EditShare and MoovIT GmbH Partner to Supercharge Adobe Enterprise Workflows
End-to-end solution for collaborative editing and project management leads to big workflow gains for large Adobe workgroups, on premise and in the cloud
Boston, MA – July 21, 2020 –EditShare®, a technology leader that specializes in secure media management, collaboration and intelligent storage solutions for video content creators, and MoovIT GmbH, developers of the Helmut suite of Adobe workflow tools, announced today an exclusive global partnership that transforms Adobe enterprise workflows. As the use of Adobe creative tools in distributed collaborative environments continues to grow, the need for a robust media management environment that connects users, content, and media becomes even more critical for workflow efficiency. EditShare’s EFS shared video storage solution and FLOW media management, integrated with the Helmut suite of products, form the industry’s most comprehensive project management and remote editing workflow solution for enterprise Adobe workgroups.
“To succeed in the evolving world of video production, our customers are looking to EditShare to provide open solutions that allow them to rewire their workflows and adapt,” states Tom Rosenstein, vice president of business development, EditShare. “EditShare’s expanded partnership with MoovIT allows us to bring to our Adobe customers a powerful, adaptable set of tools to address those challenges head-on. The Helmut platform coupled with EFS and FLOW, embodies the workflow structure users require. Powerful, yet simple, collaborative Adobe Premiere Pro project management alongside adaptive media production management. It’s the complete package professional editors have been waiting for.”
Helmut solutions are used by leading broadcasters, newsrooms, sports leagues, corporations and new media organizations for their robust project management and administration, enhancing creative workflows for large distributed Adobe workgroups.
“Partnering with EditShare gives us a significant advantage in developing collaborative editing workgroup solutions for Adobe customers. EditShare’s strategy of empowering creatives through a robust set of open APIs enables us to bring the full potential of Helmut’s project management capabilities, creating better workflow and richer end-user experience for Adobe editors and artists,” states Wolfgang Felix, managing director of MoovIT. “The unbeatable combination of EFS, FLOW, and Helmut provide a resilient media foundation with the flexibility for large Adobe workgroups to work on premise or in the cloud, which is critical for supporting today’s climate of rapidly changing business models.”
Scalable to the enterprise level, EFS, FLOW and Helmut integrated workflow offers a media technology foundation that combines storage, media management, workflow automation, and workgroup management for a proven all-in-one solution.
EditShare is the exclusive reseller* of the Helmut suite of products. To obtain more information, please visit here.
Learn More about Powering Collaborative Adobe Workflows with EditShare and MoovIT on July 22 Join EditShare and MoovIT on July 22, 2020 at 9am EDT and again at 2pm EDT for a joint webinar on how to ‘Automate and Optimize Adobe Workgroups with FLOW and Helmut’. To register for one of the time slots, please visit: https://editshare.live/webinar072220session1pr (9am EDT) and https://editshare.live/webinar072220session2pr (2pm EDT)
*Excluding the DACH region.
About Moovit MoovIT provides video and IT solutions for broadcasters and organisations of all shapes and sizes. The company, headquartered in the Schanzenviertel district of Cologne, specialises in the development and support of workflows for all aspects of post-production, news and archiving at the interface between video and IT. MoovIT leverages particular expertise in the field of technical solutions for sports reporting. In addition, the company develops web-to-video solutions, localisations, remote editing systems and video hosting products used by organisations across a highly diverse range of industries. MoovIT’s customers include broadcasters, production companies, sport event organisers, agencies, and enterprises from a wide range of backgrounds.
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.
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5/27/2020
Updated FLOW Panel for Premiere Pro, and EFS support for project-locking in Premiere Pro’s Productions, bring outstanding remote editing and collaboration workflows to Adobe users – on premise, in a hybrid environment or in the cloud
Boston, MA – May 27, 2020 –EditShare®, a technology leader that specializes in secure media management, collaboration and intelligent storage solutions for video content creators, continues its collaboration with Adobe® to enhance end-to-end remote production and collaborative editing workflows. Creating an exceptional user experience, from individual storytellers to enterprise workgroups, the integrated solution of EditShare with Adobe seamlessly connects editing workflows into a wider media ecosystem with deep metadata tracking and workflow automation to simplify storytelling, whether on-premise, in a hybrid configuration, or as a complete cloud-based workflow. The new FLOW panel for Adobe Premiere® Pro transforms content management, proxy and remote editing, and review and approval workflows for editors. EditShare’s EFS open shared storage solution enhances collaborative editing with full support for project-locking for Productions in Premiere Pro. With the Productions feature set, Premiere Pro can now handle projects with an extraordinary number of assets while maintaining peak performance. Sharing and organizing those assets is much easier than before. Read more in EditShare’s blog on Productions in Premiere Pro.
