Why you need Manager+Agents
How Manager+Agents works
How customers use Manager+Agents
Pricing and packaging
AUTOMATED and accelerated file movement between geographically dispersed locations
Exchange content and metadata files with other users, systems and applications regardless of geographic location or file size by automating processes or defining schedules. Manager+Agents delivers fast, reliable and secure movement of files up to 200X faster than FTP and TCP with 95+% network efficiency. Checkpoint Restart ensures that once a file starts moving it will get to its destination, even if interrupted. If a file transfer fails, it automatically restarts the transfer from the point of failure, which is essential when moving multi-gigabyte data sets.
CENTRALIZED control
With a web-based administration console, Manager+Agents gives you a single view for system configuration, task automation, scheduling, managing current system activity and customized reporting, combined with the power to take action as needed to ensure your business processes run smoothly. Manager+Agents provides complete visibility into file movement, and you can create and customize job completion email notifications, as well as customize and schedule reports, file movement jobs and system activity. Powerful network management resources let you manage and control bandwidth usage, including setting ceiling and floor ranges based on the time of day or traffic loads on the network and limits for running file movement jobs.
Enterprise class SECURITY
Manager+Agents ensures that your files transfers are secure with encrypted browser sessions and file transfers — up to 256-bit AES encryption. The built-in certificate authority manages Public Key Infrastructure, (PKI) maintains security certificates, and establishes secure communication between Manager+Agents. Delivery is certified via digitally signed transfers, providing non-repudiation, and proof of the integrity and origin of the data.
Use internal or integrated directory services (LDAP & Active Directory) for authentication and authorization. Use predefined roles to control access, or define your own groups based on organization, location and more.
Workflow AUTOMATION
Manager+Agents lets you create flexible workflow templates that automate the processing of content by visually connecting workflow steps and manual tasks with the appropriate business rules. Those workflow templates can be as simple as moving a file from one location to another, or as sophisticated as directing a package to 3rd party applications for transcoding and watermarking prior to moving the content across the WAN to global locations.
Manager+Agents utilizes a standards based approach based on the Framework for Interoperable Media Services (FIMS). Manager+Agents also includes a set of SOAP and REST APIs for control by 3rd party software as part of a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) deployment. Signiant helped define the FIMS Representational State Transition (REST) interfaces and Managers+Agents supports the REST Transfer interface in addition to the existing SOAP Transfer interface.
Additionally, Manager+Agents workflows can be connected to solutions from more than 25 partners.
Easily set and control POLICIES and TRANSFERS
Using a web interface, the Signiant Manager performs all administration, control, scheduling, automation and reporting of system activity as well as orchestrating the execution of jobs.
Execute JOBS and TASKS
Signiant Agents execute the tasks that the Manager defines which primarily include accelerated file movement, and interoperability with third-party software and systems. File movement occurs from Agent to Agent, and can be deployed as a single node or for larger locations in a load-balanced cluster. Systems can also be configured to relay connections from public to private networks transferring firewalls while maintaining network security.
Signiant’s powerful TECHNOLOGY PLATFORM
Media & Entertainment companies have been trailblazers in the electronic transfer of very large, high-value digital assets, and most of them rely on Signiant technology to securely move their files. The powerful, secure Signiant platform helps companies like Disney, ESPN, and Fox move petabytes of data every month throughout their content supply chains. The foundation includes acceleration, reliability, security, central control and automation.
Easily EXTEND and INTEGRATE
Manager+Agents helps you easily extend your workflows to other people and systems around the globe. SOAP and REST APIs lets you initiate jobs from higher order media applications like DAM/MAM systems or custom content management systems.
Manager+Agents workflows can be extended into public cloud object storage with Signiant Flight. Workflows can also be started based on person initiated transfers into Media Shuttle Submit portals.
ACCELERATING file movement within your global organization and beyond
Manager+Agents helps connect your internal locations around the world, making it easy to rapidly move large files and groups of files automatically. Plus you can deliver content to your external partners within your media supply chain and ecosystem. Manager+Agents helps you move files from system to system and can be extended to support person initiated transfers and transfers to and from the cloud, so you can shorten file transfer times, automate workflows, and increase reliability while maintaining complete control.
TV broadcast
With Manager+Agents you can integrate your content supply chain and streamline file deliveries to ensure distribution for playout happens on schedule. Organizations like A+E Networks, BBC, Discovery, Fox, NBC and many others rely on Signiant to accelerate file transfers for linear television broadcast.
Post production
By enabling secure exchange of content, post production facilities can improve client services with media, broadcast and playout companies. Modern Videofilm, Loft London, Point 360 and many other post production studios use Manager+Agents to receive content, edit and produce it, and then move it to studios, broadcasters, cable networks, or other distributors quickly and securely.
What you get
When you purchase Manager+Agents, the Manager gives you control, configuration, monitoring and reporting for up to 15 Agents. Additionally the Manager includes 4 workflow templates for the distribution, aggregation, replication, and hot folder transfer of files. Agents are required to execute the tasks defined by the Manager, including accelerated server to server (Agents) file transfers, other automated processes and firewall transversal. You can get started with just one Manager and the number of Agents you need for each location. Add additional Agents for other locations, partners, endpoints or for redundancy and load balancing.
Additional OPTIONS for increased FLEXIBILITY
There are also a number of optional modules that can be added to the Manager including but not limited to.
- Automation Engine for customized workflow automation.
- Resource Management for advanced bandwidth control, Agent resource throttling, and job queuing.
- High Availability for Manager redundancy.
- Remote Standby for Manager remote backup and standby.
- Accelerated movement of large media files to and from public cloud environments (Amazon, Azure) for rendering, transcoding or archive via Signiant Flight.