London and Hamburg, Germany, Thursday 12 November, 2009 - CoreMedia, a leading Web Content Management company, has secured a major order from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) for the CoreMedia CMS solution for online publishing. ABC's prime vendor, NCS Australia, the Australian subsidiary of NCS, Asia's leading IT and communications engineering solutions provider, will migrate three major ABC websites including the corporation's prestigious www.abc.net.au/news site to CoreMedia CMS.

CoreMedia will provide ABC with a robust and flexible strategic online publishing platform that will enable the broadcaster to optimise the launch, roll-out and implementation of a range of websites over the coming months and years. The scalable underlying architecture of CoreMedia CMS ensures greater flexibility, so that ABC's future requirements can also be met, enabling a 'grow-as-you-go' approach for the entire organisation.

CoreMedia CMS offers full support for a wide range of content types and will help ABC to both extract added value from its existing content as well as ensure information consistency across a range of sites using a single core content management platform as content backbone. ABC Online content makers will be provided with a customised easy-to-use editorial front end to ensure efficient and comfortable editorial workflows.

"We're delighted that ABC has selected CoreMedia CMS as its strategic Web Content Management platform for online publishing. The contract confirms CoreMedia as the logical choice for major media companies that need to maximise their return on engagement, provide their readers with more dynamic, personalised offerings, and encourage interaction among readers, as well as between readers and editors," added Burghardt Groeber, CoreMedia's Managing Director for the Asia Pacific region. "The CoreMedia CMS offers shorter time-to-Web, reliability, scalability, ease-of-use as well as speed and flexibility of implementation. We will be working closely with NCS Australia as our implementation partner to deliver this project for the ABC."

CoreMedia's Web Content Management offering allows organisations to maximise their return on customer engagement. It enables enterprises to create powerful, consistent and engaging Web experiences for all users, and provides a full range of capabilities to enable organisations to manage their content, enable conversations and drive the conversion of content into revenue.

About ABC:
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) is Australia's national public broadcaster, providing television, radio, online and mobile services throughout metropolitan and regional Australia, as well as overseas through the Australia Network and Radio Australia. ABC is Australia's leading supplier of digital content to the public and is one of the largest podcast and vodcast suppliers in the world. For further information, please visit www.abc.net.au

About NCS Australia:
NCS Australia is a subsidiary of NCS, headquartered in Singapore. NCS is one of Asia Pacific's top infocomm and technology (ICT) services providers. It employs over 7,000 staff in more than 10 countries across the Asia Pacific and Middle East regions. With proven expertise in consulting, development, systems integration, outsourcing, infrastructure management and solutions, NCS delivers end-to-end support for every organisation's technology needs. NCS is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the SingTel Group. www.ncs.com.sg

About CoreMedia:
CoreMedia is a premier Web Content Management company that enables organisations to engage their customers with more dynamic content and achieve a greater return on their Web activities. The CoreMedia CMS solution offers an open, social, adaptive Web Content Management approach to create dynamic, contextualised Web sites. It delivers content consistently across multiple touchpoints, providing a flexible platform for conversations across integrated social networks. CoreMedia benefits organisations by engaging their users in a way that creates value for customers while driving conversion and delivering a bottom line return for the business. Founded in 1996, CoreMedia has offices in Hamburg, San Francisco, Chicago, London and Singapore. For further information, please visit: https://www.coremedia.com

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Jeremy Whittaker
Corporate Communications Manager
CoreMedia AG
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jeremy.whittaker@coremedia.com

Cheryl Billson
PR for CoreMedia
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cheryl.billson@commacomms.com