ScheduALL announces partnership with KONAN Digital for tapeless workflow solution

ScheduALL, a leading provider of broadcast production and operations management software, has announced a partnership with KONAN Digital, a next-generation media asset management (MAM) provider to the broadcast, corporate enterprise, and content creation markets, to provide a new tapeless workflow solution that combines the workflow and schedule management strengths of ScheduALL and the media asset management expertise of KONAN’s DigitalArc products.
Using shared metadata and harmonising disparate legacy systems with appropriate middleware, the integrated workflow system from ScheduALL and KONAN Digital provides the user with a true service-oriented architecture (SOA) using robust Web services. The integrated solution will provide customers seamless search, metadata view, preview, and retrieval of digital assets, throughout the production workflow process, across their entire facility.
The ScheduALL/KONAN solution will enable broadcasters to easily ingest, digitise, search, preview, and retrieve assets through a flexible, truly integrated workflow. ScheduALL allows separate broadcast systems, including digital asset management systems, to share content throughout the production process, facilitating seamless and efficient communication and collaboration between all systems and personnel in the facility. KONAN’s DigitalArc manages the entire lifecycle of the asset from ingest through to distribution.
At the front end of the combined system, KONAN’s DigitalArc Ingest Manager will control the process of ingesting, transcoding, and cataloguing of the assets. These assets are registered in the KONAN MAM server, where ScheduALL has access to retrieve metadata and digital assets by communicating via Web services. This seamless integration based on SOA enables ScheduALL users to easily view metadata of the assets, retrieve, and preview the clips that interest them.
Converging these two industry-leading solutions will help organisations bridge the gap between their operational workflow and the creation and management of digital content they now own or control. This integration uses ScheduALL’s Media Connected Services (MCS), allowing both companies to focus on their core of expertise while having greater integration between the two products, creating better efficiency, accuracy, and operational cost control.
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