“Building collaborative digital video workflows for our customers continues to be one of the fundamental drivers of our FLOW and EFS partner developments,” comments Sunil Mudholkar, Vice President of Product Management, EditShare. “Our solutions are optimized from the highest levels of the technology stack down to the storage file system, so creatives can work with Adobe tools in any location, with the very best user experience. The FLOW Panel for Premiere Pro and EFS support for Productions enables users to delve deep into on-premise, cloud or deep archive storage to find that all important content, and collaborate with colleagues anywhere in the world, all without ever leaving the Adobe Premiere Pro UI.”
“Editors and creative teams want to focus on telling great stories without thinking about workflow issues,” said Sue Skidmore, head of partner relations for Adobe video. “The collaboration between Adobe and EditShare helps our users – from individual creatives to large groups – have a great experience whether they are on premise, in a hybrid environment or in the cloud.”
Designed to simplify storytelling, FLOW manages the entire media technology stack with tools to orchestrate assets and workflows across tiered on-premise, nearline, and cloud storage environments. An essential, secure platform for remote, collaborative productions, FLOW offers an advanced proxy-based workflow with support for over 500 codecs. Its enhanced Premiere Pro panel connects individual editors and production teams directly to the FLOW media asset management and its productivity-focused toolset including extensive asset tracking, collaborative proxy editing workflow, and review and approval workflows across cities, countries and continents.
EFS scalable storage enables media organizations to build extensive collaborative workflows on premise, in the cloud, or in hybrid installations, shielding creative personnel from the underlying technical complexity while equipping administrators and technicians with a comprehensive set of storage management tools. For Adobe editors, EFS is fast and flexible collaborative storage with outstanding support for Productions in Premiere Pro, enabling best-in-class project sharing. Mudholkar adds, “Creatives don’t have to feel overwhelmed with learning an entire media management platform: the lightweight FLOW panel fits directly within Premiere Pro and delivers exceptional workflow efficiency while EFS supports the underlying transactions that keep media safe and projects organized.”
Special EditShare Bundle for Adobe Workflows For a limited time, EditShare is offering a special Adobe workflow bundle that includes FLOW media management, EFS open storage solution and Helmut workgroup management tools.
EFS and FLOW provide a robust storage and media management platform that connects creatives, content and media optimized technology. Scalable up to the enterprise level, the workflow bundle for Adobe offers a media foundation that is built for creative workflows with tools to administer Premiere Pro workgroups and distributed teams. For complex workgroup management, EditShare offers the suite of Helmut tools as an optional extension to the bundle. To obtain more information, please visit here.
Join EditShare and Adobe on May 28th Join the Adobe and EditShare team on Thursday May 28, 2020 at 12:00 pm EDT and again at 9:00 EDT for a joint webinar on Production, Group Editing, and Remote Workflows with Adobe Premiere Pro. To register for one of the time slots, please visit https://editshare.live/webinar052820session1pr (12:00 pm EDT) and https://editshare.live/webinar052820session2pr (9:00 pm EDT).
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.
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5/13/2020
Provides virtualized production and editing in the AWS cloud with an open architecture enabling flexible editorial workflows and creative choice
Boston, MA – May 13, 2020 –EditShare®, a technology leader that specializes in collaboration, security, and intelligent storage solutions for media creation and management, today announced that Jigsaw24 is the first UK-based EditShare reseller to deploy EFSv, enabling virtualized production and editing workflows in the AWS cloud. EFSv significantly expands multi-vendor remote production and post production capabilities, which is attractive to Jigsaw24’s customers who rely on a broad range of creative platforms for projects.
“We serve a market that has a lot of independent creatives hired for their talent, not the tools they use. Being vendor-agnostic and offering open solutions that allow creative freedom is the cornerstone of our business,” states David Skeggs Head of Business Management, Jigsaw24. “Of all the remote production and media management solutions in the cloud, EFSv is the best at enabling workflows for customers who need to support multiple editorial tools.Creator-focused, EFSv makes it seamless to move from one creative tool to the next with underlying capabilities to build extensive media workflows.”
The EFSv platform supports industry-standard third-party creative tools for editing, audio mixing, VFX and grading with best-in-class security capabilities such as file auditing to propel secure, end-to-end production workflows in the cloud. EFSv native drivers eliminate traditional IT bottlenecks and deliver superior media performance in virtual environments.
