When you're creating news content only two things really matter - the story and your audience. But a lot of today’s digital news technology adds complexity to this simple exchange.
Neon strips away this complexity, restoring speed and simplicity to the authoring process - and leaving you to focus on creating compelling content.
Check out the ideas behind Neon’s mission for digital news >
While you focus on the content, all the rest - from AI-optimized headlines and summaries to proofreading and multichannel formatting and scheduling - is handled by powerful but invisible background processes.
At publication time, a single click sends your content out perfectly formatted for any destination, from web page to mobile, social or video.
Fast, flexible integration and extension
Front-end freedom
Neon’s ‘headless’ architecture leaves developers free to use any delivery technology to serve a full spectrum of digital destinations.
Seamless integration
Fully equipped with web-hooks and bi-directional APIs, Neon supports integration with tools and services from analytics and paywalls to ad management.
Cloud containerization
Neon’s cloud-native solution streamlines deployment and maintenance, creating an exceptionally stable, scalable platform.
Neon builds on over two decades’ experience in developing innovative digital news platforms for some of the world’s largest news organizations. The reach and profitability of our customers’ portfolios has been maximized by continuously drawing on the best available emerging technologies.
Now Neon takes the next big step, applying cutting-edge AI capabilities to bring unprecedented flexibility to multi-site, multi-format news operations.
Neon’s integrated AI tools allow authors to work seamlessly, without leaving the authoring workspace. By carrying out time-consuming routine tasks in a few seconds, they drastically cut time-to-market for breaking news.
Accelerated authoring
AI tools for authors and editors provide accelerated authoring, freeing authors from routine tasks like summarizing, translating, titling and rephrasing.
Auto-proofing
Intelligent proofing controls replace much manual supervision and correction.
Brainstorming with the bot
Open-ended conversations with an AI assistant to explore topics in depth and uncover new ideas.
Neon is a distributed workspace accessible from any location, on multiple devices for a truly global teamwork experience.
News coordinators can set up news teams on the fly, share assets, assign tasks, check progress and review from any location.
Neon incorporates a shared workspace for secure, coordinated teamwork at any location.
Distributed teams execute coordinated editorial processes across diverse geographical locations in an environment providing certified levels of enterprise-grade security.
Neon integrates a robust search engine featuring powerful, multi-domain search facilities and advanced faceted searching capabilities to efficiently retrieve all types of content, from editorial and yet-to-be-published content to assets, live articles, and liveblogs.
‘Live’ queries can create and update news features automatically (‘Latest election news’), providing a curated editorial service with little manual intervention.
Cloud-first containerized architecture
Neon’s cloud-first, containerized architecture ensures that Neon is not only scalable and reliable but also optimized for the cloud environment.
Hands-on configurability
Neon is configurable through the same easy user interface as content operations. It allows users and administrators to manage a wide range of workflow and content options.
Integration and extension
Neon has been conceived as one piece of a larger jigsaw puzzle, serving as a critical node within an end-to-end digital pipeline.
It supports seamless integration with a wide range of tools through web-hooks and bi-directional APIs.
‘Headless’ architecture and front-end flexibility are key components of Neon’s extensibility.
By not handling front-end rendering, Neon gives developers complete control, allowing them to build with any front-end technology that suits.
Neon’s customizable JSON output can be tailored to serve a full spectrum of digital destinations from web pages to mobile apps, audio formats and social media.
Helping developers explore Neon’s many extension and integration options, is a complete set of developers’ tools and environments.
They range from self-contained local sandboxes using Minikube to an extensive, constantly updated documentation repository, accessed through the UI of Neon itself.
Find out more about Neon’s Development possibilities.
Many adopters of Neon will already be users of Eidosmedia platforms. We have therefore prioritized the ease of upgrade and integration to ensure a seamless transition and allow our users to quickly benefit from Neon’s advanced features.
Neon is Eidosmedia's new comprehensive digital solution that allows digital-only and digital-first newsrooms to deliver value efficiently and effectively.
Neon optimizes a range of digital news operations from a single site managed by a centralized newsroom to multiple titles managed from multiple locations worldwide.
By automating routine tasks, allowing authors to concentrate on the creation of a complelling narrative for their audience.
Preformatted templates, AI-generated headlines, summaries and rephrasing , automatic proofreading, multichannel formatting and scheduling, advanced SEO automation. Automatic management of news pages and sections.
Neon is designed to be "AI-agnostic," allowing users to choose their preferred large language models (LLMs), including locally hosted models for confidential content.
Neon can automatically tailor channel-neutral content in any digital format from web pages to mobile apps, audio, video and social media. It also applies advanced SEO principles.
Yes, Neon includes Live Blog functionality that allows authors to cover sports events or breaking news in real-time, using a straightforward editor with rich text and images that automatically update online content. The system also includes moderation tools for managing multiple contributors.
Yes, site administrators can create and manage multiple websites through NeonUI's Admin panels. They define sitemaps, create rich menus, and manage their structure.
Neon is a cloud-native platform using Kubernetes for scalability. It's designed with multiple deployment environments: Development, Sandbox, Quality Assurance, and Production.
Neon is built to work in containerized cloud-native environments, with a strong focus on Amazon Web Services (AWS). This ensures the platform benefits from AWS’s robust infrastructure, high availability, and advanced services (compute, storage, network, monitoring, and security).
Neon’s containerized architectural model ensures that it is not only scalable and reliable but also optimized for the cloud environment.
Neon uses the Kubernetes container management system to handle traffic spikes and growing user demands, smoothly and consistently.
Kubernetes ensures:
Neon uses a decoupled CMS architecture, allowing developers to use their preferred front-end technologies. It provides a proof-of-concept using Next.js + React but supports any modern framework.
Eidosmedia solutions are certified to ISMS standards ISO/IEC 27001 and additional Cloud controls ISO/IEC 2701.
Neon simplifies user access management through robust OAuth 2.0 integrations, offering compatibility with leading identity providers Okta, Auth0 and any other preferred protocols.
Neon uses granular role-based access control (RBAC), ensuring users only access features and content appropriate for their roles.
Neon provides 24/7/365 availability through AWS's resilient data centers and redundant systems. It supports multi-region deployment to minimize latency and ensure seamless failover in case of regional outages.
Neon SaaS configuration is primarily managed through the Neon UI, while more technical aspects are addressed through Git repositories. These repositories are structured to separate activities related to cluster deployment, system functions, and customer-specific options.
Eidosmedia manages regular backups as part of the Kubernetes cluster management, and multi-region deployment provides additional redundancy.
Updates are managed through Git repositories with corresponding branches for different environments, ensuring reliability and stability throughout the development process.
Content delivery is optimized through modern CDN integration and supports various optimization techniques through the decoupled front-end architecture.
Scalability is managed through Kubernetes, which automatically adjusts resources based on traffic patterns and provides workload isolation.
Neon leverages AWS's advanced monitoring services and can integrate with various performance monitoring tools.
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Yes, Neon can integrate with existing providers for advertisements, paywalls, user management, and other services. It also integrates with Eidosmedia's print suite for print production.
Neon provides robust APIs for content management, user administration, and system configuration, enabling extensive customization and integration capabilities.
The platform supports multiple sites through centralized administration tools, with separate workspaces and configurations for different sites while maintaining unified user management.
Eidosmedia is a global supplier of advanced content-management and digital publishing systems.
Its products are used by large news-media groups for print and digital publishing.
Customers include business dailies The Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal , as well as generalist news publications like The Times of London, The Washington Post and Le Figaro .
