CEO Mike Newman to Moderate Enterprise Streaming ROI Panel; Exhibit Accents Cost-Saving Webcasting Solutions, TANDBERG Video Conferencing Integration

NEW YORK, Streaming Media East, May 11, 2009 – Accordent Technologies, Inc. (Booth 107) this week will showcase innovations in enterprise webcasting technology that provide new, cost-saving options for Fortune 500 organizations to leverage high-impact, video communications to motivate, train and inspire their workforces online.

Tomorrow and Wednesday at the Hilton New York, visitors will see how Accordent solutions remain the standard of enterprise streaming providers, with solutions such 2009 Streaming Media Magazine Editor’s Choice Winner – the Accordent Multicast In-Stream Technology (AMIT). AMIT is a technology breakthrough that enables large organizations to leverage multicast-enabled networks to deliver high-quality streaming video with synchronized slides and graphics as a single, compressed stream, thereby reducing the cost of large audience, live rich media webcasts by lowering required bandwidth and reducing the investment required in web server architecture.

Showcasing its continued commitment to research and development for its award-winning product line, Accordent also will host a meeting of its Fortune 500, health care, government and higher education clientele that will feature a preview of the company’s next-generation platform architecture, the culmination of a 24-month product development effort.

Mike Newman, CEO of Accordent Technologies, will moderate a panel session on Wednesday, May 13th from 1:45 – 2:45 p.m. entitled “Cost Savings from Enterprise Streaming,” which will explore how the economic downturn has renewed interest in streaming and webcasting within the Fortune 500 as an effective tool for reducing travel and operational costs. Session presenters will include Scott Szczurek, Online Video Specialist, CME Group; Mike Covino, Director, Credit Suisse Securities; Mark Portu, President, CEO, The FeedRoom; and Carlos Gomez, Multimedia Services Manager, Medco.

In addition to the AMIT, Accordent will also demonstrate the newest renditions of its award-winning enterprise rich media creation and management platform including:
• Accordent Media Management System™ – the newest edition and a preview of exciting new architectural enhancements that are paving the way for the company’s next-generation offering;
• Accordent/TANDBERG integrated solution – Integration of the TANDBERG Content ServerTM (TCS) with the award-winning AMMS to provide an automated solution for distributed content creation and archival combined with centralized management, tracking and reporting. The joint solution provides a single workflow for organizations to archive video conferences and live events using TCS, detect and ingest TCS-created content into the AMMS, carry over content metadata to ensure proper categorization and searchability, and track how viewers are consuming the TCS-archived content.
• Accordent’s Line of Rich Media Creation Products – the latest capabilities of the Accordent Capture Station™, the company’s turnkey capture and publishing appliance, available in PC-based and mobile form factors; Accordent PresenterPRO – the company’s flagship, highly scalable live webcasting solution; and Accordent Engage – its console-based, enhanced audio webcasting solution that enables organizations to provide a managed, secure, user-generated content service.

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, 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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