Extensis Corporation Announces Availability of Portfolio Web Edition
4.0 Searchable Asset Management Solution For Creative Professionals
Now Brings The Web Within Reach
Portland, OR – March 30, 1999 – Extensis Corporation today announced
the availability of Portfolio Web Edition 4.0. Portfolio Web Edition
includes Portfolio 4.0 digital asset management software and PortWeb
4.0, the Portfolio Web server plug-in tool that enable businesses to
provide digital media including images, logos, photographs,
documents, audio, or animations to users, partners and customers over
the Internet.
Extensis Portfolio lets individuals, workgroups and enterprises
manage digital assets in visual catalogs. Its new client/server
capabilities provide fully scalable digital asset management.
Publishing assets to the Web with Extensis Portfolio Web Edition
allows anyone with access to the Internet and a Web browser to search
a Portfolio digital media catalog-all without the need for additional
hardware, training, or software on their desktop.
With Extensis Portfolio Web Edition…
Artists can display their portfolio to the world;
Agencies and clients can easily exchange work and works in progress;
And newspapers can readily make their photo library available to all
journalists.
“The Web has been a major factor in the increased demand for digital
media management solutions such as Extensis Portfolio,” said Frost &
Sullivan Information Technology Research Analyst John McCormick.
“Portfolio’s ability to share, distribute and manage nearly any type
of digital media asset at the desktop – in a peer-to-peer,
client/server network, and now over the Internet – saves time by
placing the images, audio, video or text users need right at their
fingertips. This functionality has resulted in return on investment
ratios of 8:1 or even 14:1.”
Portfolio: Scalable Digital Asset Management Portfolio 4.0 is a
completely scalable media asset management solution; this
functionality allows individuals, workgroups, or entire corporations
to manage digital assets through Portfolio. Users may purchase the
stand-alone, or client software, while workgroups with multiple
copies of Portfolio can share catalogs on a network. When workgroups
are ready to scale up to accommodate more users in a client/server
environment, they can purchase Portfolio Server, which comes with
five client seats and the Portfolio Web server plug-in.
Portfolio Web Edition allows users complete flexibility to provide
people with accessible, searchable information and media assets.
Portfolio on the Web
Bringing digital assets to the Web is easy because Portfolio Web
Edition automates the process of publishing Portfolio catalogs to the
Web. Included with Portfolio Web Edition is Portfolio 4.0, the
client, or stand-alone package, that allows users to update the
database, as well as providing four levels of access to add, remove,
edit or control the Portfolio catalog. Using HTML, users can
customize the way Portfolio assets are viewed on the Web.
System Requirements
Portfolio 4.0 supports Macintosh PowerPC and Windows 95, 98 and NT
4.0. Furthermore, users can easily bring Portfolio catalogs to the
Web with any of the following operating system and Web server
pairings: Windows NT and Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS)
Windows NT Workstation and Microsoft Peer-to-Peer Web Services
Windows 95 or Windows 98 and Microsoft Personal Web Sharing
Apple Web Server (included with AppleShare IP 6) and StarNine WebSTAR 2.0
or 3.0
Pricing and Availability
English versions of Portfolio Web Edition 4.0 are available for an
estimated street price of $399.95. Customers who already own
Portfolio 4.0 may purchase PortWeb 4.0 for $199.95. Additionally,
those purchasing Portfolio Server 4.0 receive PortWeb and five free
Portfolio clients for an estimated street price of $2,499.95.
About Extensis Corporation
Extensis Corporation develops, publishes, markets and supports
productivity software for creative professionals. From design through
output, Extensis products make the process of creating, editing,
assembling and managing digital content for print and electronic
publishing more productive and efficient. Extensis’ award-winning
productivity software for Windows, Macintosh and the Internet is
distributed worldwide. Founded in 1993, Extensis corporation is based
in Portland, OR. For additional information please visit the Extensis
Web site at http://www.extensis.com.