software professional services founded 2000 2004 headquarters new york city new york usa key people shen tong joe peyronnin products software parent wan net technology ltd. website http www.vfinity.com vfinity is a privately held software company based in new york city . it was founded by former chinese democracy leader shen tong in 2004 with a consulting and software customization company wan net technology founded in 2000 as its predecessor . vfinity creates and sells web based enterprise systems for digital asset management . its products are used by broadcasters archives educational and financial institutions in the united states and asia to manage their multimedia assets . the vfinity platform was soft launched during national association of broadcasters nab 2006 which won recognition that launched its president shen tong into a keynote speech at nab super session the following year . 1 independent research reports have also been following vfinity s entry into various markets by frost & sullivan hot company watch list 2 in 2007 abi key players in world digital asset management markets 3 in 2008 and forrester rich media management software 4 2010 . according to these research and other trade publications in higher education 5 information technology archive and library science broadcast technology digital asset management 6 among others 7 vfinity main value propositions and differentiation from other traditional dam vendors are its web2 .0 approach to architecture metadata and user experiences . vfinity and shen tong promoted notions of context is king search centric extreme ease of use with zero user training folksonomy or free tagging combined with taxonomy expert tagging zero client or web client . vfinity platform seems to differ from traditional enterprise software especially in professional media industry in its webby approach . the known installed base of vfinity products include universities cultural institutional production and advertisement companies film archives national archives and broadcasters tribeca film festival beijing olympics cathay financials national taiwan university brandeis university a pbs station producing prime time programming bloomberg l.p. . vfinity has offices in manhattan taipei beijing boston sunnyvale and los angeles . references edit nab super session keynote speech social media in the 21st century by shen tong ceo vfinity infoworld getting data asset management right abi research digital asset management forrester market overview rich media management software greentree gazette the managed web a look at the impact of web 2.0 on media asset management for the enterprise journal of digital asset management 2007 3 32 42 . doi 10.1057 palgrave.dam .3650061 fsb taxonomy v. folksonomy retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title vfinity & oldid 743884450 categories companies based in new yorkcompanies based in sunnyvale californiafilm and video technologycompanies established in 2005companies established in 2000information technology management 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 what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages nederlands edit links this page was last modified on 11 october 2016 at 20 39 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view