Agari Mediaware Unveils Media Bus 3.0 at NAB Conference; New Release Fully Integrates Web Services; Dynamically Transforms Metadata Schemas.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers NAB2003 BETHESDA, Md.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 2, 2003 Agari Mediaware(TM), Inc., the industry innovator in content application integration (CAI (1) (Computer-Assisted Instruction) Same as CBT. (2) See CA. CAI - Computer-Aided Instruction ) software, today announced the release of Media Bus 3.0. Media Bus is a rapidly deployable, highly scalable integration platform that enables the interoperation of applications that create, manage, and distribute content. Media Bus enables Agari's customers to access and use content across departments, divisions, or companies regardless of repository. Its non-intrusive, services-based architecture requires no changes to existing systems. With the new capabilities, Media Bus 3.0 fully supports web services allowing any application with a web services interface to connect to the Media Bus and communicate with other applications. In addition, any Media Bus service can now be published as a web service. The system supports industry standard technologies including SOAP, XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. , UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery and Integration) An industry initiative for a universal business registry (catalog) of Web services turned over to the stewardship of OASIS in 2002 as the version 3 specification of UDDI was released. , and WSDL (Web Services Description Language) An XML-based language for defining Web services. Developed by Microsoft and IBM, WSDL describes the protocols and formats used by the service. . The new dynamic metadata schema transformation capabilities address the issues that face organizations with numerous digital media applications - multiple, disparate metadata schemas. The new capabilities enable digital media to be located and used in business processes regardless of how it has been indexed. Metadata is transformed between formats on the fly as applications communicate across the Media Bus enabling a single query to be used against multiple content repositories with different schemas. In addition to the web services and metadata transformation features, Agari has also added functionality that makes it faster to create the adapters that connect applications to the Media Bus. "Integrating digital media systems helps organizations better leverage existing assets and thus improve their return on content investments," said Dennis J. Crane, Agari Mediaware CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "The new release of Media Bus further demonstrates Agari's compelling value proposition by delivering a solution that does not displace or disrupt existing production systems." NAB 2003 Agari Mediaware will be presenting "Integrate Legacy Content Stores to Improve Return on Content Investments" at the NAB 2003 Broadcast Engineering Conference on Monday, April 7 at 3:00 in the Las Vegas Convention Center The Las Vegas Convention Center is owned and operated by the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority and is located in Clark County, Nevada. It is one of the largest Convention centers in the world. At the end of 2004, the center had 3. , room N111. Agari will be demonstrating its Media Bus software in booth SL2645, South Hall, lower level of the Las Vegas Convention Center April 7-10. Presentations and customer case studies will be given in the booth theater. Agari will also be demonstrating in the IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) booth, SU7237. About Agari Mediaware, Inc. Agari Mediaware, Inc. creates content application integration (CAI) software that helps companies increase return on content investments by better leveraging the investments they have made in digital content. Agari's distributed Media Bus software integrates the legacy applications that create, manage, and distribute content. Integration enables Agari's customers to access and use content across departments, divisions, or companies regardless of repository - digital asset management, content management, post-production, etc. In addition, it enables all employees to access departmental applications such as content transformation or rights databases. Media Bus integrates non-intrusively, without requiring any changes to existing systems or disrupting existing business processes. Agari Mediaware is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, USA and is a majority-owned subsidiary majority-owned subsidiary A firm in which more than 50% of outstanding voting stock is owned by the parent company. of Safeguard Scientifics, Inc. Safeguard Scientifics, Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :SFE See Sydney Futures Exchange. ) is an operating company operating company A business that engages in transactions with outsiders. creating long-term value by taking controlling interest in and developing its companies through superior operations and management. Safeguard operates businesses that provide business decision and life science software-based product and service solutions. For more information, please visit www.agari.com (or call +1-301-941-9011) and www.safeguard.com. |
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