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Albany Times Union Consolidates Their Legacy Data in a Merlin Hosted Digital Asset Management System

Quincy, MA, April 8, 2010 - When the Times Union in Albany, NY decided to consolidate their archives into a single digital asset management system, they chose the Merlin system.

"When we chose DTI as our publishing system we looked for a solution to handle our new and expanded archive needs. We were storing PDFs on a file server. We had our stories in a legacy text system and Merlin had been our photo archive for the past decade. We wanted an archive that could handle text, photos and PDFs and link the objects that were published together. Merlin was the solution. MerlinOne helped us ingest the legacy text and PDFs and link it all. Then they helped us give the public access to the text archives from our website. We couldn't be happier," explained Mike Spain, Associate Editor at the Times Union.

Not only did the Times Union consolidate on Merlin, they moved to MerlinOne's hosted digital asset management system to save money. The Merlin system is used internally by newspaper staff and also provides website readers with free access to most staff-written stories in the Times Union newspaper since 1986.

By switching to a web hosted DAM, all the newspaper's data was moved to the MerlinOne data center, and put on fully fault-tolerant systems. Merlin Hosted systems are physically housed in a top-notch co-location hosting facility with high security, generator backups and connections to 4 Internet backbones. MerlinOne provides performance guarantees, fault-tolerance and an interface to pre-press production systems. Merlin customer service staff can directly support end-users.

Merlin serves as a production picture desk, and as an archive for all forms of digital content. A complete digital asset management system, Merlin allows users to organize millions of photos, video and audio files, graphics, stories, PDF files and Microsoft Office documents using fast, precise searching with easy and flexible drag-and-drop workflows.

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 / digital asset management solution has over 140 major installations including The White House, Pfizer, Harvard Business School, NPR, The Employment Law Group®, Posternak Blankstein & Lund, Studeo Legal, The Humane Society, The New York Times and USA Today. MerlinOne technology helps companies manage photos, text, graphics, PDFs, multimedia and e-discovery material. MerlinOne's largest system contains 22 terabytes of data, supports 30,000 users and delivers searches in a second. MerlinOne is an EDRM participating organization.

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