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Equilibrium Releases MediaRich 4.0 for WSS 3.0, SharePoint 2007 and 2010 with Video Export and Batch Processing - StoragePoint Partnership
Company simultaneously announces
reseller agreement with Metalogix Software for StoragePoint
SAUSALITO, Calif., April 7, 2010 - Equilibrium®, a software and hosted services company that specializes
in helping enterprise clients of all sizes to manage, monetize and mobilize
content, today announced MediaRich® for SharePoint 4.0, Equilibriums integrated
Media Asset Management and Visualization system for all versioins of SharePoint.
MediaRich for SharePoint 4.0, now available for SharePoint WSS 3.0, 2007 and
2010 beta, provides visualization of over 300 filetypes, including video along
with an enhanced set of self-service capabilities that helps video production
professionals decrease costs and finalize projects faster by enabling instant
exporting and batch processing of full video files from their original formats
to just about any filetype out. MediaRich for SharePoint 4.0 is shipping NOW with a 4.1 release scheduled for end of May
2010 simultaneously with Microsoft's SharePoint 2010 final shipment.
In related news,
Equilibrium also announced a strategic partnership with Metalogix Software through
which Equilibrium will resell Metalogix's StoragePoint software, the leading
large file storage solution for SharePoint.
"Equilibrium's
customers are generally dealing with many files of varying sizes," said, Sean
Barger, CEO of Equilibrium. "Uploading hundreds of videos or thousands of large
Photoshop files can dramatically slow the performance of Microsoft SharePoint. Both
the availability of StoragePoint and the new self-service features in MediaRich
for SharePoint 4.0 better enable our customers to cut upload and ingestion time
from hours to minutes, decrease costs to manage their SharePoint SQL Database, and
provide a cost-effective, reliable back-up method for mission critical
corporate assets."
MediaRich for SharePoint is the only fully integrated digital asset management
(DAM) solution for SharePoint WSS 3.0, 2007 and 2010. The MediaBatch Uploader
found in 4.0, combined with Metalogix's StoragePoint system, remove the need
for data ingestion through the SQL Database, one of the main causes of slower
performance in SharePoint. StoragePoint's system works seamlessly with a
numerous environments and also integrates with Equilibrium's MediaBatch™
Uploader to provide interoperability with other browsers, including Macs,
Chrome, and Firefox.
"One of the core design
principles behind StoragePoint was enabling SharePoint to comfortably manage
terabytes of content without any functional compromises or added hardware,"
said Rob D'Oria, CTO of Metalogix Development Inc. "Equilibrium's rich
visualization solution integrated with StoragePoint offers clients a very
cost-effective DAM solution without any of the added overhead other solutions
require."
MediaRich for Sharepoint's self-service features enable
streamlined processing of large video files via on-demand transcoding,
batch-processing and exporting of segments and proxy video support right from
within any SharePoint portal. MediaRich for Sharepoint 4.0 also provides
metadata extraction for enhancing search for all XMP, IPTC and EXIF content,
while providing thumbnail / dynamic zoom and pan visualization of all data
within SharePoint for easy viewing of assets.
About MediaRich
Equilibrium MediaRich Server is a patented engine that automates image, sound
and video production and visualization while enabling scalable multi-channel
delivery of any media asset on-the-fly. It currently enables some of the
largest media and entertainment companies to leverage dynamic editing and
delivery for the real-time creation of graphics, audio and video files
on-demand to any device, including Warner Bros, Walt Disney Company, Sony
Pictures and Omnicom Group. MediaRich connects to and seamlessly integrates
with any Digital Asset Management (DAM) or Content Management System (CMS),
including SharePoint.
About Metalogix
Software
Metalogix Software delivers award-winning
content migration, management and archiving software that enables organizations
to migrate, manage, archive and recover enterprise content to ensure
availability, regulatory compliance, efficiency and cost effectiveness. It
supports its more than 5,000 customers worldwide from eight office locations;
Boston, Dallas and Ann Arbor (U.S.), Vancouver and Halifax (Canada), London
(UK), Bratislava (Slovakia), and Schaffhausen (Switzerland). Originally founded
in 2001, Metalogix of Canada merged with the archiving business of H & S
Software in 2008. The company is profitable and privately held. Metalogix's investors
include Insight Venture Partners and Bessemer Venture Partners. Metalogix is a
Microsoft Gold Certified Partner.
