Distributed asset management and the cloud for VICE Media

Abstract

The challenges related to meeting the requirements for asset management can be daunting enough at a single facility. When requirements start to include the cloud, multiple sites and future growth considerations the complexity is multiplied. New requirements must be identified, and new challenges met. Very few projects manage to identify all of the requirements up front. But when a project is paired with a customer who is growing quickly, interested in innovating, building workflows up from scratch, and expanding deliverables, what you know going into the project and what you need to complete it can be worlds apart. This paper describes a collaboration between Primestream and VICE Media, where both sides were required to work together to solve a host of workflow and technical challenges that started out as abstract ideas on a wish list for future consideration, but then needed to progress rapidly to become real-world solutions as VICE rapidly grew the platform, deliverables and requirements.