Bauer-Griffin, the Hollywood-based celebrity photo agency, has choosen Orphea for publishing and selling their photo archives online. Orphea is a Digital Asset Management Solution from Algoba Systems.
Although Orphea is already used by Sipa Press, Gamma Presse Images, Studio X, Redux Pictures, R.E.A. Photo Agency, AKG-images and other photo agencies, it is still - like Algoba itself - widely unrenowned in the picture business.
Algoba was founded in 1997 and is located in Paris, France. Designed to operate on Oracle, Orphea Studio works cross-platform with a client-server/internet architecture and offers a complete line of specific modules for the management of digital pictures, videos, sounds and PDF as well as managing orders, clients contacts, publication management, follow-up of online orders, billing, invoicing, calculation of royalties and document input/output. Algoba is exhibiting at the CEPIC.
Algoba´s competitors are mainly (randomly listed without claiming to be a complete list):
20|20 Software:
Providing enterprise management software and online solutions to stock photography agencies, the main product line consists of ProStock Agency and PsWeb. Some of the features of ProStock Agency include hierarchical keywording, right's-control of images, delivery notes, invoicing, commissions for photographers and salespeople, tax rate for VAT, IPTC and XMP headers, currency conversion for foreign sales, receivables and payables, and many reports, including Crystal Reports. Currently in use by over 120 picture libraries and agencies worldwide: pacific stock, alaska stock, envision, LuckyPix and eStock Photo, to name a few.
FotoWare:
FotoWare is one of the biggest suppliers of professional workflow software in the Digital Asset Management sector. Productline: FotoStation Pro, Portal Server, Index Manager and FotoWeb. FotoWare currenlty expands its business field and is looking for Dealers in Canada, India and Japan. BTW: the all-new Mac OS X version of FotoStation Pro will be ready for shipping on May 24th, 2004. Customers (only a few): Cubo Images, Sygma, The Image Works.
Digital Collections:
Producer of the DC4 Asset Management System, ELEKTRA (Automatic Keywording) and "EST SEARCH" fors Portals. The latter incluces "Image Guide", a system for searching similiar pictures. Comprehensive system; for customers see (1; 2): USA Today, South China Morning Post, Bangkok Post, Content Mine, Japan Post.
PictureSafe:
With offices in Boston and Central Europe the producer of myCONTENT Media Asset Management System, ASP myCONTENT Bildsyndication, myCONTENT - Bildsyndication. Customers include Picture Press, PictureAlliance (including KPA Photoagency, AKG Images Photoagency, etc.) and others.
Diasystems:
Producer of Dias Foto, Dias FotoWeb and Dias Job. Customers are the IFA-Bilderteam Photoagency, Keystone Photoagency and the Guggenheim Musuem Bilbao.
Canto:
Canto has just launched Cumulus 6 for Enterprise and is the producer of the Cumulus productline (Cumulus Single User and Cumulus Enterprise), the Workgroup Family (Archive Server, Publishing Server, Business Server), of Cumulus Web Publisher Pro and Cumulus Internet Client Pro. Canto is partnering with Yawah Image Express for "single source dynamic imaging" (distributing optimized images to users on the internet with an easy to use web-based self-service).
Extensis:
Producer of Extensis Portfolio Server 6, recently accounced Portfolio 7 and the upcoming release of Portfolio 7 Server. Customers - among others - include Mary Ellen Mark. Portfolio has been named by ThinkSecret to be "premier photo and image file management system for the Mac".
