EditShare Announces Support for the AWS Media & Entertainment Initiative
Ministries create engaging content that expands beyond the in-house gatherings to the hundreds of thousands of congregants looking to connect online
Boston, MA – April 29, 2021 – EditShare®, a technology leader that specializes in collaboration, security, and intelligent storage solutions, has been chosen by several large-scale houses of worship to provide each unique operation with an enterprise-strength media platform to sustain the fast-growing audiences seeking their church experiences online. The Potter’s House in Texas, World Changers Church International in Georgia, and Hillsong Church in Australia are using EditShare’s EFS shared storage and FLOW media management to facilitate their hybrid video content management system needs and increase programming to boost engagement with congregants, anywhere and everywhere.
“With the shift to online, connecting with our congregants in the digital world has become even more important. We want to share stories in a way that when they are seen, our members understand how we are giving back to the community. In order to engage congregants on this level, we needed to do more than stream Wednesday and Sunday services. We needed to think about the production value. Everything from the music we choose, to the way we light the scene, to how we shoot and layer in graphics to create an experience that our online congregants can engage with,” states Antao Tywii Ayers-Allen, TV Production, The Potter’s House of Dallas. “There are many moving parts in these stories and EditShare helps us manage all of the parts in a way that we can easily index, search, use, collaboratively edit, and archive for later use. It’s a media foundation that enables us to get to the next level of production.”
Ministries are using EditShare solutions to produce and deliver church services as well as pre-recorded studio shows, documentaries, commercials, and educational programs over traditional, digital, and social channels. Unlike “traditional” networks, these shows, conferences, and podcasts are produced all in-house. Similar to conventional OTT streaming services, some ministries offer yearly subscriptions to their branded channel.
“The day-to-day media operations of large-scale ministries increasingly resemble that of a fully-fledged 24/7 broadcast network with thousands of hours of content to manage,” states Tracy Geist, chief marketing officer, EditShare. “Using an ‘off the shelf’ non-media solution to store and manage the content is not an option. EditShare provides the media optimized workflow infrastructure that enables them to redefine the content strategy and deliver the engaging experience they want for those attending the service in person or connecting online.”
According to Barna research, 70% of churchgoers agree that even after the pandemic, houses of worship should continue to use digital resources to engage with congregants. EditShare’s media platform is the basis for cutting-edge workflows that are instrumental in helping houses of worship create engaging content at a higher quality. In what is likely in the future to be a “hybrid” model, where congregants participate in services both at the church and online, EditShare is the proven, optimized and productive foundation for large-scale video content production.
The lead Engineer for The Potter’s House TV Department, Fletcher Garrett, explains the importance of a workflow platform: “Engineers at houses of worship with responsibilities ranging from TV broadcasts, streaming and social media content want to know, ‘How do I record live services and performances, and get it ready for distribution as fast as possible?’ This all comes back to the media platform you plug your cameras and editing system into. EditShare provides the automation and workflow efficiencies that let you capture directly to storage, automate tagging of content, making it immediately searchable to your editors for packaging and distributing over traditional, digital, and social channels. What is paramount is that the media system is secure, stable and dependable and I have found that EditShare’s systems meet those demands!”
In addition to facilitating production and post production media workflows for short and long form studio and live programs, ministries are using the advanced AI features of FLOW for speech to text transcription on every piece of video recorded. FLOW automates the logging, making it easily searchable and instantly available for repurposing and sharing. Geist adds, “One of the biggest challenges is logging the massive amount of content these productions capture in a way that you can quickly and easily locate that special moment or important message. The AI capabilities of FLOW automate the entire transcription and logging process so editors can turn out more personalized programs faster.”
EditShare is a technology leader in networked shared storage and smart workflow solutions for the production, post-production, new media, sports, and education markets. Whether you need on-prem, cloud, or hybrid solutions, our products improve efficiency and workflow collaboration every step of the way. They include media optimized high-performance shared storage, archiving and backup software, a suite of media management tools and a robust set of open APIs that enable integration throughout the workflow. Customer and partner success are at the heart of EditShare’s core values ensuring a world-class experience that is second to none.
Press Contact Cat Soroush Zazil Media Group (e) catherine@zazilmediagroup.com (p) +1 (631) 880-9534
Boston, MA – April 28, 2021 –EditShare®, a technology leader that specializes in collaboration, security, and intelligent storage solutions announced support for theAWS for Media & Entertainment initiative from Amazon Web Services (AWS) to transform content production, editing and archive workflows.
