EMeta

Infobox Company
company_name = eMeta Corporation
company_
company_type = Private
foundation = New York City (1998)
location = New York, Seattle, London
key_people = Jonathan Lewin, CEO and Founder; Chris Miranda, Vice President of Sales; Andrei Vazhnov, Chief Technology Officer
industry = Software
products = Access Control and eCommerce Solutions
homepage = [http://www.emeta.com/ www.emeta.com]

Founded in 1998 and headquartered in New York City, eMeta Corporation provides access control, subscription management and ecommerce solutions for media, entertainment and software companies. eMeta’s flagship product, the eRights Suite, helps customers like McGraw-Hill, NYTimes.com and Wolters Kluwer license and sell digital assets, including text, audio, video, streaming media, games and software applications (SaaS). On February 15th, 2006, Macrovision Corporation (Nasdaq: MVSN) announced that it will acquire eMeta.

Company Profile

Founded in 1998 and headquartered in New York City, eMeta Corporation provides access control, subscription management and ecommerce solutions for media, entertainment and software companies. eMeta’s flagship product, the eRights Suite, helps customers like McGraw-Hill, NYTimes.com and Wolters Kluwer license and sell digital assets, including text, audio, video, streaming media, games and software applications (SaaS).

On February 15th, 2006, Macrovision announced that it will acquire eMeta.

Products and services

The eRights Suite

eMeta’s eRights Suite, available both as an installed or hosted (ASP) solution, provides companies with the tools to license and sell digital goods – text, audio, video, streaming media, games and software (SaaS) – on the fly, and in myriad ways.

RightAccess

RightAccess is the access control module within the eRights Suite, providing advanced authentication, authorization, administration, registration and licensing functionality for all types of digital goods and services. RightAccess allows companies to manage how customers access online offerings.

RightCommerce

RightCommerce is the ecommerce module within eRights, making it easy to market and sell digital products. Designed for complex digital goods billing and subscription management, the solution allows companies to target customers with free trials, discounts or gift subscriptions – while increasing incremental or add-on purchases with promotions and targeted pricing. And customer care features, including self-care, improve customer satisfaction.

eRights"WEB"

eRights"WEB" is the ASP, or Software as a Service (SaaS) version of the eRights Suite, giving smaller organizations the opportunity to benefit from a premier access control and ecommerce solution.

Markets

Convergence of digital content

The definition of "Internet Content" has changed dramatically. No longer limited to Web pages and text-based documents, content encompasses audio, video, streaming media, games and even software applications. When it comes to offering subscriptions to any and all forms of digital content, the rules are largely the same: access control and flexible ecommerce technologies are critical. eMeta’s eRights Suite is helping companies enable all of the converging forms of content.

Software as a Service (SaaS)

Software as a Service (SaaS) is a model of software delivery where a company adopts specific activities that provide customers access to software alleviating that customer from the maintenance and daily technical operation and support of business and/or consumer software. SaaS is a model of software delivery rather than a market segment; software can be delivered using this method to any market segment including home consumers, small business, medium and large business. eMeta’s eRights Suite helps SaaS providers license, bill for, promote and support their Web-based applications.

Notable customers

*Celera Genomics
*CNN.com
*FT.com
*Hoover's, Inc. (US and UK)
*iVillage.com
*Knight Ridder Digital
*McGraw-Hill Higher Education
*NASCAR.com
*NYTimes.com
*Oxford University Press
*ProQuest Information and Learning
*Reuters
*SmartMoney.com
*Turner
*The Globe and Mail
*Wolters Kluwer

External links

* [http://www.emeta.com/ Official site]