Phoenix Technology gain
further recognition for already BAFTA nominated project.
April 2005...
Phoenix, provider of Business Process Management
and Content Management solutions, today announces that it
has been nominated for an ICT Excellence Award for their
work with The National Galleries of Scotland.
Phoenix designed a completely interactive
solution that takes full advantage of touch screen technology
to create a young, modern and easy-to-use electronic gallery
for The National Galleries of Scotland. Using FileNet's
P8 platform, the solution captures, stores, manages and
displays the gallery's entire artwork collection. The solution
was chosen from 45 competitors during a 10-week decision-making
process.
The new interactive e-gallery was opened by
HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh in August 2004, to
launch the start of The Edinburgh Festival. The gallery
is part of the Playfair Link, an underground building that
links The Royal Scottish Academy and The National Galleries
of Scotland and is part of the £30 million Playfair
project. Running below the busy Princes Street in Edinburgh,
the Playfair Link houses shops, lecture theatres, exhibition
space and galleries. A busy thoroughfare, countless locals
and tourists will experience the digital art collections
at the touch of a screen button.
Phoenix was nominated for a Bafta Interactive
Award for the solution in January of this year.
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About Phoenix Technology Group
With offices in Dublin and London, Phoenix
was founded in 1997. Phoenix delivers enterprise content
management and e-process solutions. Phoenix empowers organisations
to manage complex service processes and high-volume transaction
relationships with customers, brokers and suppliers regardless
of the source media (paper, e-mail, e-form, voice).
Customers include AXA Life, Royal & SunAlliance,
Winterthur Life, Allianz Cornhill and Capita
About National Galleries of Scotland
From watercolours to Warhol, the National
Galleries of Scotland hold collections of Art spanning from
the early fourteenth century to the present day. Incorporating
five Edinburgh based galleries and two outstations; The
National Galleries Of Scotland have preserved the national
collection of art since 1859.
Each of the five galleries tells a story of
a different artistical era and those who shaped it. The
additional Gallery concentrates on art from the renaissance
to Post-Impressionism. History and Art become intertwined
at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery where the onlooker
can come face to face with portraits of those who shaped
Scotland’s history. The largest contemporary and modern
art collection in Scotland can be found at The National
Gallery of Modern Art and the adjacent Dean Gallery. The
refurbished Royal Scottish Academy Building opened in 2003,
and the Playfair Project Underground Link just opened, now
provide and electronic display of the nation's collection.
With the newly opened Weston Link with art
available at the touch of a button, the National Galleries
of Scotland not only make art universally accessible but
universally appealing.
“Art worth circumnavigating the globe
for”
The Sunday Times
For further information please contact:
Brenda Reilly
PHOENIX TECHNOLOGY GROUP.
Phoenix House 32/34 Castle Street
Dublin 2
Ireland
Tel: +353 1 6707722
Fax: +353 1 6707721
E-mail Brenda.Reilly@phoenix.ie
Web www.phoenix.ie
