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“The worlds greatest newspaper” experiences media asset management with elvis
Thursday 12. February 2009 - Daily Express goes live with new Media Asset Management platform elvis from dutchsoftware.com
Today dutchsoftware.com announces, that UK flagship newspaper Daily Express have successfully gone live with elvis as their multimedia repository. UK based system integrator Media Systems Ltd has secured a successful implementation of elvis at the customer site.
As one of the leading newspapers groups in the UK, Daily Express needed a solution to store all their digital media assets and to automatically archive their produced pages, related xml stories and images in a single repository. elvis proved to be the perfect match for both needs and the systems architecture allows Daily Express to meet future demands in multimedia diversity and volume of assets.
UK dutchsoftware.com partner, Media Systems Ltd, managed the implementation of elvis for the various usergroups at Daily Express. Paul Driscoll, Technical Director at Media Systems says: “One of the good things about elvis is that its really easy to implement, maintain and support. Weve also had a good response from the various usergroups, saying they like the intuitive AIR interface.”
Bastiaan Born, commercial director at dutchsoftware.com, is quoted saying: “It is a great start for our new platform. For us it proves that our cutting edge technology is enthusiastically embraced in an enterprise newspaper environment, and lives up to the expectations of a major publisher in the market.”
Key elvis features:
– Centralize millions of assets
– Videos, images, xml stories, office docs and more
– Intuitive Flex / AIR client
– Full Adobe CS4 panel integration
– Enterprise Grade scalable server architecture
– High performance search engine technology
elvis is developed by users for users – it offers an intuitive interface so the application does not require intense training. The elvis server delivers inventive search engine technology for high performance and elaborate search features, making elvis go beyond the performance and searching limitations of traditional systems. Multiple powerful media processing nodes can be added for maximum performance.
Media content can enter elvis through any feed. A hotfolder for wire feeds, automatic archiving of print production content and batch import of for instance image and video archives are core features of the solution.
elvis is based on Java server technology and an Adobe Flex/AIR client. The system has all the advantages of web technology combined with a feature rich desktop application.