Knowledge Focus establishes joint venture with Ayanda Media Technologies

Johannesburg, 02 Aug 2005

Information asset management solution provider Knowledge Focus and visual communications technology company Ayanda Media Technologies have entered into a joint venture agreement to offer media asset management solutions to public and private sector customers.

As an integrator of audiovisual solutions, black-owned Ayanda Media Technologies utilises convergence technology to develop unique visual communications and information technology-based solutions.

"We are thrilled with this agreement and look forward to working with Ayanda Media Technologies," says Knowledge Focus managing director Piet Dempsey. "The company is well positioned to offer customised solutions which build unique platforms that effectively facilitate the sharing of intelligence and knowledge within organisations and institutions. We integrate these solutions with Convera RetrievalWare to offer a combination that delivers excellent performance and extreme flexibility in the search for knowledge."

"Presenting information and knowledge visually has become the key to successfully empowering people in the 21st century," says Ayanda Media Technologies CEO Vasu Moodley. "In all sectors of business, more and more companies are relying on access to visual information to make informed decisions, communicate, educate and entertain more effectively. The combination of skills and expertise offered by ourselves and Knowledge Focus will greatly facilitate the knowledge discovery process."

Knowledge Focus

Established in August 2000, Pretoria-based Knowledge Focus specialises in digital asset management and markets a range of products to help customers manage their information assets. The company supports and serves organisations that need to retrieve information quickly and accurately, and focuses specifically on the retrieval and preservation sectors. Knowledge Focus has extensive experience in the competitive intelligence and strategic marketing intelligence markets, and is a master reseller for a number of exciting technologies that enable these business functionalities.

These include media asset management (MAM) solutions for the broadcast and entertainment industry, as well as RetrievalWare from US-based company Convera. RetrievalWare is a knowledge discovery platform that combines proven enterprise search and categorisation capabilities with dynamic classification methodology to help organisations automate knowledge management and discovery processes. The solution maximises return on investment in vast stores of unstructured information by providing highly scalable, fast, accurate and secure search across more than 200 forms of text, video, image and audio information, in more than 45 languages.

Knowledge Focus` clients include Eskom, Technikon SA, Gensec, Kumba Resources, Government, M-Net and NEMISA.

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