PCS managing director Phil Walker has been reflecting on a successful launch for the company’s new digital content management and publishing system, Knowledge, at Publishing Expo.

Said Walker: “Over the two days we gave more than 40 demonstrations to potential customers from a wide spectrum of the publishing sector, from small to medium-sized magazines to one or two major players in the regional and national press.

“Our visitors were interested in the comprehensive publishing package that Knowledge offers, from edition planning, through design and content management to output not only to print, but to e-reader, mobile phone application or, of course, to the web.”

He added: “We had a number of demonstration slots pre-booked, but the prominent position of our new stand – which also had its first outing at Publishing Expo – right in front of the main entrance, meant it was virtually unmissable and that contributed to a healthy number of walk-on visitors over the course of the exhibition, too.”

Knowledge is currently being rolled out on two of the country’s biggest regional evening newspapers – the Express & Star in Wolverhampton and the Shropshire Star, based in Telford and is already producing the Shropshire Weeklies and Wolverhampton Chronicles series of weekly titles.

Said Walker: “This is an exciting time for PCS as a company refocused on development and for Knowledge as a product of that focus. We have taken it out to a wider audience for the first time and now our job is to capitalise on the interest it has clearly created.”