| Supply chain management and orchestration |
Supply chain control, enabling management and orchestration of workflows, human and system resources.
IBM Aspera® Orchestrator
With Orchestrator, files can be directed, processed and redirected with easy-to-define rules.
IBM Aspera® Orchestrator
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Aspera Orchestrator is a web-based application and SDK platform that enables precise control over the Aspera high-performance file transfer environment. It allows organizations to build efficient, predictable file processing pipelines that interconnect business units and external partners. With Orchestrator, files can be directed, processed and redirected with easy-to-define rules based on an organization’s workflows and using existing IT infrastructure. Aspera automation streamlines complex workflows and ensures that each processing step is accurately performed.
Visually define and automate execution of your existing workflows
Aspera Orchestrator’s interactive graphical designer makes it easy to compose execution streams based on an organization’s existing workflows. Users can use drag-and-drop visual elements to define logical sequences, inputs, action types, outputs and dependencies, and group them into reusable templates. The graphical interface also allows users to monitor active workflows in real time and to drill down into a detailed history of operations.
An intelligent decision engine with a rich library of plug-ins
To automate workflows and assure timely delivery of content under fixed schedules, Aspera Orchestrator combines a logical execution engine with third-party plug-ins for asset transformation, quality control and other functions. Its conditional rules engine binds inputs to actions on the fly, allowing results from earlier steps to decide subsequent actions in the pipeline, including prompting for human input if needed. An expanded array of plug-ins covers the leading encoding, transcoding, watermarking, and verification products, in addition to full support of verification of file format standards such as ADI, MXF, AS-11 and DPP file formats, and FIMS.
Support high-volume workflows
Workflow orchestration systems depend on predictable delivery of files to feed their processing pipeline. To ensure uninterrupted data flow regardless of system load, Orchestrator relies on FASP®, Aspera’s unique, patented, bulk data transfer technology that enables high-speed data delivery regardless of file size and format, transfer distance, or network conditions.
Easy-to-use interfaces for defining and monitoring complex workflows
Powerful engine for logical, conditional execution
Integrated with Aspera FASP® for maximum data transfer speeds
Visually define and automate execution of your existing workflows
Aspera Orchestrator’s interactive graphical designer makes it easy to compose execution streams based on an organization’s existing workflows. Users can use drag-and-drop visual elements to define logical sequences, inputs, action types, outputs and dependencies, and group them into reusable templates. The graphical interface also allows users to monitor active workflows in real time and to drill down into a detailed history of operations.
An intelligent decision engine with a rich library of plug-ins
To automate workflows and assure timely delivery of content under fixed schedules, Aspera Orchestrator combines a logical execution engine with third-party plug-ins for asset transformation, quality control and other functions. Its conditional rules engine binds inputs to actions on the fly, allowing results from earlier steps to decide subsequent actions in the pipeline, including prompting for human input if needed. An expanded array of plug-ins covers the leading encoding, transcoding, watermarking, and verification products, in addition to full support of verification of file format standards such as ADI, MXF, AS-11 and DPP file formats, and FIMS.
Support high-volume workflows
Workflow orchestration systems depend on predictable delivery of files to feed their processing pipeline. To ensure uninterrupted data flow regardless of system load, Orchestrator relies on FASP®, Aspera’s unique, patented, bulk data transfer technology that enables high-speed data delivery regardless of file size and format, transfer distance, or network conditions.
Easy-to-use interfaces for defining and monitoring complex workflows
- Intuitive drag-and-drop, browser-based interface for fast and efficient graphical workflow composition.
- Reusable workflow and workflow sub-sequence templates make it easy to create repeatable, consistent operations.
- Execution dashboard and notifications enable real-time workflow oversight.
Powerful engine for logical, conditional execution
- Rules engine can make decisions on the fly, based on transfer attributes, extracted metadata, user input, or outputs from preceding steps.
- Automatic restart on transmission failures and support for parallel execution.
- A rich library of plug-ins for leading transcoding, quality control, antivirus, ad insertion, digital fingerprinting and other solutions.
- On-the-fly reordering of job queues enables real-time prioritization of critical items.
