For current MediaBank 3.5 customers, points to consider when planning the migration to MediaBank Gold. MediaBank Gold offers modular functionality to meet your needs ranging from Digital Asset Management, to business process management, and variable data publishing. Contact WAVE at 407-545-8293 or sales@wavecorp.com for more information.

1. GO FOR THE GOLD
MediaBank Upgrade

2. SUPPORTED SOFTWARE VERSIONS:
DESKTOPS
OS X 10.6 +
Windows 7 +

3. SUPPORTED SOFTWARE VERSIONS:
BROWSERS
Internet Explorer 9 +
Safari 5.1 +
Firefox 7 +
Chrome +

4. SUPPORTED SOFTWARE VERSIONS:
ADOBE PLUGINS
Entire Creative Suite

5. SUPPORTED SOFTWARE VERSIONS:
MICROSOFT OFFICE PLUGINS
Word 2010 +
PowerPoint 2010 +
Excel 2010 +
Outlook 2010 +

6. SUPPORTED SOFTWARE VERSIONS:
QUARK PLUGINS
QuarkXPress 9 +
* Tentative – Awaiting customer feedback
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7. SUPPORTED SOFTWARE VERSIONS:
FUTURE PLUGINS
Looking for your feedback
• Final Cut Pro
• Avid
• Asperra
• Others?
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8. SUPPORTED SERVER ENVIRONMENTS
64 bit Windows 2008 +
64 bit RedHat ES 6 +
64 bit Solaris 10
* Tentative – Awaiting customer feedback
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9. SUPPORTED DATABASES
Oracle 11g +
SQL Server 2005 +
MySQL 5.0 +

10. WEB TECHNOLOGIES
Internet Information Server 7.5 +
* fastCGI
Apache Web Server 2.2 +
PHP Version 5.3.8 +

11. UPGRADE INCLUSIONS
• Customers under support receive MediaBank
Gold Release at no additional charge
• No changes to annual support
• Powerful set of Modules
• Distributed server components

12. FUNCTIONAL MODULES
• Asset Manager (DAM)
• Workflow Manager (BPM)
• Office Manager (CMS)
• Website Manager (WCM)
• Template Manager (VDP)
• Product Manager (PIM)
• Publishing Manager (CMS)

13. DISTRIBUTED SERVER COMPONENTS
• Application
• Media
• Cache
• Web
• Database
• Analytic

14. UPGRADE
• Planning
• Budgeting
• Logistics

15. UPGRADE: PLANNING
TEST SERVER
• Test
• Upgrades
• Workflows
• Customizations
• Reduce risk
• Training tool

16. UPGRADE: PLANNING
CLEANUP SYSTEM
• Purge unused assets
• Delete stagnant users, groups, jobs, etc.
Doing so may lead to a smoother upgrade!

17. UPGRADE: PLANNING
CUSTOMIZATIONS
Evaluate current customizations
Customizations may exist as features in
MediaBank Gold.
We designed it that way!

18. UPGRADE: PLANNING
ENHANCE WORKFLOW
Is it time to implement a new and improved
MediaBank Workflow?
How can you best utilize the new capabilities?

19. UPGRADE: PLANNING
COMMUNICATE
Let your team know something new is on the
way.
Get your troops pumped up about the new
MediaBank Experience!

20. UPGRADE: PLANNING
PROFESSIONAL SERVICES
WAVE is here for you!
We can help with best practices, customizations,
and workflow analysis.
Insure a smooth transition by utilizing WAVE’s
Professional Services.
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21. UPGRADE
• Planning
• Budgeting
• Logistics

22. UPGRADE: BUDGETING
HARDWARE
• Test Server
• Application Server
• Media Servers
• Cache Servers
Reminder
• You have the ability to Distribute Server Components
• Allows you to build your own private cloud

23. UPGRADE: BUDGETING
HARDWARE
• More Memory and CPU recommended
• 2 GHz processors or higher
• 2 GB Memory per core
• I/O has biggest impact on performance

24. UPGRADE: BUDGETING
SOFTWARE
The operating systems and software that
MediaBank integrates with may need to
be updated to the latest versions.
If you’re not sure - ask us!
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25. UPGRADE: BUDGETING
DEVELOPMENT
Plan for development costs associated
with updating current 3.5 customizations
to the GOLD web services. BUT.....
Policies and Workflow tools will make many
customizations obsolete.
This will reduce custom development costs and
maintenance.
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26. UPGRADE: BUDGETING
TRAINING
Minimum of 4 days recommended.
• Make sure your administrators
and users get the most value out of
the new functionality

27. UPGRADE
• Planning
• Budgeting
• Logistics

28. UPGRADE: LOGISTICS
WIZARDS
Upgrade Installer will have a set of wizards to
assist you during the upgrade process.
Wizards will help you move objects in 3.5 to newly
defined objects in Gold.

29. UPGRADE: LOGISTICS
AVAILABILITY
Upgrade Installer will be available in summer of 2012
Don’t want to wait?
WAVE services team will offer custom
migration services.
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30. TERM MAPPINGS
MediaBank 3.5 MediaBank Gold
User Contact
Group Role
Element Database(s) Account(s)
Root Job / Cataloger Campaign / Root Folder
Job Jacket / Project Folder / Smart Folder
Profile View
Saved Search Bookmark
Element Asset
Revision Version
Hooks / Triggers / Options Policies

31. UPGRADE: LOGISTICS
FACTS TO CONSIDER
Gold and 3.5 must run on separate servers.
IT should expect an increase in database size.

32. UPGRADE: LOGISTICS
TWO OPTIONS
• In - Place
• MediaBank 3.5 is updated to Gold directly on your
current hardware.
• System will be down during this type of upgrade.
• Migration - Based
• Gold is installed on a new server.
• 3.5 remains running on current server.
• Allows migration to happen over time.

33. HOW CAN WE HELP?
@wavecorp
sales@wavecorp.com
407-545-8293
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