Lorenz is One of 25 Chosen by Editors of Streaming Media Magazine as Making the Most Significant Contribution to the Industry over the Last Decade

EL SEGUNDO, Calif., April 11, 2008 – Accordent Technologies, Inc., today celebrated the selection of its Chief Technology Officer, Michael Lorenz, by the editorial staff of Streaming Media Magazine as a Streaming Media All Star: an award that recognizes the top 25 people who have had the most significant impact in the field based on technological innovation, business acumen, or a commitment to advancing online video since the early stages of the technology's adoption.

"We weren't interested in giving attention to the people who’ve already gotten credit in the eyes of the public," said Streaming Media editor Eric Schumacher-Rasmussen. "Instead, we wanted to honor the people who've been doing the work in the trenches, the ones who've been around since the beginning and stuck with online video even when it was an uphill battle." While future All-Star teams will highlight current leaders in the industry, the magazine's staff wanted the inaugural team to reflect a historical perspective.

"I suppose if you extend the baseball metaphor, these 25 people would really make up the streaming media hall of fame," says Schumacher-Rasmussen.

Lorenz co-founded Accordent Technologies in 1999 with CEO, Mike Newman, and SVP of Sales, Jereme Pitts, and was the primary architect for the company's award-winning rich media creation and management products. A technology visionary, Lorenz' pioneering work led to Accordent's recent grant of US Patent number 7,299,289 for developing – in 2000 – a core process in the creation of synchronized rich media communications that include streaming media and a wide array of supplemental graphics and interactive information.

This technology, that has since been widely adopted by corporations, educational institutions and public sector organizations, for corporate communications, distance learning and training, has played a significant role in facilitating streaming media adoption by adapting often lengthy, "talking head" videos into practical, graphically enriched, chaptered, interactive rich media communications.

The winners will be announced in the April/May 2008 issue of the magazine, which also celebrates ten years of StreamingMedia.com and the Streaming Media conferences and trade shows. The awards will be given at the Streaming Media East show, where Accordent will exhibit (booth #107) May 21-22nd at the New York Hilton in New York City.

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 third-party multimedia communications assets.

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

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