INTRODUCTION

We live in a new world today in the Media & Entertainment (M&E) industry. Change is coming at us from all directions and we have to be prepared to adjust many aspects of our business and technology to adapt. Whether it is the growth of new distribution mechanisms and the resultant business model changes or the growth of file-based technologies that allow us to fundamentally reexamine how we build systems, there is more change in the business today that must be dealt with at a faster rate than ever before.

So what does this mean for the integrator building systems in this era? Given the rapid adoption of software- and IT-based technologies, are there other aspects of IT technologies or processes that we can leverage? How do we best ...

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