FOR IMMEDIATE DISTRIBUTION
Extensis Portfolio 8 Centralizes Key Digital Assets for Easier Sharing
Across Workgroups
Now available, Portfolio Digital Asset Management solution helps companies
manage their brand more effectively.
Portland, Ore. – Nov. 29th, 2005 – Extensis, a division of Celartem, Inc.,
today announced the availability of Portfolio 8, a major advance in its
digital asset management (DAM) solution. The new version of Portfolio
provides industrial-strength workflow features to organize and share
digital files with visual catalogs and embedded metadata, making it easy to
quickly find, route and distribute valuable branding collateral like
images, brochures, layouts and logos within asset creation workgroups and
externally with global partners. The Portfolio 8 product family includes a
standalone version, Client/Server solution, as well as NetPublish and SQL
Connect Modules.
“Your number one business asset is your brand — it pays to invest in a
comprehensive solution to keep track of critical creative assets and help
teams company wide work with those assets effectively and efficiently,”
said Dan Harlacher, Portfolio product manager for Extensis. “Portfolio 8
was created for companies that want to organize, find, and distribute key
brand assets. Portfolio 8 is our best effort to help companies to
thoughtfully manage their brand to remain a market leader or, for that
matter, to become one. Portfolio allows them to create and distribute
approved branding assets both internally and externally with partners, and
maintain up to the second control over these critical business components.”
Portfolio 8 provides built-in workflow tracking out-of-the-box. And with
its new ability to add cataloging presets to AutoSync folders, users can
add files to Portfolio with predefined metadata and move them through a
workflow simply by dropping them into folders on the file-server. The new
Portfolio can also keep track of a job’s status and help communicate with
and route files to other team members.
Portfolio 8 makes it easy for new users to get started and find guidance
when needed. For instance, a new series of sample catalogs are provided for
specific tasks like professional photography, stock-image management, and
document routing and approval. The new fast-cataloging feature lets users
quickly add files to the Portfolio catalog and start working with them
right away while other cataloging tasks continue in the background.
Additionally, Portfolio can now use automatically created Screen Previews
to create CDs, DVDs, websites, and emails, making the process of sharing
even offline files significantly faster.
Other improvements in Portfolio 8 include private galleries, accessible
only by the original creator, and scratchpad galleries to easily collect
items from several different locations and organize them for printing or
other activities. Portfolio 8 users who utilize the NetPublish plug-in can
create dynamic searchable websites powered by their Portfolio catalogs and
even control which assets are viewable by simply changing metadata.
Significant improvements in speed, workflow and metadata handling, make it
easy for companies to implement a full-featured DAM solution without
extensive disruption and retraining.
Pricing and Availability
Portfolio 8 for both individual users and workgroups is currently available
for download and purchase from the Extensis website. Portfolio 8
Client/Server Solutions start at an estimated street price of $6,000US and
can be extended to include SQL database options with SQL Connect Modules
ranging in price from an estimated street price of $6,000US to $10,600US.
Client connections for Portfolio Server are available in volume licenses at
an estimated street price of less than $300US per seat. Portfolio catalogs
can be shared via the web with the addition of Portfolio NetPublish for
Server for an estimated street price of $6,000US. All Portfolio
Client/Server products come with a 12-month Annual Service Agreement
providing free updates and priority support 24/7.
Portfolio 8 is also available in a single-user version at an estimated
street price of $199.95US. Portfolio catalogs can be published to the web
by adding a Portfolio NetPublish license for an estimated street price of
$249.95US (includes five concurrent web connections). Upgrades to Portfolio
8 are available for $99.95US from Portfolio 6 and 7.
French and German language versions of Portfolio are also available now for
download from the Extensis website. Japanese language versions of Portfolio
are available from .
For information on where to purchase the Portfolio family of products visit
(http://www.extensis.com/portfolio).
System Requirements
Portfolio 8 supports Windows 2000, XP or higher, Pentium class processor at
1GHz or faster 256MB RAM (512 Recommended) XGA or higher display at
millions of colors. 200MB Hard Drive space, CD-ROM for installation,
Network interface for server connection, Apple QuickTime 6.5 or higher, web
browser with Macromedia Flash 7 or higher plug-in installed. Portfolio 8
also supports Mac OS X 10.3 or higher, G3 processor at 1GHz or faster (G4
or G5 recommended), 256MB RAM (512 Recommended) XGA or higher display at
millions of colors, 200MB Hard Drive space, CD-ROM for installation,
Network interface for server connection, Apple QuickTime 6.5 or higher, web
browser with Macromedia Flash 7 or higher plug-in installed.
About Extensis
Extensis is a software solutions company that allows creative workgroups
and professionals to streamline their workflow and secure their brand by
efficiently and effectively managing their creative assets and fonts.
Extensis’ award-winning client/server and desktop products are used by
hundreds of Fortune 5000 companies and include Suitcase and Font Reserve
for font management and Portfolio for creative assets management. Extensis
was founded in 1993 and is based in Portland, Oregon, and the United
Kingdom. Extensis is a division of Celartem, Inc., which is wholly owned by
Celartem Technology Inc., (Hercules: 4330). For additional information,
visit (http://www.extensis.com) or call 1-800-796-9798.
About Celartem
Celartem Technology, Inc. develops and sells innovative technologies for
storage, access and distribution of rich media content. Celartem has
developed technology in the areas of digital image compression, scalable
image viewing and secure content distribution and management. Celartem is
listed on the Osaka Securities Exchange, Hercules:4330. Established in
1996, Celartem is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan and has a wholly owned
subsidiary, Celartem Inc. with headquarters in Seattle.