2003-02-28: PoINT and DICOM sign a distribution contract
DICOM Deutschland AG includes PoINT Jukebox Manager for MO jukeboxes in product portfolio for optical storage technologies
PoINT at the CeBIT 2003, March 12-19, Hannover, Germany: Hall 1, booth 5g4
SIEGEN/FREIBURG, Germany, February 28, 2003. DICOM Deutschland AG will be including the PoINT Jukebox Manager developed by PoINT Software & Systems GmbH of Siegen, Germany, for the MO jukeboxes manufactured by ASM, HP and Plasmon in their product portfolio for project processing, document recording and archiving purposes. A corresponding agreement was recently signed by both companies in Freiburg, Germany.
“Leading DMS and archive system distributors have trusted in the reliable PoINT MO drivers for the integration of optical storage devices in their business-critical applications for years", says Frank Moschner, product manager at DICOM, pleased about the cooperation with the new partner. “The PoINT Jukebox Manager, well-established in the CD/DVD market, was recently enhanced with the sophisticated MO component, and is thus the leading jukebox server software for all optical storage technologies."
With the new partnership PoINT Software & Systems hopes to further strengthen its leading position in the German market. “And this contact could constitute an additional opportunity in the international market for us," says PoINT general manager Bernd Klee. DICOM is represented in 23 countries worldwide.
Background information about the PoINT Jukebox Manager
The PoINT Jukebox Manager offers transparent access to jukeboxes in a networked environment via a drive letter. Due to the PoINT Jukebox Manager’s seamless integration into the Windows system kernel, all Windows-supported network clients have the option to use the jukebox as network data store. And the Windows specific security and authorization mechanisms can be applied to the jukebox file system as well. The integration of various media into a logic unit (volume set) and the elimination of media limits for individual files (file spanning) open up new application opportunities for jukebox solutions in the mass storage market.
DICOM Deutschland AG is the German branch office of DICOM GROUP plc. The DICOM Group is quoted at the London and Frankfurt stock markets. Worldwide DICOM is represented in 23 countries. This international presence provides the optimal platform to realize even cross-country projects. DICOM, the market-leading distributor in the EDC sector, supplies hardware and software components for DMS, EDM, workflow or archiving projects. With the help of these products, the corresponding documents are recorded, and data from these documents is read and integrated into the destination system. And DICOM’s storage components ensure that the recorded data can be stored unchanged and on a long-term basis, and is easily accessible at any time. Upon request, DICOM Deutschland assists its solution partners on site with the planning and execution of document recording and archiving projects. The support includes a comprehensive product portfolio, manufacturer-independent consultation and reliable service from one source. The Professional Services team assists with the integration of the components into DMS applications. DICOM’s worldwide contacts ensure comprehensive support.
PoINT Software & Systems GmbH of Siegen, Germany, specializes in the development of software products and software solutions for optical storage systems and especially CD/DVD technology. Products developed by PoINT are sold by about 50 distribution partners worldwide in over 25 countries and have so far proven successful in more than 110,000 installations. The company’s product portfolio ranges from writing and copying CDs to professional audio recording to business critical network solutions such as for the DMS environment or in complex storage environments based on CD, DVD and MO/WORM jukeboxes. The PoINT team has been successfully operating in the international market with optical storage systems since 1985, initially as globally acting competence center for Philips and then as European project and product center for the company Digital Equipment. At Philips and Digital Equipment the PoINT team decisively initiated and continuously influenced the development and standardization of all crucial CD technologies. In 1994 this Digital Equipment sector with all its products and rights became a spin-off and was taken over by the managing employees.