TMZ selects SCC for Photo Workflow and Multimedia Archives

December 6, 2010

ALPHARETTA, GA., December 6, 2010 -- SCC is pleased to announce an SCC MediaServer Express System sale to the TMZ celebrity news organization, a Time Warner company.

The MediaServer Express system will become TMZ’s photo desk, automatically capturing live photo data from RSS enabled websites, from distributed photo agency feeds and from wire services, as well as TMZ’s archive of internally generated photos and graphics.

The TMZ system also includes the MediaServer Express Edition Publishing module, which adds functionality to allow selected or otherwise marked records to be automatically exported to external systems for print or web publishing, or to online vendors for asset resale. The module also adds server-side functionality to support automated functions such as image rotation, multi-object linking, add to projects etc.

The SCC MediaServer Express Edition system is tied to Microsoft's SQL Server Express Edition with Advanced Services, which is a free, downloadable, easy-to-use, and lightweight version of SQL Server. The result is a system that provides high-end text and graphics processing and workflow functionality combined with archival capability for approximately 400,000 multimedia objects at a very affordable cost.

With the MediaServer Express Edition, SCC targets companies that either do not have the need for the larger capacity MediaServer Enterprise system, or that initially wish to start out small but with a view to upgrading to the Enterprise Edition at a later time. The Express Edition is also designed to be a satellite system in large, distributed architectures having one or more Enterprise Edition systems anchoring multiple remote Express Edition systems.

The SCC MediaServer Express Edition system includes the following components:

SCC MediaServer Express Edition with Lucene Full Text Search
5 Concurrent Power User licenses
10 Concurrent Lightweight User licenses
SCC MediaFactory
Unlimited installations of SCC MediaGrid on Windows or Mac OSX (at the licensed site)
SCC Express Edition Web Browser Access Module
SCC Express Edition RSS Reader Module

About SCC

SCC MediaServer is a fully integrated Text, Photo, Page, Graphics, Sound and Video media workflow management system. The system offers a wide collection of features and components tailored to production and archive workflows, incorporating sophisticated full�-text search technology and supporting a wide range of multimedia file formats and related XMP (or other) metadata. Optional modules are available for Content Syndication, News Budget and Assignment Creation, Tracking and Scheduling, NewsML and ObjectML Integration, RSS Import and Feed Syndication, Semantic Metadata Enrichment, eEdition Generation and Presentation, and Data Replication.

SCC MediaServer systems are installed at digital media companies in 20 countries, with more than 6500 licensed concurrent users and holding a combined quarter of a billion assets. Outside the USA, SCC has distributors covering Australia, Europe, the Far East, and Central and South America.

Contact: SCC

Lee Funnell, Vice President
770.751.8500 ext. 145
lee.funnell@sccmediaserver.com
http://www.sccmediaserver.com