Big News For The New Year!
With the new year, we had big changes to share! Our co-founder Simon Eldridge stepped into the role of chief operating officer, expanding his focus from product into broader operational leadership across the business.
Last month I wrote about how maintaining the status quo across media operations can wind up costing more than a strategic shift toward cloud-enabled orchestration and automation of the media supply chain. By standing still, organizations will compromise agility, efficiency, and opportunity over time. They know, intuitively, that their supply chains are too manual, too fragmented, and too slow to adapt. So how do you turn that intuition into a persuasive business case for moving forward with media supply chain transformation?
While “transformation” may seem to suggest a massive, all-at-once shift, the reality is that some of the strongest business cases start with a single workflow and a surprisingly simple set of measurements.
In the blog, we provide a framework for quantifying the costs of your current workflow and value you can get from a modern media supply chain.
Last month we announced the availability of a new default player in Rally. If you missed it, check out the blog to read the highlights.
But there were many updates in Rally last quarter that focused on easing complex operational tasks, making it easier to access the info you need to get the job done. Here are just a couple:
Priority Display Improvements
SDVI has added a visual indicator for job priority, more clearly distinguishing different priority levels and enabling faster identification of higher- or lower-priority jobs. These graphical indicators — for urgent, high, normal, and low — are present as users set job priority, and also in job lists and details.
Column Displays Rally Asset ID
The job usage report now includes a column displaying the Rally asset ID. This information supports accurate mapping of job usage and costs when assets with the same name are created and deleted multiple times within a Rally supply chain.
These are just some of the recent updates made to the Rally platform. Read more in our latest Rally Updates blog.
Partner Spotlight
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Fincons is an international IT consultancy and system integration firm operating across Europe, the US, and India. With a dedicated Business Unit for the Media & Entertainment industry, Fincons has long-standing relationships with Tier-1 clients and a proven track record of successfully completing complex projects to transform content supply chains and achieve greater efficiency through automation, AI, and technological innovation.
Fincons has been deploying and supporting the SDVI Rally platform in projects that are transforming how leading organizations manage content operations, from acquisition to distribution. Their expertise is helping media & entertainment companies move beyond legacy systems to embrace a fully cloud-native approach, optimizing the entire content supply chain and ensuring resilience, scalability, integrability, efficiency, and performance.
We share a common goal: helping companies unlock the full potential of SDVI Rally and accelerate their journey toward smarter, more agile media operations.
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