Integration with the Adobe Web Experience Management (WEM) solution – provides powerful end-to-end workflows to manage and deliver rich media assets. Adobe Scene7 and WEM (formerly known as CQ5) combine asset review and versioning workflows in WEM with rich media content delivery across channels and devices. Additionally, Scene7 viewers enable rich and immersive visualization of dynamic media assets in WEM-controlled web templates. 

SPS usability improvements – Enhance the overall SPS user experience and workflow, including:

• SPS/MP users and roles across companies provide company administrators and Media Portal (MP) administrators with the ability to add the same user to multiple accounts and assign different user roles by company.
• CDN cache clear facilitates more rapid updating of web content by removing assets labeled as “Invalidate CDN” by SPS company administrators. Notification of results are provided via email.
• Expanded asset folder list on sign-in displays all first-level subfolders on sign-in to SPS for easy navigation;
• Configurable sign-out warning pop-up note lets users enable or disable the sign-out warning message when a user moves away from the SPS/MP page using browser controls.
• Asset size in browse views displays asset size along with other asset attributes.
• Improved authoring of image map and cropping easily runs slight adjustments to an image, with keyboard keys enabled to edit vertex locations in mapping and cropping editors. This functionality applies to rectangular and polygonal boundaries, and always applies to the selected vertex
• Addition of polygonal points to rectangle image maps adds polygonal points to rectangle image maps when Ctrl is pressed while hovering over the edge of a rectangular map. An insertion cursor lets you add a point to create a polygonal map.
• New polygon density slider for image maps user controls to adjust point density in a polygon.
• Expanded asset type support provides support for several new file types for uploading, searching and browsing, and publishing tasks, including SWC files (Flash library files), CSS files (for HTML5 viewers), animated GIF files, JavaScript  files (viewer configuration)
• Set membership for images is now in the detail view for an image.
• XML file contents shows XML file contents in SPS.
• Folder creation upload option provides users with the flexibility to create new folders or subfolders in the asset tree.
• Concurrent user session updates & notifications alerts users signed into SPS when assets are uploaded or edited by other users. If concurrent edits of an asset are in progress, the user will be prompted to accept or reject these changes. Changes to assets and folders are automatically refreshed in all active sessions.
• HTTPS/SSL encryption support (America & Europe datacenters) adds an additional security layer for SPS access.

Enhanced image search in SPS — Using similarity search, find images visually similar to a given image:

• Search by color or shape or both to pinpoint assets with a similar shape and color;
• Combine similarity search with metadata search in the advance search user interface 
• Easily find duplicate image assets
• Search using advanced search criteria

 Contact the Adobe Scene7 support team (s7support@adobe.com) to enable this feature. By default it is disabled.

More secure testing environment — A new facility providing a secure testing server environment will be available on a company basis. This is ideal for customers who need to test new product updates and website designs in a secured environment with controlled access, prior to publishing to live servers for public launch. 
Contact the Adobe Scene7 support team (s7support@adobe.com) to enable this feature.

Beta feature Metadata Server — Provides technology to store and access metadata on published assets independent of the Scene7 Image Server. Capabilities include:

• Query for an asset’s Metadata
• Search for asset by Metadata
• Web based URL query with result XML or JSON formatted
• User interface in SPS to define and publish Metadata that the Metadata Server exposes

This new technology is currently in beta, and requires development work.  Contact the Scene7 support team (s7support@adobe.com) to join the beta program and test in a secure environment.

Generic user name and password support —The sign-in page directs MP users who have forgotten the password on their account to contact the Media Portal administrator and prohibits changing the generic password.

Notice to Image Portal 3.1 Users Only
IP 3.1 decommissioned — Since the beginning of last year, your company has been able to use both the Image Portal and MP concurrently to  facilitate a smooth transition from IP to MP.  Adobe has provided multiple notices that IP 3.1 will be decommissioned with the fall 2011 update (v5.5). After this update, customers must use MP exclusively and no IP access will be available; all users with IP access will be redirected to MP automatically. The redirect page includes instructions and a link to MP documentation and training. It also includes directions to contact your company system administrator if you need further assistance. Going forward, MP is the single portal solution for all continued development, including new features, enhancements, and updates. 

• Adobe Scene7 Image Portal is no longer available for use, as this solution has been discontinued. All portal users should now be using Adobe Scene7 Media Portal, with greatly expanded capabilities.
•  Click below to access the login page for MP in your region, which uses your same credentials. You should bookmark this MP link for future access:
  North America: http://s7sps1.scene7.com/IpsWeb/IpsWeb.html?application=MediaPortal
  Europe: http://s7sps3.scene7.com/IpsWeb/IpsWeb.html?application=MediaPortal
  Asia Pacific: http://s7sps5.scene7.com/IpsWeb/IpsWeb.html?application=MediaPortal
• If you are not familiar with MP, online Help resources are available from the Help menu once you have logged in. http://help.adobe.com/en_US/scene7/mediaportal/index.html.

