| | | Name: | Alex Shani | | Designation: | R & D Manager | | Country: | Israel | | Address: | - | | Tel: | +972 -54-4833300 | | Mobile: | - | | Fax: | - | | E-mail: | ashani@exent.com | | Website: | www.exent.com | | Technology Classification: | Software | | Main Business Activity: | Games on Demand | Company Profile, Products & Technologies, Target Market Exent Technologies Ltd is the market leader in technology solutions for secure digital delivery of gaming and applications software. Exent enables its customers to provide their audiences a state-of-the-art gaming experience, cost-effective solutions & services with the best available content, and the ultimate user experience in a secure, copyright enforcing manner. Exent value to its customers is a combination of the following four elements: - Technology - including benefits in the area of delivery, security and usability incorporating a full DRM & management platform.
Exent's technology is available on both a turnkey as well as on a licensed platform model. - Content - Exent provide content aggregation on a global basis, partnering with the leading publishers to provide attractive game offerings for all audiences.
- Channels - Exent's distribution partners include tier-1 service provider across the world.
- Know-How - Exent's extensive experience in implementing value-added services and technologies are positioning it as a subject-matter- expert and a great marketing and technology partner and consultant.
Exent's product line supports multiple solutions, including online gaming services, online software DRM & distribution, beta-stage management, Internet café facilitation and SDK solutions for developers. The EXEtender(tm) platform supports all major business models - free, subscription, rental, purchase, and try-before-you-buy, as well as all delivery mechanisms, including download and streaming of games of all sizes and genres, for various platforms. With this unmatched flexibility to meet rapidly evolving business needs, Exent customers are currently leading the market. Among Exent's customers and partners are Comcast, Yahoo!, Bell Canada, RCN, Telefonica, KPN, Deutsche Telecom, Telenet, Telenor, Telstra, Fujitsu, Nifty and others. Exent currently enables games from VU Games, Eidos, Atari, Ubisoft, Microsoft and other leading publishers. Brief description of proposed R&D project: Games Café intend to establish the required infrastructure for Games on Demand at the Internet Café. Internet Café is well established in many countries all over the world to provide Internet Services to local people who do not have Internet services at home or people away from home or office. The Internet Café charge user time of usage or may have different type of subscription or packages. The Games Café project assumes that further introduction of Video/Reach Content Games into the Internet Café, making such games available instantaneously and affordably for the users, will increase its attractiveness of Internet Café chain, and in turn, increase the utilization of the PCs in these chains. The Games Café solution offers hundreds of games to Internet Café denizens using a centralized Management Server. Users will be able to launch high quality games with a single click of the mouse, allowing for a rich experience, including multiple genres, from MMO to RTS and FPS, from a variety of tier-1 publishers, including Ubisoft, Microsoft, Eidos, Vivendi and others. The system allows easy management of games on the end-users PC and do not require installation of games on such machines. Instead, an innovative streaming platform delivers the game in real-time to the end-user machine and is full-proof against users deleting or changing the software on the end-PC. The Games Café software will manage the individual users keeping their history information as well as saved information. Each user being registered with its Game Café operator will be able to return and go-on with unfinished games. The system is designed for ease of use and for flexible business models. Desired Profile of R&D Partner and its role in the proposed R&D project: Exent's Partner Profile: A company operating Internet Café and/or delivering hardware and software based solutions to Internet Café chains. Partner's part: 1. User Interface. 2. Billing System 3. Localization 4. Securing local content rights | |