LONDON, February 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Al-Ahram, Egypt's number one publishing house with over 40 publications and a distribution of 1.5 million for flagship daily newspaper Al-Ahram, has embarked on a major initiative for their publishing re-modernisation with KnowledgeView Ltd.

For over 132 years, Al-Ahram has been the leader in publishing systems in the Arab world. The object of our current modernization with Knowledge View establishes a secure multi-publishing platform for the future. Quoted Mr Taymoor A Hassib, Director General of Al-Ahram.

Egypt has always been an important market for KnowledgeView. This dates back historically when it all started a few decades ago Nineteen years ago, we installed a major pre-press and publishing system using the Postscript technology which to this day is working reliably. Here we are again, replacing the system with our new technology for multi -publishing, to help extend Al-Ahram's reach in this new era, said Dr. Ali Al Assam, CEO of KnowledgeView. This will take place in collaboration with our local partners BestBuy

About KnowledgeView

KnowledgeView Ltd is a UK-based company with headquarters in London and offices in the Middle East. The company was founded in 1995 to develop cross-media publishing, news management and editorial sharing systems. Users of KnowledgeView's Publish live solutions included the Independent News and Media, Guardian Media Group, News Corporation and the Washington Post. In the Middle East, KnowledgeView is a leading newspaper integrator, with over 40 media companies, providing consultancy as well as technology, acting as a marketing and technology bridge between Europe and the Arab World.

KnowledgeView's Publish live suite of products and services enables publishers to extend their reach and increase revenues, through easy multi-publishing to paper, Web, mobile and now TV radio.

KnowledgeView's RAPID Browser is a powerful news management and editorial sharing system for automating acquisition, classification and enhancement of news and media content and creating packages for cross-media publishing, designed to streamline production and create additional revenues.

RAPID Browser has set the standard for the next generation of news management systems, with its ability to gather content from a wide variety of sources such as news agencies, correspondents' reports, RSS and Web harvested feeds, and the power it puts in the hands of users to define their own ways of filtering and acting on items that match their interests. By integrating RAPID Browser with Adobe publishing software and with third-party publishing systems.

RAPID Archive, integrated with RAPID Browser, provides strategic rich-media archiving for publishers who want to syndicate or share editorial content.

For more information please contact Lina Alaousta on +44-2083394185 lina@knowledgeview.co.uk

For more information please contact Lina Alaousta on +44-2083394185, lina@knowledgeview.co.uk