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North Plains SystemsCompany and Solution Overview
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Presentation Overview
• North Plains – An Overview
• The Business Challenge
• Digital Asset Management
• Customer Successes
• Solution Overview
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About North Plains
• Company founded in 1994 Pioneer in Digital Asset Management
• Singular focus on Digital Asset Management• “Overall Leader in Digital Asset Management Market”
– Frost & Sullivan – 2007
• Growing suite of media management solutions Over 12 years of continuous innovation on the
TeleScope Application Platform™ 450+ clients worldwide Over 22M digital assets under management Over 250,000 users world-wide
North Plains enables organizations to maximize their investment in rich media content by delivering an infrastructure that provides secure access and
management of all digital content throughout the organization
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Corporate History
1994 Company founded
1995 First release of TeleScope
1998 New
management and investment
1999 Company refocus
Creates direct sales model Focuses on largest deployments Enterprise technology
development
2000 Established Direct
Sales First TeleScope
Enterprise Customer
2001 Established
Brand Consulting and
Support Dept.2002
Major New ClientsWB, AOL, HarperCollins, Merck
Expanded VerticalsPharmaceutical, Trade, Publishing
2003 Major New Release Major New Clients HP Partnership Expanded Service Offering
2004 Major OEM Win with OnStream Media, Publicis Groupe New Partnership with TATA New Customer Wins Further Expansion into Education verticals
2005 Industry Awards “Positive” in Gartner’s DAM MarketScope Major New Clients New Partnerships with Microsoft, Digimarc, Relizon,thePlatform
2006 Major New Clients New Product Updates TeleScope User Conference
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Industry Recognition
Overall Leader in Digital Asset ManagementFrost & Sullivan, 2007 MarketScope for Digital Asset Management
in Publishing “Positive” Rating
Gartner, 2006
Digital Media Application Company of the YearFrost & Sullivan, 2005
Digital Asset Management CEO of the Year Frost & Sullivan, 2004
Digital Media Application Company of the Year
Frost & Sullivan, 2003
MarketScope for Enterprise Digital Asset Management
“Positive” Rating
Gartner, 2005
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Customers
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Customers By Industry Solution
Media & Entertainment
Print & Publishing
Education & Non Profit
Advertising Agencies
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Customers By Business Solution
Video Management
Print & Catalog Publishing
Presentation Management
Corporate Marketing
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Partnering with Industry Leaders
North Plains works closely with partners to bring unmatched domain and technology expertise to key market verticals such as Advertising, Publishing, Printing and Media and Entertainment
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Presentation Overview
North Plains – An Overview
• The Business Challenge
• Digital Asset Management
• Customer Successes
• Solution Overview
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The Business Challenge
• Phenomenal growth of rich media assets• Disparate storage of media assets• Compliance with brand guidelines• Responsiveness to market trends• Control costs
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Presentation Overview
North Plains – An Overview
The Business Challenge
• Digital Asset Management
• Customer Successes
• Solution Overview
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Overview of Digital Asset Management
What is Digital Asset Management?
• Digital Asset Management (“DAM”) is a tool for organizing rich media assets (i.e. pictures, video, audio, documents) for storage, retrieval and distribution
• DAM solutions enables the archiving, indexing, search retrieval, ingest, browsing, annotation, repurposing, collaboration, display and transport of media
What Can DAM Actually Do?
• Synchronizes brand messages and product delivery across global markets • Customizes brand messages and products for channels, localized markets
and customer groups • Measures the results and correlation between branding expenses and
revenue • Controls access to the high valued rich media files of the enterprise
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Overview of Digital Asset Management
What Are the Benefits of Digital Asset Management?• Centralized Access• Security• Cost Savings• Entirely New Revenue Streams• Consistent Messaging and Branding• Global Web-based Access• Asset Licensing• Digital Rights Management• Efficient Review and Approval Cycles
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How Does DAM Differ from ECM or EMM?
• DAM is Forever This is the main differentiator between DAM and other content
platforms such as ECM (Enterprise Content Management) and EMM (Enterprise Marketing Management).
