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1 FotoWare Cameleon Philips West Midlands Fire Service MyTravel UK Defence Image Database Helly Hansen Sharing and finding visual information

...An efficient tool when working with large quantities of images.

documentation and reports in a variety of businesses and public services.

architecture hosting digital image archives.

2 ...An efficient tool when working with large quantities of images... FotoWare Cameleon Pictures and visual information have become widespread and common tools for improving documentation and reports in a variety of businesses and public services. FotoWare Cameleon is designed as a complete solution for the corporate market in need of a client-server architecture hosting digital image archives. FotoWare Cameleon is the perfect solution for organizations dealing with visual information in their daily communication. Files can be searched, retrieved, viewed and managed on both Windows and Macintosh workstations, or made accessible through the Internet using standard web browsers. 2

Depending on somebody to find it? The meeting starts in 10 minutes!

With an easy Drag & Drop function you can drop pictures or graphics into Word, PowerPoint or an email.

With correctly sized pictures, slow PowerPoint presentations will no longer be a problem.

3 Office integration Where is your new company logo? How do you paste the new product picture into your PowerPoint presentation? And where is it? Depending on somebody to find it? The meeting starts in 10 minutes! FotoWare Cameleon integrates with all relevant applications in your office. With an easy Drag & Drop function you can drop pictures or graphics into Word, PowerPoint or an . You decide the size and resolution on the fly. With correctly sized pictures, slow PowerPoint presentations will no longer be a problem. FotoWare Cameleon enables you to search for images and text in any Word, PowerPoint or PDF document all by yourself, when you need to. You won t depend on someone s presence or goodwill to find the text or image you are looking for. Take full control with FotoWare Cameleon. FotoWare Cameleon offers three different and scalable solutions supported by a variety of add-on modules for customization and enhancement of your solution: Standard Professional Web 3

viewing, indexing, storing and retrieval of all kinds of visual information.

professional users all over the world. FotoStation is a tremendous success with millions of licenses sold worldwide.

Office, Adobe and all relevant office applications.

4 Blends in like a Cameleon! FotoWare - an idea for success Since 1994 FotoWare has supplied professional users with software for the capture, viewing, indexing, storing and retrieval of all kinds of visual information. The core application FotoStation is used by newspapers, magazines, hospitals, public services, museums and other professional users all over the world. FotoStation is a tremendous success with millions of licenses sold worldwide. The FotoStation PRO client is probably the best image workstation available, and is fully compatible with Microsoft Office, Adobe and all relevant office applications. FotoWare Cameleon enhances workflow, quality control, and automated procedures to ensure the best possible output for the task at hand. With FotoWare Sales Companies in France, Germany, Norway, Spain and the UK, as well as a network of Distribution Partners in more than 40 countries, FotoWare provides local language service and support all over the world. The newly introduced FotoWare Cameleon solution is based on our pioneer experience with the most demanding users from the newspaper industry. It offers scalable and well proven turnkey solutions adapted to corporate needs. 4

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pictures, PDF files, video, sound and PowerPoint presentations.

and retrieve files from an archive. The system supports files like PDF, JPEG, TIFF and EPS. In addition, it handles all files supported by QuickTime.

When user demand grows, there is an easy upgrade path to Cameleon Professional or Cameleon Web without changing the workflow or the archive

6 Look into the future! Cameleon Standard Cameleon Standard is aimed at small office environments, typically with one to five people who want to share and store their pictures, PDF files, video, sound and PowerPoint presentations. The Cameleon Standard solution is the dynamic picture search engine tailormade for environments where a fast, powerful tool is required to search and retrieve files from an archive. The system supports files like PDF, JPEG, TIFF and EPS. In addition, it handles all files supported by QuickTime. PowerPoint and Word files are also supported if Microsoft Office is installed on the server. When user demand grows, there is an easy upgrade path to Cameleon Professional or Cameleon Web without changing the workflow or the archive structure. The solution includes: 2 FotoStation PRO clients, rated among the best image workstations available Simple and powerful tools for image enhancement and selection of images Full color management on input, view, output and print Sophisticated full text search Import from digital cameras, scanners, DVD, CD or any other source Storage capacity of 100,000 files Two years free upgrades and prioritized technical support 6

Philips A simple, modular and universally compatible archive solution had to be found as the PR department of the electronics company Philips experienced an ever-increasing demand for digital

The number one choice was Cameleon Standard. Productivity is very important to us. Just like every other press center, we have to deliver on the fly.

