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2009年12月16日星期三

ICEcat.biz, takeMS - ICEcat: tech brands focus on all-around e-channel, growing with 196% in 2008 despire recession

Store this angel in big sizeCEcat.biz, January 6, 2009. Despite the recession, the all-around use by e-commerce sites of the arch accessible agreeable archive ICEcat added in 2008 by 196% to 380 actor artefact data-sheet requests, worldwide. The recession, that affects Europe and the U.S., showed a arrest of the advance in Q4 2008. Currently, 160 top brands accept already become sponsor of the chargeless Open ICEcat archive which is broadcast worldwide, beneath an accessible agreeable authorization (OPL) in 22 apple languages. Today, there are about 4500 registered e-commerce sites who circadian download the xml archive to cover it in their shops, allegory or arrangement sites, or ERP environments. The amount of breath e-commerce ally in 2008 has added by 62% compared to 2007.

In Q4, 168 000 new tech articles were launched in the Western (U.S. & EU) markets, of a year absolute of 522 000. However, in Q4-2007 alone 56 thousand new tech articles were launched of a year absolute of 666 000. It seems that in the endure division of 2008, manufacturers accept approved to cope with the slow-down by dispatch up their addition in adjustment to accretion market-share.
The use of data-sheets aural Europe accounts for 87% of ICEcat's archive usage, of the added 13%, bisected comes from the U.S.

2009
The advance in the use of data-sheets in the U.S. goes so fast that in 2009 the U.S. will be the above antecedent of archive requests. In Europe, the German-speaking bazaar will anon be the a lot of active.

It is accepted that in 2009 the amount of brands in the accessible archive –currently 160- will abound to 250. In animosity of or acknowledgment to the recession, the online approach has an added boost: consumers are analytic online for bargains, alienated the concrete banker with its college prices. Further, Consumer Electronics manufacturers absolutely accompaniment their e-sales ambitions as it has become basal for them to advance revenues and margin. The online approach is now abundant added able than the acceptable retail channel.

Growth admitting recession
In Q4, a recession aftereffect is arresting in the advance of the amount of data-sheet requests that fell aback to 109% compared to the aforementioned aeon a year earlier, about bisected of the 2008 average. As ICEcat's attendance in added apple markets is mushrooming, we apprehend afresh a added advance in 2009 in the adjustment of 150 – 200% per annum. However, this year will be aswell a difficult one because added approach ally go bankrupt and business budgets are beneath pressure. On the added hand, ICEcat's accessible archive band-aid provides an befalling for extenuative agreeable costs, and and abutting a high-growth e-commerce channel, said architect Martijn Hoogeveen. “We are consistently advance and our business and sales teams has angled in admeasurement in the endure months. We ambition to aggrandize our bazaar administration in Europe to the U.S. and claiming the accustomed parties. Even in Japan we are traveling to acquaint our accessible archive in 2009. Japan is still the world’s additional better economy. From the BRICs we don’t apprehend too abundant in the abbreviate appellation because of the abridgement of capital e-commerce infrastructures, although Chinese are online already the better accent community. We apprehend that China's ICEcat-share in 2009, will be 4%, bifold of what it is now."

About ICEcat
ICEcat is an absolute common administrator of artefact content, allotment of iMerge BV. Today, there are added than 450 000 artefact data-sheets of added than 3000 brands, abundantly declared in 22 apple languages. The data-sheets are acclimated common in added than 4500 websites: online shops, ERP systems, allegory sites, acquirement systems and added applications. Open ICEcat is a activity on the base of the Open Content License Agreement (OPL) by which artefact agreeable from 160 top technology brands are broadcast for chargeless (see: icecat.co.uk/menu/partners/index.htm)

ICEcat.biz (iMerge BV)
Leidse Rijn 15
3454PZ DE MEERN
The Netherlands
www.icecat.biz/
Martijn Hoogeveen
martijn@icecat.biz
M+31654256476
Skype martijnjh

Blue Order Solutions AG - Blue Order at IBC 2009

Media Archive EditStore this angel in big sizeBlue Order, a arch Media Asset Management (MAM) vendor, will be demonstrating their tapeless workflow solution, spanning from blot to distribution, at IBC 2009 (Stand 3.C40). The amount aspect of the display will be the absolution of Blue Order’s Media Archive 3.4, a able MAM band-aid which makes acceptance to agreeable quick and easy, automates workflows and enables agreeable users to reuse, repurpose and resell their agreeable added efficiently. It can calmly be configured and scaled to clothing the needs of evolving Media organisations.

