Rally + Amazon Web Services

Rally is the world’s leading cloud-native media supply chain management platform, managing complex tasks and helping media companies leverage the efficiencies of the cloud. AWS is one of the most feature-rich cloud platforms in the Media & Entertainment industry, providing an unrivaled blend of infrastructure, AI, storage and automation components.

Together, we create unprecedented agility, efficiency, and scalability for the world’s largest and most innovative media organizations.

Rally manages and streamlines AWS-powered media supply chains

Migrate all or part of your content library to AWS S3 – an essential first step to ensure your organization always has access to your content
Expand or contract compute capability as business needs dictate with AWS EC2, supported by AWS EBS block storage
Enrich and utilize content metadata, identify and flag problematic content, with the help of AWS Rekognition
Transform your file for any storage or delivery requirements using AWS Elemental MediaConvert
Employ reliable automated speech-to-text capabilities with Amazon Transcribe

How customers use Rally + AWS:

Learn more about how AWS and SDVI won an Emmy in 2019 for our work with Discovery and FOX NE&O (Walt Disney Television).

Discovery talks about virtualizing their media supply chain at AWS re:invent 2016.

An AWS e-book:
Transforming the Media Supply Chain

Automate asset management and broadcast supply chains, manage media content, more efficiently, scale storage and processing to the needs of your business.

From the AWS blog:
Using ML in the media supply chain to optimize content creation: How to improve efficiency for operations teams and automate workflows with ML metadata

The Challenge: use ML to assess and validate incoming content while helping manage re-versioning and distribution tasks.

Rally provides:

Media Supply Chain Management

Automatic control & optimization of resources and applications

Recommends design based on technical, operational and financial parameters
Automatic application of designs to all applicable incoming content
Provides comprehensive operating metrics and status notifications

Infrastructure Management

Dynamic resource provision and on-the-fly scaling

Automatically manages, provisions and optimizes resources
Automatic reconciliation of supply chain demands with available infrastructure
Manages resources across multiple environments, including existing infrastructure

Application Sourcing

On-demand sourcing of applications and services

Application services are sold on demand as required by the supply chain
Commercial flexibility, using opex or capex models
Management of existing customer licenses and on-demand license requirements

Optimization & Modeling

Quick, efficient response to new revenue-generating opportunities

Automatic association between resource usage/cost and content properties
Supply chains optimized based on factors including resources, budget, priorities
Modeling of supply chain alternatives prior to deployment of new programming

Operations & Financial Management

Accurate, per-minute processing costs for individual assets

Efficient report-generation allows operations analysis and job costing
Data collection and analysis aids accurate budgeting and deployment strategies
Accurate reporting of per-program cost enables efficient cost-to-air modeling

Security & Control

In-transit and at-rest encryption, firewalled private SaaS and VPC

Complete control of user rights available through Single Sign-On
Watermarks, key-based access and virtual private networks
All communication in and out is via secure HTTPS using Secure TLS