Visitor analysis

Public institutions that rely on corporate sponsorships and renewed memberships know that steady attendance to ticketed exhibitions is also important to earned income. To better capture and understand feedback from its annual visitors, the Cleveland Museum of Art has chosen SPSS Inc’s Predictive Analytics Software (PASW) to paint a better picture of their visitors’ overall experiences and improve marketing campaigns, heighten attendance and increase revenue. (Cindy Fink, director of marketing and communications at the Cleveland Museum of Art.)

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Video Solutions

Optibase, a provider of video solutions, has announced that US armed forces units and other branches of the US government have purchased its newly released MGW Decoder platform to decode H.264 and MPEG-1/2 video streams received from the GBS network.

NAB 2009 Event

The event "where content comes to life" is in Las Vegas from April 20 to 23, 2009. ExportAction has a list of exhibitors with profiles available on request. Visit our web site and email us.

Service desk operations at Sony

Famous for the computer wizardry behind many Hollywood films, Sony Pictures Entertainment also has escalating demands for business support, Sony Pictures’ IT organization has selected BMC Software to consolidate service desk operations across the company. (Michelle Veo, executive director of enterprise systems at Sony Pictures.)

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20th Century Fox media assets

20th Century Fox is to use Interra Systems’ automated content verification product BatonTM product in its workflow. BatonTM was selected for automating the file based content verification process for incoming and outgoing material in its encoding center in Los Angeles, CA. Content quality verification is an important part of the workflow and the results are reported through the BatonTM API to the media asset management framework.

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