DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE LANDSCAPE
In the Media and Entertainment production cycle, "workflow" has often been emphasized as the key to content creation. Streamlining workflow, sharing data, delivery confirmation, version control, and asset management are some of the detailed considerations that come up when discussing this topic.
As such, one will discover that there are many suppliers in this space claiming to be the single point solution for improving workflow. The reality is that there has been no silver bullet - there were point solutions that could improve certain portions of the workflow, but none that could fundamentally change the process or the way one would conduct their day-to-day business.
Signiant's Digital Media Distribution Management solutions use enterprise-grade software to address technical and business pains caused by the convergence of networking and digital media in the post production and broadcast industries.
More than just a faster file transfer protocol, more scalable than data acceleration appliances, flexible enough to scale and cross multi-vendor hardware, operating systems and firewalls, Signiant enables centralized management of file-based workflows through the entire production network, including bandwidth provisioning, prioritized delivery control of bi-directional data flow in and off the central backbone.
Signiant is the ONLY supplier able to deliver the flexibility, breadth of functionality, depth of network management control, scalability and extensible solution framework to meet the focused goals of saving time, reducing costs, and optimizing your precious network resources.
DAM VENDORS
Digital Asset Management (DAM) is a specialized software solution that focuses on the cataloging, indexing and access-rights assignment of rich media, such as sound, images, and motion. A DAM system will typically include a repository for the assets, a database of representative metadata that describes the media assets in a common taxonomy for classification purposes, and a search engine for fast and efficient access to stored assets.
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