Integrated with Aspera FASP® for maximum data transfer speeds
- Scales for the most demanding file-based workflows, processing thousands of files per hour.
- Precise bandwidth control ensures the entire allocated bandwidth is utilized to achieve maximum transfer speeds, while being fair to other traffic.
- 100% reliable data delivery: automatically resumes partial transfers, retries failed transfers and falls back to HTTP for highly restrictive networks.
CLEAR™ Digital Lab
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PFT’s CLEAR Digital Lab automates the content
supply chain, connects the production
ecosystem, and acts as the Media Universe for
secure content operations from content
acquisition through distribution and archiving.
CLEAR Digital Lab brings together the various
stakeholders and suppliers engaged in the
production and post production processes with
supply chain vendors for various tasks, such as
editorial, VFX, post production, sound,
localization, mastering, and downstream
distribution to connect the entire ecosystem.
Built around CLEAR Media ERP’s Primetime
Emmy® award winning DAX® Production Cloud
and Cloud MAM software modules, CLEAR
Digital Lab is well equipped to handle scripted,
unscripted, short form and digital content
genres. It has the capability to handle files of
different resolutions, content types, help review
and collaborate, track jobs and manage media
logistics including distribution of varied content
types across the production supply chain.
supply chain, connects the production
ecosystem, and acts as the Media Universe for
secure content operations from content
acquisition through distribution and archiving.
CLEAR Digital Lab brings together the various
stakeholders and suppliers engaged in the
production and post production processes with
supply chain vendors for various tasks, such as
editorial, VFX, post production, sound,
localization, mastering, and downstream
distribution to connect the entire ecosystem.
Built around CLEAR Media ERP’s Primetime
Emmy® award winning DAX® Production Cloud
and Cloud MAM software modules, CLEAR
Digital Lab is well equipped to handle scripted,
unscripted, short form and digital content
genres. It has the capability to handle files of
different resolutions, content types, help review
and collaborate, track jobs and manage media
logistics including distribution of varied content
types across the production supply chain.
CLEAR Operations Cloud
ONE Software to manage Content Store, Processing & Delivery of content
CLEAR Operations Cloud
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Are you unable to deliver 'TV Everywhere' due to lack of capacity? Are you not using Cloud resources because they need manual intervention? And you don't have additional people to manage that? You have transcode farm on the cloud, yet can't package & deliver? Is the total cost of servicing these making the deals unviable for you? Do you find yourself lacking professional help on how to leverage Cloud?
Don't cloud your mind with such worries. Get Cloudified.
With Operations Cloud from CLEARTM, you don't just store and transcode, but perform end-to-end Content Operations on Cloud. It is ready-to-deploy with a wide range of preset robots (TVE, Customer portal, Netflix, YT, DPP) – you enjoy faster time-to-market at lowest costs. All this with pre-defined SLAs and timely counsel.
ONE Cloud software that does everything, including workflow orchestration – now that's liberating!
It's time to virtualize your content supply chain!
Don't cloud your mind with such worries. Get Cloudified.
With Operations Cloud from CLEARTM, you don't just store and transcode, but perform end-to-end Content Operations on Cloud. It is ready-to-deploy with a wide range of preset robots (TVE, Customer portal, Netflix, YT, DPP) – you enjoy faster time-to-market at lowest costs. All this with pre-defined SLAs and timely counsel.
ONE Cloud software that does everything, including workflow orchestration – now that's liberating!
It's time to virtualize your content supply chain!
CLEAR Broadcast Cloud
ONE Software for Broadcast – from Creation to Transformation, Distribution and Exhibition
CLEAR Broadcast Cloud
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Do you have MAM that can't extend beyond BO&E department? Do you have multiple applications within your company and yet can't get them to work together? Does your MAM work well across the enterprise? Do you still have to manage workflows manually in spite of multiple systems? Is your CFO worried about never ending CAPEX and high AMC? Are you being asked 'why not Cloud'?
We believe MAM systems cannot function in isolation anymore – it has to manage not just content, but all activities across the Broadcast enterprise & ecosystem. However, is it possible with just ONE software? We think so.
