HITS Connections
Box CFO: Progressly Purchase to Help ‘Accelerate’ Workflow Offerings
Box’s recent acquisition of Redwood City, California startup Progressly was designed to help “accelerate” the company’s automated workflow solutions, according to Dylan Smi... More
SAP Teams with Accenture, Others on S/4HANA Cloud Adoption
SAP has announced it will work with Accenture, Capgemini and Deloitte to accelerate adoption of SAP S/4HANA Cloud in numerous industries, with the companies looking to develop solu... More
MESA’s Latest ‘M&E Journal’ Edition Goes Live
The 2018 spring-summer edition of the “M&E Journal,” published by the Media & Entertainment Services Alliance (MESA), and geared toward senior media and entertainment e... More
Box CEO: Q1 Saw Strong AI Demand
Box saw strong demand for its Box Skills artificial intelligence (AI) framework and continued to “make great progress” on its “two major objectives” in the first quarter (e... More
Salesforce CEO: U.S. Needs National Privacy Law
The Salesforce Einstein artificial intelligence (AI) platform continued to make strides in Salesforce’s first quarter (ended April 30) and the growing presence of AI is making it... More
Accelerated Ingest to Cloud Services
By Megan Cater, Senior Manager Digital Content at Signiant - We are in an era of data inundation. According to a report by IDC, by 2020 there will be as many digital bits in ex... More
HITS Spring: SAS Shares M&E Machine Learning Use Cases
For media and entertainment companies, digging through the sheer amount of data available to make better business decisions can be a daunting task. At the May 17 HITS Spring: T... More
HITS Spring: MicroStrategy Touts Analytics Gains
The challenges confronting media and entertainment companies today when it comes to data can be daunting. Disparate data sources that need to be sliced eight different ways for... More
HITS Spring: LiveTiles Chief Architect Examines Future of AI Tools
For the last decade, everyone in the media and entertainment industry has had some form of the term “digital transformation” beaten into their heads, and from the move away fro... More
HITS Spring Keynoter Stresses Bottom-Top Approach to Innovation
UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. — You know that old saying, “form follows function”? Well, Jeff Julian, founder and CEO of design thinking firm Lab5 Systems, has a problem with that. ... More
Rightsline: Tackling Media Rights, Avails Challenges for Industry’s Biggest Players
With no end in sight to the content craze, the world’s top media producers and distributors are almost exclusively now outsourcing their rights and avails management to a purpose... More
HITS Spring Kicks Off with a Message for Hollywood: Embrace Risk
UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. — To kick off the annual HITS Spring: The Hollywood Innovation & Technology Summit, a collection of technology experts and studio reps looked at the state ... More
HITS Spring to See EP’s Mazor Examine CISOs and Security
When the annual HITS Spring: The Hollywood Innovation & Technology Summit returns to Los Angeles on May 17, Martin Mazor, chief information security officer for Entertainment P... More
HITS Spring to See AI, Data Endeavors Highlighted
Among the breakout sessions during the annual HITS Spring: The Hollywood Innovation & Technology Summit returns to Los Angeles on May 17 is a closer look at the latest AI and d... More
The Buzz on Blockchain
By Guy Finley, Executive Director, MESA - Every few years a new buzz word travels around Hollywood. Some come. Some go. Some are glorified to oblivion. Others ride through Gartn... More
OpenText CEO: Company to Continue Heavily Investing in its Cloud Platform
OpenText will continue “making key investments” in its cloud platform, while remaining on the lookout for more acquisition targets to keep growing its business, according to Ma... More
HITS Spring: Execs to Tackle Advanced Production Technologies
At the annual HITS Spring: The Hollywood Innovation & Technology Summit in Los Angeles on May 17, one of the highlights of the day will be a high-level discussion around new produc... More
AWS Elemental Cloud Services Aim to Maximize Value of Video with AI
NEW YORK — Four of the most recent cloud services that Amazon Web Services (AWS) introduced are helping media and entertainment (M&E) companies maximize the value of video with a... More
Google Cloud Exec: Company Continues to Make Major AI Investments
NEW YORK – Google continues to make major investments in deep learning and other associated areas that fall under the artificial intelligence (AI) umbrella, according to Ron Bodk... More
AWS: Three ‘Major Trends’ as Customers Adopt Machine Learning
NEW YORK — Amazon Web Services (AWS) has observed “three major trends” as its customers adopt machine learning (ML) in growing numbers, according to Dan Mbanga, AWS global le... More