• DAM specializes in supporting the management of “rich media” content, related metadata, and workflows
• Used by “creative types” (artists, photographers, video editors, marketing and advertising professionals)
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Digital Asset Management
IDC forecasts the market to grow to US$1.1 bn by 2010
Broad-based penetration across several vertical markets is a key driver in fueling the rapid growth
Source: IDC (2006)
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Presentation Overview
North Plains – An Overview
The Business Challenge
Digital Asset Management
• Customer Successes
• Solution Overview
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Customer Successes
Challenge Needed an enterprise-capable digital asset management
solution to create a marketing supply chain
Solution Deployed and trained users in record-breaking 7 months Provide worldwide access supporting 450 users Host 500,000 asset files Internal & external impact
– Better control of company’s intellectual property with increased security and maintenance of standards
– New cost saving and revenue generating opportunities– Reduced time to market– Quantitative data for strategic decision-making
Cross-channel PublishingCross-channel Publishing
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Challenge
Average revenues per client declining in Advertising market. Marketing services being commoditized
Solution Create value added services that allows clients to
manage product introductions and promotions world wide
Developed a browser-based, Publicis branded suite of solutions for brand management and marketing automation:
– Manage multi-site creative teams– Automated, audited review and approval
workflow– Provided clients w/ asset security, version
control, secure transport– Single repository for multi-channel distribution
• Print, Television, Web and Corporate Portals
Customer Successes
Global Brand ManagementGlobal Brand Management
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Customer Successes
Challenge Increase top and bottom line product
licensing revenue by tapping into global demand for media properties
Solution Create web-based, self-service eCommerce
portal allowing tens of thousands of licensees to purchase digital masters
Implemented unified media repository where individual digital assets can be created, approved and monetized over the web
– Provides streamlined check-in process for new assets
– Provides on-line approval and review by brand managers
– Allows business managers to create and manage licensing pools
– Automatically authenticates purchase requests
– Fulfills and delivers asset purchase via the web
Sales and Marketing PortalSales and Marketing Portal
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Customer Successes
Challenge Needed to improve content management through time
reduction for repurposing and transformation of assets while integrating within existing IT systems
Solution Provide worldwide access supporting 1,000 users Host 400,000 asset files Internal & external impact
– Increased efficiency and productivity across the businesses
– Better control of business assets– More cost-savings opportunities– Reduced time to market
Integrated Learning and Teaching Solutions
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Challenge Multi-business unit procurement consolidated into
single enterprise procurement to enable cross-channel publishing
Solution To date it is the largest Enterprise DAM
deployment Implementation in conjunction with Accenture 11 business unit deployed within 2 years Worldwide access supporting 28,000+ users Host 800,000+ digital assets with 20,000 weekly
downloads Multimillion dollar hard cost ROI
– Agency fees– Shipping costs– Use of media– Labor
Customer Successes
Media & Entertainment
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Presentation Overview
North Plains – An Overview
The Business Challenge
Digital Asset Management
Customer Successes
• Solution Overview
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TeleScope overview
• TeleScope Platform provides the foundation for the entire TeleScope suite of products:
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TeleScope Enterprise
• Flagship product• Industry’s most advanced, feature-rich, scalable DAM solution for organizations• Support the most demanding, complex, workflow-intensive environments • Distributed & Scalable Architecture −Support thousands of concurrent users worldwide
−Manages millions of individual assets (graphics, documents, presentations, audio/video, etc) across dispersed geographies business centers amongst many geographical regions.
• Configurable Components & Comprehensive Toolset: −Seamless integration with existing business systems−Bi-directional sharing of information with financial systems, content management systems and portals
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TeleScope Professional
• Mid-range solution for deployments at a single office site or department
• Pre-configured, full-featured digital asset managementsolution
• Robust foundation without the complexity of an enterprise solution
• Who Uses TeleScope Professional?– Fortune 2000
Sales department Marketing department Corporate communications Creative services Training department
– Creative Professionals Agencies Post-production Printers/Publishers
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TeleScope Studio
• Digital Asset Management Out-of-the box!• Easy-to-use, affordable, rich media management applications. • Most often deployed in:
− Departments− Small creative organizations
(eg. ad agencies, broadcast studios and publishers).
•Delivers targeted solutions for managing:
•Power Point presentations, •Video files, •Creative workflows…
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Professional Services The professional services group provides end-to-end consulting and
implementation services for North Plains' customers including:• Project Planning & Management • System Design & Analysis• Taxonomy Consulting• Advanced System and Component
Integration• Network Security• Installation & Configuration • Migration, Integration & Customization • Training • Production Roll Out
Experienced team of project managers, business analysts, implementation consultants and trainers.
Highest level of expertise in the rich media and DAM environment, and a vast amount of knowledge about multiple industries. The team understands the business challenges and can assist in deploying the best solution to meet the needs of organizations.
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Asset Lifecycle
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Ingestion
• Simple Drag & Drop– Native client ingest-in-place– Native & Web auto-migration
• Auto-Ingestion– Multiple ingestion “hot folders”– Simple workflow & integration
• Automated metadata capture– XMP, IPTC, Custom metadata
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File Storage
• Distributed File Stores– LAN & WAN based architecture– Keep files where they’re used– TeleScope Hybrid File System™
• File Migration Policies– Automatic file movement– Metadata based storage management
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Searching
• Quick (Keyword) Search• Form Search• Tree Search• Advanced (Field) Search• Content Search
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File Processing
• Built-in File Conversion Framework– Plug-in based for extensibility– Conversion “chains”
• Digital Rights Management– Digimarc– XMP
• Integration– Flip Factory (Video)
• Named Conversions
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Workflow Collaboration Services
• The management and acceleration of the business process surrounding the use or creation of assets
• Features Include– Tasks & Cascading tasks– Resource Assignment– Task Tracking– Project Tracking– Resource Tracking– Review – Collaborate – Approve
cycles– Reporting
• Allows Project Managers to create a project– Assign timelines– Assign resources– Assign tasks (to
resources and assets)– Assign budget
• Provides reporting interface– Status (project, tasks)– Resource utilization
and allocation– Budgeting
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Security
• 3-Tier Security Model– Visibility
• Asset visibility via “where clauses”• System object visibility
– Permissions• Governs what users are able to do
– Functional Security• Scripting using functional rules• Metadata based ACL’s
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Tracking Assets
• Media analytics Asset-activity
Who used what Correlation activities
to sales What worked
Best practices Benchmark what
worked Replicate best
practices Train to benchmarks
of excellence
• Who cares about media analytics? CMO
What increases sales? CFO
Which digital assets can we put on the balance sheet?
