Xinet Announces WebNative Portal – Virtual Asset Hosting Application For Secure, Flexible Digital Asset Management
Xinet, Inc. (www.xinet.com), a leader in digital asset management and workflow solutions for advertising, publishing, printing and retail companies, today unveiled its newest product, WebNative® Portal, at the Xinet Users Group conference in New York City.
Available June 1st, WebNative Portal is a powerful, web-hosting application that provides virtual asset hosting, enhanced security and greater flexibility for digital asset management systems powered by WebNative and WebNative Venture. WebNative Portal simplifies the task of interface branding and customization, and gives companies the ability to link multi-site Xinet DAM installations.
“WebNative Portal allows our creatives to access the files they need while providing the level of network security we require,” said McCann Erickson New York’s Stefani Pagano, Vice President, Manager of Digital Services. “It also saves time by allowing us to quickly make interface changes on the fly.”
McCann’s Pagano was one of the 27 Xinet users who spoke at the Xinet Users Group conference today, including Frank Romano, and experts from Time magazine, BBDO, Ogilvy & Mather, Fortune magazine and Young & Rubicam.
Enhanced Security & Easy Branding
“WebNative Portal takes Xinet’s digital asset management solution to the next level,” said Xinet CEO Scott Seebass. “It helps satisfy the increasingly sophisticated demands of businesses that rely on web-based asset hosting.”
WebNative Portal moves the entry point of Xinet’s asset management solution to a proxy server outside the firewall. This additional networking layer increases the security of hosted assets and satisfies the common IT requirement for putting web-facing servers in the “DMZ.” Also, WebNative Portal’s template-based architecture can be easily customized with web-authoring applications like Dreamweaver and GoLive.
Asset Usage Control, Eleven Languages
WebNative Portal includes a number of usage control features that are useful in the rights management of assets. Asset availability, approval, and use can be restricted by start and end dates, approval status, pre-set re-purposing parameters and more.
In keeping with Xinet’s commitment to serve its thousands of worldwide customers, WebNative Portal is localized in Chinese, Danish, English, Finnish, French, German, Japanese, Norwegian, Spanish, and Swedish.
About FullPress, WebNative and WebNative Venture
First released in 1995, Xinet’s FullPress is a server software engine which allows businesses dealing in graphic media to build efficient, integrated workflows. WebNative, released in 1998, is a web-based front end to FullPress, providing remote workflow tools, and 24/7 access to files and archives. In 2001, Xinet added WebNative Venture, an integrated database that allows businesses to create sophisticated, database driven workflows.
Among Xinet customers are Sports Illustrated, Target, Quebecor World Premedia, Grey Global, Best Buy, Saks Fifth Avenue, R.R. Donnelly and Sotheby’s.
About Xinet
Xinet is a leading developer of high-performance server software applications with offices in Berkeley, California, and Munich, Germany. In any industry where graphic files are transferred between servers, workstations, and output devices, Xinet maximizes efficiency by integrating production, collaboration and digital asset management.
To view video testimonials of Xinet customers such as TIME, Sports Illustrated, Fortune, Grey Global, Quebecor World Premedia, Ogilvy & Mather, and TBWA, please visit www.xinet.com or www.xinet.de.
