Active Data Exchange Releases Calendar 3.13

Bethlehem, PA (PRWEB) December 15, 2011

Active Data Exchange, Inc., a leading provider of solutions for event planning, management and promotions, today announced the release of Active Data Calendar 3.13. The latest release includes increased efficiencies, process improvements, and features to help clients publish events and engage their audiences more effectively than ever before. The release also includes additional improvements to the functionality of the calendar software with single sign-on capability, and the addition of two new payment gateways for payment processing.

With the release of Calendar 3.13, clients can integrate their existing single sign-on solutions to authenticate and access the Calendar without having to enter several different passwords. The single sign-on feature in Calendar 3.13 works with secure authentication smart cards, like Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) cards, and Microsoft?s Active Directory for authentication and authorization of users.

Two new payment gateways, Authorize.Net and NIC, have been added to Active Data Calendar?s Advanced Registration module. The module allows clients to configure event registration templates and process online payments. Clients can also process payments through TouchNet, PayPal Express, and Payflow Pro.

Other key features of the 3.13 release include greater flexibility in mobile views, more user friendly navigation, and improved Section 508 compliancy.

About Active Data Calendar

Active Data Calendar aggregates event data into a unified view for faster, easier management of your organization?s calendars. Calendar can be configured with permissions-based workflow to speed approvals for publishing event information to public-facing websites. The software syndicates event information to email accounts, mobile devices, other websites and social media, and can share information with portals, intranets, SharePoint sites, student information systems (SIS), enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems and other web-enabled enterprise technologies. Customers can create event registration forms, accept registration fees online, book facilities and resources for events, and communicate and align key internal dates, deadlines, milestones and events.

About Active Data Exchange

Active Data Exchange provides web-based calendar products and services that align and create value for organizations that deliver a unified view of date information drawn from multiple sources within an organization. The company was founded in 1999 and is located in Bethlehem, PA. Please visit http://www.activedatax.com.

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EditShare Ships New Shared Storage and Collaborative Editing Product Releases; Strengthens Asset Management across Broadcast and Post-production Product Lines

Boston, MA (PRWEB) August 18, 2011

EditShare?, the technology leader in cross-platform collaborative editing and shared media storage systems, today announced the availability of EditShare Flow version 2.1 as well as new updates for EditShare XStream and Energy version 6, and Geevs version 5. EditShare purpose-built solutions power a wide-range of production workflows, including reality TV, episodics, news production, live events, education, sports, feature films, and more. The company?s systems have been used to create everything from entertainment blockbusters, such as The King?s Speech, to global events like the Winter Olympics.

The newly revved product line-up enhances media sharing and metadata management across the board, providing workflow continuity between broadcast and post-production systems from content acquisition to playout. ?This new round of development is a quantum leap forward in metadata management. Our systems preserve metadata details from the moment media is created, maintaining and adding information as content travels through the workflow ? from acquisition and production, to playout and archive. This type of metadata management is critical for just about any production where multiple systems and collaborators are involved,? said Andy Liebman, founder and CEO, EditShare.

Existing EditShare customers with a valid maintenance agreement receive the new releases free of charge.

ABOUT NEW EDITSHARE TECHNOLOGY RELEASES

EditShare Flow V2.1 ? Production Asset Management

Flow offers comprehensive media management capabilities for ingesting and logging clips and tracking assets across the production chain. Advanced features such as Multichannel Ingest, Edit-While-Capture, and Bandwidth-Controlled File-Based Ingest add a level of control over productions that set Flow apart from its peers. Rapid production tools like Flow Logger and Flow Projects and Bins enable users to work quickly and efficiently and begin the pre-editing process during ingest. EditShare Universal File Technology gives users the space efficiency and convenience of single-format editing without sacrificing metadata tracking across the workflow.

New Flow Features 2.1 capabilities

?Enhanced preservation of metadata from P2 and XDCAM devices

?Improved metadata indexing and search capabilities offer extensive criteria and filter options

?Support for ProRes? within the asset manager

?Support for AVC-Intra (SDI and File Ingest)

?Advanced drag-and-drop capabilities; drag text from a file (i.e. clip names) into Flow Browse search tab; export lists, sequences, queues; drag-and-drop clips and log entry markers into preview window

?Restoring offline clips directly from a sequence

?More logging options, including the option for single capture or ganged capture

EditShare XStream and Energy Series V6.0.5 - Shared Production Storage

EditShare's best-in-class storage infrastructure combines blazingly high performance and clever workflow-engineered features, such as Avid? and Final Cut Pro? (FCP) project sharing, to optimize collaboration for post-production, Digital Intermediate and broadcast production workflows. Fully integrated with EditShare Flow, Lightworks, Geevs and Ark, and EditShare XStream and Energy storage solutions scale to petabytes, outperforming comparable solutions at an unbeatable price point.

