scala see scala . this article needs additional citations for verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . june 2016 learn how and when to remove this template message scala type private industry computer software founded 1987 headquarters malvern pennsylvania us key people tom nix ceo products infochannel scala enterprise website www.scala.com footnotes references 1 scala is a producer of multimedia software founded in 1987 . it is headquartered near philadelphia and has subsidiaries in europe and asia . contents 1 history 2 corporate governance 3 scala multimedia 4 scala5 5 scala enterprise 6 references 7 external links history edit in 1987 a young norwegian entrepreneur jon b hmer founded the company digital visjon in brumunddal norway to create multimedia software on the commodore amiga computer platform . in 1988 they released their first product which was named infochannel 0.97 l which had hotels and cable tv companies as their first customers . in 1990 they redesigned the program with a new graphical user interface . they renamed the company and the software scala and released a number of multimedia applications . the company attracted investors mainly from norway and incorporated in the us in 1994 and is now based in the united states with their european headquarters located in the netherlands . the name scala was given by b hmer and designer bj rn rybakken and represents the scales in colors tones and the opera in milano . the name inspired a live actor animation made by b hmer and rybakken using an amiga a video camera and a frame by frame video digitizer . the animation named lo scalatore italian for the climber featured a magic trick of indian fakirs of a man climbing a ladder and disappearing in the air . 2 this animation was then included into one of the demo disks of scala multimedia in order to show the capabilities of that presentation software in loading and playing animations whilst also manipulating it with other features of the software . in 1994 scala released multimedia mm400 and infochannel 500 . in 1996 due to the bankruptcy of commodore scala left the amiga platform and started delivering the same applications under ms dos . scala multimedia mm100 scala multimedia publisher and scala infochannel 100 were released for the x86 platform . scala mm100 won byte magazine s best of comdex in 1996 . corporate governance edit as of december 2013 the ceo of scala is tom nix who was formerly a regional vice president . 1 nix succeeds gerard bucas who retired after nine years . 1 scala multimedia edit the first versions for the amiga computer were a video titler and slide show authoring system . scala was bundled with typefaces background images and a selection of transition effects to be applied to them . the artwork was designed by bj rn rybakken . scala was also capable of working with genlock equipment to superimpose titles over footage played through the devices video input . succeeding versions of the program on the same platform added features such as animation playback more effects wipes and the ability to interact with multimedia devices through a programming language called lingua latin for language . with its move to windows scala became more complex and gained the ability to support languages such as python and visual basic . scala5 edit in late 2008 scala stopped calling their product line infochannel and went through a period of referring only to their solutions . at the start of 2009 the product line was being called scala5 and being referred to as such in all their press releases . 3 scala5 has three main components scala designer an authoring program which is used to create dynamic content scala content manager which is used to manage and distribute content and scala player which plays back the distributed content . scala enterprise edit scala s latest suite of digital signage software is referred to as scala enterprise . the solution a software suite consisting of scala designer scala player and scala content manager officially launched in mid 2013 . 4 at launch release version 10.0 featured html5 and android player support the usage of interactive features on mobile devices to engage with retail and corporate communications audiences and social media integrations . 5 as of january 2016 the latest version of scala enterprise is version 11.00.06 . references edit a b c staff writer 14 september 2011 scala of exton names new ceo philadelphia business journal american city business journals archived from the original on 15 september 2011 retrieved 15 september 2011 amiga animations loscalatore . www.randelshofer.ch . retrieved 2008 08 09 . scala announces an on time release of the much anticipated release 4 of scala5 . scala inc. 2008 12 31 . the new scala enterprise communication solution . display insight . 2013 07 03 . scala redesigns gui and html5 content playback . digital signage news emea . 2013 02 26 . external links edit official website original animation of loscalatore and other scala demos preserved for historical purposes on randelshofer.ch site scala s trade mark infochannel ctm 301275 has been cancelled by the office for harmonization in the internal market retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title scala company & oldid 729553295 categories presentation softwareamiga softwarecomputer companiessignagehidden categories articles needing additional references from june 2016all articles needing additional referencesofficial website different in wikidata and wikipediause dmy dates from october 2011 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools 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