officetalk are now a Gold Partner with Equilibrium who provide the leading Digital Asset Management software for SharePoint MediaRich. With a number of successful installations behind them (including major public sector organisations) officetalk are now the UK / European provider of Equilibrium's MediaRich for SharePoint 2007.
If your company has a need to store large libraries of images, audio clips or video on SharePoint then get in touch with andy.dale@office-talk.com for a demonstration of how MediaRich can really help.
Here are the 10 reasons that MediaRich could work for you;
1. Control digital media assets corporate wide within the SharePoint environment.
MediaRich extends SharePoint's document collaboration capabilities to create a powerful, yet cost-effective digital asset management solution (DAM). Remove the added cost of training, maintenance and support of a third party system for media asset management.
2. Reduce high cost image and video production and media storage.
MediaRich for SharePoint reduces the time and cost of locating, modifying, managing, and deploying media assets, in a secure self-service portal. Transform your images and videos using corporate guidelines or provide the flexibility to allow information workers to select the file format, size, and resolution before downloading the required image or video to any device.
3. Enforce brand consistency and maintain greater control over multi-channel marketing materials.
Enable "self-service" creation of graphics and videos for use in product images, videos, marketing collateral, and presentations for Web, print, and multimedia. This ensures that the same corporate-approved original image and video is being used by everyone in your organization – eliminating the dilution of your brands assets.
4. Use Microsoft Office as a powerful set of collaboration tools.
Thanks to the Web services provided by Windows SharePoint Services, search and access corporate approved images directly from a Microsoft Office application (Word, PowerPoint or Excel) or within SharePoint Portal Server and Windows SharePoint Services sites.
5. Accelerate time-to-market for critical product launches and marketing campaigns .
Establish approval workflows to streamline production and reduce costs. Quickly and easily locate media assets by browsing thumbnail previews and accelerate the approval process with threaded discussions, alerts, check-in/check-out functionality and version history.
6. Manage a global brand from within a single IT platform.
MediaRich extends SharePoint Portal Server so that organizations, from small work groups to large enterprises, can manage all corporate brand assets in a secure environment and leverages Microsoft Windows Active Directory for security, user roles, and account management.
7. Increase productivity with powerful search tools including image-specific metadata.
Use metadata specific to images for more accurate search results. Extend powerful SharePoint search capabilities with MediaRich metadata support to both read and write industry standard image and video metadata and to provide thumbnail previews in your search results of the most popular file formats. Preview and play any video file if the appropriate player is installed.
8. Provide partners and remote sales team access to brand assets through a corporate portal.
Collaborate on assets with customers and partners to strengthen business relations. Businesses can protect brand asset integrity while providing a Web-based environment for both partners and remote sales force to access and use brand assets within corporate defined guidelines.
9. Deliver a robust, yet cost-effective digital asset management solution on the Microsoft Windows platform.
Whether your company is using Windows SharePoint Services for workgroup productivity or SharePoint Portal Server for an entire enterprise, MediaRich for SharePoint provides all the functionality you need, without the high price you may expect.
10. Reuse rather than recreate brand assets eliminating errors and duplicated work.
Protect the commercial value of media and reinforce consistent branding with MediaRich by displaying media previews of all popular image and video file formats. Enables non-technical information workers to update and manage visual content without burdening the art department.