In an era where digital experiences are key, ScorePlay is proud to announce the launch of the Agent, a revolutionary feature set to redefine the Media Asset Management (MAM) and Digital Asset Management (DAM) landscape.
The Agent integrates on-premise and cloud storage solutions, addressing the crucial need for broadcast-quality experiences across digital platforms, anytime, anywhere. ScorePlay continues to position itself as the market leader when it comes to innovation: besides being the only sports specific DAM/MAM available, it is also the first one of its kind to integrate a hybrid solution to this extent.
Navigating the Asset Management Landscape
In the fast-paced world of sports media, choosing between on-premise or cloud storage is more than just a technical choice, but a strategic imperative. While on-premise storage options offer a lot more control and security, essential for handling sensitive data and ensuring compliance with regulatory standards, they lack the flexibility and scalability of cloud storage. Cloud storage, however, relies heavily on internet connectivity, something broadcasters can’t allow to worry about.
ScorePlay will address these challenges with its Agent feature by offering a solution that combines the best aspects of both storage types. This enables sports organizations to benefit from the advantages of both storage solutions while mitigating their drawbacks.
What is the Agent?
The Agent is a pioneering feature that guarantees a broadcast-quality experience for live events on ScorePlay’s cloud platform, making the quality feeds of on-premise storage accessible 24/7. ScorePlay knows that in the world of sports every second counts and high-speed and quality data is essential for broadcasters and other stakeholders.
Key benefits of the Agent include:
Intelligent Storage: Sync files between cloud and on-premise storage seamlessly and replicate categorization and indexing, so you can navigate your entire collection regardless of access conditions.
Automatically upload files from designated on-premise storage to the cloud, and vice versa, generating on-premise proxies for files stored on cloud. Map on-premise folders from your storage to ScorePlay collections when your team is used to a meaningful folder structure on your local storage.
Automatically replicate collection structure and file updates to reflect renames, moves, and deletions
Broadcast Quality Assurance: Maintain broadcast quality from live feeds through growing MXF files and all VODs created from these feeds, whether they are accessed remotely via cloud or on-premise.
Enhanced User Experience: Enable real-time high-resolution clipping, with the flexibility to produce content in the cloud using media stored on-premise. Preview and clip videos/images in their original or reduced quality through high-speed and high-quality live feeds.
Cost Efficiency: Reduce cloud storage and download costs, while keeping the flexibility and scalability of cloud solutions. offering the opportunity to establish an effective cloud strategy.
ScorePlay’s Agent is deployable on macOS, Linux, and Windows. As a storage-agnostic solution, we’re able to monitor, scan, transcode, and ingest content from any type of network-attached storage or storage area your organization has in its infrastructure, current or future.
With the Agent in place, your organization will be able to leverage ScorePlay’s platform to preview and manage moving content, stills, and other document types such as PDFs. It will also be able to parse side-car metadata and subtitle files based on matching filenames to aggregate this data on the corresponding asset once ingested to the ScorePlay platform.
Strategic Storage Synergy
ScorePlay’s hybrid approach emphasizes the strategic implications of choosing the right storage solution for sports media management. By integrating on-premise and cloud storage, we ensure that our clients' data is always accessible, secure, and ready for action.
“We've listened carefully to our partners who have been struggling with the trade-offs between the flexibility of cloud and the reliability of one-premise. This led to our team developing a sophisticated system that not only preserves existing workflow structures but enhances them. ScorePlay’s Agent is setting a new standard for what’s possible in digital sports content delivery.” Victorien Tixier, CoFounder and CEO of ScorePlay
Many ScorePlay customers are already adopting the Agent, and their feedback says it all.
“The Agent has transformed how we manage our broadcast content during major events. We can now provide our global team with instant access to broadcast-quality footage while maintaining the security and control of our on-premise infrastructure. The ability to seamlessly work with high-resolution content, regardless of location, has significantly enhanced our production workflow.” Head of Digital, major European tennis organization
More than just a feature, the Agent is fundamental in rethinking how sports organizations can manage and distribute their media assets.
“What sets our Agent apart is its groundbreaking approach to intelligent storage management. Our team has engineered a sophisticated system that not only preserves but enhances existing workflow structures. Through advanced technical architecture, it adapts to varying network conditions while maintaining consistent, high-quality performance.” Xavier Green, CoFounder and CTO of ScorePlay
About ScorePlay
ScorePlay is your best-in-class media solution that provides an automated architecture to centralise, distribute, and classify your digital assets, whether photos, videos, or live broadcasts. We are transforming sports organizations, automating their creative processes and growing their brands and unlocking new revenue. We are the bridge to the future of sports storytelling, from content capture to fan consumption. Automate. Grow. Unlock.
