With production facilities spread around the world – for example, producers in Los Angeles, film crews in New Zealand and editors in Vancouver – major studios need a way to get dailies from the field to their editors in a timely, cost-effective manner, while maintaining control, authorization and security. Signiant software delivers the solution, with a reduction in the time-to-market that will be measured in months. Signiant offers a standard Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) API which permits the implementation of digital media distribution applications as a set of web services for integrating existing platforms and applications.