Virage: mit viel Text

Virage: mit viel Text

In den letzten Tagen ist Virage nochmals zum Ausgebkurs zurück gekommen. Aus diesem Anlass stelle ich Euch diese Firma nochmals vor.

NASDAQ:         VRGE
WKN:            936307

Jahreshoch:     30,62 $
Jahrestief:     13,50 $
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Mein Kursziel:     35 $ short
                  50 $ Jahresende

Unten (aber auch auf der Website) stehen die wichtigsten Informationen. Virage verbindet die beiden Welten „Broadcasting“ (Video/TV) und „Internet“ auf einem professionellen Niveau. Die Kundenliste spricht für sich. V

eyron


http://www.virage.com/

Overview

Virage is the leading provider of software products and application services that enable media and entertainment companies, enterprises, and consumers to publish, manage and distribute their video content over the Internet or intranets. Our products and services enable Internet users to find and use the video content they want, and then to interact with it in a way that is familiar and comfortable to them. Additionally, we increase the value of video to content owners by transforming their video assets into engaging web experiences that incorporate on-demand viewing, targeted advertising, community building and e-commerce.

We allow content owners to adapt their video content to the Internet and intranets quickly and cost-effectively. Virage technology breaks traditional video into discrete video clips in real time by indexing visual scene changes, spoken words, names and faces of recognized speakers, topics discussed within each clip and other important information. The indexing and simultaneous encoding capabilities of our SmartEncode™ process transform video content into a structured video database of short-format video clips that can be dynamically published to a web site or searched on-demand. Our technology allows content owners and Internet users to rapidly find, view and share the exact portions of the video they need.

The Virage Internet Video Application Platform enables customers to transform video assets into customized and engaging web content by providing a complete solution for the encoding, indexing, publishing and syndication of intelligent video streams on the Internet. Based on a scalable and open architecture, the Internet Video Application Platform is comprised of the Virage SmartEncode™ process, the Virage Video Application Server™ and the Virage Internet Video Guide™.

Owners of video content can leverage the power of our platform either by licensing our products or by employing our application services to outsource their needs. Virage currently has over 150 customers including media and entertainment corporations such as ABC News, CNN, PBS and MGM, corporations such as Boeing, CNET, General Motors and Yahoo!, educational institutions such as Harvard Business School and government entities such as the FBI and the Library of Congress.

Headquartered in San Mateo, California, Virage is a well funded, publicly traded company [NASDAQ: VRGE]. The company's financial backers are some of the nation's leading venture capital and technology firms, including Adobe Ventures (a partnership between Adobe Systems and Hambrecht & Quist), Akamai Technologies, AltaVista, CNET Networks, Media Technology Ventures, RealNetworks, Reuters PLC, Sutter Hill Ventures, Thomson Corporation, Trinity Ventures and Weston Presidio Capital.


Mission

To be the world's leading provider of products and services that maximize the value of video by enabling it for the Internet.


Customers

Virage products and services are purchased and endorsed by industry leaders throughout the world. Customers come from a broad range of markets including major media and broadcasting companies, major Internet portals, major international corporations, educational institutions, agencies of the United States federal government and others. Virage technology has been widely adopted for managing and transforming video assets in numerous industries.

Media & Entertainment
ABC News
The Ackerley Group
BBC
BMG Entertainment
Carlton Communications
CBS
CNN
C-SPAN
FOX Sports
Imagine Media   (Business 2.0)
Los Angeles Times
Lifetime Entertainment
MGM
Network Espana
Nickelodeon Online
Paramount
PBS
Reuters
SCETV
Swiss Radio-TV
Telecinco
Times-Mirror/The Morning Call
Turner Broadcasting
TV1
The WB Network
Video Networks

Internet
ABCNews.com
Akoo.com
AltaVista
The Associated Press
CNET Networks
Chalk.com Network
Click2learn.com
ClickZ
CNN Interactive
GoVote.com
Healthology
The Industry Standard
Infoseek
iVillage.com
GovWorks.com
Myway.com
NBCi/Snap.com
NewsHunter.net
New York Times
ON24
Politics.com
Pseudo Programs
RealNetworks
Salon.com
Singingfish.com
SpeakOut.com
StreamSearch.com
StreaMedia Communications
21e Web Network
USAToday.com
VoteNet/Netivation
Voter.com
Wall Street Journal
WashingtonPost.com
Yahoo!
Zatso

