Toronto Star Newspapers Ltd. selects SCC for central multimedia archives

July 1, 2008

ALPHARETTA, GA., (July 1, 2008) -- SCC is pleased to announce the sale of their SCC MediaServer multimedia content management system to Toronto Star Newspapers Ltd.

The SCC MediaServer system replaces a legacy Cascade MediaSphere photo and graphics archiving system and an internally developed text archiving system, and will serve as a shared photo workflow system for wire and staff generated photos and graphics as well as a central archive of photos, graphics, stories, multimedia and complete newspaper pages in Acrobat PDF format.

The MediaServer system supports 250 concurrent SCC MediaGrid and Web Browser users on both Windows and Macintosh OSX workstations and will be closely integrated with the newspapers CCI editorial system. The MediaServer system includes the following optional modules:

SCC MediaServer Delivery Module, which supports automatic reformatting and delivery of files stored within the MediaServer database to a variety of destinations including web sites and online vendors such as NewsBank and Lexis- Nexus.

SCC MediaServer RSS Module, which automatically imports content from one or more RSS enabled web sites into the MediaServer repository by automatically retrieving and interpreting new content, inserting it into one or more MediaServer libraries, and making it accessible to clients via the same sophisticated search and retrieval techniques available for other MediaServer content.

About SCC

SCC is based in Alpharetta, Georgia and develops and markets a suite of Windows, Linux, and Macintosh media management tools and utilities world-wide. SCC’s products are used by newspapers, magazines, TV networks, photo agencies, Internet content providers and various corporations.

In the USA, SCC's customers include The National Enquirer, Star and Globe Magazines (American Media Inc.), Sports Illustrated and People Magazines (AOL Time Warner), InTouch Magazine (Bauer Publishing), The Dallas Morning News, The Detroit Free Press, The St. Petersburg Times, The Seattle Times, The Sacramento, Fresno and Modesto Bees, The San Francisco Chronicle, The New Orleans Times-Picayune, The Associated Press, McClatchy/Tribune Information Services, Reuters, UPI, Dow Jones, ABC Television, NBC Television, Universal Studios, Walt Disney Television, US News & World Report, USA Today, The White House, Camp Fallujah (Iraq), the Marine base at Quantico, and many more.

Outside the USA, SCC has distributors covering Australia, Europe, the Far East, and Central and South America.


Technical Contact: SCC

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

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