Rich Media News & Articles

They don't have SharePoint in the name of their new solution, but it is a solution for SharePoint nevertheless. Autonomy has announced a solution designed to provide SharePoint users the ability to get the most value out of the rich media assets stored within its repository. Called ControlPoint for Multimedia, the solution analyzes and retrieves the rich media stored within SharePoint without complete reliance on manually created metadata associated with the asset.

High-impact rich media is a goal of many companies in regards to their websites. Adobe is here to help solve that problem and keep it cost-effective to publish such media. They bring to you Adobe Scene7, a comprehensive SaaS platform that provides scalability, ease of use and the use of integrated technologies.

Zannel, the instant media network - otherwise known as Twitter with multimedia - has released an application for the iPhone called CityWatch. Now you can let people know what's happening in cities all around them, sharing your instant updates on your iPhone.

Digital asset management is coming to Europe. North Plains Systems, provider of digital asset management (DAM) and video asset management (VAM) software solutions, plans to expand its global channel of strategic partners over the coming months, including a European base of technology partners.

The expansion comes as a result of the increased demand of its TeleScope digital asset management platform, known for enabling securing access, management and distribution of all digital and rich media across an entire organization.

Wowza Media Systems, a software company that focuses solely on media servers, announced the availability of Wowza Media Server Pro Subscription Edition.

This new product features “friction-free” monthly subscription licensing for its industrial-strength media server. The goal is to make the process of streaming or hosting flash media services a “painless” and cost-effective option.

Interwoven released an enhanced version of Interwoven MediaBin. The company’s flagship Digital Asset Management (DAM) solution is now faster, more interactive and allows for better control for managing and deploying rich media assets. Some of the enhancements are quite expected, while others just don’t make much sense.

When technologies vie for a segment of the academic market, they find themselves catering to the few that have the budgets to implement time-saving, innovative products into the classroom. However, many times, although the educational sector lacks the financial resources, it abounds with interest. In that case, they’re lucky to find a company like Momindum that offers rich media based classroom tools for free.

Enterprise Content Management provider Vignette has announced new video products designed to help organizations deliver an immersive and video-centric Web experience. The products, Vignette Video services and the latest incarnation of Vignette’s Rich Media Services, let organizations streamline video management and put it center stage in their overall Web strategy. These additions should lead to increased viewer time spent on site, improved customer engagement and more revenue using video as a significant source of site content.

Accordent Technologies has released an expanded version of its Accordent Media Management System to include support for TANDBERG video conferencing systems and Flash presentations.

Media Management System is a centralized CMS framework for managing multimedia assets like streaming video and audio, video presentations, lectures, and webcasts.

Features are roughly what you would expect from traditional Enterprise CMS products - content management portal, user authentication and tracking, workflow functionality and so forth, except for two key differences.

The first is, obviously enough, that this CMS is specifically designed for managing multimedia.

Once the domain of niche players and home grown applications, established CMS vendors are moving into the realm of rich media asset management. One such well-known provider, Vignette, makes a play with the announcement of its Rich Media Services add-on module.

You bet it can. Yesterday Nirvanix released its media app-rich Storage Delivery Service to the general public. The offering is gunning for a market dominated by Amazon’s Dynamo-powered S3, which admittedly lacks a few stock Nirvanix charms.