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IBM, ADOBE TO PARTICIPATE IN FUTURE IMAGE'S VISUAL COMMUNICATION INITIATIVE SAN MATEO, CA - March 18, 2003 -Future Image, the leading provider of digital imaging information and analysis, announces the addition of two major sponsors -Adobe systems and International Business Machines (IBM) Corporation - to its Visual Communication initiative (www.visualcommunication.info). The roster of companies who have joined together to promote visual communication through this initiative now includes: Adobe Systems, Eastman Kodak, Epson, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, LightSurf, Microsoft, Nikon, SanDisk, and Sprint PCS. The initiative, first announced at Photo Marketing International last year, aims to focus the business community's attention on a key emerging trend of the 21st Century: the critical importance of integrated visual content as a tool for businesses to increase productivity, cut costs, develop new revenue streams and communicate more effectively with customers, suppliers, stakeholders, and employees. "Business executives are becoming increasingly aware that digital media technologies, in particular visual communication, are of vital importance to their future," said Alexis Gerard, president of Future Image Inc. "We're delighted that two of the key companies driving that evolution are joining forces with us and with each other to highlight the coming information shift to enhanced visual content." "Digital media provides tremendous business value for entire organizations to more effectively and efficiently communicate with their customers, suppliers, and shareholders," said Gail Whipple, VP Digital Media Services, IBM Corporation. "IBM is pleased to be a part of Future Image, Inc.'s initiative to share this message. IBM is the world's leading e-business company offering a wide range of services, solutions, software and technologies that allow businesses to take full advantage of the exploding digital media market. IBM's digital media solutions extend new and existing e-business applications to the emerging rich-media market. IBM has pioneered digital media across many industries, and geographic locations and together with our partners and IBM research, we have developed digital media solutions in the retail, telecommunications, government, health care, and financial services industries." "Throughout history, it has been the image not the word that people gravitate to first," said Bryan Lamkin, senior vice president of Digital Imaging and Video Products at Adobe Systems. "For companies like Adobe, our role is to ensure that anyone at home or in business can use images to communicate more effectively, whether it's a professional photographer perfecting an image for a magazine cover, a business delivering visually rich, compelling content to their employees, or new parents emailing an Adobe PDF slideshow of their baby to friends and family around the world."
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