With Broadcast Cloud, you have access to a Media ERP Suite that enables workflow orchestration across the enterprise, supply chain and partner ecosystems. It provides ONE software on the Cloud for all departments across the enterprise – be it Programming, Legal, Marketing, Syndication, Traffic, Broadcast Operations, Digital, or Promos, along with partner and stakeholder ecosystems. Broadcast Cloud is a one-stop-shop to manage, review, process and publish content across all the platforms and devices of the broadcast universe.
Comprising of Cloud MAM & Operations Cloud modules, Broadcast Cloud is driven by a Hybrid Cloud architecture – you have absolute peace of mind that your content is with you always while the applications run on Cloud – how convenient! No more exclusive dependency on 'on premise applications' – you realize lowest total cost of ownership (TCO). Our aim is to let you focus on what you do best – creating compelling content. Leave the rest to us.
It's time to embrace Digital Transformation!
We believe MAM systems cannot function in isolation anymore – it has to manage not just content, but all activities across the Broadcast enterprise & ecosystem. However, is it possible with just ONE software? We think so.
With Broadcast Cloud, you have access to a Media ERP Suite that enables workflow orchestration across the enterprise, supply chain and partner ecosystems. It provides ONE software on the Cloud for all departments across the enterprise – be it Programming, Legal, Marketing, Syndication, Traffic, Broadcast Operations, Digital, or Promos, along with partner and stakeholder ecosystems. Broadcast Cloud is a one-stop-shop to manage, review, process and publish content across all the platforms and devices of the broadcast universe.
Comprising of Cloud MAM & Operations Cloud modules, Broadcast Cloud is driven by a Hybrid Cloud architecture – you have absolute peace of mind that your content is with you always while the applications run on Cloud – how convenient! No more exclusive dependency on 'on premise applications' – you realize lowest total cost of ownership (TCO). Our aim is to let you focus on what you do best – creating compelling content. Leave the rest to us.
It's time to embrace Digital Transformation!
Content Acquisition Portal
Automated Work Order to manage planning, acquiring, evaluating, cataloguing and scheduling content
Content Acquisition Portal
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CLEAR™ Media ERP’s Content Acquisition
Portal serves as a secure entry point for all
media and ancillary files remotely from any
geographical location across the global supply
chain, without the need of a VPN. Once
ingested onto the portal, users can either trigger
further downstream actions manually, or
automate these actions based on business
rules. Powered by Work Order Management, the
solution enables users to perform work orderbased
ingest, assign tasks to relevant
resources/vendors and track the status of all
tasks conveniently through a unified dashboard.
It is equipped with best-in-class tools for content
acquisition operations like file transfers (via
Aspera/Signiant), auto QC (pre-integration with
Baton/Cerify), full QC (pre-integrated with
Adobe® Premiere Pro), content enrichment
(cataloguing/subtitling) and archival. CLEAR’s
Content Acquisition Portal can seamlessly
integrate with other, existing IT systems like
Rights Management, BMS, MAM etc.
Portal serves as a secure entry point for all
media and ancillary files remotely from any
geographical location across the global supply
chain, without the need of a VPN. Once
ingested onto the portal, users can either trigger
further downstream actions manually, or
automate these actions based on business
rules. Powered by Work Order Management, the
solution enables users to perform work orderbased
ingest, assign tasks to relevant
resources/vendors and track the status of all
tasks conveniently through a unified dashboard.
It is equipped with best-in-class tools for content
acquisition operations like file transfers (via
Aspera/Signiant), auto QC (pre-integration with
Baton/Cerify), full QC (pre-integrated with
Adobe® Premiere Pro), content enrichment
(cataloguing/subtitling) and archival. CLEAR’s
Content Acquisition Portal can seamlessly
integrate with other, existing IT systems like
Rights Management, BMS, MAM etc.
