Company Celebrates a Decade of Exceptional Growth, Enterprise Webcasting Innovation and Industry Accolades

EL SEGUNDO, Calif., – Sept. 28, 2009 – Accordent Technologies today recognized ten years of continuous growth and innovation that have made it the leading provider of on-premise enterprise webcasting platforms for creating, delivering and measuring online visual communications.

Over the last decade, Accordent has achieved impressive milestones, from technology innovation to customer and financial growth. Its exceptional results have led to wide-ranging recognition for the company, its leadership and its products. These include:
• World-class client base: Accordent has grown from its first three, content delivery network (CDN) customers in 1999 to more than 1500 Global 2000, government and educational institutions worldwide;
• Award-winning products: Accordent has lead the industry in developing award-winning products – from content creation and publishing, including its flagship Accordent PresenterPRO™ highly scalable live webcasting solution, its turnkey, automated Accordent Capture Station™, and its desktop webcasting platform, Accordent Engage™ – to its ground-breaking rich media management and performance-based measurement and reporting solution, the Accordent Media Management System™;
• Profitability: Accordent has maintained a culture of accountability and stability, achieving sustained profitability since 2001;
• Revenue Growth: For the last five years, the company has maintained in excess of 50% year-over-year growth;
• Awards: Over the last decade, Accordent has consistently received significant press and industry recognition, including:
Product Awards – Network Computing Editor's Choice (Accordent Capture Station), Streaming Media Magazine Editor's Pick (Accordent Media Management System, Accordent Multicast In-Stream Technology)
Management Awards – recognition of Accordent Chief Technology Officer, Michael Lorenz, by the editors of Streaming Media Magazine as a “Streaming Media All Star” - one of the 25 most influential people in the streaming industry;
Corporate Awards – Red Herring Magazine 2008 top 100 Start-up Technology Companies in North America and Global 100 Finalist, Inc. Magazine 2007 and 2008 “Inc. 5000” top start-up companies for demonstrating multiple consecutive years of high growth.

“We are tremendously proud of everything that Accordent has achieved over the last decade. It is gratifying to see how we’ve been able to execute on our founding vision and stay committed to that vision despite the dynamic nature of the technology and streaming industries over the last ten years,” said Mike Newman, CEO of Accordent Technologies. “The fact that we’ve exceeded our expectations in all categories – from product development to client and revenue growth – is a tribute to the quality of the customer and partner relationships we’ve been able to develop, as well as to the outstanding quality of the people that have joined Accordent over the years,” Newman said.

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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