New York State Agencies, Universities and Organizations to Use Cost-effective, Green Technology for Staff Development and Professional Certification

EL SEGUNDO, Calif., – August 20, 2009 – New York Network (NYN), a service of the State University of New York (SUNY), today launches a new, online video-based training and communications system that leverages the Accordent rich media creation and management suite of products, Accordent today announced.

NYN designed the solution, called the Video Interactive Educational Webinar Service (VIEW), to enable state universities and agencies - as well as private-sector firms in the medical, legal and business communities across New York State - to meet mounting training requirements without requiring the time, expense and environmental impact of employee travel.

The NYN VIEW service comprises three Accordent PresenterPRO™ systems, each located at one of NYN’s three studios, to deliver highly scalable live, rich media webcasts that include video synchronized with graphics and the ability for audiences to use live chat to interact with presenters. The VIEW also leverages Accordent Capture Station™, the company’s turnkey rich media capture appliance, as a portable solution that NYN production crews can use on-location to create customized rich media presentations.

Core to the VIEW system is the Accordent Media Management System™ (AMMS), which manages all content and users. Highlights of the AMMS include event scheduling, certification tracking, an automated e-mail program (to notify users when new system content is added) and a reporting function for managers and supervisors on the frequency, duration and substance of content viewed by individual users.

The NYN team today will unveil the new system for New York state universities, government agencies and businesses at NYN studios in Albany, and will feature highlights such as:
• Compatibility of the presentations with Windows and Mac operating systems
• Advanced, interactive testing, polling and survey functions through the AMMS
• Intuitive, custom web page accessibility on desktop or laptop
• System capacity for large audiences: 5,000 concurrent users; 1,000 users per minute
• Suitability for green training opportunities (New York State EO4)
• Ability for end users to view content without requiring specialized software
• Ability to manage hundreds of employee portfolios easily and securely
• Accessibility to content 24x7 through a password-protected, custom-designed portal
• Ability to set automated e-mail staff notification for upcoming training/classes
• Ability to integrate multiple speakers and diverse content in a single webinar
• Ability to print out custom certificates for successful course completion
• Ability to track the frequency and duration content is viewed by individual employees

“Unlike the static, linear online training materials you see so often online, the VIEW is really the next-generation of webinar services, providing quality video with 24 x 7 archiving,” said Neil Satterly, Executive Director for New York Network. “The Accordent platform enables us to provide a flexible, high-capacity web-based resource for staff development, continuing education and professional certification that offers tremendous value in today’s tight economy.”

The Accordent Rich Media Communications Suite is the only automated, end-to-end infrastructure for creating, distributing, managing and measuring the effectiveness of multimedia presentation assets. The company’s rich media creation products include its flagship Accordent PresenterPRO, a live and on-demand webcasting solution with interactive features, such as polling, surveys and moderated Q&A; the Accordent Capture Station, an easy-to-use, room-based appliance that enables anyone to webcast and record high-value presentations that take place every day in the world's meeting rooms, classrooms and boardrooms; and Accordent Engage™, a behind-the-firewall, enhanced audio webcasting system that enables multimedia webcasting from the desktop. The company’s media management platform is the Accordent Media Management System, the first centralized online communications management infrastructure for ingesting, organizing, searching, publishing and securing multi-level access to Accordent presentations and other multimedia communications - including archived web- and video-conferences.

About Accordent Technologies, Inc.
Accordent Technologies provides enterprise-wide rich media communications solutions that enable world-class organizations to inform, train and engage their audiences online. More than 1500 customers worldwide, including Unisys, JPMorgan Chase, Ford, Harvard and National Institutes of Health, rely on Accordent solutions to create, manage, distribute and measure the effectiveness of their multimedia presentation assets. Accordent has earned distinction for its award-winning products and long-standing commitment to the success of its customers and partners. Learn more about Accordent’s exceptional solutions at www.accordent.com. Accordent Capture Station, Accordent PresenterPRO, Accordent Engage and Accordent Media Management System are trademarks of Accordent Technologies. Other trademarks that may be mentioned in this release are the intellectual property of their respective owners.

Contact : Darian Germain, Accordent Technologies, 703-608-3404

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