7Storage and content management system

In general, success in today's society is based on the speed at which information and data are distributed to users. A successful organization, which has to face the pressure of competition, addresses the need to make training, presentations and a knowledge base available to its employees and managers as quickly as possible. Only timely published content is up to date.

The above implies that an optimal system integrates four basic activities that the lecturer, presenter and viewer perform with the presentation: recording, sharing, viewing and organization.

There are a number of available solutions on the market that more or less comfortably provide the users with tools for recording, publishing, and archiving presentations through the web interface. The benefit of a live presentation does not stay behind the closed door for a limited number of viewers, but it can be shared among an unlimited number of viewers anytime, anywhere via a local network or the Internet. In addition, you can also synchronize video, sound, and slideshow to an intuitive player that can be started by using a Web browser.

You can see a live demo of a system at http://mediasite.avmedia.cz.

Systems for digital content management, distribution and display provide information within a predefined time schedule. They can display digital content in the form of, for example, advertising messages, internal marketing communication, navigation, etc. The content can be the compilation of images, videos, HTML, RSS feeds, etc.

Potential users, therefore, offer the possibility of displaying more information on a single viewer, viewing digitized content with the possibility of immediate changes, engaging dynamic content through visual effects, and monitoring the device’s management.

At present, storage management systems are used across the corporate segment, retail, cultural projects, public administration, and schools. So it can be stated that it’s everywhere where they want to replace the analog content by the digital one.

The structure of a storage management system includes:

1. system for management and distribution of multimedia - software part
2. network infrastructure
3. Content Players
4. display/kiosks
5. interactivity (i.e. controls) and sound reproduction

There are several possibilities to distribute content. One of the conventional solution is so-called Standalone, i.e. a local solution. Nowadays, however, it is possible to take advantage of the options offered by the available network connectivity. This means that multimedia content can be distributed through a local data network (LAN), or they can be solved by remote cloud access or by a Server-Client approach, i.e. On-Premise.

A server is a central computer with the service software; a client is a multimedia player often installed on a PC.

A very important part is to secure the distribution of content. The transmission is done in an encrypted form directly to the player's storage. The player can also be secured with a login and password. The proxy server support is also important. Some solutions can be integrated into AD (Active Directory).

Sample storage usage and distribution of content