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INSCI Debuts ActiveMedia 5.5 Software For Enterprise-Class DAM

INSCI Corp, a provider of enterprise content management (ECM) solutions, announced the release of WebWare ActiveMedia 5.5, the latest version of its Web services-based digital asset management (DAM) software. The announcement was made at the Moscone Convention Center at Seybold 2004.

"ActiveMedia continues to outperform the competition by providing a truly innovative, enterprise-class system at an affordable price point," said Henry F. Nelson, president and CEO of INSCI. "We remain committed to providing solutions that can scale to the needs of the enterprise, yet initially can be deployed at the workgroup level. With significant expansion of our SOAP APIs and enhanced features such as asset-level security, workflow and approval tools, we're helping companies meet the growing demand for global distribution of their rich media content."

In January, industry analysts Frost and Sullivan named ActiveMedia 5.0 the 2004 DAM Product of the Year, based on the software's powerful functionality, flexible metadata model, user simplicity and high interoperability. Building on that legacy, ActiveMedia 5.5 offers customers greater control over content from the perspective of security, collaboration and scalability. Two new client-side plug-ins also streamline the delivery of compound assets to and from the ActiveMedia repository.

New feature, ActiveSecurity, provides an innovative, metadata-driven security model, critical for enabling on-demand access to assets by a global constituency. By simply updating a metadata field, administrators can change which individuals can gain access to an asset. Security management and rapid workflow capabilities are further enhanced through single sign-on capability (SSO).

Also new in ActiveMedia 5.5, Task Filters are a powerful administrative capability that enable dynamic distribution of assets to predefined user workspaces. This new feature facilitates collaboration and automated workflow by presenting users with only those assets required for their project role or stage in the review and approval process. Building on ActiveMedia's industry-leading metadata model flexibility, Task Filters move content through the approval process or make assets available to constituents with a simple administrative change to a metadata value.

Leveraging ActiveMedia's robust SOAP APIs, INSCI is introducing two new Desktop Connections with ActiveMedia 5.5:

"ActiveMedia was the first DAM system in the market to offer developers a robust set of SOAP APIs," explained John Gonzalez, vice president of product marketing for INSCI. "The XPress and InDesign plug-ins, which offer an intuitive design and ease of uptake for end users, are terrific examples of the types of solutions that developers can rapidly create on the ActiveMedia platform."