Well, you can’t say the past couple of months haven’t been eventful. With new financial catastrophes happening it seems almost by the hour, a new President in the USA, and for us in the UK, a wildly fluctuating pound sterling that would make us feel like a banana republic if it wasn’t so cold in London at the moment. It’s not always easy to put a smile on your face when waking up on mornings like these.
Nevertheless, we have quite a lot to be thankful for in our daily lives, not the least of which is peoples’ realisation that we are all in the same boat- wherever it may take us. Is it my imagination or do people seem just a bit more helpful and tolerant of their fellow citizens these days? Not to worry, I’m sure it will pass soon enough.
At Imprezzeo, we’ve been staying very busy indeed. During the beta testing phase of Release I of Imprezzeo Image Search we’ve had the privilege of working with a number of image oriented companies during the testing period and they have helped us immensely to improve our product and have also helped us gain a better understanding of the businesses in which they operate. It’s been a real eye opener for us to hear our customers come up with creative uses for Imprezzeo and to see their enthusiasm for implementing image search.
We’ve also been able to start developing relationships with many complementary vendors in the asset management and enterprise search space and we’re very excited about working with them in 2009 to bring some really exciting integrated solutions to companies who manage large image collections. A typical implementation of Imprezzeo in the enterprise involves a tight integration with other image management and search systems, tied together through automated workflows. As an example, many companies have thousands of new images to deal with on a daily or weekly basis. Using Imprezzeo’s SDK, new images can be easily registered with Imprezzeo’s server as they are ingested into the customer’s DAM workflow and indexed by their text search engine. Thus, new images are almost immediately available to users for search on. The amount of work required to integrate Imprezzeo into an existing workflow is relatively minimal and ongoing maintenance is minimal. The difference for users in the amount of time it takes them to find the images they need is really amazing.
Stay tuned for some exciting developments in the early part of Q109, including an open API for developers, a browser add on for similarity search and much more.