FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Extensis Announces Immediate Availability of Portfolio 7 for Mac OS X
Cross-platform Digital Asset Management solution offers instant deployment,
ease of use and affordability for workgroups and individuals.
Portland, Ore. – June 1, 2004 – Extensis Inc., today announced immediate
availability of its leading Digital Asset Management (DAM) solution,
Portfolio 7 and Portfolio Server 7 for Macintosh. Portfolio enables
photographers, graphic artists and other individuals and workgroups – from
those in small-to-medium sized organizations to multiple workgroups in
global 2000 companies – to organize, retrieve, repurpose, and distribute
digital files quickly. Portfolio Server also provides instant access to
assets across the Internet and other wide area networks, opening the
communication channel between distributed team members and partner networks,
making asset management and collaboration easier and more efficient than
ever before.
“Portfolio 7 for the Mac extends the great strides made in optimizing the
previous version for the OS X platform,” said Kevin Hurst, vice president of
Marketing for Extensis. “While most DAM solutions are expensive, difficult
to deploy, or do not have feature parity between the Mac and Windows
versions, Portfolio leverages a history in creative design and Mac
technology to provide an easy to learn interface and affordable solution
that can be seamlessly deployed in a matter of hours into an existing
workflow.”
New Features in Portfolio 7
The most dramatic new addition to the Portfolio 7 Suite of products is
NetPublish – an add-on module that automates the process of dynamically
distributing Portfolio catalog contents through the Internet. With
NetPublish, elegant full-featured websites can be created in seconds – with
no knowledge of HTML or JavaScript required. With a simple, wizard-like
interface, and using professional-quality templates, users can build sites
that include built-in image search, collection baskets, low-resolution
previews and batch-download capabilities. A NetPublish Server brings the
power of server-side JavaScript-based scripting, customizable templates, and
real-time database access to a web server. Advanced users can access and
edit the underlying NetPublish templates to create fully customized
websites.
For greater efficiency and real-time collaboration, Portfolio’s new AutoSync
functionality allows users to assign tasks to Portfolio Server, enabling
automatic synchronization. This feature also offloads file management and
processing to Portfolio Server, boosting the system’s overall workflow
efficiency.
Other new features include One Click CD/DVD archiving, Batch Image
Conversion that allows users to convert image files to JPEG or TIFF format,
with controls for resolution, size and color mode, and Round-trip embedding
of IPTC and XMP metadata into JPEG and TIFF files.
About Portfolio 7
The Portfolio suite of Digital Asset Management (DAM) products is designed
to meet the needs of the most demanding content creation workgroups through
four components: Portfolio Client, Portfolio Server, Portfolio NetPublish
and Portfolio SQL Connect. Portfolio provides powerful Client/Server digital
asset management for both desktops and networked workgroups, allowing
collaborative teams to organize, find and share digital files quickly.
Pricing and Availability
Portfolio 7 is available at an estimated street price of $199.95US with a
single NetPublish license. Additional NetPublish licenses can be purchased
for an estimated street price of $199.95US (five concurrent web connections)
or $999.95US (unlimited web connections). In addition, upgrades to Portfolio
7 are available for an estimated street price of $99.95US.
Portfolio Server’s estimated street price is $3,499.95US. Upgrades to
Portfolio 7 Server are available for an estimated street price of
$$1199.95US.NetPublish Server licenses can be purchased for an estimated
street price of $1999.95US. SQL Connect for MS-SQL is available for
$7,499.95. MySQL will be shipping in July 2004. Please contact your
Extensis or local reseller for more information.
For more information on Portfolio 7 or to download, please go to
http://www.extensis.com/portfolio.
System Requirements
Portfolio 7 Client and Portfolio 7 Server supports Mac OS X (10.2 or
higher), Apple Macintosh G3 (G4, G5 or higher recommended) and QuickTime
(6.4 or higher). 256MB of physical RAM and 50MB of free hard disk space are
recommended. Portfolio NetPublish requires Mac OSX 10.2 or higher, Apache
1.3 (default installation), Macintosh PowerPC G3 at 1GHz (2GHz recommended).
256 MB of system RAM (512MB recommended) and 30 MB of available hard disk
space are recommended. Note: Additional disk space is required to store
sites created with NetPublish and cache files. Internet Exploer 5.2 or
higher, Netscape 7.0 or higher, or Safari 1.1 or higher.
About Extensis, Inc.
Extensis Inc., a Celartem company, is a leading provider of software
solutions that empower digital asset creators and users. Extensis’ award
winning products are used by hundreds of Fortune 5000 companies and include:
Portfolio for digital asset management and Suitcase and Font Reserve for
font management. Extensis was founded in 1993 and is based in Portland,
Oregon and the United Kingdom. Extensis is a wholly owned subsidiary of
Celartem Technology USA Inc., a division of Celartem Technology Inc., Japan
(Hercules: 4330). For additional information, please visit our website at
http://www.extensis.com or call 1-800-796-9798.
About Celartem
Celartem Technology, Inc, develops and sells innovative technologies for
storage, access and distribution of rich media content. Celartem has
developed technology in the areas of digital image compression, scalable
image viewing and secure content distribution and management. Celartem is
listed on the Osaka Securities Exchange, Hercules:4330. Established in 1996,
Celartem is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan and has a wholly owned subsidiary,
Celartem Technology USA INC. with headquarters in New York. Celartem also
operates in the US and Europe through its wholly owned subsidiaries,
Extensis, Inc. and LizardTech Inc.
