Agenda

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Agenda

• What are we facing ?
• What is Adam ?
• More with WWW
• Who uses it ?
• The future
• QA

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1, 2,...
How it started!
Today!
Today/Tomorrow!
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Consequences
40 of all files in a system are duplicates
20 of all files can be re-used without
modifications
30 of all files can be re-used with minor
modifications
80 times per week the layouter spents time in
searching...
3 hours per week per person are waisted on file
administration
3,5 hours per week per person are waisted on
transferring files
These numbers come from the GISTICS Media Asset
Management Report dated 1999 !
Today, it is even worse !
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The solution
Scanner
Digital camera
CD
Wire image
Image file
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Seen in processes

• Bring order out of chaos...
• Automate processes...
• Trace log all activities...

CONTROL YOUR DIGITAL SUPPLY CHAIN
BUSINESS PROCESS CONTROL
MEDIA MANAGEMENT
ORDER OUT OF CHAOS
PRODUCTION
GRAPHIC PRODUCTIVITY TOOL
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Integrate with the existing
No extra tools interfaces for the users
Front-end
Back-end
No additional programming No modifications in
security
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What is Adam ?

• Asset Management System
• Guided searches

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What is Adam ?

• Asset Management System
• Mosaic result (or list view)

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What is Adam ?

• Asset Management System
• Collect assets in baskets to order in bulk (FTP,
  CD-ROM,...)

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What is Adam ?

• Asset Management System
• Collect assets in baskets to edit meta data in
  bulk

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What is Adam ?

• Adam is also
• No limits on meta-data (no limits on n of
  attributes, nor length of content)

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What is Adam ?

• Adam is also
• Special attributes e.g Link-attribute...

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What is Adam ?

• Adam is also
• Special attributes e.g Query-attribute

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What is Adam ?

• Adam is also
• Keyword searches on any word in the meta-data
  (also content of PDF, Quark, InDesign, Word,
  PPT,...)

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What is Adam ?

• Adam is also
• Keywords are matched against document content,
  making meta-data obsolete in some cases

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What is Adam ?

• Adam is also
• Automatic mirror of directory structures on
  servers and MIS-systems

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What is Adam ?

• Adam is also
• Workflow via status attributes, keeping the
  history of changes on this attribute

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What is Adam ?

• Adam is also
• Customer specific interfaces via SDK (software
  development kit)

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Adam More with WWW

• Track Trace Overviews via web-interfaces
• Online document corrections/translations
• Template driven document-building

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More with WWW

• Track Trace Overviews via web-interface

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More with WWW

• Online document corrections/translations

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More with WWW

• Online document corrections/translations

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More with WWW

• Online document corrections/translations

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More with WWW

• Online document corrections/translations

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More with WWW

• Online document corrections/translations

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More with WWW

• Online document corrections/translations

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More with WWW

• Online document corrections/translations

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More with WWW

• Automatic document-creation

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More with WWW

• Automatic document-creation

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More with WWW

• Automatic document-creation

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More with WWW

• Automatic document-creation

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More with WWW

• Automatic document-creation

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More with WWW

• Automatic document-creation

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More with WWW

• Automatic document-creation

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More with WWW

• Automatic document-creation

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Who uses Adam ?
Account Excecs
Customers
FileServer
Adam DataBase
DTP
Multimedia
Management
Everyone in outside the company !
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Who uses Adam ?

• AEs
• Job creation in MIS is communicated to Adam
  through JDF, after which Adam prepares the job on
  the file-server.
• Quickly retrieve historical data (eg using
  free-text query Corolla and 3d and 1997)
• Small corrections and translations in the native
  document via a web-browser, without any
  DTP-operators involved

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Who uses Adam ?

• Customers
• Get the right image in the right resolution and
  fileformat

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Who uses Adam ?

• DTP
• Full text or guided search
• 1-click DTP-operations from the database (also
  status workflow)
• Auto-pagination for catalogs (see QT-movie)

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Who uses Adam ?

• Multimedia
• Get the images in the right resolution and file
  format, through predefined choices

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Perfecte IDA

• Management
• Follow-up activity via TrackTrace
• Get all kinds of reports and logging

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The future...

• Microsoft Office Plug-ins
• Office-users can access the adam-environment from
  within Word, Powerpoint, Excel, Mail, etc. The
  chosen asset is inserted with 1-click. No more
  copy/paste between apps.
• RSS-feeds
• RSS or Real Simple Syndication, keeps you
  up-to-date with any changes in the database.
• Single Sign On / Virtual workplace
• Support of Active Directory and WebDav only 1
  login in the domain.
• DRM (Digital Rights Management)

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Who is behind Adam?

• AlfaPrint N.V.
• N.V. funding capital of 150.000 Euros
• Team of 10, 7 on the payroll, 3 free-lancers
• 2 Civil engineers
• 3 Industrial engineers
• Adam is the only product, so 100 focus
• Financially very healthy company
• Adam is now 4 years in the market and is mature
• Exhaustive reference list with big names

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Price indications?

• Adam basic-system
• Standard interface 50.000
• Users, depending on profileand numbers
  20.000
• Extra Modules
• InDesign connector (catalogues) 30.000
• Document builder (Stihl) 20.000 users
• QXP Document Editor (Koramic) 35.000 users
• Workflow Tracking 30.000 setup
• Prices for indication use only. Cheapest system
  ever sold was 25.000 , Most expensive ever sold
  was 300.000

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Customer base extract