The digital product passport soon to be mandatory With the transition to a circular economy and increasingly stringent environmental requirements, the digital product passport (DPP) is becoming a key …
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(Article from Chez J2S 1/30/2025)
In over 25 years, everything has changed… or not… The J2S adventure began in our respective homes; could it be that we were already trendsetters, now that remote working has spread …
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(Article from Chez J2S 1/7/2025)
IT Developers use various programming languages to write programmes.
It may not be immediately obvious to beginners that everything operating on your laptop is built upon a genuine “Tower of …
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(Article from Chez J2S 12/5/2024)
In an increasingly digital world, print uniquely dominates product marketing. With the rise of digital: why is print, or printed marketing, still relevant? The answer lies in its ability to generate …
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(Article from Chez J2S 11/20/2024)
In the B2C world catalogues play a key role as a communication and sales tool. They enable companies to present their offers clearly and attractively. Among the key elements of an effective catalogue, …
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(Article from Chez J2S 10/23/2024)
Discover how Simple Workspace can help you overcome issues related to time management, updating, or managing publication formats In Marketing, speed and accuracy are key success factors. For these …
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(Article from Chez J2S 10/10/2024)
In a world where digital marketing predominates, print marketing publications play a crucial role in brand communication strategy. Whether it’s brochures, catalogues, flyers, or magazines, print …
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(Article from Chez J2S 9/17/2024)
The right solution for every need.
Digital asset management is crucial for companies of all sizes and across different sectors. Whether you are a small, medium-sized, or large company, effective asset …
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(Article from Chez J2S 6/25/2024)
To successfully launch a trading card game featuring millions of cards and three levels of rarity, a harmonious combination of automation and creativity is paramount.
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(Article from Chez J2S 4/8/2024)
It was while looking for inspiration for a new article that I found myself browsing the J2S blog for an idea… until I realized the diversity and depth of the topics covered, which made me want to …
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(Article from Chez J2S 6/30/2023)
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What is an offer? Communication to reveal needs What is an offer? The definition seemed obvious to me until we got down to it. Indeed, not to mention the macro-economic …
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(Article from Chez J2S 6/23/2023)
Do you remember Ridley Scott’s 1984 advert for the release of the Apple Macintosh in… 1984? A …
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(Article from Chez J2S 6/2/2023)
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Communication agencies A lengthy, anarchic proofreading process A validation system that can be difficult to set up Endless deadlines Customers who want to be …
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(Article from Chez J2S 5/26/2023)
Our users work on a daily basis with Simple Workspace, a typical web-based application.
Simple Workspace is a platform that manages the input of product data feeds, press articles, images, Read more…
(Article from Chez J2S 5/22/2023)
As a solution provider, this is a central issue: obsolescence. This concerns, for example, the machines, operating systems, or technical components we use to run Simple Workspace. Some of this work – …
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(Article from Chez J2S 5/5/2023)
You’ve probably already heard about business-to-business partnerships. These are expressions that arise more and more often. Indeed, one of the objectives of companies is to generate turnover. This …
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(Article from Chez J2S 4/3/2023)
We have users who work with Simple Workspace every day, using the classic web-based application.
It couldn’t be simpler!
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(Article from Chez J2S 3/23/2023)
Technology is now everywhere, especially digital technology. A revolution has taken place in a historically short time: in less than 20 years, the whole world has become interconnected1. My …
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(Article from Chez J2S 3/20/2023)
Last week, Richard posted an article titled « What about invitations to tender?”. What does this have to do with the GDPR and the Privacy Shield?
