The Matrix CMS and TTS have recently won a Research Machines Innovation Award. TTS are a leading supplier of educational resources for schools and parents and until last year created all their 18 catalogues manually. After an exhaustive search the Matrix CMS was chosen to help with their catalogue production.

Prior to the system being installed product managers spent 6 months of the year on catalogue production which restricted the amount of contact they had out and about with customers. Also as TTS grows, the number of catalogues, leaflets, web sites and direct mail initiatives will place a greater stress on the infrastructure, finances and resources of the marketing team. So by implementing the CMS much more time was freed up to spend on other areas.

TTS and Matrix spent 4 months implementing the system, writing scripts to extract data from their existing Quark files, ready for Autumn's catalogue production season. The implementation of the CMS system has reduced the production time of each catalogue by 40%, produced substantial financial savings and freed up a further 2 months a year for TTS product managers to spend with customers coming up with innovative new product ideas.