AWS for Media & Entertainment is an initiative featuring new and existing services and solutions from AWS and AWS Partners, built specifically for content creators, rights holders, producers, broadcasters, and distributors. AWS adds the newly announced Amazon Nimble Studio, a service that enables customers to set up creative studios in hours instead of weeks, to a portfolio of more purpose-built media and entertainment industry services than any other cloud, including AWS Elemental MediaPackage, AWS Elemental MediaConnect, AWS Elemental MediaLive, AWS Elemental MediaConvert, and Amazon Interactive Video Service (IVS). AWS for Media & Entertainment also simplifies the process of building, deploying, and reinventing mission-critical industry workloads by aligning AWS and AWS Partner capabilities against five solution areas: Content Production; Media Supply Chain & Archive; Broadcast; Direct-to-Consumer & Streaming; and Data Science & Analytics.
Today’s content producers and owners want friction-free collaboration from anywhere in the world using the creative tools they know and love. Running on AWS, EditShare’s EFSv media optimized platform is designed to allow teams the opportunity to migrate their production environments to AWS using all their familiar production tools, such as Adobe® Premiere® Pro and DaVinci Resolve. Underpinned by EditShare’s FLOW media management technology, EFSv facilitates collaborative end-to-end editorial and archive workflows in the cloud. Robust APIs enable users to create advanced automated storage workflows or integrate additional systems to create entirely new workflows.
EditShare EFSv on AWS provides customers with choice. Whether that’s deploying full high-resolution video production workflows, or cost-effective proxy-based editing, EditShare allows customers to choose the environment that suits them and their budget.
“Content producers across a range of industries are increasingly engaged with us about remote workflows and production flexibility. These conversations are driven by the demands for agile work environments that allow editors to work from anywhere. The pandemic has only accelerated these discussions,” states Tom Rosenstein, VP of Business Development, EditShare. “Working with AWS extends the benefits of our EFS media optimized file system from its on-premises origins to now run in the cloud, bringing the same high performance with added operational efficiency. Customers only pay for what they need without having to pre-plan purchases or have systems sit idle.”
EditShare is a technology leader in networked shared storage and smart workflow solutions for the production, post-production, new media, sports, and education markets. Whether you need on-prem, cloud, or hybrid solutions, our products improve efficiency and workflow collaboration every step of the way. They include media optimized high-performance shared storage, archiving and backup software, a suite of media management tools and a robust set of open APIs that enable integration throughout the workflow. Customer and partner success are at the heart of EditShare’s core values ensuring a world-class experience that is second to none.
Press Contact Cat Soroush Zazil Media Group (e) catherine@zazilmediagroup.com (p) +1 (631) 880-9534
Global Service Assurance program strategically leverages data to enhance customer experience; “follow the sun” support hubs and scalable supply chain through HPE partnership provides comprehensive, global logistics and 24/7 coverage
Boston, MA – March 24, 2021 – EditShare®, a technology leader that specializes in collaboration, security, and intelligent storage solutions, today announced its Global Service Assurance program, a key initiative of the company’s overarching business transformation that employs data analytics to manage issues and improve the overall customer experience. Over the past year, EditShare has experienced accelerated global growth and, at the same time, customers transitioning to distributed workforce is rising all over the world. This new customer initiative ensures that all customer needs are met no matter where they are in the world. The program continues to build on EditShare’s outstanding service, which achieved a 94% customer satisfaction rating in 2020 (CSAT) and enables the deployment of solutions and services with a consistently high degree of quality around the world.
“Throughout EditShare’s history, high quality, personable service has been an important touchpoint for customer success,” states Stuart McGeechan, vice president customer success and operations, EditShare. “The multiple layers of interconnected hardware and software, along with ever changing workflows, creates a dynamic situation for our customers. They need more than a support program that is a break-fix model. EditShare proactively monitors key system information, identifying potential trends where we can help our customers optimize their workflows. It’s a strategic approach to services that improves the overall performance of the EditShare solution for our customers.”
EditShare’s Global Service Assurance program “follow the sun” approach provides customers the widest service coverage from three strategically located hubs in conjunction with a worldwide supply-chain backed by its partnership with Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE). The stratified level of service lets customers tailor the service experience with entry level options through the industry’s most comprehensive service coverage.
“EditShare’s proactive data-driven approach flips the traditional customer support model to create a more connected and better customer experience out of the gate. Combined with strategic relationships with companies like HPE, EditShare is not only able to anticipate customer needs and scale services in conjunction with its growth, they can also nimbly navigate around the many bottleneck challenges and lingering side effects the pandemic has had on the supply chain,” comments Marci Madoxx, Research Director, Digital Experience Strategies, IDC.
