College Media, Inc. implements Web-based data collection system developed by Context Integration.SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO South San Francisco, city (1990 pop. 54,312), San Mateo co., W Calif.; inc. 1908. South San Francisco has several industrial parks; its manufactures include medical supplies and equipment, foods, paint, paper products, consumer goods, and clothing. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 14, 1997-- Company Saves Time and Money, and Improves Accuracy with Web-Based Technology Context Integration, a leading consulting firm Noun 1. consulting firm - a firm of experts providing professional advice to an organization for a fee consulting company business firm, firm, house - the members of a business organization that owns or operates one or more establishments; "he worked for a for the deployment of client/server and Internet environments, today announced that College Media, Inc. (CMJ CMJ Chinese Medical Journal CMJ College Media Journal CMJ College Mathematics Journal CMJ Complete Metal Jacket CMJ Certified Measuring Judge CMJ Chief of Military Justice CMJ Critical Mass Journal ) will rollout a revolutionary Web-based data collection application in mid-February. The application, created by Context consultants, is designed to efficiently and accurately gather airplay air·play n. The broadcasting of an audio or audiovisual recording on the air over radio or television. airplay Noun the broadcast performances of a record on radio data from 1,000 alternative college, commercial, non-commercial and public radio stations nationwide via the Internet. "We provide summary information to the music community on the top-requested and top-played music at alternative radio stations throughout the U.S.," said Alex Ellerson, general counsel for CMJ. "More than 1,000 stations report their radio airplay data to us on a weekly basis. We compile the information and publish it on our Web-site, in our weekly trade publication and in our monthly consumer magazine. These airplay charts are extremely important to radio programmers and record industry executives who make business decisions based on the data." CMJ sought Context's expertise in system integration and Web and database technology to develop the innovative new system. The company's goal was to reduce the amount of time it took to log and process the data, thereby saving time and money. It also wanted to ensure 100 percent accuracy in its ratings. Before CMJ worked with Context to develop a high-technology data collection system, it recorded its data by hand. For example, when a radio station representative called to report airplay information, a CMJ representative manually logged the data onto a spreadsheet. As the company received more calls, the data was logged in one-at-a-time. Then, on a weekly basis, a CMJ representative entered several spreadsheets of data into a computer database to generate summary information. "Since most of the radio stations that report to CMJ were already connected to the Internet, it made sense for us to develop a solution based on the Web," said Charlie Garland, account manager for Context's 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 office. "It was up to us to decide what technology to use to upgrade CMJ's databases, create a Web interface and meet our deadline. We chose NetDynamics, an advanced rapid application development (RAD (1) (Rapid Application Development) Developing systems incrementally and delivering working pieces every three to four months, rather than waiting until the entire project is programmed before implementing it. ) tool for the Internet, to access data and build the development framework. We also utilized Sybase as the supporting database for its reliability, functionality and scaling capabilities." As a result of this seven-month project, radio station representatives throughout the U.S. will soon be able to send data to CMJ by inputting tallies into their stations' computers and transmitting the information via the Internet directly to CMJ's database. "One of the biggest challenges of the project was to write a system that needed minimal day-to-day maintenance and required no training on the user end," said Dror Liwer, manager of application development for Context's New York office. "We met that challenge by developing an application that features strong data collection and calculation capabilities, and that can be used by anyone, with or without a lot of technology background." Currently, CMJ is still beta testing (programming) beta testing - Testing a pre-release (potentially unreliable) version of a piece of software by making it available to selected users. This term derives from early 1960s terminology for product cycle checkpoints, first used at IBM but later standard throughout the its new technology. In February, the company will begin to collect airplay reports via the Internet. Soon afterward af·ter·ward also af·ter·wards adv. At a later time; subsequently. Adv. 1. afterward - happening at a time subsequent to a reference time; "he apologized subsequently"; "he's going to the store but he'll be back here , CMJ will invite stations to report their data via the Internet on a consistent basis. "We have worked with numerous outside computer consultants over the years, but the folks at Context have been the most outstanding group we have worked with by a wide margin," said Ellerson. "They have been consistently responsive to our needs, very timely and delivered on their promises. We could not be more pleased." About College Media, Inc. (CMJ) Headquartered in New York, CMJ publishes CMJ New Music Report, a leading music industry trade magazine; CMJ New Music Monthly CMJ New Music Monthly is a monthly music magazine with interviews, reviews, and special features. Each magazine comes with a CD of 15-24 songs by well-established bands, unsigned bands and everything in between. It is published by College Media Inc. , a magazine geared toward alternative music consumers; and CMJ Online, a World Wide Web-site that features the up and coming stars of alternative music. It also hosts an annual, four-day music industry convention and band showcase called the "CMJ New Music Marathon & MusicFest." For more information, contact CMJ at 11 Middleneck Road, Suite 400, Great Neck, New York Great Neck is a village in Nassau County, New York, in the U.S., on the North Shore of Long Island. As of the United States 2000 Census, the village population was 9,538. The Village of Great Neck is in the Town of North Hempstead. 11021; 516/466-6000; e-mail at cmj@cmj.com or via the World Wide Web at http://www.cmjmusic.com . About Context Integration Headquartered in South San Francisco, Context Integration is a leading provider of cutting edge solutions for the deployment of today's complex client/server systems, including Internet/Intranet solutions. With more than 50 specialized consultants experienced in both traditional client/server and Internet based applications, Context supplies both staff supplementation and full life cycle application development for clients throughout the U.S. It currently has major offices in South San Francisco, New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. and Austin, Texas. The company, founded in 1992 by database experts, has strategic partnerships with Actuate, Business Objects, Informix, NetDynamics, Inc., PowerSoft and Sybase. For more information, contact Context Integration at 601 Gateway Boulevard Gateway Boulevard is a major one-way street in Edmonton, Alberta. It is part of the Alberta provincial highway 2. It's a northbound road and it runs parallel with Calgary Trail, which is the southbound part of Highway 2. , Suite 780, South San Francisco, Calif. 94080; 800/941-9222; e-mail at context@context.com or via the World Wide Web at http://www.context.com . EDITOR'S NOTE Editor's Note (foaled in 1993 in Kentucky) is an American thoroughbred Stallion racehorse. He was sired by 1992 U.S. Champion 2 YO Colt Forty Niner, who in turn was a son of Champion sire Mr. Prospector and out of the mare, Beware Of The Cat. Trained by D. : An "at" symbol appears after "cmj," "context," "jmaresca" and "michele" in the e-mail addresses See Internet address. e-mail address - electronic mail address in this release. This symbol may not appear properly in some systems. CONTACT: Context Integration Jim Maresca, 415/873-0103 jmaresca@context.com or Eiler Communications Michele Scott, 415/548-9088 michele@eiler.com |
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