Ascential Unveils Next Generation Media Asset Management Solution with Targeted Support for Publishing and Broadcast Markets.Business/Technology Editors WESTBORO, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 11, 2001 Media360 Captures Dominant Global Market Share Among Media Asset Management Solutions Market in Nine Month Period Ascential(TM) Software, Inc., the leading provider of Information Asset Management solutions, today announced the availability of the next generation release of Media360TM, Ascential Software's media asset management solution. Media360 version 2.0 extends the solution's existing support for video, audio, image, and text asset management and introduces two new modules, Media360 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, Module and Media360 Web Publishing Creating a Web site and placing it on the Web server. A Web site is a collection of HTML pages with the home page typically named INDEX.HTML. Web sites are designed using Web authoring software which provides a graphical layout capability or by hand coding in HTML or both. Module, and a new solution, Media360 Newsroom Edition. With the delivery of Media360 version 2.0, a growing list of more than 50 global customers including broadcast, publishing, and emerging markets, and the largest market share of any vendor in the media asset management market, Ascential Software is extending its lead in the rich media asset management market. "As media asset management solutions mature and more and more companies adopt this technology, especially outside traditional broadcast markets, customers are looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. proven, functionally-rich products and partners with a record of delivering successful solutions. Rapid deployment, broad compatibility with industry leading products and formats, and robust tools to manage and manipulate video, audio, image and text assets are now becoming de facto [Latin, In fact.] In fact, in deed, actually. This phrase is used to characterize an officer, a government, a past action, or a state of affairs that must be accepted for all practical purposes, but is illegal or illegitimate. requirements," said Carolyn Layne, vice president and general manager, Media and Web Business, Ascential Software. "With our release of Media360 version 2.0, we are meeting this market demand by delivering new support for text and desktop publishing data types, the industry's broadest compatibility with video and audio streaming See streaming audio. and logging tools, and three new solutions aimed at the desktop publishing and broadcast markets." Originally released in June 2000, today Media360 has over 50 customers worldwide and has achieved dominant market share in the global market for media asset management products in less then 9 months. Major broadcasters, including CNN CNN or Cable News Network Subsidiary company of Turner Broadcasting Systems. It was created by Ted Turner in 1980 to present 24-hour live news broadcasts, using satellites to transmit reports from news bureaus around the world. , Turner Broadcasting, Canadian Broadcast Corporation, and TeleCinco, are using Media360 to manage digital assets more effectively, pursue next generation media and communication projects, and deliver an unprecedented volume and variety of content across traditional broadcast, internet, and print mediums. Ascential Software is also leading the industry in driving the adoption of rich media asset management technology in new markets, including advertising, brand management, criminal justice, education, healthcare, and publishing, with clients such as Sears, the US Marshall Service, Texas A&M, and the Mexican Ministry of Education. "Companies looking to gain competitive advantage in digital asset management require solutions that enable them to save money by reducing the time it takes to find information assets within the organization; become more efficient by automating many of the processes and workflows that information goes through before distribution, and preserve assets by transferring tape and paper records to digital records," said Elizabeth Sun, analyst, MetaGroup. "Companies need enterprise level digital asset management solutions for collecting, organizing and delivering all types of media assets." Media360 is 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. for collecting, organizing, and delivering any type of content, including video, audio, images, maps, 3-D images, blueprints and diagrams, digital special effects special effects, in motion pictures, cinematographic techniques that create illusions in the audience's minds as well as the illusions created using these techniques. , and Web pages. The market's leading media content management solution helps organizations worldwide save money by reducing the time needed to digitize and manage assets and by providing those assets for use and reuse in a highly flexible scalable format. New Features Media360 version 2.0 includes major enhancements to the Media360 Core, Video/Audio, and Image modules and the addition of three completely new modules. --Media360 Core Module version 2.0: the foundation module for the Media360 family provides users with the ideal solution for managing rich content, consisting of documents such as Microsoft Office or PDF files, images, video and audio assets. Media360 Core Module version 2.0 includes enhanced support for full document text searches, based on Verity's text search technology, allowing users to perform full searches on unstructured text and to seamlessly manage text data and its associated meta data along side other digital media assets. Media360 Core Module version 2.0 also includes improved workflow capabilities and the simplified integration with tape and disk storage management solutions from SGL SGL See Speculative Grade Liquidity Rating (SGL). and EMC/Avalon. --Media360 Video/Audio Module version 2.0: manages temporal based assets, such as video and audio files. Using Virage's latest Audio and Video Catalogers, Media360 enables users to collect (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. ) video audio files, generate robust multi-layered, time-based metadata, and then search, retrieve and distribute the data in an open format neutral environment. With version 2.0, Ascential extends Media360's existing support for video and audio formats and streaming capabilities to include Telemedia for MPEG (Moving Pictures Experts Group) An ISO/ITU standard for compressing digital video. Pronounced "em-peg," it is the universal standard for digital terrestrial, cable and satellite TV, DVDs and digital video recorders (DVRs). 