Investment Firm Uses Online Visual Communications to Share Information, Foster Esprit de Corps among Disparate Employees across the U.S. and Europe

EL SEGUNDO, Calif., – Sept. 9, 2009 – Accordent Technologies today announced its selection by American Century Investments to provide a rich media webcasting platform that enables the firm to make a personal and engaging connection with employees worldwide by bringing video-based communications right to their desktop computers.

American Century Investments uses the Accordent system to support a variety of corporate communications programs, including quarterly all-hands “Town Hall” meetings as well as monthly management meetings. In the case of the “Town Hall” meetings, employees are now able to watch the webcasts live and submit questions to executives, which are answered during the events.

Recently, American Century used the Accordent webcasting system for a special meeting highlighting the company’s sponsorship of the 20th annual American Century Championship, a charity tournament benefiting the Lance Armstrong Foundation. The webcast modulated between live remarks and a tournament highlight video featuring an NBC network interview with American Century founder Jim Stowers Jr. about how the firm’s profits support medical research that could lead to the prevention and treatment of gene-based diseases including cancer. The multi-source webcast enabled employees to experience the goodwill of being a part of the event and the organization’s charitable commitments.

“As we expand globally it’s imperative that we have a high-quality, reliable webcasting system in place to maintain robust communications across our various sites,” said Patrick Robbins, Information Technology Advisor, American Century Investments. “The Accordent solution provides an ease of management and predictability that allows us to deliver a significantly better experience for our organization. Our employees really enjoy being able to control their viewing experience, such as swapping video and slides windows during the presentations, as well as being able to watch the webcasts from their desks live and on-demand,” Robbins said.

The Accordent rich media communications platform is provided to American Century via SKC Communication Products Inc., an Accordent Certified Partner based in Shawnee Mission, KS.

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 American Century Investments
American Century Investments is a leading privately held investment management firm, committed to delivering superior investment performance and building long-term client relationships since 1958. Serving investment professionals, institutions, corporations and individual investors, American Century Investments offers a variety of actively managed investment disciplines through an array of products including mutual funds, institutional separate accounts, commingled trusts and sub-advisory accounts. In 2009, American Century Investments was named Lipper's Best Mutual Fund Company* in the United States. The company's 1,300 employees serve clients from offices in New York; London; Hong Kong; Mountain View, Calif. and Kansas City, Mo. James E. Stowers Jr. founded the company and serves as co-chairman of the board. Jonathan S. Thomas is president and chief executive officer and Enrique Chang is chief investment officer. More than 40 percent of American Century Investments’ profits support research to help find cures for genetically-based diseases including cancer, diabetes and dementia.

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, JP Morgan 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

*The Lipper Best Large Mutual Fund Company Award annually recognizes the top fund family having at least five equity, five bond, and three mixed-asset funds. Thirty-four fund groups were considered. The award is based on risk-adjusted, consistent returns compared to peers for the 3-year period ended December 31, 2008. No other time periods were rated. Although Lipper makes reasonable efforts to ensure the accuracy and reliability of the data, the accuracy is not guaranteed by Lipper. Due to market conditions, returns for many funds are negative. Visit americancentury.com for current performance information. Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Mutual fund investing involves market risk. Investment return and fund share value will fluctuate and it is possible to lose money by investing. Before investing, carefully consider a fund's investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses. Call 1-800-345-6488 for a prospectus containing this and other information. Read it carefully.

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