About Equilibrium
Equilibrium, the world leader in media processing since 1992 when it released
DeBabelizer®, the first automated graphics processing software. Equilibrium
offers breakthrough cross-platform technology solutions featuring
interoperability and integration for the workgroup, enterprise and web-server,
delivering the same MediaRich CORE technology for cross-platform interoperability
and integration virtually anywhere. The EQ Network can automate personalized
video delivery and monetization via advertising from any web video. Equilibrium
is a Microsoft Gold Partner. To learn more about Equilibrium and its
products, please visit Equilibrium, EQ Network or the EQ blog.
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Equilibrium and MediaRich are registered trademarks and Ad-Per-View and EQ
Network are trademarks of Equilibrium. Patent Numbers 6,792,575 and 6,964,009,
for automated media processing and on-demand visualization of any media type. Other patents pending.
Press Contacts
Sean Barger
Equilibrium
+1 415-332-4343
pr (at) equilibrium.com
Sallie Olmsted/Amy Gubman
Rogers & Cowan for Equilibrium
310-854-8124 /8194
solmsted (at) rogersandcowan.com
agubman (at) rogersandcowan.com
Peer Blumenschein - Equilibrium
+41-61-361-0569
pblumenschein (at) Equilibrium.com
Streamy Awards Deploys EQ Network Service For Automatic On-Request Video Delivery To Any Device
EQ Bars Will Also Assist Audience Choice Award Voting
SAUSALITO, CA, - March 18, 2010 - Equilibrium®, a
software and hosted services company that specializes in helping enterprise
clients of all sizes to manage, monetize and mobilize content, today announced
a partnership with The
Streamy Awards, the first and most prestigious awards devoted to
honoring excellence in web television. Equilibrium's EQ
Network™ will provide mobile delivery of videos of the Streamys nominees through
EQ Bar™ widgets
placed on the Streamys site which ties the videos to the EQ cloud Ad-Per-View™ system,
enabling on-the-fly preparation and delivery. In addition, the EQ Bars will
also be used to facilitate viewers' votes for the Audience Choice Award for the
Best Web Series.
"We're thrilled to partner with Equilibrium. Their technology
is helping the Streamy Awards to bridge the gap between the world
of online entertainment and the unique distribution opportunities made
possible via multi-device content delivery," said Brady Brim-DeForest,
Executive Producer of the Streamy Awards.
"Webisodes are a
big part of the future of video entertainment. The mobilization of web
video is the first step of the 'TV Anywhere' revolution," said Sean Barger,
founder and CEO of Equilibrium. "We're very excited to be partnering with the
Streamys and to enable the automatic wide scale deployment of videos to billions
of portable devices worldwide."
About The Streamy Awards
Presented by the International Academy of Web Television, the Streamy
Awards recognize excellence in global web television programming for
broadband distribution across 35 creative categories, from acting and
directing, to editing and special effects. Members of the International Academy
of Web Television review shows submitted through a free, public submissions
process and vote on the final nominees and winners for each category. Members
of the public select the Audience Choice Award for Best Web Television Series.
Winners of the 2nd Annual Streamy Awards will be announced on April 11, 2010 at
the Streamy Awards Ceremony in Los Angeles, CA. Founded in 2009, the Streamy
Awards are co-hosted by a consortium of new media companies including
Tubefilter and NewTeeVee. For more information, visit www.streamys.org and follow
@streamyawards on
Twitter.
About EQ Network
The EQ Network enables
blog or site owners to make additional revenues from any web video without all
the work and costs. The EQ Network has an assembly and ad management
system providing hyper-targeted advertisements to individuals based on
voluntary demographic information. Customers have the option of using ads
supplied by EQ Network's suppliers, or they may use their own ads, or have no
ads. In addition, there is a free EQ Bar available
for YouTube™ embeds.
Within
a few minutes, the EQ Bar can be installed on a web page that contains any video
content without requiring additional infrastructure costs, pre-preparation of
videos or changes for the content owner or advertiser.
The EQ Bar is easy to customize and assign to any video, providing
either personalized advertising and/or sponsored viewing experiences delivered
to the any existing Internet video player, wireless or mobile device. Device
channels that enable downloads may be removed to keep control of videos. Ads,
sponsor messages and ID's are also inserted on-the-fly into pre-roll, mid-stream
or post-roll positions.
