SDVI Integrates Its Rally Media Supply Chain Management Platform

SDVI has integrated its Rally media supply chain management platform with the new EIKON-iQ intelligent integration gateway to enable full access to the complete EIKON media services portfolio from within a Rally managed supply chain.

This integration enables Rally users to place orders for EIKON services and, as those jobs are serviced by EIKON Group, maintain visibility into job statuses and costs.

With this integration, supply chains running in Rally can create work orders for EIKON jobs, such as scripting, mixing, localisation, mastering, and QC, and then send those work orders to EIKON-iQ for routing to the appropriate EIKON service or system. As a job is handled, EIKON-iQ communicates status updates back to Rally to keep supply chain operators informed of any phase changes. Once EIKON finishes the job, EIKON-iQ sends a completion message back to Rally along with a link to the new resource requested in the original work order. Rally accesses the new files and proceeds with the next steps in the supply chain, logging metadata information on duration and costs from EIKON.

"In almost every media supply chain, there is work that needs to be completed by a third-party service provider like EIKON Group," said Andy Brinck, vice president of strategic alliances for SDVI. "This new EIKON-iQ integration enables Rally operators to have control over and visibility into external jobs that have been assigned to EIKON. Able to monitor job status and completion information, operators have a wider view across the entire supply chain and are empowered to better manage tight deadlines, cost controls, and delivery requirements."

Content often moves into and out of Rally-managed supply chains depending on the type of work that needs to be done. The most efficient path is for automated media processing that uses application presets to complete a task. However, many media supply chains specify unique versioning or localisation work that simply cannot be done by automated tools. In these cases, work needs to be parcelled out to preferred third-party providers such as EIKON Group. Bringing job status information back into Rally, the EIKON-iQ integration gives media operations staff better visibility into the status of any asset as well as accurate cost information for these external jobs.

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