I found that this article highlighted the gap …
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(Article from Chez J2S 3/6/2023)
While presenting our insurer’s business report, we were surprised to learn that project management represented a high cause of loss. According to a Standish Group study, 1 conducted between 2011 and …
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(Article from Chez J2S 2/27/2023)
You have probably heard of the OpenAI company, or at least of one of its products, DALL-E which generates drawings, and Read more…
(Article from Chez J2S 2/6/2023)
The partnership between J2S and KatanaPIM helps you make the most of your product content by automating the creation and Read more…
(Article from Chez J2S 1/30/2023)
Despite the new IT tools and the new project management methods that are appearing, no matter how hard we work, we remain human beings. And making a project a success will always imply getting real …
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(Article from Chez J2S 1/23/2023)
Although 2022 showed how difficult it is to change the world, we are choosing to change our way of understanding it, accepting it, and finding solutions. Therefore, we prefer to remain optimistic with …
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(Article from Chez J2S 1/9/2023)
The global consumer product conglomerates seem to share a similar organization. For product marketing, whether Chinese or Korean, these companies rely on a few resource centers, divided by market, …
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(Article from Chez J2S 12/21/2022)
Ranked 124th French software publisher in 2021 in the category of “horizontal publishers” in the twelfth edition of the ranking published by Distributique this month, J2S is steadily …
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(Article from Chez J2S 11/29/2022)
I love movies. When I think of automation and film, I immediately think of Charlie Chaplin’s magnificent films – has he made any bad ones? -Modern Times. Look at this scene! Charlot and his colleagues …
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(Article from Chez J2S 11/14/2022)
Digital marketing allows a company to collect data on buying habits, dropped carts, viewed pages…. This data is then analyzed in order to learn more about the visitors and to offer them products that …
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(Article from Chez J2S 11/7/2022)
Communication agencies are increasingly called upon by their customers to implement collaborative software solutions that streamline exchanges between the various parties involved in a publishing …
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(Article from Chez J2S 9/19/2022)
To produce faster, to produce better, or to produce automatically, use Simple Workspace. How was Simple Workspace designed?
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(Article from Chez J2S 9/5/2022)
The implementation of a product information management system (PIM) or even of a master data manager (MDM) 1 is a project that requires the participation of all the parties involved in the company. …
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(Article from Chez J2S 7/4/2022)
On Tuesday, June 21, J2S hosted a webinar to launch its collection overview offer for the fashion industry.
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(Article from Chez J2S 6/27/2022)
It may seem that 3D is not a 21st-century invention, but even more surprisingly, it is not a 20th-century invention. Indeed, the first evidence of 3D technology was found in the 1890s, and it was in …
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(Article from Chez J2S 6/20/2022)
The automatic generation of InDesign/PDF documents from an XML/JSON data source is one of our specialties. In this way, we can set up a data workflow between the customer’s tool 1 and our solution, …
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(Article from Chez J2S 6/3/2022)
Should we start to rewind? Have we definitively put an end to the marketing of the 2000s? These questions must be answered in order to bring us back on track with our communication strategies.
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(Article from Chez J2S 4/11/2022)
Benjamin Chauvel recently joined the J2S team as a Strategic Partnership Manager.
Throughout this interview, you will get to know him.
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(Article from Chez J2S 3/14/2022)
E-commerce has definitely changed the way products and buyers interact. The entire customer s journey in most cases has gone virtual, starting with finding out about the product, through digital …
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(Article from Chez J2S 3/7/2022)
What do we all want? That the project works as planned, of course! The schedule should be respected for the day, we said at the kick-off meeting. We are a little worried that the workshops will not …
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(Article from Chez J2S 2/21/2022)
Context A customer that we will call AllGazPro 1, a world leader in the gas industry, creates product sheets in PDF format to make them available to the sales representatives of each European entity …
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(Article from Chez J2S 2/14/2022)
Founded in 1965, ACE is the second-largest automobile club in Germany with over 650,000 members.
ACE is making its digital transformation with the help of …
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(Article from Chez J2S 2/10/2022)
In a few words Allowing any user to use the marketing material means allowing him to control the factory that will produce PDF, Excel, or InDesign documents, according to variable data and parameters.
