We stumbled accross the following. Microsoft® Interactive Media Manager is a collaborative media management solution that extends Microsoft Office SharePoint® Server 2007 for media and entertainment companies. The solution builds on existing technology investments, and helps companies create an end-to-end content production system accessible by everyone. In addition, Interactive Media Manager easily integrates with Microsoft business intelligence tools, giving management insight into production details.
A short summary of all the things you can expect:
- Rich User Interface with support of Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX 1.0
- Out-of-the-box integration with leading media industry applications, including systems for digital asset management (DAM), digital rights management (DRM), transcoding, image transformation, and secure, reliable file distribution.
- Easy Customisation with a software development kit (SDK) which provides guidance and tools for customizing existing functionality and building out new components, data models, and workflows. The SDK provides a set of Microsoft .NET-connected class libraries, Web part templates, workflow samples, and Microsoft Office InfoPath® 2007 forms
- Multiple browser support like Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari
- Interactive Media Manager integrates with Microsoft Office Outlook® 2007, enabling workflows that reflect the way people actually work. Interactive Media Manager pushes tasks and forms directly to a user’s Inbox, facilitating the review and approval processes.
- The Office InfoPath 2007 information-gathering program provides an efficient method of capturing targeted metadata about media assets.
- Collaboration focused Web Parts added like Media Library, Media Viewer, Media Annotator, Media Import and Media Cart.
For more information follow the link or read the PDF documentation
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/mediaandentertainment/solutions_imm.mspx
http://download.microsoft.com/download/6/1/f/61f4b191-6cdb-4a44-9d28-e7040544f576/IMM4pg_brochure.pdf