eMeta Corporation was a company that provided

access control In physical security and information security, access control (AC) is the action of deciding whether a subject should be granted or denied access to an object (for example, a place or a resource). The act of ''accessing'' may mean consuming ...

, subscription management and

ecommerce E-commerce (electronic commerce) refers to commercial activities including the electronic buying or selling products and services which are conducted on online platforms or over the Internet. E-commerce draws on technologies such as mobile comm ...

solutions for media, entertainment and software companies. It was founded in 1998 and headquartered in New York City. eMeta was taken over by

Macrovision TiVo Corporation, formerly known as the Rovi Corporation and Macrovision Solutions Corporation, was an American technology company headquartered in San Jose, California. Now operating as Xperi, the company is primarily involved in licensing ...

Corporation in 2006. Macrovision sold the eMeta operations to Atypon in November 2008. The eMeta suite of software products, consisting of RightAccess and RightCommerce, helps customers like

McGraw-Hill McGraw Hill is an American education science company that provides educational content, software, and services for students and educators across various levels—from K-12 to higher education and professional settings. They produce textbooks, ...

, NYTimes.com and

Wolters Kluwer Wolters Kluwer N.V. is a Dutch information services company. The company serves legal, business, tax, accounting, finance, audit, risk, compliance, and healthcare markets. Wolters Kluwer in its current form was founded in 1987 with a merger bet ...

license and sell digital assets, including text, audio, video, streaming media, games and software applications (SaaS).

Products and services

RightAccess

RightAccess is the access control module within the eMeta suite, providing advanced authentication, authorization, administration, registration and licensing functionality for all types of digital goods and services. RightAccess allows companies to manage how customers access online offerings.

RightCommerce

RightCommerce is the ecommerce module within the eMeta suite, making it easy to market and sell digital products. Designed for complex digital goods billing and

subscription The subscription business model is a business model in which a customer must pay a recurring price at regular intervals for access to a product or service. The model was pioneered by publishers of books and periodicals in the 17th century. It ...

management, it allows companies to target customers with free trials, discounts or gift subscriptions – while increasing incremental or add-on purchases with promotions and targeted pricing. Customer care features, including self-care, improve customer satisfaction.

eRightsWEB

eRightsWEB is the ASP, or

software as a service Software as a service (SaaS ) is a cloud computing service model where the provider offers use of application software to a client and manages all needed physical and software resources. SaaS is usually accessed via a web application. Unlike o ...

(SaaS), version of the eMeta suite, giving smaller organizations the opportunity to benefit from an access control and ecommerce system.

Notable customers

*Celera Genomics *CNN.com *Elsevier *FT.com *Hoover's, Inc. (US and UK) *iVillage.com *Knight Ridder Digital *McGraw-Hill Higher Education *NASCAR.com *NYTimes.com *Oxford University Press *ProQuest Information and Learning *Reuters *SmartMoney.com *Turner *The Globe and Mail *Wolters Kluwer

References

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