Ven.ue Supply Chain
Ven.ue is a fully cloud based, end to end, Digital Supply Chain Solution
Ven.ue Supply Chain
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Sony NMS Ven.ue offers content distribution solutions in a variety of models based on a customer's distribution needs. This includes content distribution to multiple endpoints (i.e. Sony Pictures assets in and distributed out to iTunes, Amazon, Netflix, etc.) as well as content aggregation on behalf of a single endpoint (I.e. sourcing of SPE, NBCU, Fox, etc. assets in and distributed to Google Play platform).
Supply chain services encompass content ingest, content processing, transcoding, QC, closed caption/subtitle conform work, packaging and delivery to digital endpoints per the technical specifications required by these endpoints. Our clients include BBC Studios, Google Play, Under the Milky Way, Sony Pictures, Sony PlayStation, Filmbank Media, Funimation and The National Hot Rod Association.
Supply chain services encompass content ingest, content processing, transcoding, QC, closed caption/subtitle conform work, packaging and delivery to digital endpoints per the technical specifications required by these endpoints. Our clients include BBC Studios, Google Play, Under the Milky Way, Sony Pictures, Sony PlayStation, Filmbank Media, Funimation and The National Hot Rod Association.
Ooyala Flex Media Platform
A cloud content supply chain solution to manage, curate, orchestrate and deliver your content
Ooyala Flex Media Platform
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The demand for first-to-market video content, at the highest quality and lowest cost, are exploding. Are you prepared to keep up? The Ooyala Flex Media Platform, Dalet's poly-cloud content supply chain solution, is here to help. It will unlock your content supply chain and revolutionize the way your content is managed, distributed and monetized throughout its lifespan.
The latest release of the Ooyala Flex Media Platform now offers enhanced security capabilities and additional OVP integrations, including Brightcove and JWPlayer plug-ins, as well as custom integrations with Bitmovin and Kaltura, improving OTT preparation and multiplatform distribution workflows to help content owners quickly scale their operations. The Ooyala Flex Media Platform will reinforce your business continuity with a hybrid or fully-cloud based content supply chain.
For those involved in delivering content to consumers, the task of providing top quality content has never been more complex and fiercely contested. You have to source the highest quality content from multiple sources preparing it and delivering to many platforms and geographies, on tighter budgets and schedules.
The Ooyala Flex Media Platform delivers an open solution that simplifies and streamlines content preparation and video publishing. It can utilize your existing investments in best of breed solutions joining your business together, removing manual tasks that can cause errors and delays, meaning, less cost and complexity, more engagement, and maximum revenue.
The core of the Ooyala Flex Media Platform handles the metadata, orchestrates workflows, and collects analytic data. It’s enhanced with Ooyala-branded applications that support key parts of the supply chain. Then it adds multiple third-party integrations for extra functionality. You can configure the platform to solve even the most complex or siloed supply chain issues:
Ooyala applications unlock and streamline value chain stages like acquisition with OoyalaMOVE, asset management with OoyalaMAM, approval workflows with OoyalaREVIEW, publishing and syndication capabilities with OoyalaPUBLISH and, linear and multi-platform delivery. Obtain real-time data from every stage of the production and distribution process with OoyalaTRACK and gain solid business insights from the platform’s reporting capabilities. And to complement this impressive stack, we work closely with Microsoft, Google Cloud Platform, Avid, Oracle Telestream, Interra, AWS, Brightcove and other best-of-breed technology partners to build powerful integrations that seamlessly connect your supply chain.
The flexible open APIs also allow you to develop your own integrations or work with Ooyala's Professional Services team to build them.
The result: powerful metadata-driven workflows that move your content through your business seamlessly. Combined with powerful insights, the Ooyala solution allows you to launch engaging content to your viewers faster.
Key Benefits
It’s finally easy to onboard new partners, offer new services and deliver new digital viewing experiences. It’s time to really connect with your partners and your consumers. It’s time to change the way you run your media business – with the Ooyala Flex Media Platform.
The latest release of the Ooyala Flex Media Platform now offers enhanced security capabilities and additional OVP integrations, including Brightcove and JWPlayer plug-ins, as well as custom integrations with Bitmovin and Kaltura, improving OTT preparation and multiplatform distribution workflows to help content owners quickly scale their operations. The Ooyala Flex Media Platform will reinforce your business continuity with a hybrid or fully-cloud based content supply chain.
