Extensis Portfolio Server 9 Leverages Best-in-Class Technologies to Deliver Powerful, New Digital Asset Management Software

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Tue Jun 30, 2009 9:00am EDT

New Java server platform, web clients, and MediaRich processing engine delivers
a centralized and open platform for best-in-class media management and delivery.
PORTLAND, Ore.--(Business Wire)--
Extensis, a division of Celartem Inc., today announced the immediate
availability of Portfolio Server 9, a market leading digital asset management
and media delivery solution. This powerful release allows organizations to
seamlessly deploy multi-channel marketing, control their brand, manage and
process rich media, and deliver assets through the Web. 

With this release, Extensis offers significant new features and many
enhancements to its digital asset management solution. Portfolio Server 9
introduces an innovative Web Client to allow users to catalog, search, edit,
batch convert, automate tasks and manage assets from anywhere at anytime. This
new Web Client and the optional NetPublish component for instantly publishing
assets to the Web provide a mechanism for organizations to easily share all
types of rich media assets to internal and external teams. 

New Version Highlights:

* New Adobe FLEX Web client delivers a powerful dashboard for creative workflows

* All-new Java-based server architecture for outstanding stability and easy
integration 
* Scalable MediaRich media processing engine for extensive file format support
and fast media delivery 
* Web-based server administration for remote management of server and users 
* Industry-standard Adobe XMP Toolkit integration for read/write metadata
exchange across applications 
* Best-in-class integration with Adobe creative applications with drag-n-drop
functionality through Portfolio Express palette 
* Added support for Windows Server 2008 and Microsoft SQL Server

"Portfolio Server is very reliable and straightforward to install and
administer," said Colin White, Head of Photography at the National Gallery of
London. "With the Portfolio suite of products, we`ve created branded web portals
that allow us to distribute a wide range of digital content extensively within
the Gallery." 

Portfolio Server 9 is easy to implement and provides a new web-based
administration console to manage the server, catalogs and users remotely. In
addition, the new server offers greater scalability, enhanced performance and
extensible media processing architecture. Under the hood, Portfolio Server
utilizes a new powerful media-processing engine from Equilibrium. The MediaRich
Server offers a new metadata architecture, resulting in extensive file format
support and allowing users to catalog and thumbnail virtually any file. 

"In Portfolio Server 9 we have enhanced our metadata support, by leveraging the
Adobe XMP Toolkit," says Martin Stein, Vice President of Products and Services
at Extensis. "This is an important capability, as it ensures the highest level
of compatibility and gives the user the assurance that the information they
enter in Portfolio will be transferred to and be readily available within other
applications and vice versa." 

Portfolio Server continues to offer an open system built on industry-leading
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 administrators, it delivers power and efficiency. In
addition, the optional SQL Connect module, coupled with our industry-standards
database, provides greater scalability, enhanced performance and superior
integration. 

Pricing and Availability

Portfolio Server 9 is available immediately and available at an estimated retail
price of $6,050 for the Server plus $315 per Client (Desktop or Web Client). The
optional modules include: NetPublish for instantly delivering assets to the web
and retails for $6,050, and SQL Connect for added scalability and performance
priced at $6,050. All prices include an annual service agreement. Academic
pricing is also available. 

Existing Portfolio Server customers under a current annual service agreement
(ASA) will receive the product free of charge. Upgrade pricing is available for
all current Portfolio Server customers. 

Portfolio Server will be available in English, French, German, and Japanese 

For more information on Portfolio Server family of products, visit
www.extensis.com/portfolio. 

About Portfolio Server

Portfolio is an affordable, easy to implement, and market leading digital asset
management and media delivery solution. As an open and centralized platform,
Portfolio controls, automates, and ensures the correct generation, access and
delivery of images, videos, documents, and marketing collateral like logos or
sales literature. Portfolio enables easy to deploy multi-channel marketing,
image, photo and video management, brand control, and web based on-demand
solutions. 

About Extensis

Extensis is a software developer 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 Celartem

Celartem Technology Inc. develops and sells innovative technologies for storage,
access and distribution of rich media content. Celartem has developed technology
in the areas of digital image compression, scalable image viewing and secure
content distribution and management. Celartem is listed on the Osaka Securities
Exchange, Hercules:4330. Established in 1996, Celartem is headquartered in
Tokyo, Japan and has a wholly owned subsidiary, Celartem Inc. with headquarters
in Seattle. 

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). 

Extensis, Portfolio Server, NetPublish, and Portfolio SQL Connect are trademarks
of Extensis, a division of Celartem, Inc. All other trademarks are property of
their respective owners. On-demand imaging and video transformation and
processing powered by the MediaRich Platform. MediaRich is a registered
trademark of Automated Media Processing Solutions, Inc., dba Equilibrium.
Copyright © 2004-2009. All Rights Reserved. U.S. Patent numbers 6,792,575 and
6,964,009, other patents pending. 





Extensis
Cindy Valladares, 503-274-2020, ext. 123
press@extensis.com



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