Enterprise Content Management Successful case with SAN platform deployment

Core Business:

The major activities are television broadcasting, programme production and other broadcasting related activities such as programme licensing, video distribution and satellite broadcasting etc.

Customer Problem:

• Manual Programme Production & workflow hinder business productivity and future growth of business
• Manual Job scheduling cause clashes & wastage of production facilities usage
• Manual Asset Management cause inefficient searching & editing process
• Manual Media Asset Management could cause possible IP breach
• Traditional media storage mechanism needed to be revamp to preserve life and easy searching of media asset
  

Problem Solved with IIS :

Provide a comprehensive suite of system and application services including 

• Storyboard Workspace for Multimedia creation, edition and QA
• Digital Asset Management System for DA Check-in and out
• Digital Asset Management System for Version Control & searching
• Job Control Workflow Management System
• Maintaining and controlling file versions between different and locations
• Three layer architecture :
  • Terminal Access Layer – enable users to submit Job request via web-based interface
  • Local Server and Storage Layer – capable of receiving files from the central Layer and storing them temporarily as proxies for future production activities
  • Center Services and Storage Layer – cater for job management system that record, schedules and automates the delivery of files

This automation system supports full automation, semi-automation and manual mode for multi-media file delivery.

• Digitizing all tradition media into computer editable format for archiving and searching, which highly increase life of their media asset and enhance productivity for creative and editing teams.

Technology Used:

• J2EE (Workflow Design),
• Sun ONE Application Server in load balancing mold
• Documentum Digital Asset Management System,
• Sun Microsystems Server & SAN Storage