Integrated Solution Converts Video Conferencing End Points into Broadcast Studios, Enables Centralized Content Management, Viewer Tracking and Reporting

EL SEGUNDO, Calif., June 24, 2009 – The North Shore-LIJ Health System will use a joint solution from Accordent Technologies and TANDBERG that will enable trainers to use video conferencing units to deliver live or on-demand webcast presentations to more than 35,000 staff members.

North Shore-LIJ will use the solution to reduce the cost and complexity of administering continuing professional education programs required for staff certification. Key functional areas of the solution include:

Distributed Content Creation: By enabling trainers to webcast from existing end points, the solution will be substantially more efficient than the current, classroom-based system, which requires subject matter experts to travel between 14 New York-area hospitals, and to repeat training sessions for absent or shift-based employees;

Centralized Content Management, Viewer Tracking and Reporting: By integrating the management, search, online testing and viewer tracking and reporting capabilities of the Accordent Media Management System (AMMS) with the automated video conference capture and streaming archive capabilities of the TANDBERG Content Server (TCS), the solution provides an automated, unified workflow for: archiving video conferences using TCS, detecting and ingesting TCS-created content into the AMMS, carrying over content metadata to ensure proper categorization and searchability, and tracking how viewers are consuming the TCS-archived content;

Online Certification and Testing: Since the archived TCS content will be tracked through the AMMS, North Shore-LIJ will be able to precisely track and report on which viewers watched which piece of content, for how long and their workgroup or geographic origin. North Shore-LIJ also plans to leverage the AMMS online testing and certification capabilities to award Continuing Medical Education (CME) credits entirely online.

“Training requirements for health care providers are extensive and grow daily. There simply is no way to create enough timely, relevant content without empowering and teaching our professional staff to create their own high-quality content,” said Dennis Skahill, North Shore-LIJ Studios. “Bringing together Accordent and TANDBERG produces very empowering technology that allows our trainers to create their own webcasts - using technology we have already deployed - and we can monitor, test and track all activity via a single management system.”

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 TANDBERG
TANDBERG is the leading global provider of telepresence, high-definition video conferencing and mobile video products and services with dual headquarters in New York and Norway. TANDBERG designs, develops and markets systems and software for video, voice and data. The company provides sales, support and value-added services in more than 90 countries worldwide. TANDBERG is publicly traded on the Oslo Stock Exchange under the ticker TAA.OL. Please visit www.tandberg.com for more information.

TANDBERG is a trademark or registered trademark in the U.S. and other countries. All other product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.

About North Shore-LIJ Health System
The nation's third largest, non-profit, secular healthcare system, the North Shore-LIJ Health System cares for people of all ages throughout Long Island, Queens and Staten Island – a service area encompassing more than five million people. The health system consists of 14 hospitals, 18 long-term care facilities, The Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, three trauma centers, five home health agencies, a hospice network and dozens of outpatient centers. In addition, North Shore-LIJ is partnering with Hofstra University to develop a new medical school. North Shore-LIJ’s owned facilities house about 5,000 beds, employ about 10,000 nurses and have affiliations with more than 7,000 physicians. Its workforce of about 38,000 is the largest on Long Island and the ninth largest in New York City. For more information, go to www.northshorelij.com.

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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