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Extensis Announces Immediate Availability of Portfolio 7.0 for Windows

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Digital Asset Management solution offers instant deployment, ease of use and affordability for workgroups and individuals.

Northampton, UK – May 18th, 2004 – Extensis Inc., today announced immediate availability of its leading Digital Asset Management (DAM) solution, Portfolio 7 and Portfolio Server 7 for Windows (Macintosh versions will be available later this month). Portfolio enables photographers, graphic artists and other individuals and workgroups – from those in small-to-medium sized organisations to multiple workgroups in global 2000 companies – to organise, retrieve, repurpose, and distribute digital files quickly. Portfolio Server also provides instant access to assets across the Internet and other wide area networks, opening the communication channel between distributed team members and partner networks, making asset management and collaboration easier and more efficient than ever before.

“Portfolio 7 marks a new direction for digital asset management,” said Kevin Hurst, vice president of Marketing for Extensis. “While most DAM solutions are expensive, difficult to deploy, and have a steep learning curve, Portfolio is extremely affordable, has an easy to learn interface and can be seamlessly deployed in a matter of hours into an existing workflow.”

New Features in Portfolio 7 For greater efficiency and real-time collaboration, Portfolio’s new AutoSync functionality allows users to assign tasks to Portfolio Server, enabling automatic synchronisation. This feature also offloads file management and processing to Portfolio Server, boosting the system’s overall workflow efficiency.

The most dramatic new addition to the Portfolio 7 Suite of products is NetPublish – an add-on module that automates the process of turning Portfolio catalogues into elegant, full-featured websites — with no knowledge of HTML or JavaScript required. With a simple, wizard-like interface, and using professional-quality templates, users can build sites that include built-in image search, collection baskets, low-resolution previews and batch-download capabilities. A NetPublish Server brings the power of server-side JavaScript-based scripting, customisable templates, and real-time database access to a web server. Advanced users can access and edit the underlying NetPublish templates to create fully customised websites.

Other new features include One Click CD/DVD archiving, Batch Image Conversion that allows users to convert image files to JPEG or TIFF format, with controls for resolution, size and colour mode, and Round-trip embedding of IPTC and XMP metadata into JPEG and TIFF files.

About Portfolio 7
The Portfolio suite of Digital Asset Management (DAM) products is designed to meet the needs of the most demanding content creation workgroups through four components: Portfolio Client, Portfolio Server, Portfolio NetPublish and Portfolio SQL Connect. Portfolio provides powerful Client/Server digital asset management for both desktops and networked workgroups, allowing collaborative teams to organise, find and share digital files quickly.

Pricing and Availability
Portfolio 7 is available at an estimated street price of £129.99 with a single NetPublish license. Additional NetPublish licenses can be purchased for an estimated street price of £129.99 (five concurrent web connections) or £599.99 (unlimited web connections). In addition, upgrades to Portfolio 7 are available for an estimated street price of £69.99

Portfolio Server’s estimated street price is £2199.99 Upgrades to Portfolio 7 Server are available for an estimated street price of £1199.95. NetPublish Server licenses can be purchased for an estimated street price of £1199.95. SQL Connect for MSDE is available for £2699.95. SQL Connect for Oracle 8i/9i/10 is available for £4499.95. SQL Connect for MS-SQL is available for £4495.95. SQL Connect for Oracle and MySQL will be shipping in July 2004. Please contact Extensis or your local reseller for more information. All prices are exclusive of VAT.

For more information on Portfolio 7 or to download the Windows version, please go to www.extensis.com/portfolio. A Mac version will be available later this month.

System Requirements
Portfolio 7 Client supports Windows 2000, XP Home, XP Professional and QuickTime 6.4 or higher. Portfolio 7 Server supports Windows 2000 and 2003 Server. Portfolio NetPublish requires Microsoft IIS Versions 5.1 or 6.0.