Summit Indica

Summit Indica is the product and technology brand associated with Summit Information Technologies Pvt. Ltd., a software company based in Gurgaon, India, that describes itself as a leading solution provider to the Asian media industry. The company builds software for newspapers, broadcasters and digital publishers, with a particular focus on making information available to readers in their own language and through the medium of their choice, whether print, online, broadcast or mobile. Its product family spans newsroom and content management, advertising management, e-paper and e-reader publishing, and Indic-language computing tools such as fonts, hyphenation and spell checking. The brand's flagship platforms include Liberty, a news management system; Liberty Gateway and Liberty on Cloud; AdPro and AdPro Gateway for advertising booking and management; Smartpaper for e-paper and e-reader publishing; AssetPro; and Indica, a suite of language technologies including fonts, a hyphenator and a spell checker. Summit also offers a Reporter App, digital newspaper and mobile-first UI/UX tools, multiview and monetization features. These products are aimed at media companies that need to publish across multiple languages and channels, and the company positions itself around deep expertise in Asian languages and media workflows. Summit's customer base reads like a who's who of South Asian publishing. According to the company, HT Media in India adopted the Smartpaper platform to relaunch its e-papers for Hindustan Times, HT for School, Mint and Hindi Hindustan. The Hindu and Business Line relaunched their e-papers on Smartpaper. Bangladesh's The Daily Star adopted Liberty, AdPro, AssetPro and Smartpaper. Daily Thanthi and its English daily DT Next use Smartpaper, while Sri Lanka's Thina Kural went live on the web-based AdPro ad booking system. Mathrubhumi, the Malayalam daily, adopted Smartpaper, and Sri Lanka's Derana group launched English, Sinhala and Tamil newspapers using Liberty and AdPro. Internationally, Summit has partnered with ATEX, a global editorial and content management vendor. Under the arrangement described on Summit's website, Atex distributes Summit's e-reader solution across Europe, the United States, Canada, Brazil, Australia and New Zealand, while Summit distributes Atex's editorial and content management solutions, including the MyType editorial platform, across South Asia. This reciprocal distribution agreement extends Summit's reach into Western markets and brings Atex technology to South Asian publishers. Summit Information Technologies is a private company. Rakesh Kapoor, its Managing Director, has stated that the business objective is to be the leading media technology solutions company in emerging economies, and that Summit's media and language solutions will have a strong impact on media, corporate, internet, education, e-governance and home users. The company also runs a services division covering custom software development, implementation, training, handholding, infrastructure management, font and keyboard development, customization and digital services. Summit Indica therefore represents a specialist Indian media-software brand whose identity is tied to Indic-language publishing and end-to-end newsroom digitization.

Summit Information Technologies Pvt. Ltd. is a software company based in Gurgaon, India, that has built its business around the technology needs of the Asian media industry. The company describes itself as a leading solution provider to that industry, and its products are designed to make information available to ordinary people in their own language and through their preferred medium, whether digital or traditional. This mission places Summit at the intersection of two specialist fields: media publishing technology and Indic-language computing. From its base in Gurgaon, Summit developed a portfolio of enterprise software for newspapers, broadcasters and digital publishers. Its newsroom and content management line is built around Liberty, later extended through Liberty Gateway and Liberty on Cloud. For advertising, the company offers AdPro and AdPro Gateway, covering display and classified advertising in text or image form. For digital editions, Summit created Smartpaper, an e-paper and e-reader platform that converts print pages from systems such as ATEX, CCI, PPI, Eidosmedia Méthode, Quark, InDesign, Scribus or plain PDF into digital editions. AssetPro rounds out the publishing suite. Alongside these, Summit developed Indica, a language technology suite that includes fonts, a hyphenator and a spell checker, reflecting the company's focus on Asian-language publishing. Summit's customer list illustrates its reach across South Asia. HT Media, described as India's No. 2 media group, adopted Smartpaper to relaunch the e-papers of Hindustan Times, HT for School, Mint and Hindi Hindustan, all placed behind paywalls. The Hindu, a leading South Indian media group, relaunched the e-papers of The Hindu and Business Line on Smartpaper, also behind paywalls. In Bangladesh, The Daily Star, the country's No. 1 English publication, adopted Liberty, AdPro, AssetPro and Smartpaper and went live on them. Daily Thanthi, the No. 1 Tamil daily, has run its e-paper on Smartpaper for many years, and its English daily DT Next launched its e-paper on the same platform. In Sri Lanka, Thina Kural, a leading Tamil newspaper in the northern region, went live on Summit's web-based AdPro ad booking system, while the Derana media group launched English, Sinhala and Tamil daily newspapers using Liberty and AdPro. Mathrubhumi, the No. 2 Malayalam daily, also adopted Smartpaper. A significant international development for Summit was its partnership with ATEX, a global editorial and content management software vendor. Under the reciprocal arrangement, Atex distributes Summit's e-reader solution across Europe, the United States, Canada, Brazil, Australia and New Zealand, while Summit distributes Atex's editorial and content management solutions, including the MyType editorial platform, across South Asia. This agreement gives Summit a route into Western markets and brings Atex's technology to publishers in its home region. Summit's leadership has articulated an ambitious vision. Rakesh Kapoor, Managing Director, has said the company's business objective is to be the leading media technology solutions company in emerging economies of the world. He has also noted that Summit's media industry and language solutions will have a strong impact on media, corporate, internet, education, e-governance and home users, and that its solutions address print, online, broadcast and mobile media domains in English as well as Asian languages. The company backs its products with a services division that provides custom software development, implementation, training, handholding, infrastructure management, font and keyboard development, customization and digital services. This combination of products and services has allowed Summit to serve a customer base that it characterizes as a who's who of the print, broadcast and media industry in the countries where it operates.

• Summit Information Technologies is established as a Gurgaon-based software company serving the Asian media industry.

• Summit develops Liberty, its news management system, later extended with Liberty Gateway and Liberty on Cloud.

• Summit launches AdPro and AdPro Gateway for advertising booking and management.

• Summit launches Smartpaper, an e-paper and e-reader platform for converting print pages to digital editions.

• Summit develops Indica, a language technology suite including fonts, hyphenator and spell checker.

• HT Media adopts Smartpaper to relaunch e-papers for Hindustan Times, HT for School, Mint and Hindi Hindustan.

• The Hindu and Business Line relaunch e-papers on Smartpaper.

• The Daily Star of Bangladesh goes live on Liberty, AdPro, AssetPro and Smartpaper.

• Derana group of Sri Lanka launches English, Sinhala and Tamil newspapers using Liberty and AdPro.

• Summit and ATEX announce reciprocal distribution partnership covering Europe, the Americas, Australia, New Zealand and South Asia.

Leading media technology solutions provider for the Asian media industry, focused on Indic-language publishing and end-to-end newsroom digitization.

• Liberty

  News management system for media organizations.

• Liberty Gateway

  Gateway component for the Liberty news management platform.

• Liberty on Cloud

  Cloud deployment of the Liberty news management platform.

• AdPro

  Advertising management system for display and classified ads in text or image form.

• AdPro Gateway

  Gateway component for the AdPro advertising management platform.

• Smartpaper

  E-paper and e-reader platform that converts print pages from ATEX, CCI, PPI, Eidosmedia Méthode, Quark, InDesign, Scribus or PDF into digital editions.

• AssetPro

  Asset management component of Summit's publishing suite.

• Indica

  Language technology suite including fonts, hyphenator and spell checker for Asian languages.

• Reporter App

  Mobile application for reporters.

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