Corporate
Bell Atlantic
Boeing
Compaq
DaimlerChrysler
General Electric
General Motors
Getty Images
GTE Laboratories
Heinle & Heinle
IDG Conferences
The Image Bank
iXL
Kelly & Kelly
LEXIS-NEXIS
Lockheed Martin
McCann Erickson NY
Microsoft
Morgan Stanley Dean Witter
New York Stock Exchange
Nippon Telegraph & Telephone
Nortel Networks
PICS Retail Network
PowerBrief
PRIMEDIA Workplace Learning
Red Herring
Rush Presbyterian Hospital
SGI
Structural Preservation Systems
Thomson
Usability Systems
Young & Rubicam
Zuma Digital

Government
Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
DARPA
Department of the Army
Department of the Navy
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
Joint Combat Camera Center
Library of Congress
NASA
NIMA
Other Classified Agencies

Education
CAL State Univ. at   Los Angeles
Harvard Business School
Michigan State Univ.
Univ. of North
 Carolina
Univ. of   Pennsylvania
Univ. of Quebec


Employees

With over 200 employees worldwide, Virage has a deep mixture of expertise in digital media technologies, video and audio markets, the Internet, database management systems, and product development and support. The Virage management team is comprised of both seasoned managers and technology visionaries from institutions known for leading-edge work in digital media, such as Apple Computer, Avid Technology/Digidesign, Infoseek, the MIT Media Lab, Netcom, Netscape, SGI and Sun Microsystems.


Partners

In order to provide a range of complete customer solutions, Virage has developed strategic partnerships with the leaders in a variety of industries. Virage products have been designed to easily integrate into larger turnkey systems such as media asset management systems, news automation systems, database management systems, video editing suites, Internet video streaming applications, and web server environments.
Companies that have chosen Virage products as core components of their offerings include Apollo Imaging, Artesia, Avstar, Bulldog, EMC, eMotion, IBM, Informix, iXL, Javu Technologies, Lockheed-Martin, Magnifi, Omnibus Systems, RealNetworks, SGI, Sony, Sun Microsystems, Telemedia Systems, and WebWare Corporation.


Awards

         ·§"NAB 2000 Pick Hit (Best of Show) Award": Video Systems magazine (for VideoLogger)
         ·§"Awesome Product of the Week": NewMedia Online Magazine, May 2000
         ·§"Streaming Media Tool of the Year": 1999 Web Tools Award (for VideoLogger)
         ·§"1999 Imaging Solution of the Year": Advanced Imaging magazine
         ·§"1999 Hot 100 Private Companies": Upside magazine
         ·§"April 1999 Computerworld Smithsonian Award": Heroic Achievement in Information Technology in the field of Media, Art and Entertainment
         ·§"Paul Lego selected as One of Five People Most Likely to Succeed in '99": ZDNet AnchorDesk (Jesse Burst)
         ·§"1998 Ten Companies Most Likely to Succeed": Technology Outlook
         ·§"1998 Hot 100 Private Companies": Upside magazine
         ·§"1998 Hot U.S. Technology Companies": Facts Online
         ·§"1998 Database Dozen": Database Programming & Design magazine
         ·§"1997 Impact Award": Publish Magazine
         ·§"1996 Hot 100 Private Companies": Upside magazine
         ·§"1996 Top 5 Internet Startups": Upside magazine



Management Team

Paul G. Lego, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
Al J. Castino, Chief Financial Officer
Bradley Horowitz, Chief Technology Officer
Carlos Montalvo, Vice President of Marketing
Gilbert Wai, Vice President of Engineering
W.D. "Spike" Bloom, Vice President of Sales
Mark Rattley, Vice President & General Manager, Europe, Middle East & Africa
Frank Pao, Vice President of Business Affairs & General Counsel
Dave Girouard, Vice President & General Manager of Virage Interactive
Andrew Langhoff, Vice President of Business Development