Skeggs adds, “It is fundamental for us to not only offer the choice of tools, but to have experience and expertise to deliver that choice within a workflow. We have been involved with EditShare for a number of years, designing comprehensive workflows as well as working in cloud infrastructure to transition customers’ on-premise machine rooms to datacenters in the cloud. The arrival of EFSv will enable us to deploy a broader range of cloud workflows serving viable use cases that were previously not achievable.”
Designed for media workflows, Jigsaw24’s Via24 cloud platform allows users to better manage and control complex and costly technology with a more cost-effective solution. EFSv is a key solution component of Via24, enabling creative workflows from the cloud.
“EFSv is the natural progression from on premise production workflows, by enabling clients to migrate to the cloud and all without the overhead of facilities infrastructure costs,” stated Rob Adams, VP of Worldwide Sales, EditShare. “Jigsaw24’s Via24 infrastructure is showing media clients the way forward by offering tailored cloud production offerings, with EFSv at the center of the solution. The combination of Jigsaw24’s Via24 and EFSv, meets the diverse needs of media customers from independent production companies to remote creative teams and clients looking to migrate to a more flexible business model.”
Jigsaw24 is a leading B2B technology solutions provider and Apple Authorised Enterprise Reseller. With specialists in production, post, finishing, audio and infrastructure, we design, deliver and support end-to-end solutions for some of the UK’s biggest facilities. As an Avid Elite Partner, with top accreditations from manufacturers including Adobe, HP, Blackmagic Design and more, we can advise on everything from Dolby Atmos mixing to cloud-first editing workflows, all the way through to final delivery – all of which you can see live in our Soho demo facility. Jigsaw24 was founded in 1992 in Nottingham, ideally located to provide full nationwide coverage.
About EditShare
EditShare is a technology leader in networked shared storage and smart workflow solutions for the post-production, TV, sports and film industries. Our groundbreaking products improve efficiency and workflow collaboration every step of the way. They include ingest and playout servers, high-performance central shared storage, AQC, archiving and backup software, media asset management and an Emmy award-winning non-linear video editing application.
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15 JAN 2020
Key Code Media expands its on-premise and cloud-based workflow offerings to include EditShare’s award-winning media engineered storage and media management tools – joint successes include a million-dollar corporate deployment
Boston, MA – January 15, 2020 – EditShare® a technology leader that specializes in collaboration, security, and intelligent storage solutions for media creation and management, today announced that the leading A/V, broadcast, and post-production reseller and systems integrator Key Code Media has joined the EditShare Channel Partner Program. Unique to the industry, the EditShare Channel Partner Program enables top systems integrator and reseller Key Code Media to offer the full technology portfolio of media engineered shared storage and management tools, including OPEX and CAPEX models, on-premise, hybrid, and cloud configurations, across all markets and market tiers. The partnership expands the network of EditShare-certified technology sales agents and media workflow design experts and serves as the foundation for answering EditShare customers’ evolving needs for high-performance video production and distribution workflows and solutions.
“EditShare is entering 2020 with incredible forward-looking technology, a very strong management team led by CEO Conrad Clemson, a new Channel Partner Program, and the backing of ParkerGale Capital to aggressively scale its business,” comments Mike Cavanagh, CEO, Key Code Media. “The caliber of its new Channel Partner Program is underpinned by the high level of trust we have for its champion, Greg Lawler (Vice President of Sales, Americas, EditShare), who we have forged a tremendous working relationship with over the last decade. And while their strategic business approach and innovative technology roadmap align with our business goals, it is the mutual respect we hold for our customers and the business partner model that makes this an outstanding relationship.”
The new EditShare / Key Code Media business relationship has already resulted in several joint customer sales and deployments, including a million-dollar corporate deal.
“Key Code Media drives its business on customer enablement. They work incredibly hard to deliver the very best customer experience and in doing so, have mastered the media landscape across many verticals. They are at the top of their game and we are honored to have them as a business partner, ” states Greg Lawler, Vice President of Sales (Americas), EditShare. “The industry movement towards decoupling proprietary systems and building open and secure workflows that realize the benefits of cloud and AI is top of mind for customers everywhere. EditShare’s EFS and Flow technology combined with Key Code Media’s deep understanding and commitment to customer needs will help media organizations modernize operations and transform their business.”
With nearly two decades of experience, Key Code Media has the breadth and depth of media workflow expertise to architect advanced end-to-end production and distribution workflows using EditShare media engineered shared storage and management tools on-premise and in the cloud, leveraging the very latest in AI, security and API capabilities.
