thePlatform - Connecting your business to the services you need

The steps that need to be taken to select an appropriate digital media management to meet businesses' varying requirements, are discussed. The applications and services need to be built on an architecture that provides the best technologies available and can be easily integrated with complementary technologies of a business's existing systems. A combination of service-oriented architecture, web services, and application programming interfaces (APIs), content providers, broadband media sites, and mobile businesses can be exploited to meet business model's requirements. The companies with existing systems for managing their digital media need to integrate new tools for adding applications that are built to integrate with others through open methods. Content providers, broadband media sites, and mobile business need the flexibility to create a custom workflow and support their business systems.