Introducing SCC MediaServer Cloud Edition Scalable Solution ...

SCC MediaServer Cloud Edition for Amazon Web Services (AWS), delivered via Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), provides the same highperformance, proven and reliable workflow functionality our users have become accustomed to, but without any worries about infrastructure, upgrades, growth, or maintenance. SCC MediaServer Cloud Edition is scalable to meet varying performance demands, and when combined with no startup cost and a monthly payment scheme, this makes this an attractive choice for large and small companies with the goal to migrate their on-premise DAM systems and digital media workflows to the Amazon Cloud.

SCC MediaServer Cloud Edition provides sophisticated, high performance search capabilities including word, phrase, field, SCC MediaServer Cloud Edition is a total media management system, stemmed, proximity, wildcard and thesaurus searches. Popular acting as a live photo and graphics desk, a news budgeting and search queries can also be saved for easy recall allowing reuse by one assignment job ticketing system, a syndicated media delivery system, or more users. and as a high-performance, scalable multimedia archive. The system supports automated data capture from wire and agency providers, as Scalable Solution well as data uploaded directly via SCC's web based client application, SCC MediaServer Cloud Edition system integrates with Amazon Web and provides a bi-directional interface to 3rd party production and Services (AWS) helping you reduce your overall IT costs in multiple front-end systems. ways. Amazon's large customer base, combined with continued SCC MediaServer Cloud Edition supports multiple "Libraries" for the efficiency improvements and competitive pricing, allows costs to be storage of all types of multimedia, and is scalable to millions of kept at a minimum. This allows SCC to offer a highly scalable, fullobjects accessible by thousands of users located anywhere in the featured DAM platform at a much lower cost than the traditional upworld. Photos, Text, Graphics, Pages, Audio and Video files, once front purchase and on-going maintenance and licensing costs for onadded into the system, are automatically indexed and immediately premise infrastructure. available for searching. In addition, Amazon's global presence facilitates the deployment of Incoming items are typically placed in temporary "Production SCC MediaServer Cloud Edition systems in any of the nine AWS Libraries". Published material and those items judged worthy of regions around the world, providing lower network latency and being archived for future use are then automatically transferred to better experience for our customers at minimal cost. long term "Archive Libraries". An automatic purge process, set according to site specifications, deletes files not selected for Flexible Redundant Storage permanent archive. SCC MediaServer Cloud Edition takes advantage of Amazon EBS All Metadata associated with Photos, Text, Graphics, Pages, Sound volumes for database and search engine storage, each ranging from and Video files, when added into the system or later modified, is 1 GB to 16 TB in size. Hourly transaction log backups, daily automatically indexed by SCC’s Full-Text Search engine incorporated incremental database and search engine backups and weekly full into SCC MediaServer Cloud Edition and is immediately available for backups are saved as Point-in-Time Snapshots to Amazon S3 storage, and which are automatically replicated to at least three physical searching.

