Equilibrium a software and cloud based hosted services company that enables business and consumers alike to manage, distribute and monetize their rich digital media (images, video, sound) to any device, and their hosting partner NetConnect, announced today the first hosted SharePoint 2010 Visual Collaboration and Asset Management System, MediaRich ECM for SharePoint On-Line.  The award winning enterprise version of MediaRich ECM combined with NetConnect’s Team Portal creates an elegant and easy-to-provision / administer experience with the full capabilities of SharePoint 2010.  Workgroups can view, watch, hear and find over 400 different file types enabling global collaboration on project files from a scalable centralized SharePoint 2010 portal.  No third party software is required on the end-user’s computer, just a browser or smart device.  The service is SAS70 Type II certified and can be customized like any other SharePoint site.

“It’s now possible to Instant-On a full MediaRich ECM for SharePoint, enabling simple review of digital video, image shoot dailies or collaboration portal in a secure easy to manage environment in a matter of minutes,” said Sean Barger, CEO of Equilibrium.  “NetConnect’s Team Portal hosting platform enables anyone to provision an entire creative project in SharePoint 2010 with a few clicks.”

“Equilibrium’s media asset management and visualization capabilities are best of breed and adds great value across our entire product range.” said PÃ¥l Storehaug, CEO NetConnect. “MediaRich ECM for SharePoint Online brings content support capabilities and visual search to Team Portal and the SharePoint applications in our App Store, which includes CRM, Project Management, Social Media and Intranet solutions.”

Companies seeking to accelerate collaboration and workflow approvals or need to simply find, view and prepare content, now have a great experience in any SharePoint workspace and from any smart device with MediaRich ECM for SharePoint.  This enables teams to quickly review approval workflows in record time and without third party software.  Export and batch processing functionality provides self-service features to even further accelerate content preparation for any task.  For quick b-to-b portals, diverse media projects from multiple locations or simply centralizing your marketing collateral for easy distribution – MediaRich ECM for SharePoint On-Line provides an Instant-On hosted media collaboration portal that you can – Try it free for 30 days.

About NetConnect

NetConnect was founded in 2007 to empower people and organizations with the best tools to collaborate, communicate and work together. NetConnect is creating a global marketplace for SharePoint applications through a flexible partner model. Team Portal provides a framework in which SharePoint application templates and web parts can be published accelerating time to market and quickly expanding the reach via a global network of partners.

About Equilibrium

Equilibrium has been publishing MediaRich for SharePoint since 2003, built on the patented, scalable MediaRich engine enabling automatic real-time personalization, preparation and delivery of music, images and video for websites, portals, digital asset management systems and hosted services. Equilibrium MediaRich’s customers include Sony, Disney, Warner Bros, Nikon Europe and Thomson Reuters.

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Press Contacts:

In North America:
Oceanna Anderson
+1 415-332-4343
pr(@)equilibrium.com

In Europe:
Peer Blumenschein
+41-61-361-0569
pblumenschein(@)Equilibrium.com

Please call +1 415 332 4343 xt. 215 if you would like to meet during the show!

EQ CEO Sean Barger will be Speaking at the Consumer Electronics Show: Content in the Cloud

Session:
The Impact on the Entertainment and Telecommunications Industries of Cloud Computing
Television manufacturers and broadband network operators are concerned that Internet connectivity and cloud computing could affect the way they develop and market their products and utilize network resources. Gain valuable insights on this critical issue for both industries.

Moderator(s):
Marty Lafferty, CEO, Distributed Computing Industry Association (DCIA)

Dan Holden, Chief Scientist, Comcast Media Center
Sean Barger, CEO, Equilibrium
Dan Schnapp, Chair, New Media, Ent. & Tech., Hughes Hubbard
Grant Kirkwood, CTO, Packet Exchange
Devon Ferreira, Co-Founder, Patriot Digital
Mark Vrieling, CEO, ScreenPlay
Kathleen Sullivan, CMO, Verizon Digital Media Services
Sean Jennings, VP, Systems Architecture, Virtustream

Show Registration Savings:

Convenient Microsoft Leasing Is Available for any MediaRich or MediaRich ECM for SharePoint purchase!