The EQ
Network's scalable, patented MediaRich® Ad-Per-View™
technology automatically optimizes video content to give the highest quality
view based on device and bandwidth available. New devices are added to the EQ
Network as soon as they become available.
For more
information and for a step-by-step tutorial video about how the EQ Network and EQ
Bar operate, visit EQ
Network and follow @eqnetwork on
Twitter.
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Equilibrium
and MediaRich are registered trademarks of Equilibrium. Patent Numbers
6,792,575 and 6,964,009, other patents pending for automated media processing and
Ad-Per-View system.
Press Contacts:
Frank Colin - Equilibrium
+1 415-332-4343
pr@equilibrium.com
In Europe:
Peer Blumenschein - Equilibrium
+41-61-361-0569
pblumenschein@Equilibrium.com
Sallie Olmsted / Jason Magner
Rogers & Cowan for Equilibrium
+1 310-854-8124 / 8194
solmsted@rogersandcowan.com
jmagner@rogersandcowan.com
Free EQ Bar Extends the Reach of YouTube Videos To Billions of Devices
Bloggers and Website Owners Now Have A Revolutionary Method of Expanding the Viewership of Their YouTube Video Embeds
SAUSALITO, CA - February 18, 2010 - Equilibrium®, a software and hosted services company that specializes in helping enterprise clients of all sizes to manage, monetize and mobilize content, today announced a free service that allows bloggers and website owners to easily add an EQ Bar™ widget to any YouTube™ video embed. By taking an additional step before pasting the YouTube video embed to their blog or website, an EQ Bar is added and enables the embedded video to be delivered to most mobile devices, downloads and web video players. The free EQ Bar for YouTube embeds works with any website publishing system and most blog software. It is available for use now at free.eqnetwork.com.
Adding the free EQ Bar is easy; with an extra step, a blogger or website owner can add mobile delivery and more to their YouTube embeds. They first find their video on YouTube, choose its embed options, and copy the embed code. Previously they would have gone to their blog or website and pasted the embed code. Instead, they go to free.eqnetwork.com, follow the prompts and copy a new embed code. They then paste the new code in their blog or website. Once the blog or website is published, the YouTube video with the specified YouTube player and an EQ Bar are available.
"Simply by adding a free EQ Bar to their YouTube video embeds, a blogger or website owner gives viewers the ability to watch YouTube videos wherever and whenever they choose, without worrying about video formats or video players," said Sean Barger, founder and CEO of Equilibrium. "This gives content owners what they want - 'True Video Anywhere' without the hassle of preparing, storing and managing all the different devices and custom players."
The free EQ Bar for YouTube embeds works with most major blog software, like WordPress™, Blogger™, TypePad™, and others (but not Posterous™ and tumblr™).
About EQ Network
The EQ Bar for YouTube embeds is a free service of the EQ Network™, which enables blog or site owners to make additional revenues from any web video without all the work and costs.
The EQ Network has a built in assembly and ad management system providing hyper-target advertisements to individuals based on voluntary demographic information. Customers have the option of using ads supplied by EQ Network's suppliers, or they may use their own ads, or have no ads. SpotXchange is EQ Network's first ad network supplier and additional ad exchanges are being implemented to supply ad inventory.
Within a few minutes, the EQ Bar can be installed on any web page that contains video content without requiring additional infrastructure costs, pre-preparation of videos or changes for the content owner or advertiser.
The EQ Bar is easy to customize and assign to any video, providing either personalized advertising and/or sponsored viewing experiences delivered to the any existing Internet video player, wireless or mobile device. Device channels that enable downloads may be removed to keep control of videos. Advertising, sponsors and ID's are dynamically inserted into pre-roll, mid-stream or post-roll positions.
The EQ Network's scalable, patented MediaRich Ad-Per-View™ technology automatically optimizes video content to give the highest quality view based on device and bandwidth available. New devices are added to the EQ Network as soon as they become available.
For more information and for a step-by-step tutorial video about how the EQ Network and EQ Bar operate, visit EQ Network.
Equilibrium and MediaRich are registered trademarks of Equilibrium. Patent Numbers 6,792,575 and 6,964,009, other patents pending for automated media processing and Ad-Per-View system. YouTube and Blogger are trademarks of Google, Inc. All other company, product or service names mentioned herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.
