According to Newzoo.com, Americans spent $24.7 billion in 2010 on games of all kind, while the UK's total spend was £3.7 billion - and this is with declines from 2009 of 2% and 3% respectively! Other major players include France with €4 billion (+13%) and Germany with €4.9 billion (+33%). While there was a slight decline in some regions, that is attributed to the massive explosion of online, mobile and social networking games which are mostly free. The creation of games is certainly not slowing down, just the opposite is true, it's growing faster than ever.
While new games are rapidly being created and existing games are constantly being updated, the back-end for moving and transforming gaming files is more critical than ever before to keep pace. Solutions such as FTP may have worked once upon a time, these days the need for secure, accelerated file movement over the WAN is critical. You need an automated solution that is going to guarantee the delivery of your files and an email notification upon receipt in order to meet your business demands. If you have an end-to-end solution in place, your IT department will spend a lot less time on support calls tracking files.
Leading global interactive entertainment software companies are using Signiant to:
- Move hundreds of TBs of files
- Collaborate: multi-party data exchange for game development and packaging
- Track the movement of packages and receive certified delivery
- 24/7 automation
- Integrate with internal systems and processes for daily updates
- Flag and conduct error handling when problems come up
- Resume transmission after a link has been restored using check-pointing
- Schedule file delivery and prioritize the order of the files