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Signiant Flight Deck Data Sheet

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Automated Workflows Flight Deck

With centralized control and tracking of all content deliveries, Flight Deck serves as a hub for the automated transfer of large files and data sets within your organizational ecosystem and global media supply chain. Flight Deck’s automated workflows help you move content from system to system, and can be extended to support person-initiated transfers.

Flight Deck builds on all the functionality of Signiant Manager+Agents, the proven file transfer solution that forms the core transport backbone of most major media companies. With the inclusion of Signiant Flight — for secure, accelerated content transport to and from the cloud — and the secure connection of on-premises Manager systems to the control plane of Signiant’s SDCX SaaS platform, Flight Deck offers advanced SaaS capabilities and a consolidated environment for the administration of Signiant solutions.

Flight Deck is a powerful, scalable solution for media professionals seeking sophisticated enterprise management, automation, security, and control of content delivery processes. No other content exchange solution in this class offers greater power, reliability or flexibility – or a lower TCO at scale.

Media & Entertainment Industry Applications

Big Data Applications

Many data-intensive industries outside the media and entertainment industry depend on the secure and timely delivery of large data sets. Flight Deck can be used to transfer all kinds of big data, including high-res satellite images, clinical trial data, genome sequences, code bases, architectural drawings and product design files.

Features & Capabilities

Checkpoint Restart: If a transfer is interrupted, Flight Deck automatically resumes from the point of failure — there’s no need to restart the transfer and resend files.

Resource Management: The delivery of assets between sites can be prioritized according to business needs and content delivery windows. Resource management can control job concurrency and bandwidth usage for specific locations or servers to prevent system or network overload.

Supply Chain Peering: Manager peering allows secure visibility into jobs and file transfer on other Manager and Agent systems within your organization or across organizations in your supply chain.

Automation Engine: The Manager’s Automation Engine simplifies the development of re-usable job components that automate content processing.

Cloud Backup: With Flight Deck, all Managers can be automatically backed up to the cloud, In the unlikely event of a Manager failure, the on-premises system can quickly be restored to full operations.

Long Term Storage of Reporting Data: Sending data about transferred files to the cloud means keeping all the information you want while alleviating concerns that storing an abundance of data locally would require ongoing maintenance or could overwhelm on-premises databases.

Software Usage Report: The subscription usage page, available in the Signiant Console, makes it easy to keep track of your deployment and use of Signiant software.

Cloud Storage Access with Flight: Flight Deck includes Signiant Flight, a SaaS utility that provides secure, accelerated movement of large data sets to and from major cloud vendors (Amazon, Microsoft, Google).

API Integration: A native REST API allows you to automate transfer jobs, manage users, and control storage settings. Using API integrations, you can initiate jobs from Signiant Media Shuttle, MAM/DAM systems or custom content management systems.

Core Components