Sonic Foundry Selected as Finalist for Network Computing's Prestigious Well-Connected Award
Friday, 22 April 2005Sonic Foundry® Inc. (Nasdaq: SOFO - News), a leader in automated rich media solutions, today announced its Mediasite(TM) rich media communication system has been selected as a "Best Webcaster" Finalist in CMP Media LLC's Network Computing Well-Connected Awards in the "Digital Convergence" category.
Mediasite is designed as a complete rich media recording and publishing system and is the only system of its kind that fully automates the capture, delivery and management of multimedia presentations. With Mediasite, every aspect of a presentation is recorded transparently in real-time, is ready for instant distribution as a live broadcast or as on-demand content, and is centrally managed within the organization's rich media content library.
"For the 11th year in a row, Network Computing will be recognizing the most outstanding tech products and services in the networking and IT world in our Well-Connected award issue," says Mike Lee, editor of Network Computing magazine. "The awards are a snapshot in time, the best of what we evaluated over 12 months in our Real-World Labs® -- more than 134 finalists in more than 44 categories have been named. The winners will be announced in our 4/28 issue."
By providing one central platform for automating all the complex processes typically associated with creating high-quality rich media content, Mediasite is changing the way organizations think about and use rich media. The result is an easy, convenient and affordable way to broaden learning opportunities, maximize the sharing and understanding of information, increase communication frequency and improve productivity.
"As a highly automated rich media communication system, Mediasite gives enterprise users the ability to quickly and efficiently create, deliver and manage content," explains James Dias, vice president of marketing at Sonic Foundry. "Being selected as a finalist for Network Computing's prestigious Well-Connected Award is truly an honor and is reflective of the growing adoption of rich media we have seen by our customers."
The Mediasite customer base includes more than 250 corporations, higher education institutions, healthcare organizations and government agencies that have successfully transformed their business practices with rich media. Mediasite enables these enterprises to enhance communications outreach, efficiencies and frequency for effective corporate communications, distance learning, online training, product marketing and related applications.
About Network Computing
For IT, By IT, Network Computing (http://www.networkcomputing.com), published by CMP Media LLC, Manhasset, N.Y., is dedicated to providing critical analysis of technologies, vendors and products to 220,000 IT Managers and Staff who are accountable for strategic technology purchase decisions. In 2003, Network Computing won a total of four awards from the American Society of Business Publications Editors (ASBPE), including a national award in the Best Technical Article category.
About Sonic Foundry®, Inc.
Founded in 1991, Sonic Foundry (Nasdaq: SOFO - News) is a provider of automated rich media communications technology for the enterprise. The company's high- performance rich media communications systems are trusted by Fortune 500 companies, education institutions and government agencies for a variety of critical communication needs. Sonic Foundry is based in Madison, Wis. For more information about Sonic Foundry, visit the company's Web site at www.sonicfoundry.com.
Certain statements contained in this news release regarding matters that are not historical facts may be forward-looking statements. Because such forward-looking statements include risks and uncertainties, actual results may differ materially from those expressed in or implied by such forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially include, but are not limited to, uncertainties pertaining to continued market acceptance for Sonic Foundry's products, its ability to succeed in capturing significant revenues from media services and/or systems, the effect of new competitors in its market, integration of acquired business and other risk factors identified from time to time in its filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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