For those involved in delivering content to consumers, the task of providing top quality content has never been more complex and fiercely contested. You have to source the highest quality content from multiple sources preparing it and delivering to many platforms and geographies, on tighter budgets and schedules.
The Ooyala Flex Media Platform delivers an open solution that simplifies and streamlines content preparation and video publishing. It can utilize your existing investments in best of breed solutions joining your business together, removing manual tasks that can cause errors and delays, meaning, less cost and complexity, more engagement, and maximum revenue.
The core of the Ooyala Flex Media Platform handles the metadata, orchestrates workflows, and collects analytic data. It’s enhanced with Ooyala-branded applications that support key parts of the supply chain. Then it adds multiple third-party integrations for extra functionality. You can configure the platform to solve even the most complex or siloed supply chain issues:
- Content Production: Manage, integrate and orchestrate your content pipeline
- Content Distribution: Deliver engaging content to each and every channel
- Intelligent Archive: Use artificial intelligence and automation to increase revenue from your content archive
Ooyala applications unlock and streamline value chain stages like acquisition with OoyalaMOVE, asset management with OoyalaMAM, approval workflows with OoyalaREVIEW, publishing and syndication capabilities with OoyalaPUBLISH and, linear and multi-platform delivery. Obtain real-time data from every stage of the production and distribution process with OoyalaTRACK and gain solid business insights from the platform’s reporting capabilities. And to complement this impressive stack, we work closely with Microsoft, Google Cloud Platform, Avid, Oracle Telestream, Interra, AWS, Brightcove and other best-of-breed technology partners to build powerful integrations that seamlessly connect your supply chain.
The flexible open APIs also allow you to develop your own integrations or work with Ooyala's Professional Services team to build them.
The result: powerful metadata-driven workflows that move your content through your business seamlessly. Combined with powerful insights, the Ooyala solution allows you to launch engaging content to your viewers faster.
Key Benefits
- Boost your speed to market
- Unblock your content supply chain to open up new revenue opportunities
- Configurable and extensible, so it changes with your needs
- Unrivalled custom workflow orchestration
- Powerful asset management and the most sophisticated metadata on the market
- Integrates via public APIs and SDKs
- Reduces manual work so your team can focus on creating engaging campaigns
- Drives down the total cost of ownership
It’s finally easy to onboard new partners, offer new services and deliver new digital viewing experiences. It’s time to really connect with your partners and your consumers. It’s time to change the way you run your media business – with the Ooyala Flex Media Platform.
Harmonic’s VOS® Cloud-Native Software
Harmonic’s VOS® Cloud-Native Software makes it simple to launch/manage end-to-end media workflow
Harmonic’s VOS® Cloud-Native Software
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Harmonic’s VOS® Cloud-Native Software is the most advanced media processing and delivery software for private data centers. It runs on a wide range of COTS hardware and virtualization layers to power demanding and complex playout, broadcast and OTT systems. Through the VOS Hub connection users can move an entire video platform from a private data center to public cloud and vice versa, with ease.
VOS software makes it simple and fast to launch and manage end-to-end professional media workflows in private data centers, as well as ingest live or file-based content, including uncompressed video over IP. With VOS software, users can create schedules, play out channels and process all content for OTT streaming and broadcast delivery, with ease.
Advanced orchestration capabilities allow users to connect and synchronize all microservices for every workflow. VOS software abstracts and manages IT infrastructures using load-balancing mechanisms to optimize the use of resources and manage redundancy with minimum overhead, eliminating the need for siloed systems.
The software is infrastructure neutral, supporting a wide range of COTS hardware and virtualization layers such as Kubernetes, OpenStack, Openshift, and other bare metal configurations. This neutrality ensures complete compatibility, making it easy to align IT and business preferences. With VOS software, on-premises deployments can be backed up in a public cloud environment in just minutes.
Built-in, AI-enabled and globally deployed VOS core compression technology reduces the typical bandwidth needed for OTT delivery by about half. VOS software is built for agile, hybrid video service delivery, with capabilities for satellite broadcasting, full statmux and OTT streaming. It supports a wide range of use cases, including live streaming, time-shifting, network DVR, targeted ad insertion, packaging and origin on the fly, from one simple platform.
