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Signiant Media Exchange

Signiant Media Exchange is a powerful application for companies who need to acquire rich media content and move it quickly into an automated workflow. With a simple web based upload and a broadband connection, rich media content can be accelerated securely over the Internet into film, production and news environments.

Tags: Signiant Inc., Media, Signiant Media Exchange, Telecommunications

White papers 2009-02-25

Final Cut Pro Media Plug-In

As timelines get shorter and people in the industry become specialized, collaborating and editing large media files in geographically dispersed locations is increasingly common in today's non-linear editing environments. Signiant's integration with Apple's Final Cut Pro FCP non linear editing system replaces the need to move large media projects across...

Tags: Signiant Inc., Media, Plug-in, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

White papers 2009-02-12

Field Generated and User Generated Content: How IP Network Connections Change the Time-to-Air Process

Can the use of the Internet redefine the notion of "In-field" broadcasting? Can anyone with a cell phone or wireless card become a broadcaster? If the amount of people who can potentially cover a news-worthy event were to be able to coordinate their activities, what would that mean for event...

Tags: Signiant Inc., Network, IP, IP Network, Internet, Wi-Fi, Networking, Wireless And Mobility

White papers 2009-02-10

Anystream Agility Media Plug-In

Making content available for on-air broadcast, mobile, web, VOD and a variety of other outlets is becoming increasingly important to Signiant customers. The ability to transcode content into multiple formats has been available for a number of years but as timelines get shorter and B2B relationships span the globe, content...

Tags: Signiant Inc., Media, Plug-in, Video On Demand (VoD), Digital Media, B2B, Digital Music, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Consumer Electronics, E-business/E-Commerce, Internet

White papers 2009-02-06

Avid Media Plug-In

As timelines get shorter and people in the industry become specialized, collaborating and editing large media files in geographically dispersed locations is increasingly common in today's non-linear editing environments. Signiant's integration with Avid's Media Solutions allows for dispersed workgroups to move large media projects across the WAN, replacing FTP-based solutions...

Tags: Signiant Inc., Avid Technology Inc., Media, Plug-in, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

White papers 2009-02-04

Signiant Content Distribution Management Software

File-based workflows are the result of the transition from analog to digital production. This transition has created an explosion of digital media content which must be integrated into widely-dispersed production processes and workflows. New business opportunities also place new demands on companies to move content to more places more quickly...

Tags: Signiant Inc., Software, Signiant CDM, Process Improvement, Digital Media, Quality, Business Operations, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

White papers 2009-02-04

Managed File Transfers: Beyond WAN Optimization for Digital Media

The ability to accelerate the movement of files is only one aspect of a digital media distribution solution. Without the ability to manage the movement of content and to sequence that movement through a series of coordinated steps designed to accomplish specific workflows, digital media supply chains will not be...

Tags: Signiant Inc., Optimization, WAN, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

White papers 2009-01-08

File-Based Content Distribution Management Has Immediate ROI: The Real Cost of Physical Media Distribution

With the current economic climate at the degree it's at today, moving to digital media distribution is no longer just about speed, efficiency and security, it's about saving significant money, immediately. Just because things have been done a certain way since people first started distributing and syndicating the content around...

Tags: Signiant Inc., Distribution, ROI, Roi/Tco, Digital Media, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

White papers 2009-01-07

Fulfilling the IPTV Digital Supply Chain: Challenges and Opportunities

Fulfilling the IPTV supply chain involves the coordination of processes involved in content manufacturing and distribution. Network topologies, network and data security, optimization of bandwidth resources, and content tracking are all critical components to the complex series of relationships involving content owners and those offering IPTV-services. In an all-digital, any...

Tags: Signiant Inc., Supply Chain, IP Television, Supply Chain Management (SCM), TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Broadband Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Telecommunications

White papers 2008-07-01

Comparison of FTP and Signiant: An In-Depth Comparison of FTP With Methodologies From Signiant

FTP File Transfer Protocol is used to perform file transfers over Internet Protocol IP networks such as the public Internet and corporate intranets. FTP is widely deployed and is widely accepted as a file transfer solution. However, are there downsides to using FTP for file transfers? This paper compares FTP...

Tags: Signiant Inc., FTP

White papers 2008-06-18

Digital Media Distribution Management and the Digital Infrastructure Landscape

In the Media and Entertainment production cycle, "Workflow" has often been emphasized as the key to content creation. Streamlining workflow, sharing data, delivery confirmation, version control, and asset management are some of the detailed considerations that come up when discussing this topic. As such, one will discover that there are...

Tags: Signiant Inc., Workflow, Process Improvement, Digital Media, Quality, Business Operations, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology

White papers 2007-12-01

Remote Data Management & Backup Best Practices

The increasing risk from unprotected user files and remote data data stored outside the data center is causing companies to re-evaluate their current remote backup processes. Managing remote data poses unique challenges given the variability of networks, computing platforms, lack of trained IT staff at remote locations and other issues....

Tags: Signiant Inc., Backup, Data Management, Storage, Databases, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software

White papers 2006-01-04