Saxotech Inc. said that Canwest will use its recently introduced content and workflow management software groupwide.

Saxotech’s Mediaware Center software will be deployed across Canwest’s News Service, online sites, 13 daily newspapers, including the National Post, Calgary Herald, Ottawa Citizen and the Vancouver Sun, and its community daily and weekly papers.

The Saxotech app will enable each news organization to plan and share content with other Canwest entities in a creative and collaborative production environment, Saxotech said.

“The implementation of the Saxotech Mediaware Center will aggregate our digital assets; provide efficient tools for publishing to print and digital channels; reduce our total cost of production; provide a platform for new products and cost-saving options and immediately put tangible tools in the hands of our people to ensure the work they do adds value to the content creation process,” said Edward Brouwer, Canwest’s chief information officer.

Canwest’s decision to deploy Saxotech follows successful pilot tests completed in July 2007, in which three independent news producing entities and Canwest News Services worked together to produce three unique newspaper products for print and digital distribution.