Accordent announces the release of version 3.5 of its award-winning Accordent Media Management System. With a ground-up rebuild, new .NET architecture, and more than 200 new features, AMMS v3.5 provides the most powerful platform for managing, protecting, and measuring the effectiveness of your online communications initiatives.

• Best-in-Class Media Management Portal
• Performance-Based Measurement & Reporting
• Enterprise Grade System Administration
• Network Control Management
• Professional Testing & Certification

Custom-branded portal

Clients can customize the appearance and functionality of their AMMS v3.5 systems to reflect the unique requirements of the organization(s) they serve. Content is ingested and can be pre-assigned to logical content categories or sub-categories. Leveraging a new, Microsoft .Net framework, the system delivers industry-leading performance, deployment and maintenance capabilities.

Advanced content search

Viewers can rapidly located content of interest using keywords to search through an extensive array of content metadata. Highly granular search capabilities can scan terms spoken (via speech-to-text) or those in text from presentation titles, authors and events; slides and slide notes; and closed captioning files.

Unified management of all visual communications assets

AMMS v3.5 unifies all your content – whether presentations created with Accordent products, or legacy video files, or video- or web-conferencing archives – in a single, secure management system. Additionally, by wrapping third-party media files in Accordent tracking skins, clients can produce performance-based reports showcasing the value, and impact, of all their visual communications assets.

Management Reporting

Business managers can run automated, multi-format reports from anywhere in the system for extensive, actionable analysis and decision making. Results can be used for comparison with desired communications, training and educational outcomes, as well as to satisfy compliance mandates or provide an audit trail.

Definitive viewer tracking

With AMMS v3.5, clients collect the most comprehensive, interactive online communications data available. The system uniquely tracks player-side viewing information, capturing precise data about individual behavior (such as viewing, testing and polling activities) – even over multicast – without requiring manual exports from server logs.

Correlate viewer stats with performance

Clients can compare information from a variety of sources, including viewer data (by individual or by groups), content data (on boarding, drop off, answers by question), and network QOS data (bit rate, IP origin, packet loss) and correlate trends with productivity, learning and training outcomes.

Multi-Tenant Architecture

The only "hybrid" solution in its class, organizations or service providers can use a single AMMS installation to support multiple clients, schools, departments or business units each with their own system administrators, branding, content, functionality, business rules and reporting.

Standardize media processes organization-wide

Sophisticated super- and sub-administrative capabilities in AMMS v3.5 allow large organizations to de-centralize content creation and management while locking-down mission-critical portal and media branding, content review and approval, content access privileges and network resource scheduling for a truly scalable, enterprise visual communications platform.

Automate webcast event scheduling

At the heart of the AMMS v3.5 is a ten-year heritage of highly scalable, live webcasting support. Clients can use the system to schedule event capture from multiple, distributed Accordent Capture Station units, as well as to host commercial service-grade, live webcast events that automate everything from email invitations to viewer registration and tracking, and creation of an on-demand archive.

Distribution profiles

AMMS v3.5 breaks new ground in providing webcasting professionals with extensive ability to establish network routing paths for bandwidth-intensive video communications. The system's powerful content distribution profiles enable administrators to comply with IT guidelines for media-rich events without compromising production applications across the network.

Location-based routing

Whether a user is behind-the-firewall or working remotely, AMMS v3.5 location-based routing (LBR) enables network administrators to manage where the viewers get directed to be served web and video media content. Using LBR, administrators can set up routing policies to ensure that viewers get the content from their closest distribution point on the internal network, redirection to externally located content servers, and even custom "denied content" messages should they choose to restrict video over VPN or wireless segments.

Control media distribution over eCDNs, CDNs

New APIs are enabling direct integration with content delivery networks and appliances (including Cisco ACNS, Riverbed and more) enabling end-to-end, IT-independent management over rich media streams via a single console. These capabilities enable administrators to manage and schedule the creation, modification and deletion of live and video-on-demand streams, and web content, with Microsoft Windows IIS, Windows Media, Real Helix and Flash servers.

Design customized testing procedures

Clients can design customized tests, choosing true/false, multiple choice, and open answer formats – that launch before, or after, someone watches a presentation. Additionally, they can define testing procedures by setting time limits, pass/fail thresholds, and number of retake attempts.

Document professional certification

With AMMS v3.5, clients can eliminate the manually intensive process of collecting, documenting and reporting staff attendance and completion of mandatory certification courses. The system can issue personalized certificates of completion and can tracks, records and generate reports documenting staff compliance by individual or group.

Integrate video with traditional training systems

Via system APIs and existing partnerships, clients can integrate media asset viewing with third-party training systems, and provide automated professional credit notifications to continuing professional medical, legal, healthcare and trade-based accreditation systems.