When faced with the complex challenge of designing, project-managing, and implementing a digital migration project or Content Storage Management system, companies often turn to Front Porch Digital. Working either directly with us or through your choice of systems integrators, our Integration Services provide a highly professional project management and systems engineering service focused on delivering a turn-key content storage management system completed on-time and in-budget.
When you take advantage of Front Porch Digital’s experience implementing over 300 archive installations in more than 60 countries, you have the confidence that your project will be managed efficiently and intelligently. No matter how complex or unique your environment, Front Porch Digital will successfully deploy your system in a way that accounts for your current needs and future growth.
Project Management
The Front Porch Project Manager is the single point of contact throughout the delivery phase, ensuring that you and your partners are kept informed of the progress of the projects.
Methodology
Project risks, logistics, integration of storage technologies, integration between solutions, change management and communication are all professionally managed to deliver a quality solution to meet your business and operational needs on-time and in-budget. Front Porch Digital has developed tools to ensure a common "standardized" installation for the Operating Systems and associated software and services across the whole installed base.
A detailed description of the delivered system configuration is supplied with the system both for the customer or the systems integrator and to serve as a reference for Front Porch Digital’s support teams.
Qualification and Resell of Third-Party Products
Front Porch Integration Services team regularly qualifies and resells third-party products for best-of-breed solutions. Qualifications range from distributed files system software, IT servers hosting the Content Management Software, new tape drive technologies, SAN or NAS disk solutions.
Skills
Front Porch Delivery Engineers and Project Managers combine a unique blend of skills from Network administration, Database Administration, Unix and Windows Operating System, Disk and Tape technologies, Broadcast Video server interfaces and video or audio file and essence formats.
Front Porch Integration Services includes:
- Archive system requirements and workflow definition through disciplined professional services
- Archive infrastructure requirement assessment and solution design
- Best-of-breed archive management, transcoding and related functionality
- Specification and procurement of complete archive infrastructure solutions
- Custom software development as required
- Integration, testing and validation with all related applications and devices
- Staging, installation, testing and commissioning of archive systems
- Training for customers
- Centralized management of archive layer support and maintenance
- 24 x 7 real-time reporting of operational performance data
- Overall project management of archive implementation
For general Front Porch Services information, click here to download the brochure.