• Accenture
• Adobe
• Aspera
• Avanade

• Digimarc
• Microsoft
• MarketForward
• Telestream
• thePlatform

Accenture is one of the leading consulting and transformation management companies in the Digital Asset Management industry. North Plains is please to have worked along side Accenture to develop some of the defining digital asset management deployments in the industry, including Warner Bros, Harper Collins Publishing, and AOL. Accenture is also the first consulting firm to be certified to deploy TeleScope within Microsoft's Connected Service Framework for Broadcast.

About Accenture:
Accenture helps entertainment, broadcast, publishing, printing and portal companies adapt to the realities of the digital evolution and capitalize on new opportunities. More than 1,000 dedicated professionals provide media and entertainment companies with a distinctive combination of business and technology consulting, systems integration and outsourcing capabilities. Accenture has worked with 19 of the 20 largest media and entertainment companies in the world.

Adobe has developed the industry's most comprehensive suite of digital media creation tools for the printing, publishing, design and advertising industries. North Plains has worked closely with Adobe to maintain a long standing tradition of being first to market in integrating Adobe's key enabling technologies into the TeleScope Application Platform. Today, TeleScope is first to market with the integration of Creative Suite and Adobe Bridge. Further, Adobe XMP technology is a cornerstone of TeleScope's meta data and data modeling framework.

About Adobe:
Adobe is the world's leading provider of software solutions to create, manage and deliver high-impact, reliable digital content. For more information, visit www.adobe.com.

Aspera Inc. is a privately held software development company located in Emeryville, CA, creating innovative high-performance bulk data transport technologies. Aspera’s Fasp™ 2.0 software transport platform provides maximum speed, complete security, and breakthrough bandwidth control at global distances. With several thousand endpoint and server licenses installed world wide, Fasp software products are becoming the industry standard for high-speed transfer of digital content in the media and entertainment marketplace, and quickly becoming the technology of choice for large enterprise-wide, Fortune 500 companies.

About Aspera:
Aspera's suite of products solve the fundamental problems of transferring bulk data (files, directories of files, and generally any large data sets) over the Internet and private IP networks. Aspera’s fasp™ transport technology eliminates the bottlenecks of conventional file transfer technologies and dramatically speeds file transfers, even over inherently unreliable international, satellite, and wireless links. Because transfer speed automatically adapts to use the available bandwidth and protect other traffic while also allowing the user to pre-set and change on-the-fly individual transfer priorities, speeds, and finish times as needed, Aspera technology is becoming a ‘standard’ for digital content transfer by delivering dramatic savings in time and cost. For more information, visit www.Asperasoft.com.

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Avanade has a deep understanding of the TeleScope Application Platform. Its hands on system integration expertise with TeleScope' s SOAP APIs and web services architecture enabled Avanade to integrate TeleScope into Microsoft's Connected Services Framework for Broadcast. Currently, Avanade is working with North Plains to deploy and support Microsoft's end to end solution for digital broadcast automation in Accenture Center of Excellence in the Redmond, UK and Italy.

About Avanade:
Avanade is the leading technology integrator specializing in the Microsoft enterprise platform. Our people help customers around the world maximize their IT investment and create comprehensive solutions that drive business results. Additional information can be found at www.avanade.com.

Digimarc, a leading supplier of secure media solutions used in a wide range of security, identification and digital media content applications, has integrated it' ImageBridge with TeleScope in the form of an I-Piece. The combined offering delivers increased brand protection, automation of image tracking, and security for valuable brand image assets.

The Digimarc I-Piece offers TeleScope users increased brand protection and image tracking capabilities. With the integration of Digimarc ImageBridge, brand and product managers can now give their images a unique identity and monitor digital image assets as they are distributed both inside and outside of a company's network. By providing visibility into where images travel outside of the corporate network, brand managers can identify and deter unauthorized uses of important marketing materials by channel or marketing partners and misuse by unaffiliated third parties, ensuring compliance with marketing guidelines and rights management programs.

About Digimarc
Digimarc Corporation (Nasdaq:DMRCE), based in Beaverton, Oregon, is a leading supplier of secure media solutions used in a wide range of security, identification and digital media content applications. Digimarc provides products and services that enable production of more than 60 million personal identification documents, including two-thirds of U.S. driver licenses and IDs for more than 20 countries. Digimarc's digital watermarking technology provides a persistent digital identity for various media content and is used to enhance the security of financial documents, identity documents and digital images, and support other media rights management applications. Please go to the Digimarc website for more company information.

The evolving landscape of the broadcast industry is driving a revolution in the way broadcasters do business. Broadcasters now have access to more delivery channels, require more delivery outputs, and understand that digital media will soon be the norm. To successfully address these changes, broadcast companies must find ways to streamline the creation, delivery, and management of content. To this end, North Plains has partnered with Microsoft to showcase Microsoft's Connected Services Framework technologies for the Broadcast industry.

Built on the Microsoft .NET Framework and industry standards such as XML, SOAP, and WSDL, the Connected Services Framework enables film studios, broadcast and cable companies to harness the power of Web services to build connected systems. The Connected Services Framework allows TeleScope to create a tightly integrated, yet flexible and controlled workflow with products such as TeleStream’s FlipFactory, Ommnibus Systems, thePlatform and AVID. The combination of TeleScope and Microsoft’s Connected Services Framework allows information to cross platform, application, and business boundaries streamlining the creation, management, and delivery of digital content.

About Microsoft
Microsoft develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of software products for a multitude of computing devices. Microsoft software includes scalable operating systems for servers, personal computers, and intelligent devices; server applications for client/server environments; knowledge worker productivity applications; and software development tools. The Company's online efforts include the MSN network of Internet products and services and alliances with companies involved with broadband access and various forms of digital interactivity.

MarketForward delivers digital media-enabled marketing and advertising services based on TeleScope technology for Publicis Groupe companies. TeleScope solutions are broadly adopted throughout the Publicis Groupe, including MarketForward, and many of the advertising agencies within the Groupe. With its decision to standardize on the TeleScope platform, Market Forward and the Publicis Groupe have made a strategic move to leverage a proven set of DAM-enabled processes, tools and methods to all its global agencies.

About MarketForward
MarketForward combines marketing expertise and technical mastery of digital communications products and technologies. Founded in 1997, MarketForward has offices in Chicago; Toronto; Montreal; Auckland, New Zealand; and Paris; and is a division of Publicis Groupe SA.

About Telestream
Telestream products have set the standard with the world’s leading media and entertainment companies for the exchange of high-quality video via IP networks. The company’s simple-to-use appliances, powerful workflow automation applications and reliable customer service have gained Telestream a worldwide reputation as the industry standard for automated media encoding and delivery. Customers rely on Telestream for convenient, cost-effective, and robust digital media exchange. Telestream’s FlipFactory software applications provide automated streaming media publishing and transcoding between professional video systems. Telestream’s automation applications and smart media management middleware are streamlining workflows for broadcasters, content owners and creators

About thePlatform:
Headquartered in Seattle, thePlatform is an industry-leading provider of digital media publishing solutions. The company’s flagship product, thePlatform Media Publishing System (MPS), is a comprehensive solution for media, entertainment and enterprise customers. With thePlatform MPS, customers can publish digital media anywhere – over any network, to any device. Leading customers include Bank of America, CNBC, Comcast, CourtTV, Microsoft, Scripps Networks, The Wall Street Journal Online, and the groundbreaking V CAST service from Verizon Wireless. Custom feature enhancements and seamless systems integration are a simple matter using thePlatform’s the Web services MPS-SDK. For more information or to download the software, visit http://www.theplatform.com/.