Sybase Inc has struck a deal with knowledge retrieval software systems company Excalibur Technologies Corp, to integrate the Excalibur Screening Room into its media Asset Management Solution. The Excalibur product will form a major component in the Sybase product, to enable the provision of an end-to-end system for capturing, analyzing, screening, searching and retrieving video and closed caption text and metadata over the internet and intranets. The Media Asset Management Solution has been built around Sybase’s Adaptive Server Enterprise, the company’s object relational database unveiled last year (CI No 3,248). Under the terms of the agreement, Sybase and Excalibur will jointly market and sell the new offering to Sybase developers and users. Entertainment companies, broadcast and news organizations, video production companies and advertising agencies are likely to be the main purchasers of the product. In a separate announcement, Sybase has revealed it will be joining Electronic Data Systems Inc, Hewlett-Packard Co and France Telecom in providing the information structure for the rapidly approaching soccer World Cup. Sybase will provide the software behind the tournament’s official web site, http://www.france98.com.
