Spend Less, Produce More, Go Green.
Information and updates from GLOBALedit and the Spectrum 08 conference
In preparation for last week's Spectrum conference in New Orleans, our product management and accounting teams sifted through years of data looking to compare analog to digital photo production. Everyone here at Industrial Color and GLOBALedit is interested in finding ways to reduce the waste and environmental footprint for ourselves and for our clients. GLOBALedit takes traditionally wasteful processes such as printing and shipping and moves them online. Speaking with clients, we also found that waste reduction was key to their decision to adopt GLOBALedit and that their staff were enthusiastic about reducing waste and removing these items from their production costs.
As the environmental benefits are obvious, we decided to focus on the cost savings. We have compiled the results and supporting data into a PDF file that you can view here. In summary, we've found a powerful relationship between the production volume and cost efficiency gained by using GLOBALedit. As clients produce more, the cost of GLOBALedit drops and the capacity of the production team grows. More users have access, more vendors are connected, and more files are moved with greater accuracy and quality. As more production groups within any organization migrate to GLOBALedit, the cost and environmental savings expand. We brought these findings to Spectrum and would like to share them with you as well.
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Also at Spectrum, we announced Schemacloud, which is a new program and partnership with IDEAlliance. The goal of the program is to develop and offer core metadata services using XMP metadata in order to spark innovation and automation. This will be a collaborative effort bringing together the different members of the content production supply chain including photographers, industry associations, and enterprise production groups as well as advertisers, publishers, and broadcasters. We're excited to participate in this program and to offer core technology to further the adoption and utility of metadata throughout the workflow.
Metadata is at the core of efficiency and collaboration in a truly digital workflow. As content is exchanged between systems, the need for physical media such as DVDs and hard drives is diminished. We've seen this with several integrations we've done with client DAM and publishing systems as well as with Adobe Creative Suite. Through working with Adobe, IDEAlliance, and the XMP-Open group we have learned a great deal about what is needed to really unleash the potential of metadata for integration, automation, and intelligent media. We hope to learn more from and to work with the content production community to move these ideas forward. You can sign up for news and updates at the Schemacloud website and look for more details throughout the fall.