“EditShare brings a full media ecosystem to post-production, ” states Jeff Sengpiehl, Key Code Media Senior Solution Architect and EditShare expert. “The EFS shared storage platform is a distributed file system with direct native client connection, maximizing throughput. This allows for optimized scalability and redundancy. EditShare’s solutions are well suited for large Adobe® Premiere® Pro workflows due to the ease of integration of media management tools such as Flow directly into the Adobe Premiere Pro panels. From ingest to distribution, EditShare innovates. ”
Key Code Media is a nationwide reseller and systems integrator helping TV studios, radio stations, post production, house of worship, corporate, city government, stadiums, and education with bringing together AV component subsystems into a whole and ensuring that those subsystems function together. The Key Code Media difference comes from our breadth and depth of engineering services, with experience in supporting project large-and-small with the same level of exceptional customer service. Whether you’re looking for AV solutions for conference rooms, collaborative offices, digital discussion systems, digital signage, corporate lobby, broadcast master control room, comm systems, flypacks, or post production edit suites- Key Code Media brings a holistic approach to your business with our certified engineering and training staff. Learn more at: www.keycodemedia.com
About EditShare
EditShare is a technology leader in networked shared storage and smart workflow solutions for the post-production, TV, sports and film industries. Our groundbreaking products improve efficiency and workflow collaboration every step of the way. They include ingest and playout servers, high-performance central shared storage, AQC, archiving and backup software, media asset management and an Emmy award-winning non-linear video editing application.
Media workflow experts build advanced, secure editorial workflows and remote productions with EditShare media engineered shared storage and management solutions
Boston, MA – April 16, 2020 – EditShare,®a technology leader that specializes in collaboration, security, and intelligent storage solutions for media creation and management, today announced that CIS Group has joined the EditShare Channel Partner Program. Known for its exceptional consultative approach to media workflow design and system integration, CIS serves all media verticals including entertainment, broadcast, news, corporate, houses of worship, and digital agencies across the Eastern United States and Brazil. In addition to leveraging EditShare’s software defined storage, asset management and cloud solutions to build open and highly scalable media workflows, as a part of the partnership, CIS offers a special EditShare-based Remote Editorial Core bundle. The NLE-agnostic offering enables a variety of remote production workflows including advanced proxy editing.
“CIS Group’s greatest asset is its institutional knowledge of media workflows. This is especially crucial as their customers seek guidance in leveraging the real benefits of APIs, cloud and AI capabilities for building agile on-premise and remote productions,” states Greg Lawler, Vice President of Sales, EditShare. “With EditShare’s open and highly extensible platform, CIS can design and deliver truly transformative workflows that not only simplify the art of storytelling but also offer companies entirely new ways to use their valuable media assets to engage, entertain, communicate and educate.”
Under the new channel partner program, CIS has access to the full product portfolio of EFS media engineered shared storage and FLOW media management tools, including SaaS and perpetual licensing models for on-premise, hybrid, and cloud configurations. CIS will also work closely with the EditShare customer success teams, enabling them to architect robust, multi-vendor tailored production and distribution workflows that achieve new levels of productivity.
“The opportunity to utilize emerging technologies like cloud and AI to reinvent your operation and ultimately expand your business has brought forth an interesting era. If capitalized on correctly, the opportunities are endless. However, with all the hype and promises, it’s important to have a clear path forward,” comments Matt Silva, CEO, CIS Group. “EditShare brings that clarity and they do so on every level. They have clear core values, clear principles they abide by and they are clear on what their solutions can do with regards to expansion through APIs, cloud and AI. For a channel partner, that clarity translates into a confidence that you can design media infrastructures that propel entirely new media workflows for your clients. EditShare is the brand we trust to transform our clients’ vision into reality.”
EditShare’s longstanding strategic relationship with CIS Group has grown over the years and today represents a wide range of shared customer successes, including news outlets like The Wall Street Journal, regional broadcast stations in the United States; multi-site operations across London, New York, and Singapore; and large corporate brands like Ashley Home Furnishings.
“It’s clear that EditShare has stepped into their customers’ shoes and designed the solutions from their unique perspective and needs. They understand the pressure points and opened EditShare solutions to integrate with tools our customers want to use, adding out of the box capabilities like auditing and health performance that offer tremendous transparency and peace of mind,” Robson Fernandes, Director of Engineering and Professional Services, CIS Group. “EditShare’s concern for the customer experience can also be seen in the incredible effort they put in educating and supporting their channel partners. We are responsible for the design and delivery of their solutions and their training and support ensures that the entire process is a great experience, from our very first encounter to every single one thereafter.”
