Exchange Media with Global Partners

Media supply chains have grown increasingly complex, with more media exchanged with more partners than ever. The Signiant Platform enables secure and seamless content sharing with partners with visibility and control at any scale.

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The Challenges with Exchanging Media with Partners

When companies collaborate together and require media exchange, each partner often has its unique security protocols, auditing requirements and user privilege systems, along with various storage locations and types that add complexity to operations. Here are just some of the problems:

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Management Control

When managing a large ecosystem of partners, onboarding and offboarding partners can be time consuming and expose security challenges. It must be easy to add and remove partners, manage granular access controls so that each partner only has access to the content they require and should all be done without having to share passwords and sensitive network information.

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Technology Compatibility

Each company’s unique technology stack can complicate the integration of file transfer tools with various production and distribution systems. Moving content between file and object storage, across complex network setups with various firewalls and security protocols, all present challenges. Your systems should be compatible with any type of storage, in any location and work seamlessly over any IP network.

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Centralized Visibility

Standard file transfer solutions managed by a single company can restrict partners’ access to critical insights like status updates and errors and estimated time of delivery. Without centralized visibility, partners may struggle to detect and respond to transfer issues, leading to operational delays and compliance challenges.

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Security Risks

Security is paramount in partner content exchanges, involving more than just basic protocols like MFA and encryption. Ensuring robust security requires third-party assessments to validate security measures, adherence to industry standards and the use of transfer tools that do not store valuable files on their own servers. Each partner should maintain control of their own network information and security settings while making it easy to get the content where it needs to go seamlessly.

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Latency & Network Disruptions

Connecting with partners over long distances can be hampered by latency and network disruptions, impacting data transfer speeds and reliability. In today’s competitive market, businesses can’t afford such issues, as they lead to delays in critical operations and hinder real-time collaboration. Ensuring a robust, high-performance network infrastructure is essential to maintain seamless business operations and stay competitive.

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Out-of-Compliance Deliveries

In media, with so many different formats and resolutions in play, out-of-compliance file deliveries are a common challenge. Processing files through your supply chain only to find out they’re out of compliance later adds additional time and resources due to rework. Tools should enforce pre-transfer validation against delivery specs to keep partners from delivering files in the wrong formats.

Signiant Solutions for Partner Media Exchange

The Signiant Platform enhances partner media exchange by providing a secure, efficient and adaptable solution for complex media operations. This robust framework facilitates streamlined operations, maintains data integrity and optimizes media exchange across diverse organizational infrastructures.

Simple Secure Partner Connection in the Cloud

  • Simple Secure Partner Connection in the Cloud

    By using a secure cloud handshake, each partner manages their side of the transfer, regardless of their company size, location or technical capabilities. This approach ensures that partners maintain control over their own data and infrastructure while still enabling secure, transparent exchanges without exposing internal systems or sensitive information to others.

Storage Independence & Compatibility

  • Storage Independence & Compatibility

    Signiant’s approach, emphasizing storage independence and robust APIs, makes connecting and integrating into partner companies’ technology stacks easy. Storage independence enables partners to use their existing storage and systems without changes. The Signiant Platform’s comprehensive APIs facilitate easy connectivity and automation of workflows across different platforms, enabling efficient and secure content exchange between partners.

Full Granular Visibility into Operations

  • Full Granular Visibility into Operations

    With an easy-to-use web interface, the Signiant Platform provides comprehensive control and visibility into all file transfer operations for all partners. The dashboard offers detailed insights for users, operations managers and IT admins, allowing them to automate transfers, monitor transfer status, manage user access and oversee system performance. This centralized view guarantees all stakeholders can track and manage transfers effectively, ensuring data integrity, security and efficient workflow management across each organization involved.

Third-party Assessed Security

  • Third-party Assessed Security

    The Signiant Platform enhances partner file transfer connections by meeting the rigorous standards set by the Trusted Partner Network (TPN). By completing the TPN’s App and Cloud Gold Shield assessments for all its SaaS products, Signiant ensures its solutions adhere to the highest industry security and compliance standards. This certification provides peace of mind to companies who also follow TPN standards, assuring them that the Signiant Platform is a secure and reliable choice for their file transfer needs.

Eliminating Delays from Latency & Network Disruptions

  • Eliminating Delays from Latency & Network Disruptions

    The Signiant Platform’s intelligent transport capabilities help companies move content quickly and efficiently between partner companies, regardless of distance or network conditions. It is resilient to network interruptions, automatically resuming transfers from the point of interruption. This minimizes downtime and ensures that content reaches its destination reliably, even in challenging network environments.

Pre-transfer File Validation

  • Pre-transfer File Validation

    Partner media exchange is greatly enhanced by CloudSpeX which allows customers to specify the delivery specs for each partner. Files are checked against the spec prior to transfer informing the sender of out-of-compliance files and providing the information they need to deliver files in the correct format.

With thousands of media and entertainment companies already connected to the Signiant Platform, Signiant makes it easy for organizations — large and small — to establish and maintain productive partnerships. The speed, security and visibility that define Signiant’s modern approach to inter-company content exchange all expedite the flow of assets along media supply chains and ensure that the global appetite for creative content is satisfied.

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Jai Cave, Technical Operations Director

“When we began with Media Shuttle back in 2013 there was nothing like it on the market and Signiant continues to innovate and remains the leader in offering easy, fast, secure access to media assets for our team and partners anywhere in the world”

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