VPMS Platform
Platform provides content management and workflow orchestration in a new generation
VPMS Platform
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Platform is a new generation, dynamic architecture for interoperability of your media enterprise. Providing a stable, secure, scalable and high-density “operating system” along with an object reposi-tory and flexible metadata model.
Carrick-Flow
This orchestration tool will let companies optimize and rationalize video file handling and storage.
Carrick-Flow
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The Carrick-Flow orchestration tool allows companies to optimize and rationalize the handling (transform, check, move, ...) and storage of video files. It allows them to fully operate the company's existing infrastructures by using all types of paid or open-source products.
Without modifying user workflows, Carrick-Flow can dynamically integrate and bring to your door any cloud resource and its infinite potential while controlling costs and uses.
For a comprehensive processing, specific features include virtual farms of heterogenous resources, peak activity detection and anticipation, fine task prioritization management and update and smooth support and error recovery modules.
A complementary specific module called Carrick-Stor will allow companies to enhance their storage policies by using multiple storage as a unified cross-tier storage ecosystem. Policies can mix multi-site systems, on prem' and cloud storage and business-related rules.
Local, cloud and hybrid workflows :
Cloud capabilities offer many opportunities and Carrick-Flow was designed for these. Managing activity peak is also one of the key functionalities. A dedicated module allows the detection of future overloads based on deadlines and estimated processing times. Cloud resources can be dynamically activated and will handle some of the tasks without modifying user workflows. Cloud ressources are then automatically disactivated once peak activity is passed.
Virtual farms :
If you host heterogeneous dedicated equipment such as several transcoding farms with different brands or version, Carrick-Flow allows pooling and sharing so you can gradually eliminate the silos. Processing more with less resources is one of the key objectives of Carrick-Flow! Mutualizing resources is a worthy goal provided that each user can be guaranteed the resources he needs to manage his emergencies. Carrick-Flow is equipped with a priority engine able to ensure that at all times a launched task is the one with highest priority. To share ressources, you have to adapt to all the players. Carrick-Flow exposes open interfaces at all levels so that each tool can be interfaced at the best level regarding its operationnal process.
Storage:
The Carrick-Store module provides an abstraction layer for archiving and unarchiving processes. It provides a unified repository of the storage content within the enterprise of all local and cloud storage. As if an HSM would have become matrix, Carrick-StoR handles files securing, manage their life cycle and their integrity across multiple heterogeneous storage systems. Archiving and redundancy policies may be related to the intrinsic characteristics of the files or be linked with customer-specific editorial metadata. Based on the processing capabilities of Carrick-Flow, it allows limitless indexing and migrating of storage while preserving the bandwidth necessary for the business to go on.
Independancy:
Carrick-Flow claims its independence from MAM suppliers and from media manipulation tools: storage, transcoders, transfer… But independence is not an end in itself. It creates value only if it brings real freedom! Carrick-Flow offers you teh freedom:
- To fully integrate and exploit the existing resource base
- To change tools, to let cohabit different generations of tools,
- To try, compare and finally change again…
Scalability:
Carrick-Flow has been designed to be virtually insensitive to load peaks. Media manipulation infrastructure may not deal fast enough with everything that needs to be done, but Carrick-Flow will not be affected. It continues to store and unstack the orders, always executing the ones with most priority, without saturating the resources, without being affected by the volume to be processed... In the event of a major infrastructure outage, Carrick-Flow resumes where it stopped, with no loss of performance due to the unusual number of tasks or workflows to relaunch. All Carrick-Flow components are designed to allow easy load distribution without a single SPOF.
SaaS billing:
With Carrick-Flow there is no upfront license to buy: you pay when you use it. The subscription is based on the components of your ecosystem. No license and no commitment on volumes. Your needs increase, your costs follow, your needs decrease, your costs adapt.
Without modifying user workflows, Carrick-Flow can dynamically integrate and bring to your door any cloud resource and its infinite potential while controlling costs and uses.
