Extensis Adds Enterprise Scalability to Digital Asset Management Family

Business Wire, Jan 31, 2000

Business Editors, Technology Writers

PORTLAND, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 31, 2000

Portfolio 5.0 Manages and Distributes Media Assets for Individuals,

Workgroups, and Corporations via LAN or Internet

Scaling from a single user to the enterprise, Extensis(R) Portfolio(TM) 5.0 now helps corporations of any size save time, money and needless headache on lost or hard to find digital media assets such as photographs, audio and multimedia files, or corporate artwork and logos.

Portfolio 5.0 effectively helps manage corporate knowledge assets by allowing users to catalog, manage, share and distribute these valuable files to anyone via its client/server and Web solutions. Available April 2000, the updated Portfolio product line will offer three product configurations:

-- Portfolio 5.0 -- Operates as a standalone, in a peer-to-peer

network environment or as the client for Portfolio Server. This

customizable solution allows creative individuals and small

workgroups to efficiently organize and manage their digital

content. PortWeb, the Portfolio Web server plug-in is included

free.

-- Portfolio Server 5.0 -- Allows workgroups to easily share

collections of digital media via corporate LAN or Internet.

Consists of five free Portfolio 5.0 clients, PortWeb and

Portfolio Server. Additional clients can be purchased as needed.

-- Portfolio SQL Connect -- Allows organizations to offer high

volume, high performance access to digital media repositories via

corporate intranet or more broadly via the Internet. Designed for

enterprise users needing to connect Portfolio Server 5.0 with a

Microsoft SQL Server or Oracle 8i database.

PortWeb, included with Portfolio and Portfolio Server, allows businesses the ability to create an intranet, extranet or Internet site to share assets among users.

&uot;Companies spend unbelievable amounts of time and money searching for, and about a third of the time, fully re-creating digital files and art for corporate branding, the Web, PowerPoint presentations and sales collateral,&uot; said Sioux Fleming, senior product marketing manager, Extensis Products Group. &uot;With Portfolio 5.0, we now offer a scalable solution that helps users find what they need when they need it no matter where it may be physically located, or how big their collection of files has become.&uot;

Fully Scalable

The Portfolio 5.0 family can scale to support individuals, workgroups or corporations. Users may purchase the single user version while workgroups with multiple copies of Portfolio can easily share individual catalogs in peer-to-peer networks. When needs grow to require a more robust client/server environment, users can simply add and connect their existing Portfolio clients to a Portfolio Server. Meeting the needs of the enterprise, Extensis now offers the high-performance Portfolio SQL Connect for Portfolio Server that allows for connectivity to existing SQL databases.

Portfolio and the Web

Corporations looking to distribute media assets over an intranet, extranet or Internet site may painlessly do so with the help of PortWeb, the Portfolio Web server plug-in. Users simply submit a search via their Web browser. From here, PortWeb brokers the request between the Web Server and Portfolio database(s). PortWeb queries the Portfolio database and submits its results back to the user. These users could be employees outside the creative department or external resellers or licensees.

Completely Customizable

The Portfolio database offers unlimited, customizable database fields, allowing users to track the information important to their individual workflows. Portfolio can catalog all file types, regardless of the application used to create them.

Portfolio also offers customizable views that allow users to simultaneously see images and as much text information as they choose. Other customizable features include the ability to:

-- Display images automatically as a slideshow with accompanying

information;

-- Search across multiple catalogs, even via a Web site;

-- View all pages of multiple-page PowerPoint, QuarkXPress or

Acrobat documents and search the text of these files.

-- Read and embed the invisible Digimarc(TM) digital watermarks to

protect copyrighted content;

-- And group assets into hierarchical categories.

Access Control

Portfolio offers advanced administration features. Users and groups functionality allows access to catalogs based on individual rights rather than access levels and passwords. In addition, catalog administration may easily be accessed from any Portfolio client.

Pricing and Availability

English versions of the entire Portfolio 5.0 product line will be available April 2000. Portfolio 5.0 for single users will be available for an estimated street price of $199.95 and will support Mac PPC 8.1

-- 9, Windows 95, 98, 2000 and NT 4. The Portfolio Web Server plug-in is included free. Upgrades to Portfolio single user will be $99.95. Portfolio Server 5.0, which includes five clients and PortWeb, will be available for an estimated street price of $2499.95 and will support Mac PPC 8.1 - 9, Windows 2000 and NT4. Upgrades for Portfolio Server will be $999.95. Portfolio SQL Connect for Portfolio Server, available for an estimated street price of $7,499.95, will support Windows 2000 and Windows NT and work with Microsoft SQL Server 6.5-7.0 and Oracle 8i. Portfolio Server for UNIX will be available Q3 2000 for an estimated street price of $4999.95 and will work with Solaris, Linux and Mac OS X Server. PortWeb, now included in each configuration of Portfolio, supports AppleShare IP 6, WebStar 2.0-4.0, Windows 2000 and NT. French, German and Japanese versions of the entire Portfolio product line will be available Q2 2000.