BARCELONA, March 13th, 2002 - Visual Century Research (VCR), provider of video asset management solutions, and Software AG, Europe's largest systems software provider and a pioneer in Extensible Markup Language (XML) technologies, announced today the signature of a partnership agreement.

Under the agreement, Software AG will market and pre-sell the VCR ViA2 Platform system along with Software AG's Tamino XML Server to new and existing enterprise customers to provide them with an integrated XML video asset management solution. "Tamino integrates easily with ViA2 Platmform, which enables us to offer a complete and advanced video asset management solution based on XML technology to current and potential customers," said Ferran Muñoz of Visual Century Research.

About Visual Century Research

Visual Century Research (VCR) is a technology company created in 2001 by a group of entrepreneurs with audiovisual and multimedia research backgrounds. The first product developed by VCR was the automatic video cataloguer VideoIngest, which was chosen by Televisió de Catalunya to be integrated within its digitalization project. Using the VideoIngest technology, VCR has developed a number of advanced products which stand out thanks to their innovative vision of the audiovisual content. Amongst these products there is ViA2 Platform, a modular, high performance solution based in XML to capture digital or analog video, analyze and annotate it, and publish it on the internet.