Your Data, Your Way™
It makes a difference.
Burt Technologies, Inc. excels at integrating The BURT System with foreign systems, be they administrative or production control systems.
The BURT System contains virtually all of the packaging & distribution data any up- or down-stream system may require. Data from your BURT System can be provided in many different forms, including:
- Standard report form, using legacy output
- Interface extract files
- True integration with cooperative systems via the BURT Open Control Interface (OCI).
- Advanced Technical Solutions (ATS), Inc.
The BURT System™ is integrated with Circ2000 at both the Arizona Republic and the Omaha World-Herald.
- Cannon
Via the open integration module BURT LineManager™, The BURT System™ provides the necessary data to administer this system at the Omaha World-Herald's new Freedom Center.
- FASTechnology/Enternet
Via the open integration module BURT LineManager™, The BURT System™ is integrated with Enternet's machine controls at sites including The Houston Chronicle, Denver Newspaper Agency, Fort Worth Star-Telegram and Fresno Bee.
- Ferag
Via the open integration module BURT LineManager™, The BURT System™ provides the necessary data to Ferag's ICS™ at the Omaha World-Herald's new Freedom Center.
- GEAC
Circulation downloads from GEAC are a part of the daily BURT System™ operations at several sites including The Orlando Sentinel, The Vindicator (Youngstown, OH) and Lancaster Newspapers (PA).
- General Electric
Via the open integration module BURT LineManager™, the BURT System™ is integrated with the General Electric machine controls at sites including The Orlando Sentinel, Arizona Republic, Omaha World-Herald and Dallas Morning News.
- IBM
The BURT System™ receives daily circulation extracts for the benefit of packaging & distribution at several sites including Detroit Newspapers and The Journal News, White Plains, NY.
- K&M
The BURT System™ produces the necessary proprietary data extracts to provide machine set-up and run information to the Image NT control system at several sites including The Journal News, White Plains, NY.
- Miracom
The BURT System™ is integrated with Miracom's control system via the BURT Open Control Interface (OCI).
- Motion Systems
Via the open integration module BURT LineManager™, The BURT System™ provides the necessary data to administer Motion Systems' bundle distribution system at the Omaha World-Herald's new Freedom Center.
- Muller Martini/GMA
The BURT System™ is interfaced with Lincs™, WinLincs™ on SLS-1000(R) and SLS2000(R) at numerous sites including The Baltimore Sun, Macomb Daily, and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The BURT System™ is wholly responsible for all order entry associated with Philadelphia Newspapers' StreetSmart program, and is interfaced with Muller Martini's SAM™ system in support of this endeavor.
- Neasi-Weber, International
Circulation downloads from DISCUS are part of the daily BURT System™ operations at numerous sites including the Denver Newspaper Agency and Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
- PBS
Circulation downloads from the PBS circulation are a part of the daily BURT System™ operations at several sites including The Gazette (Colorado Springs), Oakland Press and Fresno Bee.
- Quipp
The BURT System™ is integrated with Quipp's inserter control system via the BURT Open Control Interface (OCI).
- Windab
BURT loading data is downloaded to the Windab palletizer at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Customer-specific Interfaces
Over the years, we have been asked to either receive or provide data in a manner other than supported in our published file interchange specification. We at Burt feel that it's your data and you should be able to manage it your way.
Examples of some of the customer-specific interfaces we've developed over the years include:
- Los Angeles Times
The BURT System™ receives circulation draw and order routing information from the proprietary mainframe-based PTS system. Post-production information is uploaded back to this system for billing and accountability.
- Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The BURT System™ receives circulation draw and order routing information from the proprietary mainframe-based AIM system. Post-production information is uploaded back to this system for billing and accountability.