WebWare MAMBO Integrates Easily with Oracle8i Delivering Robust Media Asset Management, Workflow and e-business Solutions to Fortune 500 Customers

Business Wire, Nov 10, 1998

SAUSALITO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 10, 1998--WebWare Corporation, the pre-eminent Web-based Media Asset Management provider of WebWare MAMBO(tm) (Media Asset Management By Objects), today announced its commitment to extending its server-, platform- and database-independent solution with its support of Oracle8i(tm), the world's first database for Internet computing.

Leveraging the proven stability and performance of the Oracle database and Oracle8i interMedia, the database solution for integrated multi-media, WebWare MAMBO delivers a robust, enterprise-wide media management and workflow solution. This combination provides Fortune 500 customers a better way to manage multimedia content (image, audio, video, text and metadata) for both Internet, e-business and traditional applications.

"We are seeing a growing demand for fast and easy access to all forms of complex data in business applications. Through Oracle8i and Oracle8i interMedia, data traditionally held in proprietary data stores or disparate file systems can be centrally managed and easily accessed via existing and new Web-based applications," said Shari Simon, Senior vice president, Americas Alliances and Marketing. "We are pleased to be working with WebWare to provide customers with cost-effective, Internet-ready media asset management solutions."

"Support for Oracle8i reinforces WebWare's leadership position of providing MAM solutions that are truly ready for real-world enterprise requirements," said Lauren Flanegan, Chairman and CEO of WebWare Corporation. "By leveraging the strength of Oracle8i we are better able to help companies reach their goal of transforming the creative branding process from a cost center into intellectual property. The database market is growing exponentially and we plan to keep pace with our clients as they upgrade or migrate to newer systems such as Oracle8i."

About Oracle8i

Oracle8i is the latest generation of the world's leading database and the first designed specifically to be an Internet development and deployment platform. Oracle8i enhances Oracle8's industry-leading technology with special features that make it extremely easy to create robust and scalable Internet and corporate Intranet applications.

Oracle8i also extends Oracle's proven technology leadership in the areas of transaction processing, data warehousing, and high availability to handle the demanding performance, business intelligence, and continuuous access needs of Internet users.

Oracle8i interMedia is the database solution for integrated multi-media. Oracle8i interMedia enables Oracle8i to manage text, documents, image, audio, and video in an integrated fashion with other enterprise information. With Oracle8i interMedia, media-rich applications gain the level of security, administrative controls, performance and scalability essential for e-commerce, media asset management and web publishing.

About WebWare MAMBO

WebWare MAMBO provides an essential application for global branding organizations, new media providers, advertising agencies, print publishers, entertainment companies and packaged goods manufacturers. In addition to providing customers with a Web-enabled structure for managing asset check in, check out, version control and asset tracking, MAMBO is designed to scale to support broadly distributed enterprises.

Organizations can use WebWare MAMBO for collaborative asset management, status tracking, rights management, approval routing, archiving, and more. Designed for today's client/server and extranet environments, MAMBO employs a distributed object server model and it tightly integrated with Adobe's Acrobat/PDF, Apple's QuickTime and Color Sync as well as Quark's and Virage's technologies.

About WebWare Corporation

WebWare is a pioneering developer of web-based media asset management solutions. WebWare has industry-leading expertise in object-oriented development, creative production technologies, e-business as well as the technical and process issues faced by global branding organizations.

WebWare benefits from close ties with CompuCom, Virage, Apple, IBM, Oracle, and Adobe. Founded in 1996, the company is privately held, and maintains headquarters in Sausalito, California with an East Coast sales office in Boston, Massachusetts. For more information visit www.webwarecorp.com.

Note to Editors: WebWare and WebWare MAMBO are trademarks of WebWare Corporation. Oracle is a registered trademark and Oracle8i, Oracle8 and Oracle OpenWorld are trademarks or registered trademarks of Oracle Corp.