Established in 1988, CIS Group’s history includes a lot of evolution as a result of the team’s desire and ability to always stay ahead of the curve. CIS Group’s mission is to enable story tellers to share their experiences with their audiences by providing them with the most effective media workflow solutions for their respective production goals, and by supporting their technical and operational requirements post-delivery. Covering both Brazil and the United States extensively, CIS is considered a reference in the systems integration space as a result of its specializations in content production & post-production, solutions for broadcast & news, workflows for asset management systems, acquisition, shared storage, media services, graphics and multi-platform distribution on-premise or in the cloud. Headquartered in Florida, USA, CIS has offices in Brazil (Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo); New York, USA; and Porto, Portugal, serving markets globally. Learn more at www.cisgroup.tv.
About EditShare
EditShare is a technology innovator in media engineered storage and advanced workflow solutions for storytellers that need collaboration without boundaries. EditShare’s open solutions and APIs enable secure collaboration and maximize efficiency every step of the way. The award-winning product portfolio enables end-to-end workflows, on-premise and in the cloud, through media optimized shared storage, workflow aligned media management solutions, robust APIs, and an Emmy award-winning non-linear video editing application.
Media engineered shared storage and management solutions expand workflow options for Canada’s vast network of broadcast, media, and post-production facilities
Boston, MA – January 29, 2020 – EditShare® a technology leader that specializes in collaboration, security, and intelligent storage solutions for media creation and management, today announced that Annex Pro, Canada’s premier system integrator and reseller for creative broadcast, production, post-production, animation, VFX, film and finishing markets, has joined the EditShare Channel Partner Program.
“The incredible talent pool combined with forward-thinking tax incentives have made Canada a top draw for creative services. Annex Pro is at the cornerstone of the media industry, supporting what has been tremendous growth over the last decade,” states Greg Lawler, Vice President of Sales, EditShare. “Aligned in customer values and needs, both EditShare and Annex Pro are well-positioned to serve Canada’s highly creative production, film and finishing market.”
Designed for resolution-intensive productions, EditShare’s innovative technology can manage high volume, high bandwidth content with granular detail. Straight-forward workflow orchestration automates redundant and complex tasks while embedded editorial production tools, hybrid cloud configurations and comprehensive metadata tracking with AI-accelerated enrichment bring the practicality desired to manage media across diverse needs and at scale.
“EditShare and Annex Pro share the same core values: empathy, pursuing mutually beneficial solutions and up-leveling customer deployments to ensure success. This makes EditShare not only a great business partner, but it creates an exciting and fulfilling work environment,” says Kerry Corlett, CEO, Annex Pro. “Only people pulling in the same direction can make positive things happen. For me, the EditShare Channel Program is more than words on paper, it’s a genuine commitment to becoming one team, working collaboratively to create truly happy customers using excellent technical solutions.”
With access to the full product portfolio of EFS media engineered shared storage and Flow media management tools, including SaaS and perpetual licensing models for on-premise, hybrid, and cloud configurations, Annex Pro can service wide-ranging workflow and technology needs across all markets.
“When it comes to creating and delivering media content, EditShare’s end-to-end workflow solutions allow editorial teams to reach unparalleled efficiencies,” states Annex Pro CTO Stuart Dean. “With NLE-agnostic tools that are embedded within all platforms, collaboration is far more effective across the production, enabling teams to deliver projects faster than they otherwise could.”
In addition to offering innovative workflow solutions, the EditShare Academy program ensures that Annex Pro sales and professional services will be equipped with the know-how to consistently deliver maximum ROI for customers.
Dean continues, “The new EditShare Academy training certification program allows us to deliver the most value to our customers. The comprehensive training will ensure that we understand EditShare technology and solutions at a much deeper level and how they can help our customers achieve optimal productivity.”
Annex Pro is North America’s next-generation Value Added Reseller, providing solutions for content creators in Media and Entertainment. Thousands of Annex Pro customers use the hardware, software and cloud solutions we sell to create (and teach) awe-inspiring animation, visual effects, video games, immersive experiences and digital media of all kinds on every platform.
Founded in 1983 and headquartered in Vancouver with offices in Montreal, Toronto and Los Angeles, Annex Pro is strategically partnered with top companies such as Autodesk, Avid, Wacom, Lenovo, Unity, Eizo, EditShare and hundreds of others. Offerings include sales, cloud services, IT infrastructure engineering, rentals, managed and professional technical services tailored for M+E. Annex Pro has the solutions and expertise you need to make your next project a creative and commercial success.
About EditShare
EditShare is a technology leader in networked shared storage and smart workflow solutions for the post-production, TV, sports and film industries. Our groundbreaking products improve efficiency and workflow collaboration every step of the way. They include ingest and playout servers, high-performance central shared storage, AQC, archiving and backup software, media asset management and an Emmy award-winning non-linear video editing application.
