ShareStream Announces Interoperability with Sakai Open-Source Courseware Management System

GAITHERSBURG, Md.--(Business Wire)--
ShareStream, a leading provider of digital media management and delivery
platforms for higher education, announced this week that its technology is
interoperable with Sakai, the widely deployed open source Courseware Management
System. ShareStream`s interoperability with Sakai, is currently installed at two
institutions. Sakai serves as the primary Courseware Management System at over
160 educational institutions worldwide. Sakai interoperability furthers
ShareStream`s mission of fully integrating its platform with the university
network and higher education`s scholarly systems to ensure that multimedia
content stored in ShareStream is accessible wherever online teaching and
learning, and research occurs. This announcement follows ShareStream`s
longstanding interoperability with commercial learning management systems,
Blackboard and eCollege.

"Sakai interoperability is a significant milestone for ShareStream in achieving
its objective of integrating its platform with higher education`s predominant
online learning environments, thereby ensuring that rich media stored in
ShareStream is readily available in a secure, controlled fashion wherever online
teaching and learning, and research take place," stated David Weinstein, CEO of
ShareStream.

ShareStream is a digital media asset-management and delivery platform for higher
education that allows higher education institutions and university networks to
store, manage, and preserve all of its licensed and institutionally-generated
multimedia content (video, audio, podcasts, images, etc.) in a centralized
system, and seamlessly deliver content into a variety of learning management
systems running across university networks, while controlling content
dissemination via higher education-specific digital rights management and
security.

ShareStream`s platform, a turnkey solution for higher education`s digital media
needs, provides the means to digitize large multimedia collections in an
automated fashion; archive media assets with the appropriate metadata; store and
manage media in an enterprise-wide asset-management system; tightly control
access to copyrighted content via higher education-specific digital rights
management, access control, security, and identity management; deliver media
within online learning environments via streaming, downloads, and podcasts;
author web 2.0 learning objects comprised of video, audio, podcasts, images, and
segments from e-books; and audit all user and content accesses via a reporting
and business intelligence tool. Implementation of the ShareStream platform
allows institutions to realize a rapid return on investment through savings
achieved by streamlining the process for creating, storing, and managing rich
media content.

ShareStream was conceived and developed in collaboration with higher education
at Georgetown University, where it is currently being used for over 350 courses.
ShareStream`s clients include both not-for-profit and for-profit universities.
ShareStream`s platform is currently being used to serve traditional
"bricks-and-mortar" universities, career-focused colleges, blended-learning
universities, and fully online distance-learning institutions.

About ShareStream Education Resources, LLC

ShareStream provides secure, enterprise-wide digital media asset-management
platforms and streaming, downloading, and podcasting designed specifically for
the unique needs of higher education. The ShareStream platform, developed in
collaboration with higher education at Georgetown University, serves traditional
"bricks-and-mortar" universities, as well as distance learning and fully online
continuing education programs.

ShareStream Education Resources, LLC
David Weinstein, 301-655-7176
djw@sharestream.com

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