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(Article from Chez J2S 1/31/2022)
The Bespoke Agency works internationally with prestigious brands, and it is in this context that it was asked by its client LG to implement a solution dedicated to the translation process of technical …
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(Article from Chez J2S 1/31/2022)
J2S is recognized as a worldwide expert in the development of InDesign and InDesign Server, expertise which we implement throughout Simple Workspace. But our knowledge also extends to historical …
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(Article from Chez J2S 1/17/2022)
I would like to give to Caesar what belongs to Caesar. A few months ago, I tried to make the numbers speak , before realizing that it was easier with words! But that’s damn right 1! Here is the …
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(Article from Chez J2S 11/29/2021)
Julie Vandenberghe recently joined the J2S team as an integrator.
During this interview, you will get to know her.
This exchange will be divided into two parts.
In the first part, she will tell us …
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(Article from Chez J2S 11/22/2021)
In the marketing context, the term touchpoint refers to an advertising or commercial contact point between the brand and the consumer. It can be a human contact, a website, an application, or any …
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(Article from Chez J2S 10/25/2021)
With Simple MOM , you can process and control the quality of the data of your offers to be published. We are pleased to introduce the 2.0 version.
Our goal in creating this new version was to …
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(Article from Chez J2S 10/18/2021)
A new website focused on Simple Workspace After several months of testing and reflection, the summer allowed us to finalize the redesign of our site. Our collaborative publication production portal …
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(Article from Chez J2S 10/11/2021)
Before Simple Workspace existed, we had developed a number of components that served as the basis for the solutions we developed for our customers. Layout automation was already an issue and the J2S …
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(Article from Chez J2S 10/4/2021)
Back in March, we shared in this article the Studio (M) project of Imprimerie Mordacq. This project was divided into 3 main stages:
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(Article from Chez J2S 9/27/2021)
Press groups have understood that their titles are above all brands. “Developing brands” is one of the 3 major axes of the strategy 1 of Prisma Media, one of the behemoths of the magazine industry in …
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(Article from Chez J2S 9/21/2021)
The Flatplan One of the key parts of Simple Workspace is the Simple Brief application, a flatplan created to manage the production of documents in InDesign format.
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(Article from Chez J2S 9/13/2021)
In the previous articles of the ” Building an offer ” series, we first described how to structure the data forms intended to manage the data to be published ( step 1 ), which led us to describe :
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(Article from Chez J2S 9/7/2021)
From writing to layout After homo sapiens invented farming 1, he quickly realized that it was complicated to rely strictly on his memory. Indeed, as exchanges multiplied, how could they keep their …
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(Article from Chez J2S 9/3/2021)
The role of a software editor is also to plan for future developments. This often leads to incremental improvements and sometimes to more significant revisions.
When preparing the J2S concept in 1999, …
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(Article from Chez J2S 7/19/2021)
While rereading my last articles, I came across the following sentence:
– I would like to automate the layout of my documents with Simple Workspace, but how does it work?
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(Article from Chez J2S 7/12/2021)
In the previous article entitled Building an offer, step 1 , we presented a functional approach to model offer sheets according to their use: web, email, RS, catalog, flyer, tags, labels, etc.
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(Article from Chez J2S 7/5/2021)
The analysis of a recent client project in the world of B2C sales reminded us of the extent to which images are at the heart of e-commerce.
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(Article from Chez J2S 6/28/2021)
Again and again, there is not a day that goes by without someone asking me:
– I would like to automate the layout of my documents with Simple Workspace, but how does it work?
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(Article from Chez J2S 6/21/2021)
We regularly refer to the notion of offer. By this word, we mean what constitutes a company’s offer, i.e.: the products and services offered to its market on which it communicates.
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(Article from Chez J2S 6/14/2021)
Not a day goes by without someone asking me:
– I’d like to automate the layout of my documents with Simple Workspace, but how does that work?