New EditShare 6.0.5 shared storage updates

?XStream Solid State Drives; performance benchmarked at 2.6GB per second

?6Gb/s performance for all drives

?Avid-Style Media Spaces for Mac?-based systems

?Improved Project Sharing for Final Cut Pro Users offers lockable Project Space, in which all files in a project are read-only

Geevs V5.1.2 ? Broadcast Ingest and Playout

Known as the industry workhorse for broadcast playout, Geevs boasts a sleek new user interface and a dynamic new sports application with multi-channel, synchronized recording and playback for up to 16 cameras, including instant playout and slow-motion replay. In addition to supporting the full range of broadcast codecs, including AVC-Intra, Geevs supports widely-used post-production formats, Avid DNxHD and ProRes. The new codec support optimizes production workflows, with seamless integration for Avid and Final Cut Pro editing workgroups, enhancing media migration from production storage to the Geevs playout platform.

Geevs 5.1.2 Capabilities and Benefits

?Unmatched codec support - Avid DNxHD, ProRes, AVC-Intra, XDCAM HD, DVCPRO HD, MPEG 2 HD and more

?Redundant Recording with Failover

?Instant individual clip backup to Ark after a capture

?Advanced Multi-cam Studio workflow with Avid and FCP sequence creation on the fly from Vision Mixers

?MOS integration with Octopus and Avid iNews Newsroom Computer Systems

?Edit-While-Capture support

?Free XML API

EditShare will showcase the newly updated Complete Collaboration product line at IBC 2011 on stand 7.C21. For more information or to book a press appointment, please contact Janice Dolan at: janice@zazilmediagroup.com.

About EditShare LLC

EditShare LLC is the pioneer of a new category of collaborative editing solutions designed for digital media workgroups and production companies. The EditShare system fuels the collaborative creative process for digital media artists by delivering high quality high performance and cost effective networked collaborative editing solutions. For more information, please visit http://www.editshare.com.

?2011 EditShare LLC. All rights reserved. EditShare? is a registered trademark of EditShare LLC. All other trademarks mentioned herein belong to their respective owners.

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Wowza Media Systems Releases Next-Generation Wowza Media Server 3

Evergreen, Colo. (PRWEB) October 11, 2011

Wowza? Media Systems today announced a major milestone in the evolution of media streaming with the release of Wowza Media Server? 3, the next generation of its award-winning software platform that provides a single extensible foundation and value-added components for ?Any Screen Done Right?? media delivery.

Wowza Media Server has long been hailed as the premier media server software delivering 99 percent overall customer satisfaction, and this next-generation software offers the broadest any-screen coverage for Adobe? Flash?, Microsoft? Silverlight?, iPhone?, iPad?, Android?, other smartphones and tablets, smart TVs, and IPTV/OTT set-top boxes. The Wowza Media Server 3 platform advances media streaming to a new level of simplicity and cost-effectiveness with a variety of AddOn components that help organizations of any size to deliver live and on-demand content efficiently.

?Wowza Media Server 3 delivers the essential functionality and features that are must-haves for our business: module development flexibility, multidevice versatility, and on-the-fly security integrated with third-party studio-approved DRM platforms,? said Julien Marusi, vice president of technology at Vivendi Mobile Entertainment. Vivendi Mobile Entertainment uses Wowza Media Server software for streaming on its zaOza service, the first legal service for sharing and downloading of digital content in France.

Verismo Networks, a provider of end-to-end broadband entertainment services, also has high praise for Wowza Media Server. ?Wowza is spot-on at addressing the needs of the market,? said Vijay Maheshwari, Verismo Networks CTO and co-founder. ?Wowza Media Server software has already enabled us to launch Mela?, a global multiplatform consumer entertainment service with one of the largest aggregations of premium South Asian video content. The new Wowza Media Server 3 DRM integration opens up many new revenue opportunities for us for streaming premium content secured by studio-approved Verimatrix DRM. Wowza nDVR? AddOn lets us deliver the viewing experience customers crave on whatever device they are using.?

New capabilities of the Wowza Media Server 3 platform include:

????Integrated live adaptive bitrate (ABR) transcoding enabled by Wowza Transcoder? AddOn eliminates the provisioning complexity typical of adaptive bitrate streaming, reduces needed access bandwidth by up to 80 percent, and enables better utilization of network resources such as routers and switches. Wowza Transcoder takes advantage of standard hardware to transform incoming live streams from encoders, IP cameras, IPTV headends, and other live sources into multiple stream sets for Flash RTMP and HTTP Dynamic Streaming (HDS), HLS, smooth streaming, and non-adaptive delivery for RTSP/RTP and MPEG-TS.
????Any-screen time-shifted delivery of live streams with Wowza nDVR AddOn enables Wowza licensees to increase revenues and viewer engagement by delivering premium catch-up TV services. Wowza nDVR significantly reduces cost by minimizing network storage requirements and simplifying the delivery workflow for all screens.
????Support for multiple studio-approved DRM platforms provides content owners and delivery networks with robust and truly secure streaming with on-the-fly encryption for both live and on-demand content to any screen ? computers, mobile devices, and TVs ? with a choice of industry-leading digital rights management platforms, including Verimatrix? VCAS? and Microsoft PlayReady?.
????Unconstrained per-server capacity with no CPU core limitations means media publishers can take full advantage of the highly-threaded multicore hardware for even higher streaming efficiency and cost-effectiveness.
????Flexible and cost-effective licensing choices for any application and budget, including the risk-free monthly subscription license that requires no up front investment and that provides free upgrades, automatic volume discounts, and the convenience of using any number of servers and AddOns with a single license key.