Media Archive’s latest enhancements accompany agreeable and metadata afterpiece to every user

MAM systems are of a lot of use if they are self-explanatory, simple to use and action the user the advantage of extensive their plan ambition added bound and efficiently. Blue Order has focused on accretion the account of Media Archive.

Introduction of Media Archive Edit:
Blue Order makes roughcut alteration for anybody a reality. With Media Archive Edit, Journalists, Producers, Archivists and Editors can baddest video or audio clips, actualize a roughcut, add comments to the scenes, allotment the aftereffect with others in a collaborative workflow or forward it anon to delivery.
Media Archive Edit allowances are:
- The automatic attending and feel is based on a simple three-step-process.
- The accumulation to assorted administration platforms is decidedly accelerated by the new ‘Send-to’ function.
- The accessible UI helps apprehend time and money accumulation by abbreviation the aggregate of all-important training and decidedly attached the aggregate of time-consuming ability alteration steps.
Media Archive Edit is advised with a focus on best user acquaintance and authoritative the alteration workflow faster.

Enrichment of Media Archive Web Retrieval:
- Displaying segments in the hitlist is a new affection giving users the appropriate scenes appropriate at their fingertips, such as: all goals of a sports event. This affection eliminates clicks and speeds up the assembly process.
- Media Archive’s web-based Editing functionality has been decidedly added to accommodate a arcade barrow acquaintance targeting amateur users. This affection allows browsing and acclimation agreeable both on Windows and Mac.
- All Web GUIs can be customized, accouterment users with a GUI custom-built for their circadian work. Media Archive comes with a set of predefined banknote that can calmly be adopted to the specific user needs. The conception of banknote for assertive user groups and the assimilation of the accumulated character are now fabricated easy.
- Media Archive appearance Hits Highlighting of the seek appellation for adequate examination of hits, alienated time-consuming seek through text.
- With “Did You Mean” Media Archive offers addition suggestions, in case a antecedent abounding argument seek resulted in no or alone actual few hits. This affection is agnate to the Google seek and makes circadian activity abundant easier.
- The “Global Search and Replace” bore is a new able apparatus for experts and administrators of adult metadata models. It allows adequate and reliable metadata alteration and barter passes through actual ample abstracts sets.

Media Archive facilitates alive in a all-around environment:
Media Archive supports Application Service Providers (ASPs) in accouterment Media Asset Management solutions to their customers. By application ASP platforms, broadcasters can abbreviate their basement costs, allotment agreeable with added broadcasters and focus on new business models.
Media Archive’s ASP advantages are:
- Server virtualization - reduces the all-embracing accouterments appeal and saves costs.
- Open accepted SOAP APIs - accommodate the adeptness to calmly affix to 3rd affair systems.
- A well-documented workflow engine - gives abounding ascendancy over every action and as such over the system.
- A absolutely configurable metadata archetypal and skinnable UIs - accredit customization for anniversary chump based on their alone requirements.
- Multi-tenancy abutment - allows the account provider to run assorted audience on a individual axial server optimizing the Total Cost of Ownership.
Media Archive has been implemented as an ASP band-aid at a array of barter who run the software beneath their own casting name.

State of the Art Platform Support for beat performance:
The Media Archive Web based User Applications are now certified for Internet Explorer 7 and 8 beneath Windows XP and VISTA as able-bodied as for Safari 4.x beneath Mac OS 10.5 “Leopard”. The Media Archive Backend casework run beneath Windows Server 2008 (32 bit and 64 bit) which increases the all-embracing arrangement performance. To acceleration up database acceptance Media Archive now runs with the adopted belvedere Microsoft SQL Server 2008 in the 32 bit and in the 64 bit mode.

Integrated end-to-end assembly environment:
Media Archive integrates the latest adaptation of SONY SONAPS Version 4.4 News and Sports Production System acceptance archiving of SONAPS altar to Media Archive and abating media altar from Media Archive aback to SONAPS. The upgraded adaptation of SONAPS arrangement has been broadly added to abutment a array of newsroom systems (NCRS) such as AP ENPS, AVID iNews and Norcom NCPower.

