersed workforce with remote viewing and approvals capability, as well as synchronizing efforts of multiple locations

Offering unparalleled flexibility

PlanSystem3 brings a level of flexibility previously unattainable in the media and communications industries. It’s open and universal to easily integrate with your standard desktop applications, including Adobe® InDesign®, InCopy®, QuarkXPress®, QuarkCopyDesk®, Microsoft® Word® and others. With PlanSystem3, you can work with both InDesign® and QuarkXPress® pages in one edition, allowing you to painlessly transition from previous systems – ranging from page layout and copy editing applications all the way to enterprise-wide workflow management systems.

“I’d estimate PlanSystem3 has helped us shave at least ten percent off the time spent on our larger projects.”

Leslie Kellow-Hall, Vice-President of Production
FUEL, an IPG Company

FUEL Case Study

“Before we had PlanSystem3, it would take me a day to draw the page layouts by hand. Now I can do a book that is double the size in half the time. PlanSystem3 has helped me tremendously with our growth.”

Hope Brooks, Art Director
417 Magazine

417 Magazine Case Study

“PlanSystem3 has been very well received by the editorial group. Once people see it, they get it – and they get excited about it.”

Laura Capasso-Fiorenza
Reader’s Digest

“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

Reader's Digest Case Study

“Because PlanSystem3 provides an online, real-time view of the plan, everyone stays in the loop, no matter where he or she is located.”

Kelly Madison
Milwaukee Magazine

Milwaukee Magazine Case Study

• Workflow management
• Schedule, assignment, resource management
• Editorial environment control
• Visual presentation of ad/edit space ratios
• Easy integration with varying desktop applications
• Leveraging of point applications
• Extended query functionality
• Version control and history
• Strong reporting capabilities
• Flat planning for editorial/production