Phoenix brings interactive art to Edinburgh, Prince Philip Duke of Edinburgh takes it to "Go Live".

Dublin, Aug 18 2004...Phoenix Technology Group, provider of Business Process Management and Content Management solutions, today announces, the delivery of a state of the art interactive e-gallery solution to the newly re-opened National Galleries of Scotland Weston Link, right in very the heart of Edinburgh.

Phoenix designed a completely interactive solution, to take 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 P8 platform, the Phoenix 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 on August 04, to launch the start of The Edinburgh Festival. The gallery will be part of the Playfair Link, an underground building that links the Royal Scottish Academy and the National Gallery of Scotland and is part of the £30 million Playfair project. Running below the busy Princes Street in Edinburgh, the Playfair Link will house 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 designed the solution to store and display digital art, as well as to educate the public about the gallery's collection, its conservation and production, through a fun and easy-to-use intuitive system. Ian Hamilton, ICT Consultant from the National Galleries of Scotland comments, "We had great confidence in Phoenix, to carry-out such an ambitious plan in the short time available. We knew we could trust them to deliver and they did. Indeed all of the promises made in the initial pitch by Phoenix were more than fulfilled in the final written contract, and implementation."

Content for the gallery consists of digital images from 700 artists, supplementary information about the artwork and background information on each artist. The system is scaleable to hold 10,000 images and, although it will initially only be available in the Playfair Link, it will eventually be expanded to be viewed externally over the internet allowing the IT gallery to play a key role in helping to increase global awareness of Scottish heritage.

Cormac McCarthy Managing Director for Phoenix Technology Group comments "The solution we designed for The National Galleries of Scotland represents exciting developments for us, it still focuses on the Content Management side of our core expertise but it also comprehensively demonstrates how, by using interactive technology Phoenix are expanding traditional Content Management functionality for our customers".

Adds McCarthy "we have been discussing a diverse a range of requirements with other museums, art galleries and educational institutions that can also be addressed using similar solutions to this one implemented in The National Galleries of Scotland".

About Phoenix Technology Group
Phoenix is a premier ValueNet partner for FileNet in Europe. Operating from Dublin Phoenix has been developing and delivering FileNet systems since 1997. Phoenix offers comprehensive process, content and records management solutions delivered on a fixed cost and fixed timescale basis. Our customer's include blue chip companies such as AXA, Royal & SunAlliance, Winterthur Life, Churchill, Lloyds TSB, and Canada Life. By combining a mix of business knowledge with extensive technical design and development skills these organisations and many more, have been able to improve employee productivity and customer service using Phoenix solutions.

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

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