San Francisco Chronicle migrates NEWSCYCLE Circulation to the cloud

NEWSCYCLE Solutions has signed a long-term agreement with the San Francisco Chronicle, a division of Hearst Communications, Inc., to migrate its existing on-premises NEWSCYCLE Circulation system to the company's hosted cloud platform. The newspaper serves the San Francisco Bay Area and is also distributed throughout Northern and Central California.   

The San Francisco Chronicle made the strategic decision to move to NEWSCYCLE's cloud environment for the scalability, and the proven and reliable technology the platform provides. 

"We are a long-time circulation customer and NEWSCYCLE's cloud-hosting is a progressive move forward for us. We know it is stable, and able to handle our size of installation where others can't," said Melorie Acevedo, vice president of Information Services, San Francisco Chronicle. "We have ever-changing and complex needs and we need a flexible and powerful system – and it should be easy to use to accomplish our goals. A more cost-effective future is a huge advantage. We no longer need to support servers or handle hardware changes and don't have to budget in costly on-premises upgrades. Always having the latest version of the circulation software is such a bonus for us." 

With its circulation software in NEWSCYCLE's cloud platform, the San Francisco Chronicle will benefit immediately from lower operational costs, tier-four data security, and automatic upgrades. Also, NEWSCYCLE will deliver a PCI compliant circulation system based on industry standards and best-practices. 

Migrating to NEWSCYCLE's cloud platform also allows the San Francisco Chronicle to proactively focus on exploring new revenue streams, and audience engagement and retention plans instead of responding to the constant needs of on-premises hardware and support.