Board of Directors

Paul G. Lego, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
Ramesh Jain, Founder & Professor at UC San Diego
Standish O'Grady, Hambrecht & Quist Group
Lawrence Orr, Trinity Ventures
William Younger, Sutter Hill Ventures
Philip Halperin, Weston Presidio Capital
Don Vassel, THOMSON Multimedia

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About the Virage Internet Video Application Platform

"You guys rock, seriously."
John C. Fox, CTO, WebWare Corporation

"Virage's video infrastructure is the ideal platform for syndication of video content on the Internet. It gives us the ability to offer our client web sites custom-filtered video content from respected news sources, which will enrich and deepen their sites."
Kevin Clark, CEO, ScreamingMedia

"With thousands of hours of RealAudio and RealVideo programming on the Internet, it has become necessary to develop a system to store, index and manage it. Virage has delivered a fantastic solution for putting the right content into consumers' hands."
Rob Glaser, CEO, RealNetworks

"Virage products and application services are proving to be critical infrastructure for the broadband economy, providing the way to transform video into compelling Internet content. We are looking forward to working closely with Virage as they help drive the convergence of television and the Internet."
John Taysom, managing director, Reuters

"Our team at Telecinco is deploying one of the world's most advanced news production and archive systems. The dependability of each component in the strategy is critical. We performed exhaustive benchmark tests of multiple competing technology vendors. After evaluating their products, their workflow integration, track record and business strategies, Virage came out the clear winner."
Jose Luis Romero, technical director, Telecinco

"From an investment perspective, Virage meets all of our stringent investment criteria. First, they are the clear industry leader with many very satisfied customers. Second, the market they serve is enormous and growing rapidly. And third, they have a world-class management team. In a nutshell, Virage is doing for video on the Internet what Inktomi and Yahoo have done for text."
Philip Halperin, general partner, Weston Presidio Capital

"Virage points the way to the 21st Century."
Michael Duffy, vice president, ABC News Operations


About Video Application Server

"The Video Application Server is a paradigmatic example of good software design and execution. Virage has clearly learned, from its previous generation of search products and through its experience running Virage Interactive services, how to architect a product that delivers the right amount of power and scalability. The server is simple to get started with, while remaining flexible for developers whose clients require more complex customization and integration."
"VAS is powerful out of the box. Set up is the picture of simplicity."
Mark Gallay, VP and director of professional services, ScreamingMedia, Inc.

"By streamlining the process of integrating video into any web site, the Virage Video Application Server fills a role not served by basic encoders and video servers or even media asset management systems. For organizations wishing to publish and distribute significant amounts of video via the Internet or intranet, Virage’s software platform provides an excellent turn-key solution."
Mitchell Linden, vice president of strategy for digital media and broadband solutions, iXL

"As the amount of streaming media on the Web multiplies, our clients are demanding a robust and scalable way to integrate video into their web sites. The Virage Video Application Server is the quickest and most cost-effective way to create and maintain a dynamic, video-rich web site."
Gary Welz, director of broadband solutions, Deepbridge Content Solutions

"Not only is the Virage Video Application Server a breakthrough system for turning video into usable information, it is a robust platform that supports mission-critical enterprise applications. Virage products, such as the new Video Application Server, allow us to use streaming media to significantly improve the information flow throughout the organization."
Tony Menagerie, director of information systems, Lockheed Martin


About Virage Application Services

"Until Virage, we did not have a good way to put our TV content on the Web."
Stace Felder, co-executive producer, CNET

"Virage has one of the coolest applications on the Web. Their application does an amazing job at providing solutions for our users. It truly empowers the iVillage community."
Sean Travers Casey, executive director net new media, iVillage

"Virage is the best in the business of enabling data-based video for the Internet. They have brilliant software, and an equally innovative business structure that has helped Salon.com achieve its goal of integrating video into our web sites. Virage's Campaign 2000 [Video Search Engine] fits perfectly with Salon.com's political coverage. Overall, Salon.com and Virage together make great strategic partners."
Andrew Ross, executive vice president, Salon.com

"The amazing part about this project was the speed with which we were able to add this breakthrough feature to our site. Virage was able to seamlessly integrate our video content into our site in less than 3 weeks. The Web video experts at Virage have enabled us to transform video selection from a passive viewing experience into an active and engaging Internet experience."
Scot Rubin, executive producer, Pseudo.com

