Digital Magazine and Newspaper Editions: Best Practice Cases
Vendor Description

Vendor Name
Olive Software
History and Background
Olive was founded in 2000 with a clear vision to develop the first platform that can
automate the XML production of documents in any type of organization. After years of
extensive research efforts, the team developed an innovative, intelligent content
processing technology that makes information instantly available in an enriched XML
format. Olive’s original ActivePaper Daily solution was targeted at the newspaper
market, but since then, it has branched out into markets including magazine and book
publishing, libraries, universities, and corporate enterprises. Olive's founders have
received numerous patents and awards for their inventions in the fields of intelligent
content processing and parallel computing.
Olive Software is based in Santa Clara, California, with sales offices in New York,
Washington DC, and Denver, and R&D facilities in Israel.
Vendor Type
Digital Edition Platform – hosted and/or licensed
Philosophy
With over seven years of domain expertise working specifically with newspaper and
magazine publishers around the world, Olive helps publishers extend their content
assets, customer reach, and brand to the Web. Olive Software’s unique technology
enables companies to publish rich, interactive, and searchable media by automatically
transforming documents into reusable content components, or microcontent that can
be delivered through Olive applications or through other Web and mobile applications.
Olive strives to provide solutions that enable customers to redefine traditional markets
for their information, better enable them to effectively leverage the Web, and drive top-
line revenue by boosting subscriptions and advertising opportunities.
Technology Description
Olive Software’s products and services are all based on the company’s core technology
for XML transformation as well as targeted end-user applications for optimal digital
content delivery. The technology can transform content from PDF, Microsoft Office, or
image formats into XML, thereby making the content richly available over the Web and
innately repurposable.
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