Introducing SCC MediaServer Cloud Edition

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devices located in different geographical areas. These snapshots can SCC's "Infuse" feature allows batch editing of selected records using be used as the starting point for new Amazon EBS volumes, and a single editing form. With this feature a Photographer could add a single caption to multiple records, an Assignment Editor could protect data for long-term durability. simultaneously approve the status of multiple assignments, or a High-resolution files and high-resolution previews referenced by the Librarian could add keywords to a batch of archived documents at SCC MediaServer Cloud Edition system are written directly to the same time. Amazon S3 for secure and affordable long-term storage. The MediaServer Cloud Edition system supports configurable popup Amazon's published design criteria for S3 storage is 99.999999999% lists that pull down from attributes contained in record create forms, durability. . edit forms and search forms. For example, a frequently used list of categories can be presented in a pull down from the Category field Data Flow Into and From the System within an editing form. Dependencies can also be defined that make SCC MediaServer Cloud Edition includes a license for SCC the contents of a popup list depend on the value entered in another MediaFactory, a multi-threaded batch processing service for field. For example, a list of available Subcategories can be made to Microsoft Windows. If required, additional copies of the depend on the contents entered into the Category field. Using Popup MediaFactory service can be installed on a local on-premise server, Lists reduces typing time and increases the accuracy of attribute and configured to poll local network directories for files to be entry. processed and automatically transferred to the SCC MediaServer A conditional corner flags feature displays color-coded corner flags Cloud Edition System. on thumbnail cells whenever certain matching criteria are met. A Alternatively, for a solution with no on-premise server components, typical use might be to identify and mark images that are protected files can be uploaded directly via FTP protocol, or by dragging on to from download or from deletion, published, copyrighted, or edited. an assignment record within SCC's Web client application, or batch The meaning of each corner flag is customizable for each site. uploaded using SCC's drag and drop web upload tool. Multimedia audio and video clips can be optionally transcoded by Once uploaded, embedded IPTC captions, thumbnails, previews, and SCC's MediaServer Video Support module, which allows the even ASCII text contained within an EPS or PDF graphic or page is automatic generation of thumbnail and preview, keyframe strips for automatically extracted and mapped to database fields, with simplified navigation, one or more proxy versions for rapid playback complex character and text string translations, including injection of within SCC's client application, as well as the original raw video file, new metadata, performed on-the-fly during insertion into the SCC prior to insertion into the SCC MediaServer Cloud Edition for longMediaServer Cloud Edition database. term archive. Metadata can also be processed automatically by the online System Performance Factors Thomson Reuters Calais web service for semantic classification and Like its siblings, SCC MediaServer Cloud Edition is optimized for high categorization. speed search and retrieval. Only the minimum amount of data Advanced Client Functionality necessary for display on the client screen is transferred at one time, SCC's client application includes a task automation facility that offers with additional data being retrieved only as the user pages down a set of functions which can be linked together to create a custom through the result set. command. For example, the automation command can be configured SCC MediaServer Cloud Edition makes use of transaction processing, to bring up an attribute dialog to elicit user input, run an AutoFill an integral part of relational database management systems in order command, print a proof, export a customized delimited file to maintain data integrity and avoid corruption while updating containing all the attributes, and then copy the file into a folder that database content and indexes. is monitored for further processing and distribution by the SCC MediaServer Cloud Edition system or for export to a third-party Access and Security Factors production system or 3rd party vendor for resale. The user's login and password determines their profile within the SCC When a user's login credential supports editing within a designated MediaServer Cloud Edition system, which can either be set per user library, an "Edit" button appears beneath or to the side of displayed or inherited as part of group privileges. content, which when clicked retrieves metadata from the database Many functions within the system can be enabled or disabled for and automatically populates the form associated with the record. If individual users and groups, and implemented at the record level. multiple form designs have been created, when the Edit button is These include the ability for a user or group to insert, view, search, clicked a dialog is presented to the user offering a selection of forms crop, edit, protect, download, delete etc. for use. Once open, the contents of the form can be freely edited and subsequently saved back to the system. When a record is being System Replication edited it is automatically locked within the MediaServer Cloud Edition system, preventing other users from editing and potentially In the event that a site wishes to establish a second running copy of the SCC MediaServer Cloud Edition system, either to another overwriting the record at the same time. instance within the Amazon Cloud, or replicated to the Amazon Cloud SCC's client application allows photo cropping using either freeform from an on-premise system located at the users data center, the SCC drag or by fixed dimensions from a selection of measurement units. MediaServer Cloud Edition system supports real-time replication of Photo cropping is performed using the low-resolution version of the all database content, user credentials and high-resolution assets. file only, with the final crop dimensions written back to the MediaServer Cloud Edition database for use during output. 3810 Hamby Road • Alpharetta, Georgia (USA) 30004 • Voice: 770.751.8500 • Fax: 770.772.6800 • Web Site: http://www.sccmediaserver.com