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Media Asset Management for government from IBM
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The goal
Are you truly leveraging your content?
Improve efficiency. Enhance the re-use and distribution of content, such as video, audio, text and image. Manage and store content in a secure digital archive. Find content within your collection. View content from desktops. The digital content management solution for government from IBM brings together leading technologies into one end-to-end solution that manages your content process.

The advantage
IBM: leading in digital content management
Digital content management is part of the IBM Digital Media Factory, a framework of IBM and IBM Business Partner technologies, built on proven, modular components and open standards, helping to simplify complex implementations.
  • We can serve as a single point of contact for an end-to-end solution, including servers, storage, software, and tools and applications from leading Business Partners such as Ancept, Canto and MPI.
  • Frost & Sullivan named IBM the Content Management Company of the year in 2003 and 2004.

The benefits
Leverage your valuable assets in new ways
With the digital content management solution for government from IBM, you can streamline your internal content processes. Our solution can enable courts, hospitals, K12 and Higher Ed as well as Government Departments and Agencies to reduce cost and speed up workflow. Reach constituents and customers by capturing managing and repurposing and distributing content to multiple channels, such as:
  • Web Portal
  • Interactive video conferencing
  • Mobile devices
  • Kiosks
  • Web multicast TV

Your organization can:
  • Improve efficiency by automating media production processes and workflows.
  • Increase accessibility to large collections of content.
  • Foster collaboration-provide local and global access to documents with associated video audio and images
  • Improve content consistency and quality.
  • Preserve assets by transferring your intellectual property from fragile film, tape and paper records to online, durable digital formats.
  • Enhance the value of digital content by making it readily available to constituents and staff.
  • Manage and distribute rich media, such as video, audio, still images, data and text.
  • Deliver content customized for targeted constituents, using geographic and demographic criteria.

The approach
Royal Dutch Library preserves culture with Content Manager
The 204-year-old Koninklijke Bibliotheek, or Royal Dutch Library, was on a mission to reduce the amount of lost media using enterprise content management technology from IBM. The library archives a vast volume of materials electronically, using CD-ROMs, diskettes and magnetic optical disks. Anticipating several hundred terabytes of digital content, the library recognized it was time for a scalable, reliable digital media management solution.

Through our solution, the library achieved:
  • Greater operational efficiencies from replacing the manual archival process with systems to store hundreds of thousands of electronic documents annually.
  • Anticipated ability to preserve 100 years' worth of cultural content.
  • First to market with massive digital media repository for electronic publications.

The financial advantage
Cut the cost of operations for schools, hospitals, court & police justice systems as well as local and state government agencies.
The digital content management solution for government from IBM can improve return on investment.
  • Save money and enhance the value of content by more easily finding, reusing and repurposing content assets.
  • Reduce costs associated with redundant or lost content and rework.
  • Cut costs by automating content processes.