M+E Daily

The Media & Entertainment Services Alliance (MESA) will host its seventh annual Take the DAM(n) Tour events April 15-16, this time as live e-tours, instead of as the guided NAB Show floor tours that had been held for six years running.

Running from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. PT, each day will see companies provide 15-minute presentations around their DAM and MAM offerings, with Mary Yurkovic, director of Smart Content for MESA, guiding pre-registered attendees through a review of each company’s capabilities. Along with the ability to discuss challenges and current trends in the asset management space, tour participants will have their questions answered by leading experts, and will hear how the technologies complement overall content strategies.

Here’s a quick look at what companies will be presenting during day two of the online TTDT. Only those who pre-register will be able to attend and access the presentations immediately following the e-tour.

• Sohonet CEO will showcase how his company’s real-time remote collaboration tools ClearView Flex and the newly launched ClearView Pivot have been built to help optimize remote workflows across pre-production, production and post-production, enabling teams to collaborate effectively and securely with dispersed teams and clients in real-time.

• Whip Media Group’s Mike Sid, chief strategy officer, will highlight his company’s data-driven integrated cloud platform that gives the world’s leading entertainment organizations the ability to efficiently acquire, distribute and monetize their content.

• Sony Electronics’ Michael Potts, senior director of customer success, will share how new asset management solutions from Sony allow clients to maximize their content’s potential and power creativity, whether it be done on-premise, in the cloud, or a hybrid of both.

• GrayMeta president Josh Wiggins will show off how his company provides the ability to create, extract and store intelligent metadata, turning unstructured data into valuable assets, all while delivering enterprise efficiency and asset monetization solutions throughout the content supply chain with media workflow, collaboration, and quality control tools.

• Teradici Technical Marketing Principal Ian Main will offer attendees a look at Teradici Cloud Access Software delivering remote workstations and applications from Microsoft Azure, with an artist editing creative content on a Wacom device while keeping data secure in the cloud.

• Caringo Principal Solutions Architect Ryan Meek will present Caringo’s new, updated S3 and NFS-accessible Swarm Server appliance line, specifically designed for media and digital video. He’ll discuss Caringo’s most recent real-world implementations, including one for an MLB team, and give a short demo of Caringo Swarm features such as Partial File Restore.

• Vistex’s Tom McDonough, senior manager of solution delivery, will share how Vistex can consolidate rights data into a single global repository that can be easily queried and monetized. He’ll show you how to leverage content libraries to increase profits and minimize risk.

• Digital Bedrock CEO Linda Tadic will showcase her company’s patent-approved algorithm behind its Digital Object Obsolescence Database. The DOOD monitors digital asset obsolescence factors, ensuring your digital content is usable in the future.

• Eluvio’s Michelle Munson, CEO and co-founder, will go over the benefits of Eluvio Content Fabric, a new global substrate for management and distribution of premium video content at Internet scale in ways never before possible. Neither cloud nor CDN, the Fabric allows content publishers to distribute premium video globally including live, video on demand, and linear channels, direct to consumers and to business partners without CDNs, cloud stacks, transcoding services or databases.