Pricing and availability:

Wowza Media Server 3 Monthly Edition is offered at $ 55 per month for the first server, a 15 percent reduction from Wowza Media Server 2 subscription fees. A single-channel monthly fee for Wowza Transcoder is $ 30 per month. Wowza nDVR and Wowza DRM? AddOns are offered at $ 20 and $ 55 per server/month, respectively. Discounts are automatically applied to monthly server and AddOn fees for volume use.

A newly introduced Wowza Media Server 3 Daily Edition enables streaming with all AddOn capabilities at low daily fees. The server fee is only $ 5 per day, plus $ 3 per day per each Wowza Transcoder channel, $ 2 per day for Wowza nDVR AddOn, and $ 5 per day for Wowza DRM AddOn.

The price of Wowza Media Server 3 Perpetual Edition licenses is unchanged at $ 995. Optional AddOn components for the Wowza Media Server 3 Perpetual Edition include the two-channel Wowza Transcoder AddOn license priced at $ 1495 (stackable for additional per-server transcoding capacity), Wowza nDVR AddOn single license at $ 495, and Wowza DRM AddOn at $ 995. Automatic discounts apply to multilicense purchases.

All licensing editions are available for purchase immediately at http://www.wowza.com/store. More information about licensing options and pricing is available at http://www.wowza.com/pricing.html.

About Wowza Media Systems

Wowza? Media Systems is the ?Any Screen Done Right?? media server software company delivering an industrial-strength infrastructure for live video, video-on-demand, live recording, and video chat. Wowza has a singular focus on delivering high-performance media server software to service providers, media properties, enterprises, and other organizations serious about delivering video to any digital screen ? computer, mobile phone, or home TV. More than 85,000 global licensees in entertainment, social media, advertising, enterprise, education, government, and Internet commerce have deployed Wowza?s media server software to date. Wowza Media Systems is privately held with headquarters in Evergreen, Colo. More information is available at http://www.wowza.com.

Wowza and related marks are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Wowza Media Systems Inc. Third-party product names and related marks are either registered trademarks or trademarks of such third parties.

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AMX Releases Vision2 Streaming Video System with Next-Gen Innovations

Richardson, Texas (PRWEB) November 17, 2011

AMX?, the leading provider of solutions that simplify the implementation, maintenance, and use of technology to create effective environments, announced today the immediate availability of its advanced Vision2 IPTV system (version 7.2). The innovative video solution includes several new capabilities that enable companies and universities to develop or upgrade video communications initiatives.

IP video has become a core communication tool, but for casual users, operating recording and management software can be complex. The new release of Vision2 features a control API that allows digital video to easily be integrated into an AMX control system for user-friendly management with capabilities such as one-touch recording and archiving. And, addressing the increased use of mobile devices, AMX has added a new user interface that allows Vision2 content to be viewed on-the-go.

The new MPEG Reflector Appliance function gives organizations the ability to deliver live streaming video to multiple remote locations using a single stream per location. With this capability organizations can provide video access to satellite campuses without overwhelming their corporate Internet connections due to high-bandwidth video.

Additional features include customizable layouts that give organizations the ability to create menus and guides ? with custom brands, logos and colors ? for Vision2 compatible set-top boxes. On top of the new features, Vision2 continues to make recording and managing video easy with tools that streamline the user experience, like adding metadata to recorded content to aid in searching for videos.

?Vision2 is the ideal, live and on-demand video-streaming solution for any organization,? said AMX Chief Technology Officer Robert Noble. ?With these new features there is no other turnkey streaming solution that lets novice users as easily initiate, manage and distribute streaming content for company presentations, conferences or training classes.?

For more information about Vision2 from AMX contact your AMX dealer or go to http://www.amx.com.

About AMX

AMX hardware and software solutions simplify the implementation, maintenance, and use of technology to create effective environments. With the increasing number of technologies and operating platforms at work and home, AMX solves the complexity of managing this technology with reliable, consistent and scalable systems. Our award-winning products span control and automation, system-wide switching and audio/video signal distribution, digital signage and technology management. They are implemented worldwide in conference rooms, homes, classrooms, network operation / command centers, hotels, entertainment venues, broadcast facilities, among others.

AMX was founded in 1982 and is a member of the Duchossois Group of Companies. For more information, visit http://www.amx.com.

AMX is a trademark of AMX, LLC registered in the U.S. and other countries.

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