Contact the Adobe Scene7 support team (s7support@adobe.com) with any additional questions.

Universal Viewer for adaptive content delivery — Dramatically simplifies the deployment of optimized viewing experiences for each screen.  Delivering rich experiences across desktops, smartphones, and tablets is now as easy as including a single universal URL which has built-in device intelligence to automatically serve image or video content in the right viewer and the right format.  A universal viewer SDK is also available for embedded viewer utilizations, containing device detection code and embedded sample code.

Adobe Scene7 HTML5 Viewer SDK — Enables extensive customization of Adobe Scene7 viewers for HTML5 supported sites and devices (such as iOS and Android), imparting the utmost flexibility and creativity to brand the viewer appearance and interactivity. Reusable performance-optimized components lower the overall cost of viewer development and accelerate custom development. Supported viewer types include the following:

• Zoom
• Image set and swatch set
• Spin

New viewer presets — Expands SPS viewer preset library with usability-optimized viewers for desktop and mobile.
The desktop viewer includes:

• New Flyout viewer optimized for implementation across all screens. Single viewer provides mouse-driven experience on desktops.
• New Mixed Media viewer incorporates completely updated design, autoplay spin, and full-screen mode
• Expanded configuration options provide easy customization of Flash AS3 viewers.

The mobile viewer includes:

• New Flyout viewer optimized for implementation across all screens. Single viewer provides touch-enabled experience on iOS and Android devices.
• New Spin viewer for iOS and Android devices provides full support for multitouch and gestures such as drag to spin, pinch, or double-tap to zoom.
• Enhanced DHTML Zoom, Image Set and Swatch Set viewers now support Android in addition to iOS devices.
• Easy customization and branding of all mobile viewers through CSS modifications.

Enhanced Adobe Scene7®Viewer SDK for Adobe Flash Technology — Supports mixed media viewers and accelerates the development of custom Flash applications for desktop and Flash enabled mobile devices, improving the customer experience and speed to market. New supported viewers include:

• Mixed media
• eCatalog
• Enhancements for autospin, alternate layout for full-screen mode, and tracking viewer events

Dynamic Banners for targeted promotions — Enhances the versatility of Flash banners in Adobe Scene7:

• Flash to HTML5 real-time file conversion with JavaScript embed code lets users optimize and automate content delivery of animated banners across channels and devices.
• Compiled clips support allows externally compiled content and the use of Scene7 viewers, such as zoom or video, in dynamic banners. Note: Output is limited to rich media content at this time.

Streaming video delivery to iOS devices* — Provides the optimal playback experience on iPhones and iPad tablets:

• Instantaneous video playback, even when skipping ahead, provides a superior playback experience.
• Adaptive video streaming detects device bandwidth (that is, 3G, 4G, WiFi) and automatically adjusts video quality throughout the user experience to provide uninterrupted, high-quality playback.

Adobe Premiere Pro Creative Suite 5.5 integration for streamlining desktop-to-web video workflows — Extends the create/manage/deliver workflow from Adobe Premiere Pro Creative Suite applications to Scene7:

• Scene7 Extension for Adobe Premiere Pro lets users  create, manage, upload, and publish video projects to Scene7, directly within Adobe Premiere Pro
• Live video updates in Adobe Scene7 Creative Suite Extension let users edit, update, and republish video assets already uploaded to Scene7 to live image servers directly from within the Creative Suite application for real-time updates.

Upload API for user generated video* — Enables smooth integration of user-generated content (UGC) video into websites, mobile sites, or mobile applications:

• Allows  users  upload recorded video, applying transcoding to various formats for playback on multiple screens and publishing approved video content to site
• Integrates UGC video into product reviews, video contests and promotions, and employee/enterprise video and more

Note: Adobe Scene7 currently does not offer content moderation/approval services directly, but can recommend service provider partners.

*Available only for eVideo streaming customers

Video search engine optimization — Augments search engine optimization in mRSS feeds by linking “Sitemap Title” and “Sitemap Description” fields to metadata values.

eCatalog enhancements for optimal viewing experiences on iOS devices — Fully leverage existing eCatalog assets from the desktop and smoothly deliver them to iPad and other tablets:

• Complete reuse of existing authored eCatalogs, leveraging single catalog creation optimized for tablet, desktop, or smartphone  experiences
• Support for InitialFrame parameter

eCatalog viewer sized for Facebook — Sized to fit within Facebook page width (520 pixel) featuring full-screen support, button-less controls with intuitive zoom icon overlay, and smart custom cursor for zoom in/zoom out cues.

DOM manipulation enhancements — Provides designers better control for adding or manipulating design objects in Scene7 FXG template.