EL SEGUNDO, Calif., Feb. 12, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Accordent Technologies today announced the integration of its Accordent Media Management System(tm), the industry's first platform for managing, securing and measuring rich media communications on an organizational scale, with major manufacturers' videoconferencing systems from vendors including Polycom and Tandberg.
"This is a classic outcome of what we call the rich media discovery effect," said Mike Newman, CEO of Accordent Technologies. "Once our clients make the leap into universally available and accessible streaming communications, it becomes unthinkable that a high-value event or meeting should not be archived and accessible to any authorized user -- at any time. Web-based communications rapidly becomes the standard for all organizational communications, and our technology uniquely provides the ability to integrate many forms within the same management infrastructure," he said.
With the new videoconferencing integration, clients can now import and convert output from major videoconferencing systems and automatically publish the content -- organized by its descriptive metadata -- into the Accordent Media Management System, where it appears as another asset alongside Accordent rich media presentations. A number of the Accordent integrations were done via VisiCom Systems, a Georgia-based integrator of Tandberg, Polycom and VTEL videoconferencing systems.
"VisiCom has done hundreds of installations of large videoconferencing systems for clients across the United States," said Leonard Salley, VisiCom president. "Integrating these systems with the Accordent solution is literally plug and play. We recommend this solution to our clients because, although there are other capture and other media management solutions, only Accordent is completely agnostic. It offers us a complete and fully scalable solution that gives any organization tremendous power and flexibility to grow and integrate all its video, audio and VGA streams, and archive these assets so they can be centrally managed."
Unveiled in October, the Accordent Media Management System provides an online content management and search portal that integrates with client databases and active directory services to secure user access and provide advanced reporting on viewer interaction with content over time. When used with multimedia presentations created with Accordent's rich media creation tools, the system provides unparalleled ability to search not just basic metadata but content embedded in slides and even slide notes.
Clients typically collocate Accordent Capture Station devices alongside videoconferencing units for centralized scheduling and management via direct integration of the Accordent Media Management system with the most widely used videoconferencing bridges, including Polycom's Accord MCU, Tandberg MCU, Codian and Radvision. The Accordent units import the video streams and preserve them as distinct elements that can be archived and later modified and re-skinned using Accordent's built-in, professional caliber presentation editing tools. Finally, Accordent's automated presentation publishing workflow ensures all assets are automatically archived on client SAN or other storage servers for replay, or repurposing, on-demand.
The Accordent Rich Media Communications Suite is the only automated, end-to-end infrastructure for creating, distributing, managing and measuring the effectiveness of multimedia presentation assets. In addition to the Accordent Capture Station(tm), the company's rich media creation products include its flagship PresenterPRO Enterprise Edition(tm), a live and on-demand webcasting solution for organizations that includes interactive features, such as polling, survey and moderated Q&A support, and Accordent PresenterPLUS(tm), Accordent's professional-caliber presentation editing tool. The Accordent Media Management System gives organizations unparalleled ability to manage, search and control their Accordent rich media assets -- from user authentication to certification, database integration and enhanced reporting -- in order to understand and monitor rich media communications effectiveness.
About Accordent Technologies, Inc.
Accordent Technologies provides enterprise-wide rich media communications solutions that enable world-class organizations to inform, train and engage their audiences online. More than 1500 customers worldwide, including Unisys, JP Morgan Chase, Ford, Harvard and National Institutes of Health, rely on Accordent solutions to create, manage, distribute and measure the effectiveness of their multimedia presentation assets. Accordent has earned distinction for its award-winning products and long-standing commitment to the success of its customers and partners. Learn more about Accordent's exceptional solutions at www.accordent.com.
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