Build a brighter future <br> by preserving culture

NOA is crafting innovative tools to help you

Build a brighter future
by preserving culture

Our Mission

NOA is a privately owned business company founded in 2000 in Austria (EU) that provides flexible turnkey solutions for sustainable multimedia archiving and legacy archive digitization on an entry to enterprise scale.

"As one of the leaders in the digital archive market with decades of experience, NOA takes the responsibility of shaping the future of multimedia archiving in a long-term perspective seriously. We work tirelessly to offer state-of-the-art technology backed by top-of-the-class services, and we are proud to show all our results…"

Peter Kuhnle, NOA CTO

Our Recipe

NOA’s time-proven recipe for success is simple.

Optimism + Market Vision + Teamwork + Creativity + Hard Work

These are the values upon which NOA was founded and run for years by our three founders:

Co-founder of NOA Archive, audio video digitization, archiving and preservation

Marcus Krämer

Associate

Hardware Engineer
Software Developer

Jean-Christophe Kummer

CEO

Archive Evangelist
System Architect
Sound Engineer
Dreamer

Peter Kuhnle

CTO

Archive Innovator
Hardware Engineer
Software Architect
Inventor

Our Vision

At NOA, we aspire to reshape the narrative of archiving technology, unlocking the potential of every piece of media to inspire, inform, and connect.

Through unwavering dedication and cutting-edge technology, NOA aims to be the driving force that empowers institutions, creators, and communities to unlock the full value of their media heritage.

"With innovation at our core, we strive to lead the industry in pioneering solutions that redefine the archiving experience. Our goal is to seamlessly bridge the past, present, and future by preserving the treasures of yesterday and harnessing the possibilities of tomorrow."

Jean-Christophe Kummer, NOA CEO

Pushing Numbers, Elevating Quality!

5,000,000+ hours

of media content digitized!

Join us on the road to one billion!

25,000,000+ assets

cataloged and preserved!

Battle-proven and ready for new challenges!

20+ years

of first-hand field experience!

Everybody wins, no exceptions!

100% happy clients

of all shapes and sizes, worldwide!

Our Know-How

United by a great opportunity, NOA’s founders used the startup momentum of their unique and visionary take on archiving and digitization to attract talent, skills and expertise from many different industries.

It is this combined know-how of all NOA employees that we bring to the market, and which will continue to redefine the world of archiving for years to come…

100+ yrs

combined experience
of our top-level engineers in Hardware Development

97+ yrs

combined experience
of our top sound engineersin Quality Audio Transfers

95+ yrs

combined experience
of our data specialists and devsin Metadata Migration

76+ yrs

combined experience
of our top-quality video expertsin Quality Video Transfers

121+ yrs

combined experience
of our excellent project managersin Project Delivery

99+ yrs

combined experience
of our archive specialistsin Archiving and Cataloging

Our History

2000-2004

NOA was founded in January 2000 by Peter Kuhnle, Marcus Krämer and Christophe Kummer.

From the very start, the company’s main focus and area of expertise was the transition from analogue to digital content, aptly reacting to a growing demand from many legacy archive owners at the time. With the analogue era coming to an end, the decreasing availability of proprietary player hardware and the continuing deterioration of physical audio and video carriers in legacy archives, has forced many companies to make the brave and smart decision to initiate the inevitable digitization process as soon as possible.

2005-2010

Thanks to a great product-market fit, the family of products quickly grew from single purpose software applications to what is today one of the most powerful digitization automation frameworks in the multimedia archive market – the jobDB, actLINE and ingestLINE product families.

As more and more organizations began to be aware of the importance and responsibilities of owning and maintaining digital file archives, NOA decided in 2005 to close the gap with its highly specialized and versatile Archive Asset Management system – mediARC.

2011-2015

Starting in 2008, NOA has developed mass migration workflows for video digitization, and by 2010 started to develop standard products for video ingest and video transcoding. By taking this important and much anticipated step, NOA has become a true multimedia solutions’ provider open to the entire global broadcasting market.

In order to keep up with the ever-changing market, NOA started to open up its main frameworks to 3rd party integrations, which resulted in a huge boost of market adoption.

2016-2020

To fill one of the last gaps in its product portfolio, NOA has introduced a series of single station ingest systems that bring professional high-quality audio- and video ingest closer to small and medium size archives, or enable on-demand expansion of already existing digitization operations of large institutions.

Experience from the ever-growing number of digitization and archive facilities powered by NOA all around the world is used to design and develop new generations of products…

2000

The company is born, first products:
WaveButler, NOARecord

2001

First hardware product:
N6000 system

2002

Client Server Distribution:
jobDB Archive Workflow Management

2003

First international Broadcast client:
YLE Finland

2004

Market adoption of jobDB:
Poland, France, Slovenia, Croatia, Austria

2005

Market expansion:
memnon, Sony France

2006

2007

Advanced archive catalog:
mediARC Archive Asset Management

2008

The first video preservation factory:
120.000 hrs of 1" video

2009

Market adoption of mediARC:
Slovakia, Croatia, Slovenia

2010

1.000.000 items saved worldwide

2011

Lossless video digitization:
FrameLector and VTRi

2012

Global expansion:
Mexico, Vietnam, Mongolia

2013

Video preservation factories: actLINE modules and processors

2014

Opening up to 3rd party:
StorNext, Amass, EMC Avalon, DIVA

2015

New audio hardware:
N7000c and BitProof

2016

Entry level digitization:
PICO digitization workbench

2017

Extending feature sets
for video digitization tools

2018

Market adoption:
100 FrameLector streams worldwide

2019

4.000.000 items saved worldwide!

2020

AVID Integration:
deeper integration with broadcast productions

2021

COMPANY:

NOA GmbH

ADDRESS:

Johannagasse 42/4,
1050 Vienna, Austria

www.noa-archive.com

+431 545 27 00

+431 545 27 00-14

office@noa-archive.com

sales@noa-archive.com

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