Integra are the UK's leading Office Products buying group, supplying everything from a paper clip, to a PC and a fully furnished office. They provide purchasing, marketing and IT services and support for 300 independent Office Products dealers across the UK and Ireland.

They produce 3 main catalogues per year, alongside a comprehensive direct mail and ecommerce marketing programme. Originating circa. 10,000 pages of artwork per year, which includes multiple product code and price versions of the catalogue and mailer programme. The Creative team consists of 6 graphic designers who generate all media for the business, including web sites, email campaigns, corporate stationery, conference & presentation collateral as well as the marketing programme.

Andrew Prosser, Creative Services Director outlines his experiences and reasons for choosing Matrix...

We decided to change our content management system from Pindar (who we'd been a customer of for 14 years) to Matrix in April 2010; following a rapid implementation and training programme we went live in May 2010. Our key reasons for deciding on Matrix were as follows:

• Matrix is a feature rich and cost effective solution.
• Lower on-going maintenance & support costs than existing solution.
• Positive 'can do' approach.
• High level of customization & system configuration to suit our workflow.
• Online asset library for access by customers/suppliers.
• Electronic page brief functionality is part of core product.
• Compatible with latest versions of Quark and Adobe suite of software & latest generation of Mac hardware.

We have benefited from time savings and increased efficiency in our workflow:

• Electronic page briefs make it easier for product managers to communicate their requirements to the design team resulting in fewer corrections at proof stage.
• Quicker price updates, resulting in more time for accurate proofing at end of job.
• Faster pagination including complicated price tables.
• Enabled us to improve scheduling of 192pp January catalogue to guarantee delivery before Christmas thereby improving our support to our customers.
• Matrix's friendly and super quick response time to support and enhancement requests - nothing is too much trouble!