When you think about a media supply chain, you probably think of the flow of content from production to distribution. But what about the flow of data that supports it all?
It’s not enough for each system to function in isolation. The best-run facilities integrate their key systems with media supply chain management to streamline and optimize operations. With data from rights, scheduling, playout, and other systems helping to drive supply chain processes, you’re in a better position to optimize media operations from end to end.
When you centralize data from core operational systems and apply it across supply chain processes, you enable smarter, more streamlined operations. In the blog, we examine how integration of key systems outside the media supply chain platform helps you more accurately prioritize supply chain tasks, reduce reliance on spreadsheets, and enhance decision-making. We also share some real-world examples of how such holistic integration translates to greater responsiveness and agility as new business demands and opportunities arise.
When Rally is your main media processing hub, it acquires, QCs, modifies, prepares, archives and/or distributes your media. It offers tools from a broad array of vendors through the Application Services Market which can be integrated quickly into your workflows. Rally also integrates with systems and services in the M&E universe outside of it’s own ecosystem. Data exchange is not just helpful, but is sometimes truly necessary.
How exactly does it work? It’s actually quite easy…
Rally is designed to make data exchange simple, allowing users to quickly and efficiently integrate systems upstream, downstream and parallel to the Rally supply chain. Additionally, Rally can easily acquire and manipulate metadata from these systems, using it to make automated supply chain decisions.
In the blog, we look at the ways in which Rally makes integration with key M&E systems easy for administrators. It’s almost like pressing the easy button…
New in Rally
Multi-region Support & Configurable Timer for Rally Access Workstation
Rally Access Workstation can now be spun up in different regions, allowing users to work on content in those regions, with lower latencies, by utilizing resources closer to the end user. This new option is achieved through infrastructure tagging, both on the instance and on the Gateway widget.
In a related update, Access Workstation timers are now configurable. Administrators are now able to determine the max time a workstation is online, as well as the idle time until it gets shut down if not in use, giving them more precise cost control.
These are just some of many recent updates made to the Rally platform. Read more in our latest Rally Updates blog.
Application Spotlight
Supply Chain Accelerator
The Supply Chain Accelerator is a joint project between SDVI and TMT Insights which enables media companies to fast-track the migration of their media operations to a modern, cloud-based model by combining pre-configured versions of the SDVI Rally media supply chain platform and the TMT Insights Polaris operational management platform along with supporting professional services to accelerate time-to-production.
Learn more about the full spectrum of best-in-class tools in the Rally Application Services Market.
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