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Opdicom partnerships can provide benefits to both vendors and solution
providers by helping to get full-featured products to market within a short
time-frame.
- OEMs & licensing opportunities
Vendors in digital imaging, computer, computer peripheral, removable media
and storage markets have an opportunity to leverage their brand to exploit the
exploding market for optical disc management solutions.
- Optical disc management solution providers
Businesses supplying hardware, software or solutions based around the distribution
or management or optical discs may improve the efficiency of their solution through
using or integrating with elements of our end-to-end disc management solution.
OEMs & licensing opportunities
Vendors in digital imaging, computer, computer peripheral, removable media
and storage markets have an opportunity to leverage their brand to exploit the
exploding market for optical disc management solutions.
Businesses and home users are being confronted with an ever-increasing optical disc management problem. In 2004, over 8 billion CD-sized recordable optical (blank) discs were produced worldwide with the majority sold in a spindle package. Industry experts have forecast optical disc unit volumes will reach over 10 billion units per annum by 2008. DVD recordable media is driving this growth with a compounded annual growth rate of over 20%. When the other types of CD-sized media such as audio CDs are added, in excess of 30 billion discs were produced worldwide in 2004!
Opdicom research shows unanimous demand across the small business, home and
enterprise departmental level for a more productive way to store, manage,
protect and retrieve 12 cm discs. For those users who do not have the
requirement or resources to implement a near line or online disc storage
solution, there are limited alternatives to the highly inefficient practice
of storing discs in soft pouches, on shelves or in plastic racks. That was,
until Opdicom invented its patented OpdiStore
technology and OpdiTracker disc management software.
Opdicom has developed an end-to-end optical disc storage, management and retrieval system
that enables vendors to economically and quickly deploy disc storage solutions
to their customers. Opdicom works with vendors to provide solutions in the
following ways:
OEMs: Original Equipment Manufacturers
For maximum speed to market, Opdicom can provide a complete branded solution.
Using Opdicom's OpdiStore carousel technology and OpdiTracker disc management
software, you can have a complete solution ready to launch under your brand.
Opdicom has strategic partnerships with tier 1
contract manufacturers who can
provide the complete product direct to your warehouse, ready to launch to end
users. The OEM option is the fastest way to enter the market with a product that
carries your corporate and category brands certified by the
'Opdi' technology logo.
Reference design
You can slash the typical product development lifecycle time and get a unique
product to market quickly with an Opdicom OpdiStore Reference Design. You get the
benefit of a comprehensive reference design, plus you can leverage your existing
industrial design, product development and manufacturing resources, to bring a
unique product to market quickly.
When you license an OpdiStore Reference Design from
Opdicom, you receive a free licensed copy of the OpdiTracker disc management
software to bundle with your hardware. This enables you to deliver an end-to-end
solution to your customers in the shortest possible time. The Reference
Design option is the fastest way to enter the market with your own unique
product that carries your corporate and category brands, certified by the 'Opdi'
technology logo.
Technology licensing
Opdicom has patents pending and/or copyright on many of the features that
make up its OpdiStore disc storage technology and OpdiTracker disc management
software. Most of these technologies can be successfully used by third party
disc storage vendors to make their own solutions more effective. Ranging from
licensing of the complete OpdiTracker software suite for a producer of disc
storage hardware, to OpdiStore automated carousel stacking technology for existing
hardware producers, Opdicom actively seeks technology licensing opportunities to
assist all participants in the category to grow their business and the category
generally.
Optical disc management solution providers
Businesses supplying hardware, software or solutions based around distributing
or managing optical discs or writing data to optical discs may improve the
efficiency of their solution through using or integrating with elements of our
end-to-end disc management solution.
Opdicom has a comprehensive OpdiForm development
platform to assist solution providers in integrating with any element of the Opdicom
end-to-end disc management solution. The OpdiForm platform offers a core
suite of development tools and APIs for third party development of applications
that either integrate with or replace the OpdiTracker software in the management
of hardware incorporating OpdiStore technology.
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