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Originally
founded in 1997, Ancept, Inc. is an early pioneer of digital asset
management (DAM) solutions.
Over the last eight years, Ancept Media Server has been established as
one of very few DAM solutions capable of supporting the needs of large
enterprises, while remaining flexible and affordable enough to serve
the needs of small to medium businesses. Dozens of Fortune 1000
companies, educators, small businesses and public sector organizations
have chosen Ancept to help meet their media production, management and
distribution needs.
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| Primary
Investor |
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Ancept’s
primary investor,
North American Systems, Int’l (NASI), is an established
solutions
provider and systems integrator with deep experience and expertise in
the media and graphic arts industries. Through hundreds of workflow and
DAM deployments, NASI has developed a uniquely thorough understanding
of these types of systems and the infrastructure necessary to support
them. Their ability to provide comprehensive server, storage and
network solutions together with the Ancept Media Server solution
positions NASI as one of very few providers able deliver fully
integrated turnkey solutions with the experience to support them.
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| IBM
Partnership |
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From
the very beginning Ancept has been an IBM Business Partner, working
closely with IBM to develop, market and sell the combined Ancept Media
Server and IBM Content Manager solution. This effort has been truly
collaborative; Ancept staff works hand-in-hand with IBM researchers,
product developers and sales and marketing staff to promote innovation,
coordinate development and listen jointly to the needs of the market.
The result is a truly synergistic partnership and the best
front-to-back digital asset management solution available today!
As time has passed, we’ve realized how fortuitous this
partnership has been. Today, many experts in the field agree that the
unique architecture of our combined solution is in front of a trend in
the market – a vertically-focused application, Ancept Media
Server, to address line-of-business requirements combined with a
middleware and “back-end” solution, IBM Content
Manager, to
address enterprise architecture requirements. Among today’s
DAM
providers, this architecture is truly unique to our solution and will
continue to set us apart as the only DAM provider capable of fully
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| Customers,
Markets
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Corporate Marketing and Brand Management
As we’ve done with customers such as eBay, UPS, MBNA and IBM, we
can help you protect your brand by disseminating brand assets
to all your constituents and ensure that only the proper assets are
used by only authorized users. Additionally, collapse time to market
and reduce production costs by allowing users to collaborate in an
on-line environment throughout the production and approval processes.
Media and
Entertainment
NFL
Films, Sesame
Workshop, Ogilvy
& Mather and Technicolor
have
discovered how Ancept Media Server can help streamline the production
and distribution of media content. In addition, they are provided with
a consistent means to repurpose valuable content for typical work
products and distribution through new channels.
Retail
Ancept Media Server helps advertisers shave valuable time off the
production cycle by moving many creation processes off the desktop to a
database environment. Kroger
(Fred Meyer division), Gap,
Inc. and Car
Quest have also found significant savings through
repurposing content
from campaign to campaign and for use in new advertising channels.
Printing and
Publishing
Printers and publishers know the value of reusing content and creating
production efficiencies. Ancept Media Server has helped such companies
as American Greetings,
Norma
Communications and Mod-Pak
realize new
efficiencies and cost savings by streamlining workflows, content
assembly and content distribution.
Education
Ancept Media Server provides educators the opportunity to leverage rich
media content to improve learning. University
of Michigan, Cleveland
Municipal School District and Sinclair Community
College have all experienced how capturing, distributing and making
media available
through Content Delivery Networks, course planning tools and other
systems, can be an effective new learning resource for students. |
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