CIO Which IT investments can
produce a similar ROI? CEO
How can these assets increase valuation in a merger or divesture?
Enterprise DAM Must Enable Media Analytics
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Add-on’s/Components
• TeleScope Application Platform has a modular design
• North Plains and third parties able to offer add-on modules and components
• These include:– I-Pieces– PowerPoint® Composer– Video Manager– Order Processing– File Transformation Framework
• Conversion I-Pieces– LDAP Adapter– Lookup Broker– XML Gateway
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I-Pieces
• Provide file-format support for:– QuarkXPress– InDesign– Microsoft Office– PDF– CADD– Others
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PowerPoint Composer
• View and play PowerPoint presentations directly from TeleScope
• Sort slides in browser window
• Ability to assemble new PowerPoint presentations from several existing decks
• Ability to view and access a shared template library
• Ability to apply new templates to existing files
• Create and administer content, user and group privileges via browser
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• Superb user experience Collapsible sections Link to playback Time code display Search hit highlighting Text search in preview Mark in/out clip definition 1-step clip-asset creation Clip-asset link & collect
Video Manager
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Video Manager Feature Highlights
• Clip Creation
• Clip Playback
• Full Screen Playback
• Video Streaming
• 3rd Party Support
• Out-of-the-box Support of Audio & Video Formats
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Out-of-the-box Video Functionality
• Keyframes Support and Pre-roll
Integration with Virage VideoLogger (Autonomy) to extract keyframe information and scene detection
Keyframe (thumbnail) and timecode displayed Support for Keyframe information to be entered to describe scenes Manually add or remove keyframe or auto-generate keyframes Set any keyframe to be the asset thumbnail (Poster Frame) Keyframes can be linked to playback
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• Multiple Text Tracks
Text track manager Unlimited text tracks See & edit permissions per track Import & export tracks “Open Captioning” from any text track
Out-of-the-box Video Functionality
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Out-of-the-box Video Functionality
• Clips support
• Create clips and promote clips Pre-roll video to any given clip Create new clips (Mark-In/Mark-
out or enter timecodes) Collect clips (Playlist) Promote clip to a new asset
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• Embedded Video Player (full screen display)
Out-of-the-box Video Functionality
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• Annotation Customizable per user Insert annotations into
any text track (persist timecode)
• Jog/Shuttle Controller Integration While in full-screen mode, the user can use the keyboard
or jog/shuttle devices to control playback.
Out-of-the-box Video Functionality
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Full-featured web interface!• Clip creation supported, even mark in/out• Clip reordering interface before “Play All” and
“Generate EDL”• On-screen time code display during playback• Uses AJAX to eliminate page refreshes
Out-of-the-box Video Functionality
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Out-of-the-box Video Functionality
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• Edit Decision List (EDL) Creation TeleScope create a standard EDL or
AAF file. Supported EDL formats:
Final Cut Pro XMLCMX3600AAF
Out-of-the-box Video Functionality
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Additional Add-ons
• Order Processing• File Transformation Framework
– Conversion I-Pieces• LDAP Adapter• Lookup Broker• XML Gateway
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Architecture Overview
• Distributed architecture
• 3 client platforms
• 4 server platforms
• Database agnostic
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Architecture
• Departmental deployment– “Single Box” setup
• Simple deployment• Pre-built metadata model• “Instant On” installation
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Architecture
• Enterprise deployment– Centralized data center
• Departmental metadata & interfaces• Multiple file stores are possible
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Architecture
• Global deployment– Centralized with “satellite” offices
• Distributed regional databases• Automatic scheduled synchronization• Assets can remain distributed
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Architectural Advantage
• Successful deployments by design– Modular, Scalable approach
• Add broker nodes as needed• Only buy what you need
– Open standards/robust APIs• “Media Enable” your network• Ease of integration
– Configuration vs. Customization• Scripting control via Functional Rules
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Architecture Benefits
• Future Proofing– Modularized custom development
– No “one-off” implementations• Upgrades are straight-forward
– Robust Integration Capabilities• Make use of off the shelf software