It’s common knowledge that upgrading improves software’s performance. A latest-version upgrade, particularly for operations management software, will enable you to operate faster, better and smarter than before.
All of this may be true and well-known, but Skype recently released their findings from a new study which revealed that about 40 percent of respondents admitted they don’t upgrade software when they should. Amongst the top reasons for not updating were the concern that upgrades take too long, and the general lack of understating about what the updates will do.
As far as ScheduALL is concerned, I’ll make the benefits crystal clear for you. Here are five reasons why you should upgrade to the new ScheduALL 5:
- It’s included in your up-to-date maintenance agreement
- There’s no platform migration required
- There’s no data conversion involved.
- Smart mobility- ScheduALL lets you access ScheduALL anywhere
- ScheduALL brings you powerful business intelligence and reporting
Remember, ScheduALL is the leading provider of scheduling software for the media, broadcast and transmission industries. We keep this market position by continually driving new innovations into our software. Shouldn’t you keep up and take advantage of this?
Having the latest features and functionality will bring you ahead of the curve. Keep up and don’t let yourself become part of the 40 percent!
By Guest Blogger, Peter Hissey, Systems Architect, ScheduALL
I have often been asked why resources in ScheduALL sometimes don’t match the physical devices in the Network Management System. Or why ScheduALL does not auto-discover the devices.
We have to go back to understanding a little about each system’s purpose and fit within the larger business function. Who the users are that interact with ScheduALL and what they are trying to do all relate to how the information (resources) should be displayed to them and held within ScheduALL.
You must understand that the ScheduALL configuration aims to make the bookings process as simple as possible while at the same time managing enough information to be able to conflict check and perform other administrative functions like financial reporting.
An abstracted example would be - camera kits that get booked out on ENG jobs. A camera kit may be made up of several components such as a camera, tripod, battery, etc. From a scheduler’s point of view, they may not need to know what goes into a kit, just that they have 4 available kits to book, hence the abstracted nature of a camera kit.
In a similar way, in an automated bookings/control environment where video circuits are being booked, the scheduler cares about availability of devices. If there are two devices that are always booked together, there’s little reason to create both as individual resources in ScheduALL but rather a single resource would be a more natural/efficient approach.
This may be over simplifying the process of deciding how many resources to create, as in reality there are other factors such as pricing, costs, asset management needs, etc. The point I’m making is that ScheduALL commonly has an abstracted and simplified view of the resources that it’s managing/booking in order to make the scheduler’s job a little easier.
Consumers want the choice of viewing content tailored to them – exactly what, how often and delivered via multiple platforms. The growing requirements to deliver consumer specific content has increased exponentially while the challenging economic conditions and shrinking budgets demand that more projects be executed more efficiently, timely and with fewer people. Technologies today must provide greater visibility on the event planning as well as and deep forensics proactively for every project – what price, what quality and how quickly the content can be distributed and monetized.
ScheduALL is making industry advances for pre planning, automated scheduling and reporting tools that significantly impact, accelerate content capture and its reshaping to meet growing consumer needs. Additionally, these tools when combined with interoperability and collaborative consumption models pose a competitive advantage to maximize productivity and profitability over linear based workflows.
