Virage and Informix Partner to Deliver End-to-End System For Media Asset Management
Virage's Award Winning Products Provide Critical Video Search Capabilities to Informix's Media360 System SAN MATEO, CA. —November 22, 1999 —Virage, Inc., the leading provider of products and services that make video searchable and interactive, and Informix Corporation, the technology leader in enterprise database powered solutions, today announced a partnership agreement that enables Informix to integrate and distribute Virage products to broadcast and other media intensive markets worldwide.
The Informix/Virage solution enables producers and other video content decision-makers to quickly and efficiently share video assets, resulting in decreased time to air, improved news and content quality, and streamlined production and workflow. Building on the success of previous Informix/Virage projects, developed for customers such as CNN, the BBC, Telecinco, Swiss Radio-TV and the Associated Press, Informix Corporation has selected Virage as a key video cataloging provider for their new media asset management system: Media360.
Media360 provides a complete environment to collect, index, retrieve, distribute and archive video content and media assets. It is tightly integrated with object-relational technology, leading content creation tools, Web publishing, e-commerce, and analytic solutions. It enables new solutions for video production, stock footage archives, video collections, enterprise portals, and digital media distribution. The integration of Virage products into Media360 allows Informix to provide its customers with the world's leading, real time, comprehensive video indexing solution, making video easy to locate, browse, distribute, archive and repurpose.
About Informix, Corp.
Informix Corporation (NASDAQ: IFMX), based in Menlo Park, California, provides innovative database solutions that assist the world's major corporations attain competitive advantage. Informix is widely recognized as the technology leader for corporate computing environments ranging from small workgroups to very large parallel processing applications. Informix's database server, application development tools, superior customer service, and strong partnerships enable the company to be at the forefront of major information technology solution areas including media asset management, data warehousing, high-performance OLTP, and Web/e-commerce. Website is http://www.informix.com/media.
About Virage, Inc.
Virage is the leading provider of products and services that maximize the value of video by making it searchable and interactive. Virage's VideoLogger™ and AudioLogger™ software set the standard for real-time indexing and distribution of video across the Internet or corporate intranets/extranets. Virage has been named the market winner by industry analyst group Frost & Sullivan. Virage customers include ABC, AltaVista, BBC, CBS, CNET, CNN, CNN Interactive, Compaq, C-SPAN, Energy Film Library, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Fox Sports, General Electric, General Motors, Harvard Business School, Lockheed Martin, Lucent Technologies, NASA, NBCi/SNAP.com, New York Stock Exchange, Reuters, Swiss Radio-TV, Telecinco and several classified government agencies. Headquartered in San Mateo, Calif., Virage was incorporated in 1994 to provide organizations with advanced methods for accessing and leveraging media assets. For more information, see the Virage web site at http://www.virage.com or call (650) 573-3210.
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