Once again, WAVE has exceeded expectations and challenged industry standards with the official release of MediaBank 3.5. The powerful capabilities and extensive feature set enable businesses to extract more functionality and value from MediaBank 3.5 than other DAM applications. Coupled with WAVE’s world-class customer support from accomplished engineers, MediaBank 3.5 is more than just a software application but a complete business solution providing companies with incomparable value.

Current customers can access MediaBank 3.5 via WAVE’s online customer support site. New client inquires can be sent via our contact page or emailed to sales@wavecorp.com.

MediaBank 3.5’s official press release

MediaBank 3.5 Feature Name: LDAP Support

MediaBank Version: Workgroup and Enterprise

Benefits: The I.T. headaches caused by managing many user accounts in different systems is minimized within MediaBank by promoting consistency, saving time, and decreasing administrative costs through LDAP automation.

Description: MediaBank 3.5 now integrates with LDAP and Active Directory. LDAP and Active Directory are application protocol tools that allow administrators to define users, grant permissions, and assign policies to users and groups from a central database. Once a user is defined, given new permissions, or terminated in LDAP or Active Directory, MediaBank 3.5 automatically updates this information within its own system. Therefore, I.T. or Administrative personnel do not have to remap or re-authenticate users in MediaBank, as they did previously. Additionally, LDAP Support authenticates users remotely for the web, so these remote users do not need to be redefined in Active Directory. By removing the need to manually manage MediaBank users, this automatic feature saves employees time and ultimately decreases administrate costs for the company.

This is part of a weekly series showcasing new features and benefits of MediaBank 3.5

Part One: Multi-Media Support

Part Two: Functional Skins

Part Three: Projects

MediaBank 3.5 Feature Name: Projects

Version: Static (Workgroup and Enterprise), Dynamic (Enterprise only)

Benefits: Automatic asset routing enhances transitions between workflow processes while providing a clear picture of what is in each queue.

Description: MediaBank 3.5 now supports static and dynamic projects. Projects are permission based collections that can be assigned to job jackets (static) or based on searches (dynamic). Dynamic projects act as role-based jobs by allowing users to set up queries such as “Assigned to me”, “In the proofing stage”, or “For Customer X”. These role-based queries provide real-time, relevant results with respect to the user, group, time, and date. All projects have metadata which can be used for reporting to enable managers to identify workflow outliers that can easily be used to pinpoint bottlenecks in work flow or similarly recognize efficiencies in various processes.

This is part of a weekly series showcasing new features and benefits of MediaBank 3.5

Part One: Multi-Media Support

Part Two: Functional Skins

MediaBank 3.5 Feature Name: Functional Skins

MediaBank Version: Workgroup and Enterprise

Benefits: Simplify the end user experience by removing the clutter of irrelevant features and exposing an interface that is specific to each user’s role and responsibilities.

Description: MediaBank 3.5 has an increased focus on improving the product’s usability through the creation of more intuitive user interfaces (UIs) and enhanced navigation. MediaBank delivers customized interfaces according to each user’s role giving them straightforward access to the features they use the most. This streamlines training requirements and saves users time and hassle by making MediaBank more instinctive than ever. The client application has several predefined UI options, but administrators have the ability to customize their interface as they see fit. The ability to customize the product so significantly is indicative of MediaBank’s extensive configuration capabilities.

This is part of a weekly series showcasing new features and benefits of MediaBank 3.5

Part One: Multi-Media Support

MediaBank 3.5 Feature Name: Multi-Media Support

MediaBank Version: Workgroup and Enterprise

Benefits: Users now have convenient access to large video and audio files using minimal network and computer resources.

Description: Mediabank 3.5 supports multi-media files such as MOV, MPG, AVI, WMV, etc. The MediaBank image engine will generate streamable Flash previews that are accessible via a built-in media player for all three MediaBank user interfaces. This new feature will also allow users to view thumbnail frames of video files at chosen intervals. With the ability to manage these increasingly popular multi-media files, MediaBank customers can serve new workflows and industry verticals.

This is part of a weekly series showcasing new features and benefits of MediaBank 3.5

B.media version 5.5 was released the night of Friday December 7th. This is the latest major release of the revolutionary enterprise content management solution.

Along with support for Quark 7 and InDesign CS3, B.media 5.5 also include many new robust features.

From the in Official B.media Press Release:

TableBuilder ‐ The concept of table building functionality has existed for quite some time, but the execution of the features has been lackluster. The new B.media TableBuilder offers users a powerful tool to establish table templates that will automatically create product tables according to the individual SKUs within the product offer. These format neutral tables can easily be used in the desired output channels, such as web and print. The content within these tables is dynamic, as is all B.media content, so that changes to the tables or products within them are automatically reflected in the output channel’s publication(s).

SynchroBlock ‐ A collection of new B.media features that puts another new and innovative twist on an established concept. B.media users now have the ability to automatically apply formal layout to individual offers and an entire publication at the click of a button. Unlike most implementations of a batch page creator, B.media places all of the desired offers on a digital whiteboard rather than a final live page or hi‐res document. This allows product managers, merchandisers, and creative staff to preview and modify the pages of a publication within an intuitive interface before final layout. These digital whiteboards are used to automatically generate pages which contain active B.media links so they can be automatically updated as changes occur.

Go to the WAVE Corporation press page or contact sales for more info about B.media 5.5