Ross Video Releases Streamline Media Asset and Order Management

Monday, December 15th, 2014 [Iroquois, Ontario, Canada] – Ross Video announced today that Streamline, their new media asset management solution for graphics, is now available for general release.

“I am so incredibly proud of what our talented team here has accomplished in developing Streamline,” said Shawn Snider, Marketing Product Manager for Ross Video. “I am especially excited for our customers and early adopters as we’ve crafted a beautiful and easy-to-use solution that dramatically simplifies asset management for graphics, and provides a powerful set of tools for any broadcaster to better manage their workflows.”

Streamline is the next generation of asset management. Built on top of the Ross Video web technology platform, Streamline is a web-based software product that integrates seamlessly with the Ross XPression graphics system, and allows users to attach assets to graphic templates via a simple drag and drop workflow. The software also offers a rich variety of asset metadata allowing users to easily organize and search their graphics, greatly reducing the effort required to find and reuse content between productions.

Robust reporting tools in Streamline provide up-to-the-second data visualization of any metrics in the workflow process. Insights can be used to better allocate resources to the areas of greatest overall benefit to the organization. Streamline reporting allows monitoring of details like order types, deadlines, ordering trends, most ordered asset types, cycle times and more.

Streamline also provides the ability to manage and prioritize graphics production through its order management system. The system offers placeholder workflows for graphics that, when fulfilled by the art department, are automatically delivered by Streamline into the XPression template and ready to air.

“Asset management is a central hub in production workflow today,” said Jeff Moore, Executive VP of Sales and Marketing at Ross Video. “Given our diverse product portfolio, investing in a revolutionary asset management system with strong workflow and integration between Ross’ many product lines is going to be a huge benefit for our customers. The name ‘Streamline’ is a natural fit for what we’re striving to accomplish in this space.”

About Ross Video
Passionate about live production, Ross Video designs, manufactures and delivers dependable technology and services that power exceptional live video productions seen by billions of viewers around the world every day. Ross Video’s goal is to make it easy for customers to create compelling news, weather and sports broadcasts, engaging material for sports stadium screens, legislative assemblies, entertainment shows and rock concerts, and inspiring content for houses of worship.

Relentlessly innovating, Ross Video delivers the world’s widest range of products and services for augmented reality and virtual sets, mobile live-event solutions, real-time motion graphics, robotic camera systems, social-media management, production switchers, routers, infrastructure products, video servers, newsroom systems, terminal equipment and more.

Ross products and services are designed to offer the best system integration and unmatched customer choice by both working together seamlessly and integrating tightly with third-party solutions.

Ross Video has offices around the world, and provides outstanding, free-for-life telephone support staffed by technical experts 24 hours a day, 365 days a year—even for products bought on eBay. Ross employees are authorized to rent helicopters when necessary.

Ross Video: The Production Technology Experts.

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Ross Video Media Contact:
Sara Bell
Media Relations Co-ordinator
t. (613) 652-3020
f. (613) 652-4425
e. sbell@rossvideo.com

Ross Video Media Contact – EMEA:
Stuart G. Russell
Marketing Manager, EMEA
t. +44 7827 019494
f. +1 613-652-4425
e. srussell@rossvideo.com

Ross Video Media Contact – Asia Pacific:
Vivian Yu
Marketing & Operations Manager, Asia Pacific
t. +65 9827 3531
f. +1 613-652-4425
e. vyu@rossvideo.com