PAL Graphics Area: Extensis Updates Portfolio Digital Asset Management Solution

The Server version of this platform for media management and delivery has been enhanced, notably with the addition of a MediaRich processing engine.
Portfolio is designed to help marketing and creative workgroups efficiently view, organize, route, archive and distribute creative assets. The idea is to manage a brand's creative assets across internal and external teams, partners and vendors, thereby eliminating the traditionally time-consuming and error-prone process of finding and tracking digital content. Portfolio is available in a range of versions, from single user up to high-end enterprise solutions, in both desktop and Web-based iterations.
Portfolio Server 9 includes a new Adobe FLEX web client, which delivers a dashboard for creative workflows and can be used in conjunction with an optional new NetPublish component to publish assets to the web. Also new is Portfolio's Java-based server architecture; scalable MediaRich media processing engine for extensive file format support and fast media delivery; web-based server administration for remote management of server and users; industry-standard Adobe XMP Toolkit integration for read/write metadata exchange across applications; and integration with Adobe creative applications via drag and drop functionality through Portfolio Express palette.

Portfolio Server 9 for Mac and Windows can be purchased for $6,050, plus $315 per client (desktop or web client), on the Extensis site. Trial versions are available for download.