"Virage's technology and the quick turnaround from their Internet video experts have allowed us to present our customers with a powerful decision making tool."
Tony Paquin, president and CEO, Netivation.com

"Searchable video takes advantage of the interactive nature of the Internet, giving people the opportunity to save time in locating and viewing specific subjects of interest to them. It also fits exactly with the way that they are already accustomed to finding text-based information on the Web."
Jeff Garrard, senior executive editor, CNN Interactive

"Working with Virage has given our users the ability to quickly and easily search our video archives for information that will help them make smarter investing decisions."
Mitch Ratcliffe, vice president and editor-in-chief, ON24

" Not only do Virage's video application services allow us to give our readers access to valuable information from our conferences, they make it easy for us to turn events into ongoing revenue streams, as well."
Michael Romoff, business development manager, The Standard.

"Virage's video search breaks new interactive ground in what will certainly be a Web-driven campaign. Our viewers will be able to use this application to find the exact context for the many words and promises that will be delivered over the next year by the presidential hopefuls. The Virage search will add a whole new dimension to our campaign coverage."
Jim Kennedy, director of multimedia services, Associated Press

"This service truly exemplifies the utility and credibility ABCNEWS.com offers its users. Being a 24-hour news service, ABCNEWS.com is pleased to provide its users access to ABC News' premier programming, like 'World News Tonight' and 'Nightline', and Virage's exceptional technology at their convenience."
Bernard Gershon, vice president and general manager, ABCNEWS.com


About VideoLogger

"CNN chose the Virage VideoLogger because it's the only product capable of indexing all of our video content in real-time, 24 by 7. There's no room for error in our business. As the world's leading news organization, CNN can only deploy products that are production-proven in mission critical applications. That's why we chose Virage."
"VideoLogger revolutionizes the way we use content in the newsroom."
Kevin Ivey, vice president of research & development, CNN

"Faculty and students now have access to video that previously never would have been indexed. [VideoLogger] is an amazing research, teaching and library tool."
"VideoLogger not only allows us to search for relevant clips, it also gives us immediate and complete control over a tremendous amount of information."
Larry Bouthillier, director of multimedia production, Harvard Business School

"With so much news video available to television broadcasters on a daily basis, it is important to Reuters that we are able to assist our customers in managing that video and in selecting the images they want to use. Incorporating Virage technology in our browse product will make a real difference to video management in newsrooms all over the world."
Tony Donovan, director of television and visuals, Reuters PLC

"Virage's open architecture allows us to integrate the Media 360 system seamlessly into any server or news environment. Through our partnership with Virage, we can create best-of-class video solutions based on each customer's needs."
Carolyn Layne, VP of Media Business Group, Informix

"AltaVista and Virage defined a new category of content on web-searchable video. The response has been overwhelming. When we decided to put a searchable version of the Clinton testimony on our site, the Virage VideoLogger was able to make it happen in web time. It allowed us to publish a fully searchable version of the Clinton video to our web site that same day."
Barry Rubinson, director of engineering, AltaVista


About AudioLogger

"At CNN, the vast majority of video that we deal with is raw footage that contains no embedded textual material, such as closed captioning, from which to construct an index of the content. We are very excited about the recent Virage-IBM agreement because of its potential to yield products which allow broadcasters to extract and index, in real time, the wealth of information contained in audio tracks. The ability to search incoming news feeds by speaker or by spoken content would enable us to accelerate the rate at which we bring stories to air, one of CNN's major objectives."
Kevin Ivey, vice president of research & development, CNN

"The integration of speaker independent speech-to-text, speaker ID and advanced audio analysis into a single real time product envelope represents a powerful 'first to market' coup for both IBM and Virage. The Virage VideoLogger provides IBM with a high volume delivery platform for its audio technologies into the broadcast and Fortune 1000 markets."
W.S. "Ozzie" Osborne, general manager of IBM's Speech Business Unit, IBM


About Virage Internet Video Guide

"The streaming media market has been waiting for a search engine that indexes high caliber Internet video, letting consumers quickly locate media that interests them. The Virage Internet Video Guide provides a compelling value proposition for content providers to help them monetize their rich media assets."
Paul Sagan, president & COO, Akamai Technologies