Press Contacts:
Frank Colin - Equilibrium
+1 415-332-4343
pr@equilibrium.com
In Europe:
Peer Blumenschein - Equilibrium
+41-61-361-0569
pblumenschein@Equilibrium.com
Sallie Olmsted
Rogers & Cowan for Equilibrium
+1 310-854-8124 / 8194
solmsted@rogersandcowan.com
Equilibrium Opens European Office To Expand Sales and Support of MediaRich Server and MediaRich for SharePoint Products
SAUSALITO, CA, AND BASEL, SWITZERLAND - January 20, 2010- Equilibrium® a software and hosted services company that specializes in helping enterprise clients of all sizes to manage, monetize and mobilize content, announced the opening of a sales and support office in Basel, Switzerland, and named Peer Blumenschein as Managing Director of European Sales. Blumenschein's mandate is to grow sales of Equilibrium's MediaRich® product line throughout Europe, including Austria, Benelux, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Switzerland. He will also be managing distribution relationships, system integrators and partner activities. Previously, Mr. Blumenschein was CEO and founder of Softline AG, a pan-European distributor of hundreds of enterprise software products with over 120 Million Euros in sales."Today marks a significant step in our continuing growth in Europe. Having a highly experienced professional like Mr. Blumenschein to head up Equilibrium's sales and support focus in Europe will greatly strengthen our ability to address the growing demands of this market," said Herb Shattuck, Equilibrium's Senior Vice President of Sales.
"Equilibrium has had many successful European implementations of the MediaRich solution and the market is growing and vibrant," said Mr. Blumenschein. "This is a exciting opportunity to join a company that has mature technology and great partners like Microsoft for accelerating large enterprises."
About MediaRich Products
MediaRich and MediaRich for SharePoint power some of the largest B2B portals, web 2.0 infrastructures and SharePoint sites in the world. MediaRich customers include Cisco, Disney, Omnicom TMV, Sony Pictures, and Warner Bros. MediaRich for SharePoint is the only visualization and Data Asset Management software fully integrated with SharePoint.
Office Information
Im tiefen Boden
39 4059 Basel
Phone: +41 78 6686000
Email: eurosales@equilibrium.com
About Equilibrium
Equilibrium, the world leader in media processing since 1992 when it released DeBabelizer®, the first automated graphics processing software. EQ spearheads the monetization of the next-generation Internet and mobile video revolutions. The patented, high-powered MediaRich® engine enables real-time personalization and delivery of music, images and video to website, wireless and portable devices. Equilibrium offers breakthrough cross-platform technology solutions featuring interoperability and integration for the workgroup, enterprise and web-server, delivering the same MediaRich CORE technology for cross-platform interoperability and integration virtually anywhere. The EQ Network can automate personalized video delivery and monetization via advertising from any web video. Equilibrium is a Microsoft Gold Partner. To learn more about Equilibrium and its products, please visit Equilibrium, EQ Network or the EQ blog.
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Press Contacts:
Frank Colin
Equilibrium
+1 415-332-4343
pr@equilibrium.com
Tino M. Böhler
Redaktionsbüro Dresden
tino.boehler@redaktionsbuerodresden.de
+49 (0) 351-647-5435
Sallie Olmsted
Rogers & Cowan for Equilibrium
310-854-8124 /8194
solmsted@rogersandcowan.com
Equilibrium MediaRich Server Powers Extensis Portfolio NetMediaMAX For Faster Turn-around and Lower Costs in Imaging Processes
MediaRich's Next Generation Media-Processing Software Powers High-Output Creative and Image-Intensive WorkflowsSAUSALITO, CA, November 24, 2009 -Equilibrium®, a software and hosted services company that specializes in helping enterprise clients of all sizes to manage, monetize and mobilize content, today announced that MediaRich® processing engine is now providing excellence in media management and delivery for Extensis®, a division of Celartem Inc., Portfolio™ NetMediaMAX™ a new media-processing software solution that lets digital imaging specialists automate their media workflows for increased productivity and faster turn-around times.
Seasoned designers and marketers spend significant time performing repetitive production tasks as part of their imaging workflow. NetMediaMAX is a system that manages this repetitive work for faster production. Complex export operations no longer require manual work and multiple applications, meaning users spend more time on their core tasks, translating into faster output and profits for organizations.
