Xytech Systems & Dax Solutions announce strategic partnership

Xytech Systems, the workflow systems management developer, has teamed with DAX Solutions, the digital asset management solution provider, to offer an integrated solution to the entertainment and communications industries.
To be launched at NAB in April, the newly integrated solution offered by the California-based companies will incorporate complete physical and digital asset management, with workflow tools that will enable digital fulfilment, on-demand access to media libraries and an online ordering system tied to a company’s billing system, in addition to work orders and scheduling for product fulfilment.
Xytech's Enterprise system is deployed all over the world at leading movie studios, television networks, postproduction and corporate media organizations. The system provides a wide selection of job costing, billing, order processing, purchasing, rental management, inventory control, scheduling, and finance functions. A complete, fully integrated accounting system is available as part of the Enterprise suite
DAX, which counts Lions Gate Entertainment among its many clients, provides a highly secure, targeted web-based digital asset management solutions designed to help film and television production companies and stock footage libraries reduce costs by sharing resources, enhancing collaboration and speeding distribution in an easy-to-use and highly secure online environment.
DAX’s client list includes such feature film companies as 20th Century Fox, MGM, Alcon Entertainment, M8 Entertainment, Franklin-Waterman and Outlaw Productions, as well as television producers Lifetime Television, Sony Pictures Television, TNT, Fox Television Studios, Lions Gate Television, Brookwell McNamara Entertainment, Jaffe-Braunstein Films, Robert Greenwald Productions, and Fireworks Entertainment.
Xytech CEO, Richard Gallagher, said: "Our relationship with DAX will allow us to offer a great, robust asset management system for both digital and physical media assets. This new integrated system will allow our customers to share metadata for all of their media assets, whether those assets are stored on a server or in a vault. They can do federated searches and they won't have any problems with duplication of metadata. This new system greatly expands the capabilities of our MetaVault asset management system and helps us better support our clients as they move towards a file-based workflow environment from the linear world of video.”
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