Preservers are used for photos, graphics production, and archiving and a MediaStream SAVE system is used for archiving text. The Columbus Dispatch is working with NICA in a pre-production test environment, and plans to move into full production in the spring. The system needed to be able to store all of our images, graphics, pages, and text in one single, easy to use archive. Designed as an enterprise-wide platform, NICA easily accommodates the nonstop data flow and heavy user demand of a large publishing company, like The Columbus Dispatch . NICA offers a variety of simultaneous access options, ranging from a simple, Web browser interface to professional Windows and Macintosh-based interfaces for photographers, reporters, librarians, and editors.
Users can link related objects, such as news stories with their photos and graphics.
NICA also delivers content online through a number of Web and e-commerce options. We required a product to help us deal with a large historical photo archive as well as managing our daily photo report. The product needed to deal with text and page archives across our entire corporate enterprise when we migrate the front end system. We selected this system platform because of our experiences with IBM and our internal support staff's pSeries and AIX skills. IBM installed NICA and configured our system as planned and assisted with unplanned changes during installation to eliminate delays.