NetMediaMAX is built on the Portfolio Server platform that provides support for Windows® and Macintosh® environments and utilizes server-side processing, freeing up desktops from media-processing tasks. The MediaRich® technology inside NetMediaMAX provides organizations with heavy workloads the ability to process media-related tasks dynamically and automatically, saving significant time and manual effort. Organizations can distribute media-processing tasks to one or more external servers for even faster performance.
"We have heard from many of our customers that their creative teams spend too much time doing repetitive, non-value added activities," says Martin Stein, VP of Products and Services at Extensis. "Equilibrium MediaRich helps enable NetMediaMAX to automate manual processes, eliminate routine tasks, create consistency and standardize processes, resulting in individuals focusing back on their creative tasks."
"We're excited to see that MediaRich technology is enabling Extensis, our OEM partner, to provide customers with a next generation media processing solution," said Sean Barger, CEO of Equilibrium. "MediaRich Server brings flexible and fast on-demand ingestion, visualization technology and processing capabilities to NetMediaMAX."
Equilibrium announced a strategic technology partnership with Extensis in June of 2008, where Extensis would integrate Equilibrium's MediaRich for integration into the release of Extensis Portfolio Server and associated products.
About MediaRich
Equilibrium MediaRich automates image, sound and video productions and enables the multi-channel delivery of any media assets. MediaRich is a scalable, high volume media distribution and repurposing engine. It enables today's companies to leverage dynamic editing and delivery for the real-time creation of graphics, audio and video files on-demand to any device. MediaRich seamlessly integrates with any Digital Asset Management (DAM) or Content Management System (CMS).
About NetMediaMAX
NetMediaMAX is an extensible media-processing engine that allows organizations to automate media-centric workflows and edit, update and convert digital assets on demand. It's a turnkey solution that can be set up in hours to automate routine jobs and distribute media processing tasks. It is an open system built on trusted technologies such as Java™ J2EE™, Adobe® FLEX®, JBoss and OpenOffice.org. For end users, this translates into superior usability and unique integration with their existing workflow. For IT managers, it delivers power and efficiency with central and remote web-based administration. In addition, the optional SQL Connect module provides greater scalability, superior data integration and advanced administration.
About Extensis
Extensis develops software that allows creative workgroups and professionals to streamline their workflow and securely manage their digital assets and fonts. Extensis' award-winning client/server and desktop products are used by hundreds of Fortune 5000 companies and include Universal Type Server for server-based font management, Suitcase for single-user font management and the Portfolio suite for digital asset management. Extensis was founded in 1993 and is based in Portland, Oregon, and the United Kingdom. Extensis is a division of Celartem Inc., which is wholly owned by Celartem Technology Inc., (Hercules: 4330). For additional information, visit www.extensis.com or call 1-800-796-9798.
About Equilibrium
Equilibrium, the world leader in media processing since 1992 when it released DeBabelizer®, the first automated graphics processing software. EQ spearheads the monetization of the next-generation Internet and mobile video revolutions. The patented, high-powered MediaRich® engine enables real-time personalization and delivery of music, images and video to website, wireless and portable devices. Equilibrium offers breakthrough cross-platform technology solutions featuring interoperability and integration for the workgroup, enterprise and web-server, delivering the same MediaRich CORE technology for cross-platform interoperability and integration virtually anywhere. The EQ Network can automate personalized video delivery and monetization via advertising from any web video. Equilibrium is a Microsoft Gold Partner. To learn more about Equilibrium and its products, please visit Equilibrium, EQ Network or the EQ blog.
Equilibrium and MediaRich are registered trademarks and Ad-Per-View and EQ Network are trademarks of Equilibrium. Patent Numbers 6,792,575 and 6,964,009, other patents pending for automated media processing and dynamic multi-platform delivery. Extensis, Portfolio Server, NetPublish, NetMediaMAX and Portfolio SQL Connect are trademarks of Extensis, a division of Celartem, Inc. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.
Press Contacts
Frank Colin
Equilibrium
+1 415-332-4343
pr@equilibrium.com
Sallie Olmsted/Amy Gubman
Rogers & Cowan for Equilibrium
310-854-8124 /8194
solmsted@rogersandcowan.com
agubman@rogersandcowan.com
