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Ancept Announces Ancept Media Server 2.5 Digital Asset Management Solutions Used by Gap, Inc. Lands End, Ogilvy & Mather, American Greetings, Stanley Tools, and IBM.


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NAB 2002

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Ancept's Digital Asset Management Software, Ancept Media Server,

enjoys growing popularity in Broadcast,

Advertising and Fortune 1000 Organizations

Ancept, Inc. a leading provider of Digital Asset Management (DAM) solutions, today announced that their digital asset management application Ancept Media Server 2.5 is in use at a large number of locations including Gap, Inc., Lands End, Ogilvy & Mather, American Greetings American Greetings Corporation, Inc. NYSE: AM is the world's largest publicly-traded greeting card company. It is based in Cleveland, Ohio and sells paper greeting cards, electronic greeting cards, party products (such as wrapping papers and decorations), and electronic  and 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) .

"We are proud to announce the success that we have in deploying digital asset management solutions for a roster of stellar clients" said Jeff Stromberg, 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.  of Ancept, Inc. and chief architect of Ancept Media Server "We are on our third generation of the Ancept Media Server product line and are thrilled that it is one of the top digital asset management solutions."

Ancept Media Server 2.5 is allowing companies to unlock the value of their rich media assets by making them readily accessible to the rest of the organization, customers and partners. The application allows organizations to ingest in·gest  
tr.v. in·gest·ed, in·gest·ing, in·gests
1. To take into the body by the mouth for digestion or absorption. See Synonyms at eat.

2.
, retrieve, transform, catalog, edit, store and deliver any type of digital content throughout the enterprise, including video, audio, graphic images and desktop publishing desktop publishing, system for producing printed materials that consists of a personal computer or computer workstation, a high-resolution printer (usually a laser printer), and a computer program that allows the user to select from a variety of type fonts and sizes,  content. In addition, Ancept Media Server 2.5 drives the acceleration of rich media asset production through browser based retrieval and workflow automation See workflow. .

In the future, Ogilvy & Mather plans to expand use of the system from New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of
 to Ogilvy & Mather offices across the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . If the solution scales as expected Ogilvy & Mather will extend the solution worldwide.

Jeff Stromberg, CEO for Ancept notes, "Ogilvy & Mather is a one-of-a-kind customer. They allowed us to build an end-to-end solution (jargon) end-to-end solution - (E2ES) A term that suggests that the supplier of an application program or system will provide all the hardware and/or software components and resouces to meet the customer's requirement and no other supplier need be involved.

Compare: turn-key solution.
. The solution is robust and scalable since it is built on IBM's Digital Media factory technology. It is easy to use and administer since because it is based on Ancept's Media Server product."

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Ancept Media Server is the core application of a Digital Asset Management solution that is sold in conjunction with IBM's offering, IBM Content Manager. Luis E. Estrada, an IBM Global Solutions Manager is a strong advocate of Ancept and Ancept Media Server, "Ancept is an outstanding organization. They are truly experts at the design and deployment of digital asset management solutions. Their product, Ancept Media Server, has proven itself as an enterprise class application when paired with our Content Manager Solution." Estrada adds, "IBM has selected Ancept and Ancept Media Server to be a core component of our Digital Media Factory offering."

Core Capabilities

Ancept Media Server capabilities designed to streamline the production process include:
-- Integration with leading e-commerce engines.

-- Integration with leading digital rights management applications.

-- Integration with leading contract and royalties management applications.


Near term plans for Ancept Media Server include the addition of capabilities which will facilitate the secure sale and distribution of digital media assets over public networks. Currently planned are:


-- Integration with leading e-commerce engines.

-- Integration with leading digital rights management applications.

-- Integration with leading contract and royalties management applications.


About Ancept

Ancept has been designing, developing, integrating and implementing enterprise class digital media management systems based on Ancept Media Server since 1997. From the beginning, Ancept has focused solely on designing and deploying digital media asset management as an enterprise solution. At the core of Ancept's enterprise digital asset management solutions is our powerful product Ancept Media Server. Ancept customers are from the following industries: manufacturing, retail, marketing and advertising, media and entertainment, printing & publishing and education. Additional information on Ancept can be found at www.ancept.com.
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