MEDIA AND PUBLISHING
In the realm of media, whether it's print, television, radio, or digital, the saying "Content is King" holds true. This principle has become increasingly significant in today's world.
The digital landscape has greatly increased access to media, yet the rise of social media has led to a convergence of verified information and sensationalism. Moreover, younger audiences are increasingly sourcing their news from platforms like Facebook, TikTok, and Twitter, rather than traditional media outlets. This shift presents a challenge for established media companies, as social networks emerge as rivals and potentially draw audiences away from legitimate news sources.
To remain relevant, news companies have incorporated a host of digital platforms into their media mix and are focusing on the insights gained about their audience and media consumption requirements. The collection of data is now the single most important criteria for the success of any media house. However, audience data usage has promoted a host of regulations aimed at protecting the consumer from abuse and increased audience awareness about data usage, which if correctly used the media organization will thrive.
Technology is pivotal for the success for Media organizations. In the research, two extremely important components of Media organizations IT environments are data and content collaboration.
Data
The utilization of audience data is compelling media companies to expedite their data initiatives to achieve what is termed data maturity and to adopt data maturity frameworks.
In essence, data maturity measures how extensively an organization leverages its data. High data maturity is attained when data interpretation, collection, and application are thoroughly integrated into all aspects of decision-making and operations.
Companies find themselves at various stages of data maturity. At the basic level, data is compartmentalized, underutilized, and not fully harnessed. Data analysis is elementary, often limited to spreadsheets, with transactional data as the central business concern. At the advanced or mature stage, leadership is guided by data insights, and data analytics becomes a critical component of the business, driving growth and fostering innovation.
Nutanix provides some of the world's foremost data solutions, notably the Data Unified Services Platform.
It accommodates all data types, including RDBMS, NoSQL, SIEM, as well as files, objects, volumes, and more.
It ensures data protection with integrated backup/restore and Disaster Recovery (DR) tools appropriate for all data types, thereby reducing complexity.
It offers a comprehensive set of tools to meet the varied requirements of your infrastructure, development, database, and application teams.
It incorporates a web-scale architecture to guarantee performance, scalability, resilience, availability, and rapid deployment.
It includes customized services to assist in designing, deploying, migrating, and managing a data platform that meets your business needs.
A unified data platform is a key component of the Nutanix Digital Enterprise Architecture, which co-locates data and applications on the same infrastructure to provide high data locality, eliminating latency and boosting application performance.
Dismantling barriers among the various departments within a media organization to operate as a cohesive unit is crucial. From the origin of the information, such as the journalists, through editorial, fact-checking, design and layout, to proofreading and ultimately publication, all these departments require a coordinated effort to ensure accurate information reaches the intended audience.
The solution is Citrix Content Collaboration
Citrix Content Collaboration offers business-grade file sharing, efficient workflows, and real-time collaboration all in one place. This service integrates content from both cloud and on-premises storage via the Citrix Workspace UI and supports customer-managed as well as third-party cloud repositories.
Moreover, Citrix ShareFile enables IT to take back control of corporate data storage, access, synchronization, and sharing, applicable in both office and mobile settings. Focusing on security, productivity, and infrastructure modernization, ShareFile provides IT with the necessary data security and control, while catering to user mobility requirements.
Transforming a Media industry environment extends beyond data, related services, and content collaboration. Considerations include network security, optimization, application deployment, workflow, cloud configuration, and services.
Open Architecture Systems can steer organizations through strategy development, planning, implementation, deployment, and maintenance of essential components for a resilient IT infrastructure that addresses the challenges of the digital age.
In conclusion, the two components highlighted in this article are vital for the sustainability and profitability of media organizations, as technology has emerged as a central element within the industry.