Virage and TECMATH partner to deliver complete cataloging and content management system
TecMath, turns to searchable video specialist, Virage, to provide complete solution for broadcasting and media industries June 11, 1999--The Digital Media Division of TECMATH GmbH & Co KG, Europe's leading content management system provider joins Virage Developer Program.
TECMATH will integrate Virage's automatic cataloguing technology into their content management system media archive® and deliver integrated solutions to broadcasters and companies active in the areas of media and entertainment, advertising, corporate communications and publishing.
"To minimise costs, companies working with content have the need for a content management solution that allows for easy archiving, indexing and effective re-use of their material," comments Dr. Peter Thomas, chief technology officer, TECMATH's DIGITAL MEDIA DIVISION.
"Virage has a world-wide reputation for providing automatic cataloguing and indexing technology for video and audio assets. Integrating this technology into the ingest step of the media archive® allows us to provide the customer with rich search terms even while material is registered with the system - without any human intervention," says Mark Rattley, managing director, Virage Europe.
"The co-operation with Virage continues our strategy to bring together best-of-breed technology and latest research results and deliver integrated solutions. We believe that the results of this co-operation will make media archive® an even more effective solution for the content management problems of our customers," continues Thomas.
media archive® is the outcome of over four years of intense development. It is based on the results of the Esprit project EUROMEDIA, which has been initiated and co-ordinated by TECMATH. In this project, several technology providers closely co-operated with five major European broadcasters (BBC, ORF, SDR, SWF, SVT) in order to develop core components of a content management and archiving system that really fits the needs of the broadcasting industry.
About Virage Virage is the pioneer and recognised market leader in providing products and technologies that make video searchable. Virage's VideoLogger and AudioLogger software set the standard for real-time indexing and distribution of video across the Internet or corporate intranets/extranets and Virage has been named the market winner by industry analyst group Frost & Sullivan.
Virage customers include ABC News, AltaVista, BBC, Carlton Communications, CBS News, CNN, CNN Interactive, Compaq, Energy Film Library, Federal Bureau of Investigations, Fox Sports, General Electric, General Motors, Harvard Business School, Heinle & Heinle, Lockheed Martin, Lucent Technologies, NASA, Network Espana, NBC News, PICS Retail Network, Reuters, Showdown Productions, Swiss Broadcasting Corp. and several classified U.S. government agencies. These companies rely on Virage video search products as the critical foundation technology for more effectively deploying and using video within their operations. Headquartered in San Mateo, California, with its European office outside London, Virage was incorporated in 1994 to provide organisations with advanced methods for accessing and leveraging media assets.
About TECMATH GmbH & Co. KG TECMATH GmbH & Co. KG was founded in 1986 as a high-tech company for the development of complex software systems. The DIGITAL MEDIA DIVISION, one of four divisions of the TECMATH group, develops solutions for the content management in the broadcasting, publishing and printing sectors.
The prime product line of TECMATH's DIGITAL MEDIA DIVISION is the content management system media archive®. media archive® supports digitisation and import of content, realtime ancillary data extraction as well as automatic indexing and manual logging during import, retrieval, browsing, rough cut and EDL creation, EDL and material exchange with popular editing solutions and in-depth cataloguing of material selected for long term archiving. The system is builds on a flexible CORBA-based metadata and material management that is designed to be scalable to very large archive configurations and that allows for easy integration of legacy systems.
media archive® users include major European broadcasting organisations like ORF, SWR, Sat.1, ProSieben and NRK.
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