Just ask your sales representative. We have 2, 3, 4 or 5 year options!

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Press Contacts:

Oceanna Anderson
Equilibrium
+1 415-332-4343 xt. 215
pr (at) equilibrium.com

In Europe:

Peer Blumenschein – Equilibrium
+41-61-361-0569
pblumenschein (at) Equilibrium.com

Equilibrium Honored as a Finalist for the Microsoft Communications Sector Partner of the Year Award

Microsoft has named Equilibrium a finalist for their Communications Sector Partner of the Year Award.

Equilibrium’s MediaRich for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server is a highly effective management and deployment tool for digital media that features a scalable, high-volume media distribution and repurposing engine. It enables companies to control the costs involved, in terms of both time and money, to upload, ingest, enhance metadata, manage, visualize, find, modify, discover, export and deploy media assets in a secure self-service portal.

With MediaRich for SharePoint, Microsoft SharePoint’s powerful capabilities are extended to include the automated visualization and dynamic processing of Office documents as well as image and video assets. This is a necessity to meet the pace of demands in the advertising, manufacturing, retailing, publishing, communications, entertainment and government market sectors.

“We are honored to accept this high accolade from Microsoft,” said Sean Barger, CEO of Equilibrium. “We worked closely with Microsoft to have MediaRich for Sharepoint enhance the value of SharePoint by bringing higher levels of collaboration, functionality and visual imaging capabilities as well as a self-service Digital Asset Management (DAM) solution to Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS). We are proud to be recognized by Microsoft for our contribution to the communications sector.”

[read the press release]

EQ Network Private Beta Continues

At the recent National Association of Broadcasters show in Las Vegas, Equilibrium introduced the new EQ Network™. The EQ Network enables content owners to quickly deploy a Media Delivery Bar™ on their site allowing viewers to effortlessly request personalized videos to be prepared and delivered via a breakthrough Ad-Per-View™ Software as a Service (SaaS). For the first time ever, content owners can also personalize video experiences to web, wireless and mobile devices on-the-fly, without any pre-processing.

Equilibrium’s Media Delivery Bar provides website video content owners with the tools to hyper-target advertisements to individuals based on voluntary demographic information they supply. The Media Deliver Bar can be installed on any web page that contains video content within minutes, without requiring additional infrastructure costs or changes for the content owner or advertiser. Simply install the bar, configure your account and let EQ’s massively scalable Ad-Per-View technology prepare and deliver your content while trafficking ads dynamically.

The EQ Network’s scalable Ad-Per-View technology automatically optimizes video content for billions of existing mobile devices, Internet video players and new ones as they become available.

Since NAB, many publishers have joined the EQ Network Private Beta. You are welcome to join so you can begin to monetize the videos on your site.

New  Customers

Nokia Siemens Networks purchased MediaRich for SharePoint. It is being used to enable modern, IT-integrated Brand Management and Asset Management for its Marketing Communications group, integrating workflows both within the company and with freelance photographers, graphics artists and other contractors. It replaces a “silo” in-house legacy system. MediaRich for SharePoint won out over traditional “Silo DAM” competitors for its cost-efficient integration with a modern SharePoint-based IT infrastructure, enabling direct employee self-service while maintaining workflow control for MarCom.

DGWB purchased MediaRich for SharePoint. Our solution provided a self-service portal for employees to edit and annotate images in SharePoint from both an intranet and an extranet.

Flint Energy Services purchased MediaRich for SharePoint. They required a searchable digital asset library within SharePoint.

MediaRich Products

Latest Version 3.9.2

MediaRich Server v3.9.2

MediaRich for SharePoint R3 v3.9.2

MediaRich Visualizer for SharePoint R3 v3.9.2

MediaRIch Zoom and Pan (formerly MediaRich Merchandizer) v3.9.2

MediaRIch Hot Folder v3.9.2

Current maintenance customers should email an EQ Representative or call +1.415.332.4343 x5 during business hours for download instructions.