For a comprehensive processing, specific features include virtual farms of heterogenous resources, peak activity detection and anticipation, fine task prioritization management and update and smooth support and error recovery modules.
A complementary specific module called Carrick-Stor will allow companies to enhance their storage policies by using multiple storage as a unified cross-tier storage ecosystem. Policies can mix multi-site systems, on prem' and cloud storage and business-related rules.
Local, cloud and hybrid workflows :
Cloud capabilities offer many opportunities and Carrick-Flow was designed for these. Managing activity peak is also one of the key functionalities. A dedicated module allows the detection of future overloads based on deadlines and estimated processing times. Cloud resources can be dynamically activated and will handle some of the tasks without modifying user workflows. Cloud ressources are then automatically disactivated once peak activity is passed.
Virtual farms :
If you host heterogeneous dedicated equipment such as several transcoding farms with different brands or version, Carrick-Flow allows pooling and sharing so you can gradually eliminate the silos. Processing more with less resources is one of the key objectives of Carrick-Flow! Mutualizing resources is a worthy goal provided that each user can be guaranteed the resources he needs to manage his emergencies. Carrick-Flow is equipped with a priority engine able to ensure that at all times a launched task is the one with highest priority. To share ressources, you have to adapt to all the players. Carrick-Flow exposes open interfaces at all levels so that each tool can be interfaced at the best level regarding its operationnal process.
Storage:
The Carrick-Store module provides an abstraction layer for archiving and unarchiving processes. It provides a unified repository of the storage content within the enterprise of all local and cloud storage. As if an HSM would have become matrix, Carrick-StoR handles files securing, manage their life cycle and their integrity across multiple heterogeneous storage systems. Archiving and redundancy policies may be related to the intrinsic characteristics of the files or be linked with customer-specific editorial metadata. Based on the processing capabilities of Carrick-Flow, it allows limitless indexing and migrating of storage while preserving the bandwidth necessary for the business to go on.
Independancy:
Carrick-Flow claims its independence from MAM suppliers and from media manipulation tools: storage, transcoders, transfer… But independence is not an end in itself. It creates value only if it brings real freedom! Carrick-Flow offers you teh freedom:
- To fully integrate and exploit the existing resource base
- To change tools, to let cohabit different generations of tools,
- To try, compare and finally change again…
Scalability:
Carrick-Flow has been designed to be virtually insensitive to load peaks. Media manipulation infrastructure may not deal fast enough with everything that needs to be done, but Carrick-Flow will not be affected. It continues to store and unstack the orders, always executing the ones with most priority, without saturating the resources, without being affected by the volume to be processed... In the event of a major infrastructure outage, Carrick-Flow resumes where it stopped, with no loss of performance due to the unusual number of tasks or workflows to relaunch. All Carrick-Flow components are designed to allow easy load distribution without a single SPOF.
SaaS billing:
With Carrick-Flow there is no upfront license to buy: you pay when you use it. The subscription is based on the components of your ecosystem. No license and no commitment on volumes. Your needs increase, your costs follow, your needs decrease, your costs adapt.
SMART Central
Powerful web-based Business Process Management (BPM) solution for broadcast facilities.
SMART Central
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SMART Central is a powerful web-based Business Process Management (BPM) solution for broadcast facilities. At its core, SMART Central offers an array of automated management and reporting tools to give operators and decision-makers immediate access to critical information. The building block solution can be scaled, and apps can be added to help facilities optimize operations and reduce costs. SMART Central is designed for multi-departmental use including Sales, Traffic, and Master Control to help create efficiency. What’s more, SMART Central is permission-based which allows for controlled access on unique user rights.
Vimond Curator
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Content Curator is a complete editorial solution for video. It enables you to organize content in different collections such as carousels and featured lists. The user interface is optimized for an efficient workflow with advanced search and filtering options, batch modes, and keyboard shortcuts.
Create, modify, and publish collections
Navigate through lists and sublists
Search for content
Copy or link collections
Lock items to prevent editing
Batch actions
Customize metadata fields
Add rich imagery
Archive collections and assets
