Accordent Enhancements ENABLE Organizations to Easily Integrate & centrally Manage professional a/v SYSTEMS

June 17, 2008

Source: Accordent

Accordent Technologies, Inc. (Booth N7041) addresses one of the largest gatherings of Audio Visual (A/V) and information communications service providers with a display of newly released rich media creation and management products that enable audio-visual professionals to unify, and extract greater value from, existing professional video communications systems.

The Accordent open system architecture enables companies, education and public sector institutions to better leverage their existing video infrastructure investments with easily integrated content creation, management and reporting capabilities. New features in Accordent's latest product line further streamline the ability for organizations to tie their legacy online video, videoconferencing, and web conferencing capabilities to a unified library.

Within this portal environment, delivered by the Accordent Media Management System™, users can precisely search for content, and tap the system's tracking and reporting capabilities to gain powerful insight into the ways that individuals consume and interact with the online versions of legacy or newly created content.

During InfoComm08, Accordent will showcase how its products enable clients to capture and convert video content from a wide range of environments and applications, including:

HD cameras and projection screens: The Accordent Capture Station™ - HD enables online audiences to experience high-definition (HD) video and visuals, live or on-demand, in the 16x9 resolution required by HD-enabled LCD and plasma screens.

Videoconferencing archive – Accordent enhances videoconferencing installations by automatically creating archived streaming versions of sessions that can be viewed online, on-demand. This enables organizations to easily search for and retrieve archived meetings and enables them to extend valuable information to much wider audiences.

TANDBERG videoconferencing archive search, management and viewer tracking - Accordent's integration with the TANDBERG Content Server (TCS) takes streaming-enhanced videoconferencing to the next level, providing an unattended workflow via which TCS archived videoconferencing sessions are ingested by the Accordent Media Management System. There, the archives can be secured, organized into categories, searched, managed and can provide business intelligence about the effectiveness of online communications programs through viewer tracking and statistics.

Online training and certification: Clients across a wide range of industries – including utilities, technology and traditional manufacturing, municipal first responders, and healthcare – are tapping new upgrades to the Accordent Media Management System to save money and increase efficiency. These organizations use the system to provide online courses – including customizable testing modules, surveys and certificates – and to generate auditable reports for a wide range of mandatory continuing professional educational requirements.

Distance learning: Accordent is the only end-to-end rich media communications solution that automatically spans the end-to-end range of capture, viewer authentication, tracking, management, search and online testing capabilities for live or on-demand rich media streaming versions of lectures, practicals and classes. In the last 18 months, the Accordent Media Management System has been adopted by dozens of the nation's most prestigious graduate and higher education institutions to enable time-pressed professionals to access, and be tested on, valuable online content wherever, and whenever, time permits.

Smart room integration – Accordent rich media creation products can be controlled via leading manufacturers' room-based control systems, including AMX and Crestron, and can capture high-quality video from any VGA source - from laptops to handhelds, electronic whiteboards to document cameras, videoconferencing end points to statistical calculators.

Learning and course management system integration – The Accordent rich media communications suite supports publishing to Blackboard and open-source LMS systems, and has been integrated with a wide range of corporate learning management systems to enable corporate trainers to add streaming learning objects to CBT and blended curricula.

"For organizations to truly embrace video-enhanced communications as a mainstream productivity tool, they need solutions that break down the silos and enable them to manage their online communications initiatives holistically," said Mike Newman, CEO of Accordent Technologies. "Accordent delivers the means to extract additional value from these investments by providing a single destination that lets clients easily locate content while simultaneously generating and collecting the business intelligence that measures the impact of these initiatives to the organization."

Accordent booth visitors will be able to see new capabilities of its award-winning automated multimedia presentation creation and management products, including Flash, Silverlight, HD and video podcasting support in the Accordent Capture Station; a new, backpack-sized portable capture unit – the Accordent Capture Station - Mobile Edition; and enhancements to the Accordent Media Management System that include location-based routing, category-based reporting, RSS for new content updates, and one-time public webinar viewer access registration – in addition to integration with the TANDBERG Content Server.

The Accordent Rich Media Communications Suite is the only automated, end-to-end infrastructure for creating, distributing, managing and measuring the effectiveness of multimedia presentation assets.

The company's rich media creation products include its flagship Accordent PresenterPRO™, a live and on-demand webcasting solution with interactive features, such as polling, surveys and moderated Q&A; the Accordent Capture Station, an easy-to-use, room-based appliance that enables anyone to webcast and record high-value presentations that take place every day in the world's meeting rooms, classrooms and boardrooms; and Accordent Engage™, a behind-the-firewall, enhanced audio webcasting system that enables multimedia webcasting from the desktop.

The company's media management platform is the Accordent Media Management System, the first centralized online communications management infrastructure for ingesting, organizing, searching, publishing and securing multi-level access to Accordent presentations and other third-party multimedia communications assets.


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