Our Services: Technology

We have been applying technology to bring digital media products to market since the Internet became a consumer media platform, and we’ve done it with some of largest and most trusted sites on the Web. Whether it needs to be built, fixed or scaled for rapid growth, we know how to make the technology of the Internet work for you.

CTO-on-Demand

Who's sorting out your options and bringing it all together? Finding CTO talent is hard but necessary and when the time comes we can help your business over the short or long term with its technical leadership needs by helping our clients assemble the teams and technologies they need to bring their products to market. 

Examples include: Conceiving technical solutions & implementation strategies for your business; concept, identifying critical technical skill sets & staffing needs to execute the business plan, creating technical staffing plans, and leading the hiring process for key initial technical staff; assessing third party technology providers and negotiating service & licensing contracts; and managing early phase development, from discovery through initial product.

Expert software development

Innovative products requirement unique talent, we have the resources to ensure you can deliver what you promise. 

Examples Include: We handpick collaborative teams from internal development & operations staff; third party software development resources, and third party hardware & technology service providers. Our teams bring together developer resources, deep industry experience and expertise in LAMP, Ruby, XML, AJAX, and open source tools & frameworks, as well as with industrial strength technologies &protocols such as Flash, Windows Media, BEA, Oracle, LDAP, Java, & JMS.

Technology guidance & assessment

You may know what you need, but do you know how to get there? We'll give you the guidance and support to make it happen. 

Examples include: Reviewing and auditing your current technology infrastructure and development and support processes for conformance to best industry practices; developing a technology roadmap to bring your product to market, or to scale existing products; and identifying options for using commercial and open source software, allowing you to focus your development efforts on the unique, proprietary value your product brings to the table.

Large-scale infrastructure design

We've been known to think big, then to put it into action. 

Examples include: Large scale hosting architectures, performance optimization, capacity planning, reliability designs; deployment processes, systems monitoring, incident response & crisis management, performance management & reporting, NOC operations, and internet security; and large scale video streaming of both Flash & Windows Media, including both live & on-demand multi-CDN deployments capable of sustaining hundreds of thousands of concurrent viewers

Internet ad systems

Many new media companies need to generate revenues from advertising. That's easier said than done, but we've done it and we'll help you do it too.  Examples include: Inventory and ad unit development, selling strategies, ad formating and tagging, inventory optimization and ad server deployment.

Content management systems

With the emergence of many new platforms, many new versions of content are also required. Keeping track of content has become a major challenge. 

Examples include: Content production & management systems (CMS) and defining and implementing workflows for content ingestion through classification, authoring, editing, to publication for multiplatform distribution.

Distribution and Emerging Platforms

 

Are you a satellite operator wondering how to stay relevant in this ever-changing world where the consumer can receive content via numerous different platform's such as satellite, broadband via fiber, wireless etc? Are you a satellite user trying to understand the best options in terms of transponder capacity and need help negotiating the transponder contract? Do you need help understanding the new distribution platforms and technologies and their impact on your business? We can assemble a team to address all these issues for you.

 

Examples include: Performing market intelligence and technology assessments to help determine the impact of new and alternative platforms to your business. Devising appropriate strategies and business models to embrace and exploit these new platforms. Performing a use-case analysis to determine the appropriate transponder capacity to acquire and direct help in negotiating such contracts. Helping you re-sell capacity if you find yourself in a situation where you have excess transponder space. Performing a study on the impact of the new platforms like broadband, wireless, WiMAX on your specific business and developing a specific product offering for you on these platforms if appropriate.

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