speakTECH is committed to helping media and entertainment companies transform their businesses in the 21st century. By using technology to increase operational efficiency and reduce costs, businesses can take advantage of new opportunities as they emerge. speakTECH’s focus is on solving real business problems by leveraging Microsoft technologies to provide an infrastructure that supports business goals while extending the value of existing technology and IT investments.
The recent revolution in digital technologies has changed the way media companies produce, manage, and distribute content, and speakTECH is at the forefront. New technologies open opportunities for unlimited profit and growth, but they also present significant business challenges.
The Challenges
As the media and entertainment industry continues to shift to digital formats, organizations face significant operational issues:
- How can the different systems that support various business operations be integrated?
- How can processes be optimized for efficiency to manage rising costs?
- How can content be produced, managed, and distributed efficiently, securely, and cost-effectively?
- How can a rapidly expanding repository of digital assets be managed and archived cost-effectively?
Digital Media Solutions:
Solutions Overview
Media and entertainment companies rely on speakTECH and Microsoft to address their business and operational needs. SpeakTECH employs a unique and experienced team of media and entertainment industry experts with a deep understanding of the role that Microsoft technologies play with other digital media standards. By deploying solutions that utilize and integrate key Microsoft products, we help companies streamline the creation, management, and delivery of content while enhancing the consumer's content and services experience.
Connected Services Framework
speakTECH has expertise deploying the Microsoft Connected Services Framework for Media and Entertainment, which is a flexible and customizable solution that uses a service-oriented architecture (SOA) approach to help companies streamline the creation, management, and delivery of content.
Using this approach, speakTECH has deployed custom solutions for media and entertainment companies that become an interoperable, manageable, and scalable infrastructure of shared services. This infrastructure can connect existing technology and support a dynamic production process across organizational boundaries.
Business Intelligence
speakTECH has expertise in the deployment of Business Intelligence (BI) solutions on the Microsoft platform for media and entertainment companies that help business decision makers act quickly and with confidence by delivering real-time access to operational, project, and financial data.
Get the Right Information to the Right People
With flexible, integrated BI solutions, decision makers have the tools they need to act strategically and tactically to:
- Increase agility in the marketplace.
- Make quicker, smarter business decisions.
- Collect, aggregate, and analyze key sales and marketing research data.
- Empower employees with accurate and timely information that helps companies stay ahead of the competition.
Business Process Integration
speakTECH is at the forefront of the deployment of Microsoft Business Process Integration (BPI) solutions for media and entertainment, which connects front-office and back-office systems—such as financial management, customer relationship management, and supply chain management—to industry-specific applications.
Collaboration
speakTECH is a leading developer of custom Collaboration solutions for media and entertainment built on Microsoft technologies provide an environment that helps teams—internal, external, or both—work together effectively.
Facilitate Seamless Communication and Collaboration
Microsoft collaboration software combined with a speakTECH-architected connected systems approach provides an environment that helps people share information seamlessly. This helps organizations:
- Work together with more speed and agility.
- Promote rapid decision making to keep projects on track.
- Enhance communication with geographically dispersed teams and partners.
- Reduce costs by facilitating efficient production and distribution processes.
- Achieve lower total cost of ownership and faster return on investment.
Digital Asset Management
With a connected-systems approach, speakTECH utilized Microsoft technologies to help media and entertainment businesses fully support a digital environment. speakTECH solutions built with Microsoft products and technologies are changing operating strategies for the media and entertainment industry by providing a more secure, effective system for storing and handling digital content.
Manage Data and Digital Assets Effectively
Digital asset management solutions help companies embrace digital technology to securely organize, access, modify, and repurpose digital content. These solutions help organizations:
- Create a common digital asset management infrastructure.
- Organize content for rapid access and retrieval.
- Move digital content efficiently throughout the entire production and distribution process.
- Extend the value of technology investments by using existing industry applications.
Rich Media Collaboration Services
speakTECH and Microsoft Bring Integrated Digital Production Workflows to TV and Film
speakTECH is a premier provider of Rich Media Collaboration Services, which enable broadcast and film companies to extend collaborative workflow processes beyond traditional document scenarios and into scenarios that include digital rich media content. As a platform for integration into content creation information systems, Rich Media Collaboration Services will be the main collaboration user interface for the content creation process and accessible across multiple divisions, including business, finance, pre-production, production, post-production, and fulfillment.
speakTECH is a premier developer of customized solutions utilizing Rich Media Collaboration Services, which provide a collaboration layer on top of existing business and production systems. Through Web services, Rich Media Collaboration Services provides an abstraction layer into back-end production systems, such as Digital Asset Management (DAM), Digital Rights Management (DRM), Transcoding, Scheduling, and Distribution in addition to other business systems. Rich Media Collaboration Services solutions also allow customers to build on and extend out-of-the-box Web parts to communicate with other systems.
Provides Rich Front-End Functionality
With Rich Media Collaboration Services, content creators have at their disposal a comprehensive toolset of custom Web parts to use to facilitate and speed the production process.
Supports Seamless Workflow Processes
speakTECH-developed Rich Media Collaboration Services solutions support a truly collaborative, end-to-end media production process that is automated by using Windows Workflow Foundation to coordinate workflows and Connected Services Framework to manage business-related services.
Mobility
speakTECH and Microsoft understand the boundaries that exist with a dispersed workforce. By integrating mobility solutions with a shared services infrastructure that connects critical information and processes, companies can keep people informed and productive—in the office or on-the-go.
Remove Boundaries
By keeping people connected, companies can go beyond the physical boundaries that once threatened production deadlines and slowed decision and approval processes. speakTECH-deployed mobility solutions help companies:
- Keep projects moving with instant connection to business systems.
- Benefit from a familiar operating system expertise.
- Integrate with line-of-business systems.
- Achieve lower total cost of ownership and faster return on investment.
Secure Distribution
By combining a connected-systems approach and flexible digital rights management (DRM) technology, speakTECH has unique expertise in the creation of secure distribution solutions for companies in the media and entertainment industry.
Share Digital Content Securely
Strong DRM solutions enable organizations to distribute content with confidence. These solutions help companies to:
- Reduce piracy and unauthorized use.
- Minimize revenue loss.
- Assign flexible rights and ownership.
- Support authorized distribution across multiple systems.
Achieve lower total cost of ownership and faster return on investment.