ABOUT BLUE ORDER:
Blue Order is a all-around provider of turnkey Media Asset Management (MAM) solutions. Media and ball companies, corporations and accessible institutions use Blue Order articles to collect, index, catalog, retrieve and deliver acoustic and multi-format content. Blue Order’s ‘Media Archive®’ provides a absolute MAM framework to abutment new agenda agreeable services, optimize workflows and access efficiencies alternating the agreeable amount chain.

Blue Order is headquartered in Germany with subsidiaries in the UK and US. The aggregation has been deploying its articles back 1995 for a ample ambit of chump applications, with a appropriate accent on broadcast, library and media assembly applications. Blue Order has absolute partnerships with technology providers and arrangement integrators to ensure industry-specific solutions and able services. References beset abounding acclaimed companies, including Al Jazeera, Astra Platform Services, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Caracol TV, ESPN Brazil, NBC Olympics, PLAZAMEDIA, ProSiebenSat.1, RTM, Technicolor Network Services, VMMa, YLE and ZDF.

Blue Order Solutions AG
Europaallee 10
67657 Kaiserslautern
Germany

Press contact:
Christina Seemann
Director Marketing & Sales
press@blue-order.com

Blue Order Solutions AG - Blue Order at NAB 2009

Media Archive 3.3Store this angel in big sizeBlue Order, a arch Media Asset Management (MAM) vendor, will be demonstrating their tapeless workflow solution, spanning from blot to distribution, at NAB 2009. The amount aspect of the display will be Blue Order’s Media Archive 3.3, a able MAM band-aid which can calmly be configured and scaled to clothing the needs of evolving Media organisations.

Media Archive makes acceptance to agreeable quick and easy, automates workflows and enables agreeable users to reuse, repurpose and resell their agreeable added efficiently. Media Archive allows for chip and connected workflows throughout the assembly action chain, transforming assembly silos into a absolutely chip action advanced assembly platform.

Media Archive delivers on the affiance of Enterprise Media Asset Management: Content fabricated accessible – anytime, anywhere, in any format. At NAB 2009, Blue Order will bare new additions to Media Archive, already accustomed as one of the arch enterprise-scale MAM systems in broadcasting.

New able basement products

ASP-ready
Media Archive enables Application Service Providers (ASP) to action computer-based casework to their barter over a network. Its accessible architectonics and the all-encompassing aggregate of interfaces to 3rd affair systems abutment ASP providers in alms a band-aid tailored to the needs of their clients, while decidedly abbreviation their absolute amount of ownership. Media Archive’s software architectonics supports multi-tenancy. Based on one individual Media Archive belvedere ASP providers can host and administer the agreeable of assorted audience in alongside while at the aforementioned time ensuring that anniversary client’s hosted agreeable charcoal absolutely defended from added audience on the system. Furthermore Media Archive’s web based user interfaces acquiesce simple acclimation to the specific accumulated architecture of the ASP or the end customer. As the amount aspect of an ASP band-aid Media Archive is already in use at e.g. Astra Platform Services (APS) and Plazamedia (both Germany).

CataLogger
Media Archive’s accustomed Cataloging Client has been revised. The new CataLogger now combines the different and accurate adeptness to actualize an absolute amount of metadata layers alternating the timeline with added acceptance ability and ease. It now supports a array of shortcuts and action keys and added drag&drop functionality has been added to accredit faster and added able editing. The Browse Video anatomy can be scaled to abounding awning admeasurement for bigger acceptance of angel details. The accessible angle are presented in tabs thoroughly facilitating the aeronautics and the abstracts entry. Metadata can calmly be affected amid media altar and metadata pages for accelerated annotation.

Browse editor
Media Archive now offers its own Browse Editor. The new Media Archive Edit PRO is an alteration appliance for journalists and producers acceptance the basal alteration on absolute appointment PCs. The new Media Archive Edit PRO works on proxy video files and comes with absolute video and audio appearance such as transitions, abutment for assorted advance and voice-over. Media Archive supports sending projects to Final Cut Pro and Avid alteration systems. As journalists and producers can do the above alteration by themselves media organizations can account from beneath time and money spent in top achievement adapt bays.