7 Philips A simple, modular and universally compatible archive solution had to be found as the PR department of the electronics company Philips experienced an ever-increasing demand for digital pictures. On one hand the new solution had to be compatible with the systems of the most important media houses. On the other hand it had to be easy to use for the employees in the PR department. The number one choice was Cameleon Standard. Productivity is very important to us. Just like every other press center, we have to deliver on the fly. Therefore the software not only has to provide the required functionality, but also has to warrant a very high throughput. In daily practice Cameleon Standard has really convinced us in this respect, Mr. Petri concludes. If you want to serve the press successfully today, of course you have to offer the journalist the related image material digitally, says Klaus Petri, Senior Manager Media Relations. Every day the press centre of the German head office in Hamburg receives 15 to 20 requests for image material from journalists. They also prepare presentations for press conferences, as well as news on the web. The Philips press-related image archive contains approximately 10,000 images of persons, constructions, products, events and illustrations. More than 1,000 images are being added annually to the archive, and the rate is increasing rapidly. 7

A strong point of view! Cameleon Professional Cameleon Professional is targeted at small to medium size companies with high input and storage of pictures or other files.

This archive can be extended to large volumes. By using FotoWare s solution for linking many archives together as one, the system is extremely scalable.

It supports pictures, video, sound, Microsoft Office documents, Adobe Illustrator and InDesign files, as well as files from QuarkXPress.

8 A strong point of view! Cameleon Professional Cameleon Professional is targeted at small to medium size companies with high input and storage of pictures or other files. The solution s ability to perform high speed search and simultaneous indexing of new files makes it ideal for environments with high demands for speed and availability. This archive can be extended to large volumes. By using FotoWare s solution for linking many archives together as one, the system is extremely scalable. The customer can also connect Cameleon Web to the same archive without changing the configuration or layout of their archives. Cameleon Professional provides a high capacity full text search engine. It supports pictures, video, sound, Microsoft Office documents, Adobe Illustrator and InDesign files, as well as files from QuarkXPress. Cameleon has a quick and simple setup, and requires very little maintenance. The solution is extremely user friendly, fits any workflow, and will seamlessly become a part of the existing environment. The solution includes: 5 FotoStation PRO clients Simple and powerful tools for image enhancement and selection of images Full color management on input, view, output and print Sophisticated full text search Import from digital cameras, scanners, DVD, CD or any other source Storage capacity of files Two years free upgrades and prioritized technical support 8

West Midlands Fire Service Cameleon Professional has enabled us to significantly reduce the administration associated with our key role as photographic support within the West Midlands Fire Service:

