itfc Invests in an ActiveVOS Business Process Management System to Help Clients Benefit from Better Workflow Efficiencies

LONDON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--itfc, the London-based provider of content management services to broadcasters and content owners, is the first media company in the UK to invest in an ActiveVOS business process engine. The system will allow itfc to remotely interact with and update third-party systems, as well as its own internal technology, to help clients benefit from better workflow efficiencies.

“We chose ActiveVOS because it offered an industry-standard platform and good development tools for an affordable price”

The new solution will sit alongside the company’s current media asset management system Mediaflex, and archiving system Front Porch Digital. Together they will enable itfc to seamlessly integrate workflows across many different, and previously incompatible, broadcast systems.

“We chose ActiveVOS because it offered an industry-standard platform and good development tools for an affordable price,” said Dave Harris, director of engineering and technology at itfc. “The system will be at the heart of many itfc projects and will provide significant benefits to our clients in terms of integration, efficiencies and our flexibility to meet their ever-changing requirements. We want to take integration one stage further so that the whole becomes greater than the sum of its parts.”

itfc will integrate ActiveVOS with its equipment via web services and service orientated architecture to generate new workflows for one-off projects that require rapid deployment. The company also plans to offer customised web interfaces to its clients to allow them to initiate workflows within itfc.

Mark Taber, CEO at Active Endpoints said: “As the media and entertainment industry switches from tape to file-based systems, seamlessly integrating people, systems, and processes has become the number one priority. We look forward to working with itfc in the UK to literally transform the way that media is produced, managed, and distributed.”

About itfc

itfc offers a wide range of content preparation and media management to some of the biggest names in the broadcast, cinema and corporate sectors, including such well known brands as ITV, Channel Five, NBC Universal, Virgin Media TV and most of the major Studios. We deliver thousands of hours of material annually to clients and our services include: Post production editing: Subtitling (English for Hard of Hearing and Translation); Audio Description; Digital workflows for multi-platform delivery, Encoding and Transcoding; Blu-Ray Authoring; Content Technical Compliance and Quality Assessment; Standards and Aspect Ratio Conversions; Tape Legacy Services; Duplication and Telecine Transfers; Data and Tape Archiving and Storage. In August 2010, itfc became part of the Deluxe Entertainment Services Group, a leading provider of entertainment industry services and technology to major Hollywood Studios and clients around the world.

For more information, please visit www.itfc.com

About Active Endpoints, Inc.

Active Endpoints (www.activevos.com) ActiveVOS is the business process management system (BPMS) that development teams will love. ActiveVOS empowers project teams to create business process management (BPM) applications using services, making their businesses more agile and effective. ActiveVOS promotes mass adoption of SOA-enabled BPM applications by focusing on accelerating project delivery time with a complete, affordable and easy-to-use system. Active Endpoints is headquartered in Waltham, MA USA with development facilities in Shelton, CT USA.

ActiveVOS is a trademark of Active Endpoints, Inc. All other company and product names are the property of their respective owners.

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