Integrations on affectation at the appearance
At NAB 2009, Blue Order will present the affiliation with best-of-breed industry solutions such as Sony XDCAM, AmberFin iCR, Omneon MediaDeck, Apple Final Cut Pro and Avid Media Composer.

Workflows
Enhancing the absolute account of accepted workflows, Blue Order will appearance new workflows at NAB 2009, such as

Standards & Practices - Whenever broadcasters access agreeable for accumulation to one or added administration channels, they accept to ensure that the agreeable adheres to all standards and practices (S&P) that administer for the specific administration channel. In adjustment to accomplish S&P compliance, the absolute agreeable has to be reviewed, any allotment that requires alteration has to be apparent and added with a hypothesis of accomplishments to be taken. The consistent adjustable adaptation can again be broadcast to the adapted channel. Media Archive, initially committed to abutment workflows for News, Programming, or Sports, can now abutment Media Distribution Centers by allowance them to calmly handle acquiescence workflows as able-bodied as added accompanying workflows such as bankrupt captioning, dubbing, and promo conception in altered languages and for a array of administration channels

Genealogy – Media Archive has the adeptness to clue a media object’s history throughout the assembly process. Media Archive’s Content Genealogy allows you to advertence to or archetype all metadata, all-around and timecode based, including rights advice from the antecedent assets to the anew generated asset.

MXF Support - Media Archive’s able workflow capabilities are added by MXF functionality. Media Archive can blanket video and audio files into MXF Wrappers and bare them from MXF wrappers (MXF adhesive accepted formats: OP Atom, OP1a, b, c, OP2a, b, c, OP3a, b); acknowledging appropriate MXF wrappers such as SONY eVTR, SONY XDCAM (DV, HD and Proxy), Panasonic P2, AVID Atom, and DCP (Digital Cinema Package); account and autograph metadata aural MXF Wrapper files; and partially abating (partial delivery) aloft time codes from MXF files.

Reporting for added able operations
Blue Order introduces a advertisement framework enabling the bearing of specific administration reports. The advertisement apparatus creates graphical letters and allows the consign of letters to Microsoft Excel. Administrators can run letters to adviser the achievement of Media Archive above the absolute workflow. The acquired ecology advice can be acclimated for a media organization’s mid- and abiding planning and to analyze advance potential. Report abstracts can be aggregate a allotment of peers, modified, printed or included into added documents

Furthermore Blue Order has formed on convalescent the user acquaintance with Media Archive. All Web GUIs can now be customized per chump or even per user, accouterment them with a GUI custom-built for their circadian work. The accepted Media Archive adaptation aswell comes with a set of predefined banknote that can calmly be afflicted in the Web GUI while alive with the system.
Media Archive’s Web Retrieval has been added now featuring Hits Highlighting of the seek appellation for adequate examination of hits, alienated time-consuming seek through text.

With “Did You Mean” Media Archive now offers phonetic based autosuggestion, i.e. a spell analysis like functionality, in case a antecedent abounding argument seek resulted in no or alone actual few hits. This affection is agnate to the Google search.

Blue Order is a all-around provider of turnkey Media Asset Management (MAM) solutions. Media and ball companies, corporations and accessible institutions use Blue Order articles to collect, index, catalog, retrieve and deliver acoustic and multi-format content. Blue Order’s ‘Media Archive®’ provides a absolute MAM framework to abutment new agenda agreeable services, optimize workflows and access efficiencies alternating the agreeable amount chain.

Blue Order is headquartered in Germany with subsidiaries in the UK and US. The aggregation has been deploying its articles back 1995 for a ample ambit of chump applications, with a appropriate accent on broadcast, library and media assembly applications. Blue Order has absolute partnerships with technology providers and arrangement integrators to ensure industry-specific solutions and able services. References beset abounding acclaimed companies, including Al Jazeera, Astra Platform Services, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Caracol TV, ESPN Brazil, NBC Olympics, Plazamedia, ProSiebenSat.1, RTM, TNS, VMMa, YLE and ZDF.

Blue Order Solutions AG
Europaallee 10
67657 Kaiserslautern
Germany

Press contact:
Christina Seemann
press@blue-order.com