Company Marks Tenth Year at Show with New Releases of Award-Winning Accordent Capture Station™ and Accordent Media Management System™; CEO Mike Newman to Moderate Enterprise Streaming Panel

EL SEGUNDO, Calif., May 19, 2008 – Accordent Technologies, Inc. (Booth 107), celebrates its tenth appearance at the streaming industry’s seminal event with market-leading products, awards, speaking honors and editorial recognition of its position as the premier provider of enterprise rich media communications solutions that enable some of the world’s largest organizations to inform, train and teach audiences online. .

Accordent will demonstrate the newest versions of its award-winning automated multimedia presentation creation and management products, the Accordent Capture Station 4.1, and multimedia presentation management system - the Accordent Media Management System 2.2, tomorrow and Wednesday at the New York Hilton and Towers.

Mike Newman, CEO of Accordent Technologies, will moderate a panel session on Tuesday, May 20th from 10:30 – 11:30 a.m. entitled “Best Practices in Enterprise Streaming for Communications and Learning.” Session presenters will include Joan Dollard-Spooner, Associate Director, Webcasts, Podcasts, Ernst & Young; Rose Kazan, Director of Global Multimedia Services, Lehman Brothers; Scott Szczurek, Online Video Specialist, CME Group; and Sunil Verma, DVP, Macy's Home Store.

The event caps a number of recent accolades for Accordent from the editors of Streaming Media Magazine, including a 2007 Editors’ Choice Award for the Accordent Media Management System and the selection of Accordent CTO, Mike Lorenz, as one of the top 25 most influential streaming industry veterans of the last decade.

Accordent’s enterprise leadership position was also highlighted in the Streaming Media Industry Sourcebook 2008 annual review of streaming in the enterprise segment. Author Nico McLane writes: “Accordent Technologies was the clear application and partner winner in the enterprise space in 2007, and this certainly gives them an edge in 2008. The ability to leverage existing technology in an enterprise and to bring existing media generated by other vendors’ systems into a logical and useful whole is the key to success in the enterprise.”

Accordent will demonstrate its newest product capabilities, including: Accordent Capture Station: new format support for Flash, Silverlight, HD and video podcasting; Accordent Capture Station™ - Mobile Edition: a new, backpack-sized portable form factor for the industry’s favorite automated presentation capture solution; Accordent Media Management System – the newest version of Accordent’s groundbreaking media management solution with location-based routing, category reporting and RSS feeds, one-time public webinar viewer registration, and integration with the TANDBERG Content Server.

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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