1 frame accurate streaming, Real Networks, Microsoft Windows Media Player, Kasenna MediaBase, and Grass Valley Group's Profile high resolution video server. --The Media360 Image Module version 2.0: extends the power of the underlying Media360 content management solution, allowing users to convert automatically from one image format to another and from one image resolution to another. This helps Media360 customers save money by reducing the amount of time it takes to deliver images in multiple formats for desktop publishing, web publishing, distributed and mobile applications. --The Media360 Destkop Publishing Module version 2.0: extends Media360 into the desktop publishing market. With added support for Quark XPress and other leading desktop publishing tools, users can leverage the full suite of Media360 tools to manage desktop publishing files along side other digital content. With the Media360 Desktop Publishing Module, organizations can re-use content across the enterprise, saving money by reducing the time to create magazines, journals, mail order catalogs, sales collateral and advertising materials and improving efficiency by fostering teamwork between archive, web and publishing groups. --Media360 Web Publishing Client Module version 2.0: enables users to manage media assets in Media360 and export them for re-use to the web users, using industry leading web publishing tools and portal solutions such as Macromedia Dreamweaver, Microsoft Front Page, Ascential Axielle Enterprise Information Portal See corporate portal. , Vignette, Interwoven in·ter·weave v. in·ter·wove , in·ter·wo·ven , inter·weav·ing, inter·weaves v.tr. 1. To weave together. 2. To blend together; intermix. v.intr. or ATG ATG antithymocyte globulin. lymphocyte immune globulin (antithymocyte globulin equine, ATG, ATG equine, LIG) Atgam Pharmacologic class: Immunoglobulin Therapeutic class: Immunosuppressant . With the explosive growth in the use of e-commerce and portal solutions, this new module allows Media360 to easily meet the need for full life cycle management of audio, video, images, documents and quark documents in web applications. --The Media360 Newsroom Edition version 2.0: aimed squarely at news organizations, Media360 Newsroom Edition is designed for customers who want to seamlessly integrate their ENPS ENPS Electronic News Production System (Associated Press) , Electronic News Production System from Associated Press Broadcast Technology, or Avid iNews news management systems with their content archive powered by Media360. Media360 Newsroom Edition allows users to access all Media360 functions from within ENPS or Avid iNews, and drag and drop A graphical user interface (GUI) capability that lets you perform operations by moving the icon of an object with the mouse into another window or onto another icon. For example, files can be copied or moved by dragging them from one folder to another. content and metadata to and from Media360 and ENPS or Avid iNews. The Media360 Newsroom Edition also provides a newsroom-centric user interface that dramatically simplifies the process of searching and previewing video, creating rough-cut edits and transferring those assets to a nonlinear video editing Editing video in the computer. Also called "nonlinear editing" (NLE), digital nonlinear systems provide high-quality post-production editing on a desktop computer. However, some detail may be lost if lossy compression is used to store the images (see lossy compression). environment. Media360 Version 2.0 began shipping in March 2001 and will be distributed through the company's direct sales force, partners and international channels. About Ascential Ascential Software, Inc. is the leading provider of Information Asset Management solutions to the Global 2000. Customers use Ascential products to turn vast amounts of disparate, unrefined data into reusable information assets that drive business success. Ascential's unique framework for Information Asset Management enables customers to easily collect, validate, organize, administer and deliver information assets to realize more value from their enterprise data, reduce costs and increase profitability. Headquartered in Westboro, Mass., Ascential has offices worldwide and supports more than 1500 customers, including Fujitsu-Siemens, Deutsche Bank, Pfizer, BizRate, SC Johnson, France Telecom, the British Broadcasting Corporation (company) British Broadcasting Corporation - (BBC) The non-commercial UK organisation that commissions, produces and broadcasts television and radio programmes. The BBC commissioned the "BBC Micro" from Acorn Computers for use in a television series about using computers. , and Subaru of America, Inc., in such industries as telecommunications, insurance, financial services, healthcare, media/entertainment and retail. Ascential is an independent operating company operating company A business that engages in transactions with outsiders. of Informix Corporation (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : IFMX IFMX Informix Corporation ) and can be found on the Web at www.ascentialsoftware.com. (c)2001 Ascential Software, Inc. All rights reserved. Ascential is a trademark of Ascential Software, Inc. and may be registered in other jurisdictions. Media360TM is a trademark of Informix Corporation or its affiliates and is registered in the U.S. or other jurisdictions. |
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