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World Vision Switches to Merlin Hosted DAM to Better Overcome Poverty and Injustice

Quincy, MA, November 10, 2009 – World Vision has converted to the Merlin Hosted Digital Asset Management System to organize their photo and video content with predictable, low-cost monthly payments. The staff at World Vision had been using an in-house Merlin digital asset management system since 1996.

"With cutbacks in the economy and our IT structure we needed to find a workable solution. It made a lot of sense to go with a service that is scalable to our budget and needs. MerlinOne has helped us to be good stewards of our donor dollars," said World Vision executive Producer John Leckie.

Merlin hosted digital asset management systems are a full, outsourced, digital asset management system offered as Software-As-A-Service (SAAS). MerlinOne locates its systems in the United States in a top-notch co-location facility with high security, generator backups and connections to 4 Internet backbones and provides performance and uptime guarantees, and fault-tolerance. Merlin customer service staff directly supports its customers’ end-users.

Merlin is a complete digital asset management system that allows users to organize millions of photos and other multimedia files using fast, precise searching with easy and flexible workflows. Access to Merlin is via thick or web clients. Merlin’s industry leading video asset management technology allows users to actually search for words spoken in the audio tracks.

MerlinOne has been a digital asset management system vendor for more than 20 years and has been hosting systems since 1999. Merlin hosted customers include a wide variety of corporations, such as Pfizer Corporation, Harvard University, The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, The Christian Science Monitor, The Minneapolis Star Tribune, The Humane Society of the United States, the Landov picture agency and the largest Merlin system in existence, the E-Sheets® electronic tearsheet service. E-Sheets currently has 159 million records and adds a million new records about every 10 days. The service is used daily by every major advertiser and agency in North America.

About World Vision - World Vision is a Christian relief, development and advocacy organization dedicated to working with children, families and communities to overcome poverty and injustice

About MerlinOne - MerlinOne, Inc. is a leading provider of digital asset management systems and electronic document discovery platforms. E-Sheets® is the foremost electronic tearsheets service. The Merlin picture desk management solution has over 140 major installations at corporations like The New York Times, The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, USA Today, Harvard University, Pfizer, Habitat for Humanity and The White House. MerlinOne technology helps companies manage photos, text, graphics, PDFs, multimedia and e-discovery material.

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