eMeta Corporation was a company that provided access control

Access control

Access control refers to exerting control over who can interact with a resource. Often but not always, this involves an authority, who does the controlling. The resource can be a given building, group of buildings, or computer-based information system...

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

Macrovision

Rovi Corporation is a globally operating, US-based company that provides guidance technology, entertainment data, copy protection, industry standard networking and media management technology for digital entertainment devices and services...

 Corporation in 2006. Macrovision sold the eMeta operations to Atypon

Atypon

Atypon provides software, hosting, and systems development solutions to publishers of media, scholarly, technical, professional and medical content...

 in November 2008.

The eMeta suite of software products, consisting of RightAccess and RightCommerce, helps customers like McGraw-Hill

McGraw-Hill

The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., is a publicly traded corporation headquartered in Rockefeller Center in New York City. Its primary areas of business are financial, education, publishing, broadcasting, and business services...

, NYTimes.com and Wolters Kluwer

Wolters Kluwer

Wolters Kluwer N.V. is a global information services and publishing company. The company provides products and services for professionals in the health, tax, accounting, corporate, financial services, legal and regulatory sectors...

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

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 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

Software as a service , sometimes referred to as "on-demand software," is a software delivery model in which software and its associated data are hosted centrally and are typically accessed by users using a thin client, normally using a web browser over the Internet.SaaS has become a common...

(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