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FotoWare Portal Server
Introducing the ultimate tool to help picture agencies as well as individual
photographers stand out in the crowd. FotoWare Portal Server
is a solution for centralized publishing and sales of visual information for
picture agencies and individual photographers alike. It is also
suitable for organizations that wish to make images from several branch offices
available through a single channel. |
The concept
The main advantage of FotoWare Portal Server is that it allows you to swiftly
access several archivesand retrieve the results within seconds. Each remote
provider picks the files to publish, making them instantly available for
searching and retrieval in low resolution through the portal server's web
interface.Thus, customers may connect to the service, query all connected
archives and purchase images.The images may then be delivered via FTP, email,
or direct HTTP downloads.The agency hosting FotoWare Portal Server may act as a
service provider, charging each supplier according to its sales.
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Maintenance and administration
All administration of the portal server is done through an intuitive web
interface.The administrator may control each user's access permissions, for
instance to make different remote archives available to different sets of
users. As far as publishing of images go, each provider can easily choose which
images to publish on his local server. |
Network security ensured
FotoWare Portal Server may run either on the Internet or an intranet, it
incorporates the latest technology to meet the ever-growing demand for network
security and stability. |
Scalability
You may connect any number of archives to each FotoWare Portal Server. On each
remote archive there is a FotoWare Portal Server Agent, which acts as an
interface between the archive and FotoWare Portal Server. Hence, connecting a
new supplier to the FotoWare Portal Server is as simple
as configuring a FotoWare Portal Server Agent on the remote provider's server.
Communication between remote archives and the FotoWare Portal Server is based
on the industry-standard HTTP protocol. |
Based on standard solutions
FotoWare Portal Server runs on a standard Windows 2000 Server, and all you need
to get started is the server software itself as well as the agent software,
which provides the link between each remote archive and the FotoWare Portal
Server.This way initial costs are reduced to a minimum and you may expand by
adding more FotoWare Portal Server Agents as the need arises. The FotoWare
Portal Server's web interface is purely HTML, which means it can easily be
modified to conform to your company's existing web profile.
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