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(Article from Chez J2S 5/30/2021)
Merchant website The quality of the products offered by your website reflects the commitment of your company towards its customers.
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(Article from Chez J2S 5/25/2021)
Print and digital books in education Digital book reading is on the rise 1: more than a million more readers in 12 months, which brings to more than a quarter the number of French people who have …
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(Article from Chez J2S 5/17/2021)
238 This is the number of flat plans that one of our B2B customers is using. For this usage, for each catalog, a flat plan is set up for the different universes. This may seem like a …
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(Article from Chez J2S 5/10/2021)
Here we are again in the second part of our interview with Hugues Dupont, our new integrator.
Hugues has become very familiar with the Simple Workspace portal and wanted to share his impressions of …
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(Article from Chez J2S 5/3/2021)
A few months ago, a new integrator joined the J2S team. During this interview, you will be introduced to Hugues Dupont, our newcomer. During this first interview, Hugues shared about his arrival at …
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(Article from Chez J2S 4/26/2021)
Ask someone to perform a series of mental arithmetic to get them to concentrate. Suddenly ask them to think of a colour, then a tool. In 98% of cases, they will tell you a “red hammer” 1! …
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(Article from Chez J2S 4/6/2021)
Introduction Studio (M) Publishing has grown and improved with Read more…
(Article from Chez J2S 3/22/2021)
A Brief History of Adobe InDesign Control in a Simple Workspace A brief history InDesign was born in 1999. Just like J2S! …
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(Article from Chez J2S 3/1/2021)
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Centralize information Collaborate on translation and localization Time-saving process using automation For several years, we have been working for a leading …
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(Article from Chez J2S 2/22/2021)
Overview J2S earned expertise in “content to print” over the past 20 years. Indeed, J2S successfully managed numerous projects with advertisers, agencies, studios, and book publishers. One …
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(Article from Chez J2S 2/1/2021)
Catalogue Design and Offer Placement using Simple Workspace After finalizing and inputting the offers, the next step in creating catalogs is determining their placement. Simple Workspace provides …
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(Article from Chez J2S 1/22/2021)
In project management, it often happens that several people have to work together and interact with customers.
Obviously, in a project there is the customer, the project manager… however, a third …
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(Article from Chez J2S 1/11/2021)
Simple Workspace is a production platform: it’s a factory. And this factory is not different from others, it is used to manufacture. It is about organizing the transit of the raw material needed for …
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(Article from Chez J2S 12/14/2020)
In all teamwork, deadlines pressure those at the end of the production line. When it comes to creating a publication that is graphically rich (a newspaper, a magazine, an answer to a bid for …
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(Article from Chez J2S 11/30/2020)
With the rise of online shopping, catalogs are becoming major communication tools for business owners who are turning to e-commerce. Catalogs are powerful sales support tools for retailers wishing to …
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(Article from Chez J2S 11/25/2020)
All public organizations as well as SMEs can now benefit from the Publish-In Simple Workpace offer without the administrative and legal complexities related to the management of public …
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(Article from Chez J2S 11/18/2020)
ACE Auto Club Europa e. V. (ACE) is a very important German automobile club with more than 630,000 members.
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(Article from Chez J2S 10/30/2020)
J2S and InDesign 1 have one thing in common: they were both founded during the same year!
Indeed, Adobe has been editing InDesign for more than 20 years now, which is still 10 years less than the …
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(Article from Chez J2S 10/22/2020)
The Vannerie-Nouvelle Aubry-Gaspard company is a French international wholesale distributor …
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(Article from Chez J2S 10/1/2020)
Producing a document to be printed sets different roles in a very restricted context: printers don’t wait. How does using the Simple Workspace flatplan provides security, fluidity, control and – …
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(Article from Chez J2S 9/21/2020)
Are you new to technical software architectures and want to understand how Simple Workspace is hosted? Here is a simple breakdown!