9 West Midlands Fire Service Cameleon Professional has enabled us to significantly reduce the administration associated with our key role as photographic support within the West Midlands Fire Service: Photographers now spend more time taking pictures than pushing paperwork. The advantages Cameleon Professional has brought, have dramatically increased efficiency. So I am now looking to realign our graphic design section to use this software as a resource, says Ian Edwards, Corporate Services Manager in the West Midlands Fire Service. Cameleon Professional is intuitively easy to use. Organizing our images is easy, searching & retrieving images is easy. What sometimes used to take us hours now only takes a few seconds, states photographer Aaron Manning. The large volume of images we deal with on a daily basis does not frighten us any more. Maintaining quality and accuracy of our image archive is of paramount importance. Our automated processing action means we can process images with a single click of a mouse button, says Garry Garbett. Even for a self-confessed computer dinosaur like me I find working with images a doddle. Search and retrieval of images is fundamental to the service we provide to our organization and the press, Edward Ockenham explains. MyTravel MyTravel Group plc is a major player in the world s most active markets for package holidays and other leisure travel services. The company was established in the UK in MyTravel played a leading role in the development of package holidays, which have become an extremely popular form of leisure travel, purchased by almost 20 million people each year in the UK alone. Holidays are sold through more than 700 of the company s own stores worldwide, through travel agents, over the phone, and increasingly online. With Cameleon Professional from FotoWare, MyTravel Northern Europe has been able to bring the repro work in-house. Problems with slow browsing and difficult systems in different locations no longer exist. Today MyTravel has total control over the repro work for their ten different catalogues, produced in four different languages every year. The automated workflow powered by FotoWare represented a great cost saving potential, and to MyTravel the Return on Investment (ROI) was less than a year. Today one person administers the pictures. Previously it was four, says Pontus Wallin at MyTravel in Sweden. Cameleon Professional enabled us to move from three different archives to one centralized archive, to which co-workers in all 200 destinations worldwide have access. This alone produces annual savings of more than

Share your vision! Cameleon Web The dynamic expansion of a system to also publish files on an intranet or directly on the Internet is found in this powerful solution.

10 Share your vision! Cameleon Web The dynamic expansion of a system to also publish files on an intranet or directly on the Internet is found in this powerful solution. FotoWare has delivered web-based solutions to the professional market since Cameleon Web gives users a variety of features through a desktop client, running a regular web browser. One of the major concerns among many IT managers is the need for configuration and maintenance of a thick client-based system. Cameleon Web forms a complete workflow and archive solution, where one client using FotoStation Pro can be used to configure and maintain the archive, while the rest of the organization and external users connect using web browsers. The solution offers the necessary tools needed for all types of users, ranging from guests to advanced users. The search engine is equivalent to the one used in Cameleon Professional. The solution includes: 1 FotoStation PRO client Simple and powerful tools for image enhancement and selection of images Full color management on input, view, output and print Sophisticated full text search Import from digital cameras, scanners, DVD, CD or any other source Powerful integration with Active Directory Storage capacity of files Two years free upgrades and prioritized technical support 10

UK Defence Image Database The Defence Image Database www.defenceimagedatabase.mod.uk receives more than 12 million hits per month.

11 Helly Hansen Helly Hansen was founded in 1877, and aims to become a leading multi-specialist brand providing action utility wear for survival, work and sport. The company s head office is located in Norway, with regional offices in Europe, U.S. and Canada. Helly Hansen also has licensees in Japan, Korea and Australia. UK Defence Image Database The Defence Image Database receives more than 12 million hits per month. Implementation of the flexible and scalable Web solution, now known as Cameleon Web, has allowed the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to offer its internal and external users many different services. This has been achieved at a fraction of the cost of the previous system whose capabilities were limited. The MoD is now able to manage and control its image assets and exploit their full potential, using a variety of different technologies. Automated workflow practices have increased productivity and allowed the MoD to enforce quality control standards among photographers in the Armed Forces. Helly Hansen has implemented Cameleon Web as the corner-stone application for their designers and marketing people. Regional offices and licensees are logged on with access to the web archive. In Stockholm, the photographers and advertising agency are using Cameleon Web to ensure a smooth and fast exchange of digital pictures. In short, Cameleon has enabled Helly Hansen to convert their printed catalogue into a complete digital buyer s guide. Thanks to FotoWare this guide is in the process of being digitized into a dynamic buyers guide on the web. With Cameleon Web we spend less time on searching for images, and navigation in the image archive has become a lot easier and quicker. I would recommend FotoWare Cameleon as an efficient tool when working with large quantities of images, says International Marketing Coordinator Arne Ingvaldsen from Helly Hansen. 11

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Image workflow and archive solutions by FotoWare Cameleon FotoWare Cameleon offers a workflow structure with built-in automated processes that will save time and increase quality in all parts of the

