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Avid Workflow Solutions: Powering ENVY's Rapidly Expanding Post-Production Facility

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Technology Category	Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Database Management & Storage Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Storage Services
Applicable Industries	Buildings Equipment & Machinery
Applicable Functions	Facility Management Sales & Marketing
Use Cases	Last Mile Delivery Time Sensitive Networking
Services	System Integration
Challenge	ENVY, a leading post-production provider for the British broadcasting and advertising industries, was facing a series of challenges due to its rapid expansion and increasing workload. The company was dealing with tighter production schedules, a growing 4K workload, and expansion across multiple locations. ENVY's workload had expanded at an astronomical rate, with growing client demand for tighter turnaround times, disruptive ideas, and state-of-the-art media technology. The company had also added a new production facility for its advertising clients. To manage these challenges, ENVY needed to upgrade and expand its storage capabilities. However, it was crucial that the integration of a new storage system wouldn’t affect its high standards of work and client relations. Read More
About Customer	ENVY is a key member of Avid’s preeminent client community and one of the leading post-production providers for the British broadcasting and advertising industries. It has built a solid reputation for delivering award-winning projects for media giants like the BBC, ITV, Channel4 and Discovery, and world-leading advertising agencies. ENVY consists of two main divisions. Its broadcast division creates long-form content for television, including some of the most-watched programs in the country—shows like The Voice, Top Gear, Grand Designs and Gogglebox. Its advertising arm delivers short-form branded content and commercials for big-name brands like Adidas, Sky and McDonalds. ENVY operates a multi-site operation with facilities located in London’s trendy Noho area. Read More
Solution	To address its challenges, ENVY decided to invest in the Avid NEXIS software-defined storage platform. The company worked closely with Avid to integrate the platform across all of its London sites and ensure a smooth transition. Avid NEXIS, with its reliable performance and more media streams per storage engine, enabled ENVY to complete even the most editing-intensive projects faster. The company has already seen improved project turnaround, with Avid NEXIS helping it to deliver both on time and on budget. Avid NEXIS empowers every contributor across the production chain—from video editing and finishing to sound editorial and mixing. ENVY’s Avid NEXIS system provides 1.2 Petabytes of storage capacity, with the recent addition of 720TB to help manage an increase in 4K projects, varying shooting schedules, and larger-scale productions. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Database Management & Storage

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Storage Services

Applicable Industries

Buildings

Equipment & Machinery

Applicable Functions

Facility Management

Sales & Marketing

Use Cases

Last Mile Delivery

Time Sensitive Networking

Services

System Integration

Challenge

ENVY, a leading post-production provider for the British broadcasting and advertising industries, was facing a series of challenges due to its rapid expansion and increasing workload. The company was dealing with tighter production schedules, a growing 4K workload, and expansion across multiple locations. ENVY's workload had expanded at an astronomical rate, with growing client demand for tighter turnaround times, disruptive ideas, and state-of-the-art media technology. The company had also added a new production facility for its advertising clients. To manage these challenges, ENVY needed to upgrade and expand its storage capabilities. However, it was crucial that the integration of a new storage system wouldn’t affect its high standards of work and client relations.

About Customer

ENVY is a key member of Avid’s preeminent client community and one of the leading post-production providers for the British broadcasting and advertising industries. It has built a solid reputation for delivering award-winning projects for media giants like the BBC, ITV, Channel4 and Discovery, and world-leading advertising agencies. ENVY consists of two main divisions. Its broadcast division creates long-form content for television, including some of the most-watched programs in the country—shows like The Voice, Top Gear, Grand Designs and Gogglebox. Its advertising arm delivers short-form branded content and commercials for big-name brands like Adidas, Sky and McDonalds. ENVY operates a multi-site operation with facilities located in London’s trendy Noho area.

Solution

To address its challenges, ENVY decided to invest in the Avid NEXIS software-defined storage platform. The company worked closely with Avid to integrate the platform across all of its London sites and ensure a smooth transition. Avid NEXIS, with its reliable performance and more media streams per storage engine, enabled ENVY to complete even the most editing-intensive projects faster. The company has already seen improved project turnaround, with Avid NEXIS helping it to deliver both on time and on budget. Avid NEXIS empowers every contributor across the production chain—from video editing and finishing to sound editorial and mixing. ENVY’s Avid NEXIS system provides 1.2 Petabytes of storage capacity, with the recent addition of 720TB to help manage an increase in 4K projects, varying shooting schedules, and larger-scale productions.

Impact #1	The implementation of Avid NEXIS has significantly improved ENVY's operational efficiency. The system's reliable performance and more media streams per storage engine have enabled ENVY to complete even the most editing-intensive projects faster. The company has already seen improved project turnaround, with Avid NEXIS helping it to deliver both on time and on budget. Avid NEXIS empowers every contributor across the production chain—from video editing and finishing to sound editorial and mixing. The system's shared project functionality and the ability to grow any of the storage systems with little notice have been vital to ENVY's evolving business model. The company's continued investment in Avid’s MediaCentral Platform and all of its powerful creative tools and workflow solutions provides it with a scalable, secure and flexible production and delivery environment that will also future-proof it for when it needs to meet another significant increase in demand.

Impact #1

The implementation of Avid NEXIS has significantly improved ENVY's operational efficiency. The system's reliable performance and more media streams per storage engine have enabled ENVY to complete even the most editing-intensive projects faster. The company has already seen improved project turnaround, with Avid NEXIS helping it to deliver both on time and on budget. Avid NEXIS empowers every contributor across the production chain—from video editing and finishing to sound editorial and mixing. The system's shared project functionality and the ability to grow any of the storage systems with little notice have been vital to ENVY's evolving business model. The company's continued investment in Avid’s MediaCentral Platform and all of its powerful creative tools and workflow solutions provides it with a scalable, secure and flexible production and delivery environment that will also future-proof it for when it needs to meet another significant increase in demand.

Benefit #1	ENVY’s Avid NEXIS system provides 1.2 Petabytes of storage capacity
Benefit #2	Recent addition of 720TB to help manage an increase in 4K projects
Benefit #3	Improved project turnaround, delivering both on time and on budget

Benefit #1

ENVY’s Avid NEXIS system provides 1.2 Petabytes of storage capacity

Benefit #2

Recent addition of 720TB to help manage an increase in 4K projects

Benefit #3

Improved project turnaround, delivering both on time and on budget

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Avid Workflow Solutions: Powering ENVY's Rapidly Expanding Post-Production Facility

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