Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP Adopts North Plains Systems' Enterprise Digital Asset Management Solution

TeleScope Enterprise to Manage Digital Assets and Workflow for World's Premiere Architectural Firm

SAN FRANCISCO - September 10, 2002 -  /PRNewswire/ -- SEYBOLD SEMINARS (Booth #1333) -- North Plains Systems Corp., the innovator in Enterprise Digital Asset Management (E-DAM) solutions, today announced that Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP (SOM) has deployed North Plains Systems' TeleScope(TM) Enterprise asset management solution in three of its four main offices to date. As one of North Plains Systems' first TeleScope workgroup customers and an end user in the architecture industry, SOM will use the enterprise technology to track the use and reuse of digital assets and eventually CAD files across disparate departments including marketing.

Each SOM office had its own system for storing, retrieving, and distributing the digital assets consisting of images, QuarkXPress documents and PowerPoint presentations. These assets represent the rich history of SOM's prestigious architectural achievements that are used to assist the firm in securing new multi-billion or million dollar contracts. These valuable assets existed in several forms, mostly on servers, but many of the photos were 35mm slides stored in drawers while others were being stored on CDs or other off line media on shelves.

"As the world's premier architectural firm, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill requires a solution that allows them to share their massive resource of assets across a large geographical spectrum, yet maintain their intellectual property and project consistency," said Hassan Kotob, president and CEO of North Plains Systems. "TeleScope Enterprise was an obvious solution, with our proven E-DAM technology that allows firms of this size to manage workflow throughout the organization all while maintaining precious metadata for best practice analysis -- increasing efficiency."

North Plains Systems' E-DAM solution enables SOM to use and deploy assets throughout its organization, all the while tracking their best practice usage. Various departments no longer have to replicate an asset management repository, and the diminished cost of ownership becomes the pay off. The flexibility of TeleScope's architecture gives SOM the enterprise-class solution they need to unify disparate technologies. Built on open standards and distributed architecture, TeleScope Enterprise offers a robust and open API that allows third party technologies and legacy systems to seamlessly integrate with the TeleScope environment. TeleScope supports hundreds of file formats ranging from graphics and text, to audio and video.

About Skidmore, Owing & Merrill LLP

Founded in 1936, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP has undertaken more than 10,000 architecture, engineering, interiors, urban design, and planning projects in more than 50 countries. Throughout its history, SOM has been recognized with more than 800 awards for quality and innovation, 125 of which have been received in the past 10 years. In 1996, SOM received the American Institute of Architects' Firm Award, recognizing the distinguished design work of the firm as a whole. As the first winner of this award when it was established in 1961, SOM is the only firm to have received this prestigious honor twice. The firm currently has offices in Chicago, New York, San Francisco, London, Washington, DC, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and Sao Paolo.

About North Plains Systems Corp.

North Plains Systems Corp. is the innovator in Enterprise Asset Management (E-DAM) solutions. Introduced in 1994, North Plains Systems' core technology TeleScope(TM), the first enterprise-class solution on the market, serves more than 400 clients worldwide. These clients report faster than average return on investment from innovations such as asset-activity tracking, custom plug-ins, uncompromised native Mac and PC clients, a full-featured Web client and a patent-pending distributed architecture. With its open API and support of industry standards (CORBA, JAVA and XML), TeleScope is the only true scalable and proven enterprise-class asset management solution with the highest market percentage for actual system deployment. North Plains Systems also offers a complete suite of Professional Services to implement and customize TeleScope(TM) to the business practices and workflow of any organization. 

http://www.northplains.com 

 

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