13 Image workflow and archive solutions by FotoWare Cameleon FotoWare Cameleon offers a workflow structure with built-in automated processes that will save time and increase quality in all parts of the organization. Since the introduction of digital cameras, an increased flow of new digital pictures each day makes it increasingly difficult to keep control of an organization s visual assets. In addition, production of PowerPoint presentations, PDF files, logos and illustrations all contribute to a rapidly growing archive, which sometimes can bear greater resemblance to shoebox storage than an organized archive. Visual information is a vital part of any organization s image and branding; hence wrong selections or old pictures can be fatal. A FotoWare Cameleon solution provides the helping hand everyone needs to increase their productivity, and make the right decisions whenever visual information has to be found and selected. Team work and project management becomes easier when the needed materials are presented to all participants in an organized and visual way. FotoWare has been working to satisfy demanding customers for more than a decade, and we know what it takes to create productive software. FotoWare Cameleon can organize the assets in such a way that all routines, such as backup and maintenance, become easy and predictable. Our objective is to reduce workload and increase productivity without changing your environment to be like a Cameleon. Flexible and adaptive FotoWare Cameleon fits most businesses and is easily integrated with existing data systems. FotoWare Cameleon is a versatile, productive tool for a range of industries: Banking and Finance Advertising and Marketing Engineering and Manufacturing Government and Non-Profit Medical Hotel and Travel Insurance Media and Entertainment Petroleum/Chemical Real Estate and Construction Retail Transportation/Logistics and many more! 13

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15 Organizing valuable pictures and other visual assets within the organization is essential. The launch of the Cameleon software series is an expression of FotoWare s experience and proficiency in this field and its commitment to offering advanced simple solutions for image productivity. With installations all over the world, within government and businesses in greatly different environments, we know how to simply and efficiently build workflows and archives. More and more people are including video and sound clips in their presentations. With FotoWare Cameleon all these documents and pictures can be stored and retrieved with great simplicity without altering the work structure already established in the company. Using the powerful search engine one can even search for file content! How many times have you searched for a PowerPoint presentation only minutes before an important meeting without being able to find out where you put it? With FotoWare Cameleon it only takes the push of a button to retrieve it. Pictures can be resized and re-sampled when dropped into another application, ensuring the correct amount of data and reducing unnecessary network load. In order to search for and retrieve pictures, they have to contain text. The text is stored within the picture itself and can thus easily be distributed to other users, who receive both the picture and the description in a single file, seemlessly. One of the greatest advantages of a FotoWare Cameleon system is its scalability. A small business with three to four employees gets a solution tailormade for their requirements at a low cost. Should the business expand and take on new staff, Cameleon can grow with it. All the work that has been done remains and no changes are required. More workstations can be connected and the archive can be published using our web-solution. Access privileges are easy to configure. All users are administered in Microsoft s server environment, from which Cameleon Web retrieves its list of users using Active Directory technology. Through many years experience and a large customer base, FotoWare offers its customers a measure of assurance. With subsidiaries and distributors worldwide, we can offer help on-site. Compatibility with many established industry standard applications makes FotoWare Cameleon truly adaptable like a cameleon. The system has a number of pre-defined print templates that can be used with all printers, and if desired, it is possible to define corporate print templates. Naturally, color management can be applied to all print templates. 15

16 kww.no Get in touch! Ask our consultants and sales representatives how to solve your specific image and document problems and demands! Get in touch with your nearest FotoWare Sales Company for an appointment. Independent FotoWare Distribution Partners are found in more than 40 countries. FotoWare a.s fotoware@fotoware.com Web: FotoWare France S.A.S FotoWare Germany GmbH PARIS HAMBURG Phone:+ 33 (0) Phone: + 49 (0) info@fotoware.fr info@fotoware.de Web: Web: FotoWare UK Ltd. Interfoto AS LONDON OSLO Phone: + 44 (0) Phone: info@fotoware.co.uk interfoto@interfoto.no Web: Web: Find your local distributor:

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