ClearStory Systems® Announces Web Services Interface
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ClearStory Systems® Announces Web Services Interface
Extends the Powerful Capability of Its Award-Winning Digital Media Services Platform
WESTBOROUGH, Mass., Oct. 9 -- ClearStory Systems, Inc., an established provider of contemporary digital asset management (DAM) solutions, today announced that it will offer a Web Services interface for its digital media services platform, Enterprise Media Server (EMS). Based on an easy-to-use Web Services Framework, applications using this interface can leverage digital media managed by ActiveMedia, ClearStory's flagship Web-based DAM application built on EMS.
Digital media -- photos, video, graphics, presentations and multi-media -- is the fastest growing content type across industries today. There is an increased need to integrate digital media with other applications and business processes as the demand for its rapid creation, delivery and consumption proliferates. The Web Services interface complements the open-standards, high interoperability of ClearStory's contemporary software solutions and marks a major milestone in the Company's vision to power the end-to-end digital media supply chain.
Web services have become widely accepted for flexibly integrating enterprise software, infrastructure and applications; they are the basis for the development of next generation "composite applications." The Web Services interface expands ClearStory's ability to power the digital media supply chain, by providing rapid integration with existing enterprise digital media infrastructure using common Web Services standards, including Web Services Description Language (WSDL), SOAP, and XML. This includes authoring and editing software, workflow engines, CRM and billing systems, content delivery infrastructure, Web content management systems, and marketing portals. The interface will also allow ClearStory's Java EE-based software to work with .NET environments, providing its customers and development partners a sound basis for interoperable and platform-agnostic digital media solutions.
The interface is a significant step forward in ClearStory's strategy to partner with systems integrators, independent software vendors (ISVs) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) providers. The Web Services interface complements the EMS Java-RMI interface, providing flexibility for system integrators and application developers looking to create new digital media applications and empower new business models on an open, scalable, enterprise class digital media platform. EMS's contemporary 3rd-generation, n-tier "hostable" architecture enables multi-tenant, SaaS applications and SaaS business models.
The interface provides a core set of services for building secure, scalable, high-performing digital media applications. These include services for authentication, asset and collection search, retrieval of assets, metadata, collections, compound documents, versions, and renditions, as well as creation, versioning, and update of assets, metadata, compound documents, renditions and collections. The interface enforces EMS's asset level security model, only allowing users to execute services for which they are privileged on assets which they have permission to access.
"This release is a very important step in our plan to build a network of strong partnerships and compelling digital media-centric solutions," said Hank Nelson, ClearStory president and CEO. "A Web Services framework substantially extends the capability of our contemporary digital media services platform giving us the opportunity to rapidly pursue our growth plans."
The Company expects the Web Services interface to be available in December of this year.
About ClearStory Systems
ClearStory Systems is the leader in high-performance solutions for digital media communications. ClearStory software manages the enterprise digital media supply chain-from creation and collaboration, to lifecycle management and delivery -- to give companies a competitive advantage, marketing agility, cost avoidance, and maximum efficiency. Backed by premier customer support and service, ClearStory award-winning products are easy to use and readily align with our customers' business objectives for both a rapid return-on-investment and low total cost of ownership. For more information, visit www.clearstorysystems.com.
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ClearStory Systems, Inc.
Susan Worthy
sworthy@clearstorysystems.com
(508) 870-4225
Ripple Effect Communications
Valerie Harding (Media)
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(617) 536-8887
Source: ClearStory Systems, Inc.
Web site: www.clearstorysystems.com/
