Signiant recently released version 8.2 of its Content Distribution Management software which was developed for B2B collaboration. Rick Clarkson, Senior Director of Product Management, delivered a webcast outlining the new functionality, if you missed it, you can view the recording, go to: http://www.signiant.com/82-webcast-0. At the end, Rick answered questions from the audience. Here’s a sampling [...]
Situation: Tony Lapolito takes the Logipi community behind the scenes of Signiant in this audio clip.
The Details: When most people think of supply chain, Tony Lapolito said, they tend to think of Henry Ford’s linear supply chain, but in today’s global business environment linear supply chains and some physical supply chains are becoming obsolete.
What it [...]
Signiant was recently honored for Engineering Excellence by Hollywood Post Alliance. The award recognizes significant developments for the post-production industry. The Hollywood Post Alliance (HPA) is the trade association serving the Southern California-based professional community of businesses and individuals who provide expertise, support, tools and the infrastructure for the creation and finishing of motion pictures, [...]
The following happens 24 hours a day, 7 days a week in the world of media – because today, all media and content move faster than real time. Time is of the essence.
Learn how you can collaboratively create, manage and distribute your content on a global basis. You’ll have a good laugh at this video too [...]
Our resident Scottsman, Gavin Tweedie, demonstrates the speed of Media Exchange in this video from Pizza Express. Here he sends a file via FTP and then the same file via Media Exchange and the time difference is markedly different. The background music provided by Pizza Express is pretty funny as well…
As promised, here is part 2 of Tom Ohanian’s podcast (with slides) entitled: Managed File Transfers – Beyond WAN Optimization for Digital Media. If you missed the first part, just scroll down a bit and you’ll see it.
This podcast is delivered by Signiant’s Chief Strategy Officer, Tom Ohanian, and is accompanied by a presentation for your reference. This is the first of a two-part podcast covering file acceleration considerations, deployment models, various file transfer protocols, and more. Please have a listen, this first part is less than 7 minutes long.
Fresh off of NAB and talking with many, many people about Signiant and how they are using the product to save and make money – it’s clear to us that almost anyone that is managing digital files absolutely needs to use Signiant to make their operation more nimble and efficient.
In the spirit of Hollywood [...]
Have a look at this Network World video featuring Signiant’s Tony Lapolito. He explains how customers, including the NFL, are using Signiant’s Content Distribution Management software to manage the movement of their valuable content.
Listen in as executives from Five, SDI and Siemens discuss how Signiant has helped solve their digital media distribution challenges.
Well, another IBC has come and gone. This was the 18th IBC that I attended and in my opinion, it was one of the best for a number of reasons. Among them: the number of attendees was the highest yet (49,250); the level of interest and the quality of the questions and discussions was high [...]
I first attended IBC in 1991, when we at Avid were just introducing the PAL version of the Media Composer. The show has certainly changed through the years and in 2008 it is very apparent that IT-based implementations are increasingly being adopted and put into practice. Unlike the warming sun of last year, it is [...]
Have a look at this testimonial video and learn why Signiant’s customers and partners selected its digital distribution software to solve their digital delivery challenges. The video includes clips from BT, NBC and Current TV.
You may recall Signiant’s cartoon that premiered at last year’s NAB…Digital Media Revolution…a hilarious spoof on a subject matter that’s increasingly growing in importance and affects your organization’s bottom line – digital media distribution management.
If you missed it, don’t fret. The sequel is on the way and it’s arguably better than the original. There’s a [...]
We are pleased to be able to make available in a single file both the Signiant Cartoon and the demonstration of Signiant we showed at April’s NAB 2007 show.
There are two formats of the video available. One is formatted for the iPod. iTunes viewers should right click the playback window and select “original size” to [...]
Signiant Cartoon & Demo -- iPod format [14:07m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
Signiant Cartoon & Demo -- for Windows Media [14:07m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadWe’re very pleased to post in podcast form our cartoon that premiered at NAB 2007. You can click on the links at the bottom of this post to play the cartoon. Our podcast subscribers will receive an iPod Video-formatted version in the RSS feed. Both the version here and in the podcast feed feature [...]
We are very pleased and excited to put this post on the blog. This is the first public showing of the trailer of our new cartoon, which we’ll be showing in its entirety at NAB 2007. If you aren’t attending NAB 2007, we’ll be posting the cartoon on our soon-to-be-updated website at www.signiant.com.
We hope you [...]
Continuing our titillating previews of the content we’ve developed to premier at NAB 2007, this post contains two different goodies. Just click on the icons and/or links at the bottom of this post to play the audio and video files.
First is an iPod-ready eight second shot from the cartoon revealing the design of the much-anticipated [...]
Signiant Digital Media Rush energy drink [0:08m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download
Signiant NAB 2007 monorail spot [0:30m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadWithout spoiling the drama of the premier of Signiant’s animation for NAB 2007, we’d like to introduce you to the main character — or should I say characters — in the story.
We think this guy is like a lot of people in the media and entertainment industry struggling to manage file-based workflows. We hope [...]
Some of the attendees who participated in our webinar on February 27 asked for the PowerPoint presentation we delivered. I’ve attached the slides to this post. (I’ve made them into a PDF to save space.)
Also, here’s a link to a Flash-based reply of the webinar.
Thank you to everyone who attended today and watch this space [...]
