Grand Central station: from being little more than archiving tools, today's asset management systems are a new breed designed for finding, sharing, and re-purposing media.(asset management)

From: Asia Image | Date: June 1, 2005| Author: | Copyright information

Like so much television industry jargon, the phrase "asset management" entered the lexicon before systems really existed to deliver it. Basically manufacturers were keen to adopt a phrase popular in financial circles as soon as the economics of broadcasting began to tighten in the 1990s.

But what most could actually offer were little more than archiving tools.

Nonetheless this was a great step forward, as it brought browse copies of filed material to the desktop, dramatically reducing the time spent wading through physical tapes and hand-written notes--aided by versions ...

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