HRS Harris Corp.

Digital Asset Management, Air-Time Sales, Scheduling and Reporting Benefit From Seamless Integration and Dynamic Information Exchange CINCINNATI, Feb. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Harris Corporation (NYSE:HRS) today announced that it is integrating its proven solutions for digital asset management, air-time sales, scheduling and reporting within its new H-Class(TM) Content Delivery Platform. These new H-Class(TM) applications will immediately realize new platform-based advantages, including content management and sharing, intra-application messaging, increased security and scheduling functionality. The H-Class Application Suite serves the existing needs of media and entertainment customers today and provides a growth path to full enterprise-wide deployment in the future. By providing management of content assets, associated metadata and content relationships, the H-Class Platform enables the delivery of rich media across multiple distribution channels. Customers of the H-Class Platform will enjoy the benefits of streamlined operations, increased productivity, optimized revenue streams and reduced operational and infrastructure costs. "Harris is the first vendor to recognize and deliver integrated messaging and content sharing between the functional areas within a media business," said Les Wyatt, general manager of Harris Software Systems and vice president of Harris Corporation. "Through our H-Class Content Delivery Platform and Application Suite, Harris is redefining how media businesses leverage content to their maximum revenue potential, enabling our customers to enter new markets while lowering operational costs." Advantages of Core Applications within the H-Class Platform: H-Class(TM) Digital Asset Management The Harris digital asset management offering, named Invenio(R), is an enterprise-wide, collaborative application for comprehensive search and browse tasks, cataloging, editing and archiving of rich media. With the June 2006 release, Invenio becomes H-Class Digital Asset Management and boasts new functionality. This new functionality includes integration with the H-Class Platform, new production protocols for seamless media exchange with industry- leading editing systems, a web client for faster Internet searching, and a more robust Thesaurus engine. Designed for media-rich enterprises, H-Class Digital Asset Management enables content collaboration across diverse departments. Through this collaboration, expert users can manage content in their archives, while providing non-expert users with the ability to find, create and publish new content across production and distribution environments. H-Class(TM) Airtime Sales Landmark II is Harris' advanced and scalable solution for controlling, monitoring and executing complex advertising campaigns. With the June 2006 release, Landmark II becomes H-Class Airtime Sales and realizes the benefits of the H-Class Platform integration. In addition, this release expands the market-leading ratings-based sales capability to include spot-based sales, and improves scalability and performance to support even the largest media businesses. H-Class Airtime Sales enables total control of the customers' available inventory and maximizes the resulting revenue. H-Class(TM) Scheduling Harris' advanced scheduling, traffic and program management system, Vision, unites planning, rights management and scheduling for data-rich, accurate schedules. With the June 2006 release, Vision becomes H-Class Scheduling and gives customers the advantages of the H-Class Platform. Several new features are also being released, including advanced break management, comprehensive program asset liability tracking, and expanded program management amortization process. This new functionality streamlines the critical workflows between the sales and scheduling departments, extends the ability to analyze program asset liabilities, and provides amortization of all necessary transactions during the program contract lifespan. H-Class(TM) Reporting Harris' Advanced Report Management (ARM) application provides report management and execution across all H-Class Applications. With the June 2006 release, ARM becomes H-Class Reporting and customers can leverage new advantages of the H-Class Platform. H-Class Reporting provides the infrastructure to access all H-Class Application databases from a single reporting engine. This enables customers to execute reports for single or multiple H-Class applications and gives both managers and operations staff quick access to the information required to maximize revenues. The secure, efficient, schedulable distribution of reports to multiple consumers of data within the enterprise unleashes the power of the H-Class Platform to transform a media enterprise. H-Class Content Delivery Platform Applications Introduced in 2005 H-Class(TM) Media Ingest, H-Class(TM) Playout Automation (previously referred to as Broadcast Presentation Manager) and H-Class(TM) Intelligent Transport were the first three H-Class Content Delivery Platform applications introduced in 2005. The H-Class Content Delivery Platform and Application Suite is the industry's first comprehensive enterprise software solution for air-time sales, scheduling, traffic, program management, digital asset management, media ingest, reporting, automation and content distribution. Using the H- Class Platform, customers can simplify their application environment, share common information across applications and standardize reporting. Purposely created for total content delivery, the H-Class Content Delivery Platform allows media companies to combine workflow and business processes into an integrated system that handles content from creation to consumption. H-Class Platform and Applications to be Demonstrated at NAB2006 The H-Class Applications Suite will be demonstrated at NAB2006 in the Harris South Hall booth (SU#2929). About Harris Corporation Harris is an international communications and information technology company serving government and commercial markets in more than 150 countries. With headquarters in Melbourne, Florida, the company has annual sales of over $3 billion and more than 13,000 employees -- including 5,500 engineers and scientists -- dedicated to the development of best-in-class assured communications(TM) products, systems, and services. The company's operating divisions serve markets for government communications, RF communications, broadcast communications, and microwave communications. Additional information about Harris Corporation is available at http://www.harris.com/ . DATASOURCE: Harris Corporation CONTACT: Mary Beth Harnett, Broadcast Communications Division of Harris, +1-513-459-3620, or ; or Laura Whitaker, Leitch Corporate Communications, +1-408-782-1201, or ; or K.C. Du Fay of Sterling Communications, Inc., +1-415-392-2300, or , both for Harris Web site: http://www.harris.com/ http://www.nabshow.com/default.asp Company News On-Call: http://www.prnewswire.com/comp/638606.html

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