SAN FRANCISCO, CA -Sep 25, 2001-- Artesia Technologies engineered an important leap forward in the evolution of enterprise digital asset management (DAM) solutions today, unveiling a best-in-class native Macintosh client that extends the power and benefits of their award-winning TEAMS DAM solution to the global creative community. This creative client exemplifies Artesia's commitment to extending the utility, usability and benefits of digital asset management solutions throughout the entire enterprise. "Artesia has always been at the forefront of the Digital Asset Management space, and today we continue to demonstrate our leadership" said Scott Bowen, president and COO of Artesia Technologies. "The release of this Mac-based creative desktop leapfrogs other attempts to provide enterprise DAM functionality to creative contributors. Our customers, analysts and other leaders in the creative community have been thrilled with our many unique features and the careful attention to their workflow needs" Developed to ease the file-intensive process of graphics production, Artesia's creative client enhances its award-wining TEAMS digital asset management solution with new intuitive applications that make it easier for the creative market to find, edit, manage and re-express the components of books, magazines, catalogs and other publishing objects. The new creative client is an integral part of TEAMS rather than a separate workgroup or departmental application. It streamlines the entire creative process, enabling projects to move from creation to distribution more quickly, at a lower cost and with higher quality than before. "My impression of the beta version of Artesia's native Mac creative client was that I was witnessing the birth of an asset management system built from the ground up with thought and creativity." said Paul Kazmercyk, president of Granite Bay Design." This is a product conceived by people with hands-on graphic arts experience on it's way to becoming a truly complete solution for professionals in every aspect of design and production."