Three-dimensional interactive infographics are a format for illustrations in a comprehensible way. They help to enhance usability and value of presented information and content by involving the user and by explaining complex processes or visualizing historical events. This also applies to events that cannot be covered by usual means like photo or video. Whenever a reporter is unable to visit the scene of an event – because of time pressure, licensing issues or security problems – 3D Infographics are the most convenient tool to present even a huge amount of information in a moving image. Digital animations produced to present various complex news stories can help in situations wherein other, more traditional newsmaking techniques fail.

SportsLive is the ticket to the virtual sports arena in the Internet. SportsLive customers are always close to the action, whether it is football, Formula 1, Olympic competition or the Tour de France: SportsLive can guarantee fast and competent coverage of all the important national and international sporting events. SportsLive takes a new approach, incorporating a host of content innovations: Along with the obligatory text ticker and a results service, the product offers real-time analytic data in graphic form: This covers analysis of the way players and teams perform during a football match or the depiction of performance during stages of the Tour de France. The SportsLive concept places a higher emphasis on the in-depth quality rather than on the quantity of information. Users access the analysis and background information on a click-by-click basis, generating numerous page impressions at the same time.

 

With increased bandwidths in mobile networks and rich features of mobile phones, journalists can produce content on site and directly publish to the newsdesk. Farcast Reporter supports that workflow by enabling publishing of news text, images, audio and video files via mobile handsets. The complete location-tagged story material is sent by pushing a single button. The content is available at the newsdesk within seconds, including a visual representation of the geographical location of the site. The files can then be further edited or released as part of the standard news production workflow.

The MINDS Platform is a technical framework for managing mobile services of media companies in a very flexible way. This involves handling and distribution of content as well as a complete billing infrastructure. Therefore newspapers and other media get the chance to offer attractive services to their customers easily and to generate additional revenues. Such activities result in increased customer loyalty and attraction of new target groups. They also enable innovative cross-media marketing campaigns for advertising customers. The MINDS Platform was developed by dpa-infocom and arvato systems and has been launched at first in Germany in March 2005. The platform is successfully running in Germany and Austria at present. Further national platforms are planned in several other European countries in the near future.

Mobile Investor is a complete financial information system for mobiles, providing relevant data for users in the financial sector. As speed in general is an essential factor for these users, it is crucial for the provided information as well. Mobile Investor perfectly serves that need by providing financial content any time and any place. Users of Mobile Investor can set individual alerts for news and quotes to be instantly informed about important developments on international capital markets. Accordingly all necessary information can be retrieved to get a clear and comprehensive view of the situation, even while being mobile. By offering a flexible framework for quotes and finance-related newsfeeds, Mobile Investor is the ideal tool for all users who want to be informed and mobile at the same time.

SlideGo is a desktop application that allows you to build and publish high quality online slideshows in a fast and convenient way. The software lets the user create photographic reports and add sound to them, without requiring any knowledge of video and audio editing. Simply dragging photos onto the audio timeline lets SlideGo produce whatever output format is required. Any editor can use this software to produce a slideshow with just a few mouse clicks and publish it directly to web or mobile channels. SlideGo creates a superb sequence of images, optionally supported by audio.