Using the Online Redactie has many advantages:
- Central location for all editorial traffic
- Accessible everywhere through the Internet
- The status of an edition is always up-to-date and easily viewed
- Not depending on office hours or the presence of personnel
- Ideal for magazines who use many freelancers, outsource their design process or where the editors do not share the same office building
- No more email accounts that get flooded with large attachments
- Dynamic system
- Files are available directly after uploading
- Automated messaging (by email) when material is ready for the next person to process it
- Possibility to work ahead on future editions, spreading the long-term workload.
- Flexible workflow, adjustable to fit a wide variety of different editorial processes
- Provides a well structured editorial workflow
- Unlimited amount of users (editors, photographers, designers, correctors, etc.)
- Each user has one or multiple different functions
- Accessibility of separate parts of the system can be function dependent
- Management of users, functions and workflow
- Clear overview of all deadlines
- Different representations of the same information
- Complete
- Too late
- With(out) adverts
- (Not yet) designed
- Pagemap
- Implementation of specific requests is possible
- Frequent backups
- Secure server location
- 100Mbps uplink (directly connected to the Amsterdam Internet Exchange)
- Stable platform (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP)
- No limitations to disk space usage