The Software
Construction Company (SCC) of Atlanta, GA. is the leading
provider of cross-platform digital asset management tools to
the publishing industry.
SCC MediaServer®
is a new and revolutionary large-capacity/high-performance
digital archive system that allows you to merge, store, use
and instantly reuse the valuable digital content that your
company produces every day.
SCC MediaServer is a fully integrated Text, Photo, PDF Page,
Graphics, Sound and Video content management system, tightly
integrated with an industry standard SQL relational database
and incorporating free-text search technology licensed from
Verity Inc. Access to the MediaServer database is from SCC
MediaGrid or from a standard Web Browser.
Files for inclusion in the MediaServer database are saved to
one or more 'hot' network directories from where they are
automatically processed by SCC MediaFactory and catalogued
within the database.
A number of optional MediaServer modules are available
allowing: management of Assignments; automated Delivery of
content to Web sites and online vendors; hosting of
electronic Tearsheets; dynamic integration with Microsoft
Word; offsite MediaServer database Replication; and
eCommerce.Innovative features include:
Large-Capacity Storage of Text, Page Elements,
Advertising and Multimedia
Amass enormous quantities of digital files—including pages (PDFs),
advertising (Illustrator, Freehand, PostScript), texts
(plain text, MS Word), multimedia (MP3, MP4, WAV) and many
other file formats.
Versatile element Browser, SCC MediaGrid®
Arm your newsroom staff with the most powerful and
user-friendly browser and information locator on the market.
Quickly find, document, move, crop and assign photos, images
and pages. Work with elements that are stored in SCC
MediaServer® databases or in network-folders using an
intuitive interface.
Standardized Access to News Agency and In-House Photos
Standardize the way you access and use artwork and photos
regardless of their origin or type. Now you can view,
manipulate, process, classify and store all of your images
in identical SCC JPEG files.
Autonomy® Indexing and Search System
Locate any stored element instantly and precisely using a
wide variety of search parameters with the exclusive
technology of Autonomy, Inc. In most cases, the information
needed to identify and index each element is extracted
automatically from the file, avoiding manual data-entry
operations.
Multi-Terabyte Capacity and Juke-Box Support
Store hundreds of thousands or even millions of multimedia
objects located on hard disks, or use "juke-boxes" for even
larger storage capacity, and access your collection online.
Optional Internet Access
Publish your information to the Internet safely and easily.
Define types of visitors (employees or clients) as well as
full or partial access privileges.
Lucrative E-Commerce Option
Make the most of your information resources by selling
content on a per-unit basis subscription or in customized
packages on CDs or DVDs.
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