EditShare is a technology leader in networked shared storage and smart workflow solutions for the production, post-production, new media, sports, and education markets. Whether you need on-prem, cloud, or hybrid solutions, our products improve efficiency and workflow collaboration every step of the way. They include media optimized high-performance shared storage, archiving and backup software, a suite of media management tools and a robust set of open APIs that enable integration throughout the workflow. Customer and partner success are at the heart of EditShare’s core values ensuring a world-class experience that is second to none.
Press Contact Cat Soroush Zazil Media Group (e) catherine@zazilmediagroup.com (p) +1 (631) 880-9534
Boston, MA – March 23, 2021 EditShare, a technology leader that specializes in collaboration, security, and intelligent storage solutions for media creation and management, announces support for the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Media Intelligence (AWS MI) solutions, providing customers with the ability to maximize the value of their content through enhanced metadata and scalable production capabilities. EditShare FLOW, a media management platform, includes API integration with AWS Machine Learning (ML) services that allow the simple addition of robust media capabilities such as transcription, translation and video analysis right into the production pipeline.
AWS MI solutions are a combination of AWS AI-powered services that empowers customers to easily integrate AI into their media content workflows.
The EditShare EFSv and FLOW platforms provide a cloud-based video production environment that supports industry-standard third-party creative tools for video editing and workflow management. These capabilities are now expanded to allow customers to quickly and easily leverage machine learning with the FLOW production asset manager. AWS services like Amazon Rekognition, Amazon Transcribe, and Amazon Translate allow EditShare users to increase the value of their content by unlocking what’s inside of it and making it discoverable. API integration with FLOW provides that environment to make content searchable, reusable and more valuable.
“Increasingly, our customers are pivoting from simple editorial and publishing workflows,” says Stephen Tallamy, CTO of EditShare. “They have significant investments in their video assets and they want to make their media discoverable, structured, and ready for telling their next story. The AWS Media Intelligence solution allows FLOW users to easily enrich their content and make it accessible during the production process and out through the archiving process.”
EditShare continues to build upon its innovation in cloud video production and its focus on building out an extensible, API rich, production environment. Our customers demand openness and flexibility, and EditShare is committed to continually meeting those expectations.
About EditShare
EditShare is a technology leader in networked shared storage and smart workflow solutions for the production, post-production, new media, sports, and education markets. Whether you need on-prem, cloud, or hybrid solutions, our products improve efficiency and workflow collaboration every step of the way. They include media optimized high-performance shared storage, archiving and backup software, a suite of media management tools and a robust set of open APIs that enable integration throughout the workflow. Customer and partner success are at the heart of EditShare’s core values ensuring a world-class experience that is second to none.
Press Contact Cat Soroush Zazil Media Group (e) catherine@zazilmediagroup.com (p) +1 (631) 880-9534
Boston, MA – March 9, 2021 – EditShare®, a technology leader that specializes in collaboration, security, and intelligent storage solutions, announced today that it has appointed Joe Cozzolino, Executive Chair at TPX, to its board of directors, effective immediately.
“We are pleased to welcome Joe as an independent director to the EditShare board,” comments Conrad Clemson, CEO, EditShare. “Joe brings a wealth of experience and a track record of success in advising technology companies as they scale their product and services offerings.”
Cozzolino brings over 30 years of experience in enterprise and consumer services, with deep expertise in media technologies to EditShare’s board of accomplished business leaders and technology innovators.
“EditShare is changing the dynamics of video production by focusing on open solutions for collaborative storage and media management on-premise and in the cloud,” comments Cozzolino. “I look forward to working with this innovative company and helping them scale their industry-leading solutions and services.”
Prior to his role at TPX, Cozzolino was responsible for growing Cisco’s global services business. He has also served in executive level positions at Cisco, Motorola, and several Boston-based startups. To learn more about Cozzolino please visit: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joecozzolino/.
About EditShare
EditShare is a technology leader in networked shared storage and smart workflow solutions for the production, post-production, new media, sports, and education markets. Whether you need on-prem, cloud, or hybrid solutions, our products improve efficiency and workflow collaboration every step of the way. They include media optimized high-performance shared storage, archiving and backup software, a suite of media management tools and a robust set of open APIs that enable integration throughout the workflow. Customer and partner success are at the heart of EditShare’s core values ensuring a world-class experience that is second to none.