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(Article from Chez J2S 9/14/2020)
As a result of the global isolation experienced, the volume of online purchases and exchanges has risen sharply. Store owners like Zara’s headquarters are planning to boost their web sales from 14% to …
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(Article from Chez J2S 8/26/2020)
The automation of page layout requires high-quality data; the context of the production of a printed document is a frequent example of the industrialization of the input of forms. But sometimes, the …
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(Article from Chez J2S 8/3/2020)
Web application development has been in constant evolution for years. Let’s mention the diversification of the number of supports (computers, smartphones, tablets, connected TVs), more and more …
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(Article from Chez J2S 8/1/2020)
Workflow is a term that covers many different concepts and implementations, so it’s not always clear what exactly we’re talking about when we use the word – even if the general meaning is clear.
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(Article from Chez J2S 7/27/2020)
All business people know that a clearly argued proposal is more likely to be positively received. What if we could provide a high-quality PDF publication of the products on offer with each quotation?
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(Article from Chez J2S 7/21/2020)
Context In the context of automatic document generation, translation simply consists of re-generating the document from the target language data before performing layout checks.
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(Article from Chez J2S 7/20/2020)
Adobe InDesign is currently the most widely-used page layout solution. The expression “ Read more…
(Article from Chez J2S 7/13/2020)
Relaunch through communication According to Jean-Luc Chetrit, Director General of the French Trademark Association: “The relaunch will be achieved through communication 1.
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(Article from Chez J2S 6/24/2020)
Creating a document for printing involves many people in a fast-paced environment where the printer cannot afford to wait. How does using Simple Workspace’s flatplan improve security, workflow, …
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(Article from Chez J2S 6/22/2020)
La Revue Fiduciaire , the French publishing group specialized in tax, human resources, payroll, wealth, and expert …
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(Article from Chez J2S 5/29/2020)
Considering this unique situation our planet faces, at J2S, it is good to know that at all times we have always wanted to stay in control.
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(Article from Chez J2S 5/27/2020)
J2S is a member of Syntec Numérique, the French professional organization of digital service companies, software publishers and technology consulting …
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(Article from Chez J2S 3/5/2020)
J2S is pleased to announce its new partnership with Cantor !
The French specialist in data and software …
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(Article from Chez J2S 2/27/2020)
J2S organizes a training workshop on February 25th in Lille, France, to share and exchange with its users about Publish-In Simple Workspace!
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(Article from Chez J2S 1/27/2020)
The adventure of J2S began 20 years ago. Meanwhile, Neo was facing a serious dilemma.
In 2020, pick up J2S and speed up your productivity!
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(Article from Chez J2S 1/16/2020)
Izyflow , a web-based solution for animating and managing multi-site organizations, uses the …
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(Article from Chez J2S 12/26/2019)
J2S is pleased to announce its new partnership with Fit Retail !
Fit Retail is an IT expert in …
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(Article from Chez J2S 12/20/2019)
To be honest, the answer is yes!
Involving customers in all pre-press workflows to speed up and simplify the Proof validation, for example, seems essential especially since the implementation of an …
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(Article from Chez J2S 12/17/2019)
Give life to your publications: simplify, streamline and automate your production!
Meetings, beliefs, and convictions In the 1990s, Georges and Richard …
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(Article from Chez J2S 11/19/2019)
Le 15 octobre dernier à Euratechnologies (Lille), J2S a eu le plaisir de réunir une dizaine de participants clients et partenaires pour un atelier de formation.
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(Article from Chez J2S 10/29/2019)
“100 labels generated in 1 minute” The context Lapeyre , is a French specialist in sustainable home …
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(Article from Chez J2S 10/25/2019)
Publish-In Simple Workspace upgrades to enhance the user experience!
Here are some of the new features:
Depending on the rights you are assigned, you can choose between several skins and customize …
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(Article from Chez J2S 10/25/2019)
The production of print media is an essential part of your marketing and communication strategy, and is also a very effective sales tool. For those of you who are or plan to be active abroad, the …
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(Article from Chez J2S 8/28/2019)
Are you travelling to the USA, Latin America, or Australia this summer?
