Media Asset Management
If you have it but you can't find it, then you don't really have it.
How does your company manage your vast amount of digital media assets? Media assets are valuable. But only if you can store, search through, locate, retrieve and use them quickly, simply and efficiently. And an asset is only an asset if you can get to it, when you can find it, and when you know how you can use it to add value to your business.
Media asset management (MAM) systems are database systems for storing and retrieving audio, video, and still images, making them accessible from almost anywhere on the globe, quickly, and simply.
When searching for a MAM system, one needs to identify the overall objective:
What is the problem that needs to be addressed and what are the appropriate solutions to this problem?
What do you need? |
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Media Archive |
Enterprise-scale solutions extend the workgroup-scale solution by adding integration with customers' legacy equipment and systems, and implementing customised workflows based upon user and solution requirements. |
At both a workgroup and enterprise level, focusing on workflow, around a centralised database of project management information that allows users to assign, prioritise, and track a project's progress across the entire production process. The systems can track the history of a file including edits and conversions. As workflow varies across different types of enterprises, process-centric solutions are often adapted to the needs of specific vertical markets. |
Outcomes
- Improved workflow for content creation, management and distribution;
- Reduced time-to-market for digital content services;
- Minimised cost of content preservation and risk of content loss;
- Fast, flexible and accurate content access;
- Enhanced quality and competitive advantage of the end-product
Media Archive® is an Enterprise Media Asset Management Platform which helps large media and entertainment companies, corporations and public institutions to collect, index, catalogue, retrieve and distribute rich media content, improving content-related workflows and maximising the return on content assets.
Media Archive delivers on the promise of Enterprise Media Asset Management: Content made available - anytime, anywhere, in any format.
Media Archive:
- provides quick and easy real-time access to rich media content and scales to thousands of users across the enterprise;
- improves workflow efficiency by automating machine-based and streamlining human workflows related to rich media content;
- improves process transparency by tracking the status of content-related workflows, like quality control, review, approval, and delivery;
- simplifies cataloguing and makes retrieval more efficient by powerful metadata management capabilities, included time-coded metadata;
- ensures consistency by providing a single, enterprise-wide content repository which gives each user access to the latest, authorised version of a piece of content;
- facilitates the re-use and re-purposing of content by integrating with a wide variety of editing and conversion tools;
- empowers users with a comprehensive set of search, retrieval, browsing and annotation tools for audiovisual content, and integrates legacy and third-party systems into a single Web-based content portal;
- facilitates collaboration between users by sharing content and work results.
Media Archive manages the content lifecycle from ingest to archiving and reuse, integrating encoding systems, transcoding engines, editing tools, archive management software and other third party systems. It can be customised to meet specific requirements.
Media Archive is suitable for mission-critical applications since it protects core functions such as system management, database management and storage by redundant layout, ensuring high availability by continuous monitoring.