An Update on Our Ingest Service
Introduced last year, thePlatform’s Ingest Service has proven to be one of our most popular workflow services. More than 30% of our customers are using it, and we’re adding more every day. In the first three months of 2010, the service has managed over 8 million pieces of content. And it‘s fast and efficient. On high-traffic days, the service has managed over 16K pieces of content per hour.
Flexible from the start
Like everything at thePlatform, we built the Ingest Service for flexibility. It offers a variety of ways to upload and manage content in our system whether you are ingesting content from one location or many, from inside or outside a corporate network. It doesn’t matter whether your system is independent or working together with other video management solutions, the Ingest Service adapts to existing workflows and network environments in a way that keeps your media content flowing.
Adapters for any need
With Ingest Adapters, the service can ingest content and its associated metadata in just about any format. Our most popular adapter is the MRSS adapter, but we can also create powerful custom Groovy script adapters for whatever metadata format you use. Groovy Script adapters have been deployed to work with Excel and XML-based metadata content. With our adapters you can keep your existing workflow and get your content into our system with no reformatting of metadata required.
Watch Folders
Watch Folders are FTP folders into which you can place media content with its associated metadata. You can add, update, or delete content from the system by just dropping changes into the folder. Watch Folders are especially useful if you have distributed offices or if your editors or partners directly submit content to your site. In addition, Watch Folders are also popular when working in secure environments, as they support SFTP.
The Feed Reader
The Feed Reader can connect to any media feed and pull in the content along with its associated metadata. It is especially useful for customers that are working with multiple video content or digital asset management systems. If your organization has divisions that need to share, distribute, or migrate content quickly and efficiently to other divisions, the Feed Reader is a quick and easy way to get the job done.
Overall, the Ingest Service is a resounding success for our customers. If you are new to thePlatform and want to see how this service (along with our other valuable services) can help your business adapt to an ever-changing video management environment, contact sales@theplatform.com today.
If you are a customer of thePlatform and haven’t checked out the Ingest Service, we recommend contacting your Account Manager today to find out what it can do for you.
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