"As the amount of RealMedia audio and video programming on the Internet explodes, Internet users increasingly rely on Real.com Guide and RealPlayer to quickly locate content they want. The integration of the Virage Internet Video Guide into Real.com Guide, RealPlayer and RealJukebox enables us to provide a relevant and consistent search experience to the millions of consumers who use our products and services. This is a significant advancement in the way content producers reach viewers."
Tom Frank, COO, RealNetworks

"At ABCNEWS.com we count on Virage to help us bring our television content to the Web. The Virage Internet Video Guide takes our relationship to the next level by driving traffic to ABCNEWS.com in a way that preserves our integrated web site experience, giving more Internet users access to ABCNEWS's premier programming at their convenience."
Bernard Gershon, senior vice president and general manager, ABCNEWS.com

"Broadband media is placing new burdens on Internet infrastructure, requiring new reliable and scalable ways to locate and deliver rich media. The Virage Internet Video Guide is poised to open the floodgates for video on the Web by providing a powerful new way to connect viewers with relevant content. As the platform underlying Virage's application services, Sun is proud to play a key role in this revolution."
Bill Correll, group manager of digital and interactive media solutions, Sun Microsystems, Inc.


About MyLogger

"MyLogger is a very powerful application that has enormous value to any video producer publishing RealVideo to the Internet. It gives producers excellent visibility into RealSystem G2 files, and helps web masters better integrate video into their sites."
Mark Bretl, vice president, RealNetworks, Inc.

"I would like to tell you MyLogger is a super product. Easy to use and fast. Everyone who has video on their PC's should get a copy."
Sam Allen, Orlando, FL

"I saw a demo of your tool [MyLogger] this morning at the QuickTimeLive Conference. I thought I died and went to heaven ;). I definitely would like to get on the beta program."
Dmitry Beransky, UC San Diego, Multimedia Interactive Learning Laboratory


Virage's Open Architecture and Development Environment

"The standards-based, open architecture of VideoLogger meets all of Harvard's systems requirements, allowing us to integrate searchable video into our existing database, Web server application, video server and network environments."
Larry Bouthillier, director of multimedia production, Harvard Business School

"The Virage VideoLogger is a natural fit with our goal of allowing customers to better manage and distribute key marketing assets. The ability to search video extends the value of our marketing automation solution. The mature development environment and APIs included with Virage's VideoLogger software enables us to quickly customize and integrate the way our customers can use and search video to better collaborate and communicate internally and with their partners and suppliers."
Eric Hoffert, chairman and chief technology officer, Magnifi

"Virage's VideoLogger and associated development environment allow us to publish indexed video metadata directly into an application's file system, a database management system or any other file format that our clients require. This flexibility permits both rapid prototyping and scalable deployment of video management and distribution systems."
Duane Shugars, chief operating officer, DSMCi

"Lockheed Martin selected Virage because its video and image search products are the only ones that integrate easily into our customer's Oracle database environments and secure intranet applications. The Virage VideoLogger is the critical first step for application workflows that integrate video in real time to Web-based information management systems, media query systems and distance learning applications. The effectiveness of our CIN system is enhanced by the ability to store video assets as searchable HTML documents, which allows us to rapidly distribute intelligence reports world-wide."
Tony Mangerie, director of western development laboratories, Lockheed Martin


About Virage Image Retrieval Engine

"We chose Virage's Image Search products for AV Photo Finder quite simply because they're state of the art. Virage Image Search products scale effortlessly and perform reliably and quickly under intensive loads characteristic of the global search traffic on the World Wide Web. With an initial data store of 10 million images it was imperative that the technologies we incorporated be capable of supporting a massive collection of data that we expect will easily grow an order of magnitude in terms of both image content and user traffic .Virage's products meet that need."
Barry Rubinson, director of engineering, AltaVista

 

... wer sich mal mit Virage beschäftigt wird ihn zumindest auf seine Watchlist stellen.

eyron
 

Hallo eyron,
hiermit getan und danke für den Tip!Aber erst einmal müssen die Wunden verbunden werden und Du weißt ja,die heilen in diesen Zeiten besonders schlecht.

gruß raco