Modula4 Inc., a leading provider of Digital Asset Management (DAM) solutions, is pleased to announce the appointment of Jon Hornstein as CEO. Jon brings 18 years experience as both a provider and customer of DAM products and services. Markus Bohunovsky, the outgoing CEO and co-founder, will remain with Modula4 through the end of the year to assist in the transition, and will serve as a consultant to the company thereafter.

“We are extremely excited to be starting this new chapter at our company,” says Michael Gellner, co-founder and CTO of Modula4. “Jon is an accomplished DAM industry veteran who places a high value on technical excellence, client service and providing practical, cost-effective solutions. His experience in sales, marketing and business management will allow Modula4 to reach new levels of growth while maintaining its commitment to client satisfaction.”

Established in 2004, Modula4 is the world’s largest independent reseller and integrator of Canto Cumulus, a market leader in DAM software. With offices in San Francisco and Berlin, Modula4 provides complete DAM solutions for clients in a wide variety of industries including advertising, publishing, manufacturing, reatail, entertainment, education and government.

In addition to reselling Cumulus and providing integration, training, consulting and customization services, Modula4 also publishes its own modules for Cumulus, which extend the functionality of the core software product. These modules are offered for sale by Modula4, Canto and other Modula4 resale partner.

“Modula4 has become synonymous with technical expertise and unparalleled customer support. I’ll be building upon that tradition. says Jon Hornstein. “Virtually every organization needs a Digital Asset Management system but many don’t have them. This offers a tremendous opportunity for Modula4. With our expertise in all aspects of Digital Asset Management, experience across several major industries and reputation for providing excellent customer support, Modula4 is well positioned to gain a larger share of customers who are seeking DAM solutions and to help grow the market.”

Jon most recently served as the Director of NASA Images at the Internet Archive. There, in cooperation with NASA, he lead a group that created the largest repository of NASA media available from a single site. Earlier Jon was General Manager of Erickson Productions, a stock media agency, and Vice President of Strategy of the Digital Media Solutions Group at iXL, a media and e-commerce consultancy. Prior to joining iXL, Jon was the founding Director of Technical Services at Canto.

“Jon is the ideal person to lead Modula4 forward,” says Markus Bohunovsky. “He’s a strategic thinker who never loses sight of the importance of providing value and excellent customer service. I’m confident I’m leaving the company in good hands and look forward to working closely with Jon during this transition period.”

At their worldwide Partner Meeting 2010, Canto presented Modula4 with the “Most Innovative Product 2009” award for the ImageSorter Add-On. ImageSorter revolutionizes image searches by grouping images according to color values and content, thus facilitating visual searches. The Eagle Eye function allows you to easily scan even large numbers of search results and quickly find the image you’re looking for.

ImageSorter is presently available as add-on for our Web Module. Due to popular demand, we will soon also introduce a version for the Cumulus Native Client – pre-order yours now!

To celebrate the award, we offer all clients a 5% discount on the add-on, valid until June 30, 2010. Join our celebration!

Want to learn more about the advantages of visual search?

Continuing its annual tradition, Canto once again presented awards to the best partners at the Canto Partner Meeting 2010 in Berlin. Modula4 caused a sensation by being the first partner to scoop up awards in five categories.

We are particularly proud to announce that our ImageSorter Add-On was named “Most Innovative Product” of the year 2009. The add-on is a new development that revolutionizes image searches, assembling image groups by color value, brightness, and content. Click here to learn more about ImageSorter.

As a successful Cumulus reseller, we also received the award for the biggest turnover in 2009. This award, like the ones mentioned below, is only given out for the United States, the key market for digital asset management in terms of volume and importance. However, we were also the most successful global Cumulus seller in the past year.

The award for the highest rate of support contract renewals is an indicator for our clients’ satisfaction – which is also reflected by our turnover. We won our fourth award this year for the highest increase in renewal rates over the past three years.

Last, but not least, Canto presented us with the award for the longest-standing Canto partner, thus acknowledging our many years of experience and our consistently high-quality work.

We are very proud to have received these awards, which motivate us to keep up our innovative approach and our commitment to our clients’ needs.

With the newest version of our time-tested module we present you t the fastest Cumulus 8-compatible Web interface. The Web Module 3.0 offers two new add-ons and countless improvements.

What’s most significant is the drastically accelerated speed using optimized network technology and improved caching. Now the Web Module is the fastest Web interface for Cumulus, which will make work a whole lot easier, especially when dealing with substantial amounts of data or faulty Internet connections.

Additionally, we have polished up the design. The Web Module offers a clearer overview and so, is more convenient to use.
We left out pop-ups just for this purpose.

The new version supports multilingualism. By default, it comes with English, German, Spanish and French language packages. Other languages are easily added either as an adjustment from us or from one of our partners.

The new version of the Web Module requires Cumulus 8.

Thanks to the thoroughly revised architecture of version 2.5, the Web Module 3.0 already contains ourImageSorter and the eCommerce Add-On.

Want to find out more about the new Web Module? We’re happy to help.

It’s here: the second version of our successful Video Module. The new functions offer even more possibilities and increase efficiency.

Our module supports chapters within Flash movies. You can use them the way you would an index and jump right into the desired chapter.

You can add comments to each scene with a precision to the split second. All comments on a film are listed in a clear overview. That way you can call up corresponding places in the video directly. When you play the movie, you will see the comments on the respective scenes.

The commentary function can be used in multiple ways. For example, you can place a feature for feedback into the release process. You can add subtitles (with translations, for example) or explanatory notes with background information.

Numerous adjustments are possible and either we, one of our partners, or your integrators can take care of this for you.

The Video Module in its current 2.0 version requires Cumulus 8.

Want to find out more about the commentary function and other advantages of Video Module 2.0? We’re happy to provide further information.