Are you a road-trip or beach lover?
A road trip is a great option to discover unusual …
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(Article from Chez J2S 8/7/2019)
3 Reasons to publish a printed catalog in the smartphone and all-digital era The widespread use of our smartphone, the ease of searching on a famous search engine and the development of websites for …
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(Article from Chez J2S 6/28/2019)
The Print production is driven by our CMS AEM
The context Airbus has deployed Adobe Experience Manager (AEM), the website …
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(Article from Chez J2S 6/27/2019)
” 10 days of preparation and the production started “ The context Willemse France “Your …
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(Article from Chez J2S 6/21/2019)
” 100 sheetsproducts per daySEO optimizedin 10 languages” The context ** Quais de l’image …
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(Article from Chez J2S 5/27/2019)
J2S hosted its first user club day on April 16.
This day was punctuated by workshops and exchanges which allowed users to learn more about the ins and outs of our Publish-In Suite solution.
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(Article from Chez J2S 5/6/2019)
”2,200 articles, 80,000 catalogs persanalized of 16 pages” The context Smartalog™️ is a …
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(Article from Chez J2S 4/26/2019)
J2S will once again be at the Paris E-marketing Show, the exhibition for digital marketing …
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(Article from Chez J2S 3/22/2019)
Asturienne , the brand specialized in roofing materials, relies on J2S to support the production of …
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(Article from Chez J2S 2/28/2019)
J2S Revision Manager, is designed to simplify and secure the editing work on your InDesign documents.
J2S is happy to launch the CC2019 version of its plug-in …
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(Article from Chez J2S 2/4/2019)
Lapeyre , the French specialist of interior design projects, chooses J2S Publish-In for the production …
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(Article from Chez J2S 1/30/2019)
Nearly 18 000 custom-made road books produced per year The context Fascinated by travels, Arnaud and François transformed their printing company to offer …
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(Article from Chez J2S 1/28/2019)
On the road to success, the rule is always to look ahead. May you reach your destination and may your journey be wonderful. Read more…
(Article from Chez J2S 1/1/2019)
“”23 titles and 13 publications created each month” The context Concept Multimedia publishes the most important real estate ad magazine under the brand name …
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(Article from Chez J2S 11/30/2018)
5 FRAM seasons produced 100% with Simple Workspace The context eg+ worldwide is an Advertising …
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(Article from Chez J2S 11/20/2018)
The J2S collaborative production platform now makes the translation of InDesign documents easier.
To publish creative documents e.g. sheets, leaflets, …
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(Article from Chez J2S 11/20/2018)
Another customer chooses the J2S solution: Bruneau , the well-known French distributor of office …
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(Article from Chez J2S 9/6/2018)
“The gamble paid off: the project was launched in March, and with a minimum of support, the PDF was handed over to the printer on June 15.” The company Read more…
(Article from Chez J2S 7/10/2018)
The company Campus France is the French Agency for the promotion of French higher education, which welcomes and organizes international mobility of students …
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(Article from Chez J2S 4/26/2018)
In the meantime, J2S reveals its Publish-In Suite platform version 2.0.
To realize this evolution, J2S relied on the needs of its users in order to offer them a version in coherence with their …
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(Article from Chez J2S 4/24/2018)
SAVE THE DATE!
From April 10th to 12th, J2S will be with its partner SnapPress at the Read more…
(Article from Chez J2S 3/27/2018)
J2S is pleased to announce its participation with its partner SnapPress during the eighth edition of the …
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(Article from Chez J2S 3/14/2018)
J2S is pleased to announce its new technology partnership with Dropbox, THE file sharing platform.
Dropbox has more than 500 million users and serves 200 000 …
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(Article from Chez J2S 2/12/2018)
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