For more information contact: Tim Smith

Print Services

We provide our clients with the benefits associated with centralising and simplifying their print sourcing, procurement and management processes. This may involve outsourcing all or some of these processes and may span all or some of the print portfolio - from stationery through to brochures, magazines and packaging.

For more information contact: Matt Spencer

Technology Solutions

Polestar Applied Solutions Technology division develops and implements a wide range of software solutions, designed to assist our customers to achieve greater efficiencies and wider business goals. Our web-based systems and software expertise encompasses print procurement, cross media, publishing and marketing resource management. Boasting a large in-house team of certified software development professionals, Polestar customers benefit from our expert knowledge and outstanding technical resources.

Httprint: global e-Procurement excellence

Httprint is the UK’s leading online print e-Procurement solution, harnessed by publishers, print buyers, designers, advertising agencies and corporate users across the globe to help to deliver minimised print costs and maximise productivity.

Httprint enables users to gain improved control and visibility of their print buying processes. In turn this helps drive cost savings by increasing the efficiency of the entire procurement process, from print specification creation through to competitive tendering or contractual requisitioning.

Httprint can be easily configured, offering improvements to the following processes:

• Print product specification management
• Request For Quotation (RFQ)
• Contractual purchasing 
• Production and project management
• Vendor evaluation
• Reporting

Marketing, Stationery and variable print production

Httprint delivers an effective eCatalogue function and our online web-to-print template based solutions provide customers with significant time and cost savings when managing content and creating marketing collateral and business stationery.

 
Httprofile: enhanced cross media services

Httprofile is Polestar Applied solutions complete Cross Media service, offering personalised print, email, dynamic web page technology and SMS messaging services. We have invested heavily in this area to enable us to offer a range of solutions focused on helping our clients achieve complex and highly targeted marketing campaigns. Rely on our expertise and utilise Httprofile to deliver:

• Cost effective personalised Direct Marketing
• Consistent communications, highly relevant and targeted to each recipient
• Improved rates of customer acquisition and customer loyalty
• Improved lead times to market and development
• True cross media marketing

 Httpublish: innovative online publishing services

Httpublish encompasses a range of bespoke publishing systems created by Polestar Applied Solutions across a wide spectrum of corporate sectors. One such system is Httpublish ISIS, which offers a unique solution to the magazine and catalogue publishing markets.

A highly automated digital workflow system, ISIS enables publishing companies to gain control of their commissioning, creative, advertising, and repro processes, saving time, costs and resources. ISIS enables varying levels of automation and features:

Page assembly: Editorial, Recruitment and Display capability

• File delivery, pre-flight and reporting features
• Real-time publication status tracking and integrated flatplan
• Content booking and commissioning
• Ad copy chasing
• Ad e-Vouchering
• Approvals management
• Audit trail, tracking and reporting
• Image Library
• Archive management

Automated publishing offers a means to publish text and images straight from database to page without the need for costly and time consuming keying into desktop publishing packages. The solution can be utilised effectively for many applications including directory and catalogue publishing, transport timetables, parts catalogues and product brochures. The solution not only benefits clients with faster more accurate paper based publishing but can also be used to drive dynamic web pages.

Httpublish can also deliver powerful highly-automated data processing services for publishers of high pagination directories and catalogues. This service effectively automates traditional typesetting processes and reduces both cost and production times.

For more information on our range of Technology solutions contact: Toma Habashi