CubeWorkflow
Thanks to its modern Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) CubeWorkflow is a collaboration framework technology of highly modular loosely coupled software components.
Systems are assembled exact to the client demand.
Thanks through latest Web portal technology and other open standards interfaces the integration in existing client infrastructures is straightforward.
Main Features
- Media Quality Control
- Team Collaboration
- Business Intelligence
- Business Activity Monitoring
Lightweight media SOA and BPM technologies to innovate faster
Thanks to its modern Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) CubeWorkflow is a collaboration framework technology of highly modular loosely coupled software components. Systems are assembled excact to the client demand. Thanks through latest Web portal technology and other open standards interfaces the integration in existing client infrastructures is straightforward.
A typical client installation is made up of the following parts:
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BPMN 2.0 based Process Orchestrator. This is used to create your workflows with full integration of automatic and human tasks as-well as rule-based decider activities. |  |
this software component checks and manages the available infrastructure. It prioritises and executes processes and supervises the load-balancing. |
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this GUI component provides role-based and user-definable dashboard for process analytics and essences and metadata insights, with drill-down detailed reporting. |  |
the Business-Rule-Management-System (BRMS) component manages the unified business rules packages, which can drive complex decisions. It includes a rule check to detect conflicting rules. |
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this software component generates case-based interfaces for all human tasks (e.g.: personalized ‘to-do’ lists, manual workflow branching decision, form for the input or correction of metadata, or manual QC validation with integrated media players) |  |
these software components are only visible to users with system administration roles. It allows managing privileges and configurations. |
CubeWorkflow technology does not need and does not intend to replace a full blown heavyweight Enterprise middleware infrastructure, nor an Enterprise Media Asset Management System. It’s the smart next generation toolset providing lots of business value without the need to restructure your existing media and IT infrastructure first.
It is designed to sit on-top of your current infrastructure and provide a new agile and lightweight layer for process automation and media quality validation.
- Media Quality Control
- Team Collaboration
- Business Intelligence
- Business Activity Monitoring
CubeWorkflow is designed to generate a quick return of invest by streamlining the flow of work, exact where the most business value is added.
The media industry is in the midst of a transformation unleashed by the Internet and digital technology. Most organizations have taken massive steps by introducing file-based non-linear editing, which has led to a plethora of proprietary, incompatible, technology islands. Within these islands, work can be done quite elegantly and efficiently, but the interaction with the outside world often is cumbersome. The opportunities that digital transformation presents to media industries need to unlock additional business value by building a process automation and business analytics layer on top of today infrastructure. With our open standard Media SOA and BPM technologies your existing infrastructure will become more in sync with your business.
Overview on media workflow technology
The challenging economic environment continuously pushed media organizations around the globe to focus on improved business process management and workflow optimization. While the complexity is increasing day-by-day innovating technology is the key to unlock process improvements to increase the throughput and quality, while decreasing the overall cost.
The media industry is in the midst of a transformation unleashed by the Internet and digital technology. Most organizations have taken massive steps by introducing file-based non-linear editing, which has led to a plethora of proprietary, incompatible, technology islands. Within these islands, work can be done quite elegantly and efficiently, but the interaction with the outside world often is cumbersome. The opportunities that digital transformation presents to media industries need to unlock additional business value by building a process automation and business analytics layer on top of today infrastructure. Using open standard Media SOA and BPM technologies you can sync your existing IT infrastructure easier with your business. Successful media organizations incorporate processes optimization quicker than others. Your business is changing – preserve the flexibility, so that future adjustments stay affordable.
Cube-Tec wants to support your organization in that race for process improvements with lightweight approaches to modernize your Enterprise Architecture. It’s the smart next generation toolset providing a clear business value without the need of a restructuring of your existing IT infrastructure.
Media process automation
The complexity in most areas of media production is exploding. The opportunities that digital transformation presents to media industries need to unlock additional business value by building a process automation layer on top of today infrastructure. Successful organisations get it managed to increase their rate of business automation and process surveillance fast enough to stay ahead. But most of the repetitive straight forward tasks are already automated. The next step is to automate interactive processes and processes requiring a good slice of flexibility.
Intelligent media process automation systems can be used successful where classical approaches failed because of the lacking flexibility and adaptability to fulfill the work. For this, process automatic engines with integrated rule engines are the method of choice. These tools need to be manageable straight forward by media manager without any scripting tools or support of IT experts.
Process Automation enables a ‘Management by Exception policy’ where media manager should devotes their valuable time to investigating only those situations in which actual results differ significantly from planned results. Attention is given only to process deviations requiring human investigation; all other work is streamlined highly-efficient nearly error-free by process automation. A nearly error-free process is possible as automation secures a higher process uniformity compared to work steps performed manually.
This led to a reduction operating costs and enables companies to harness under-utilized computing capacity within the enterprise. By lowering resource requirements through streamlining and automation, process automation further empowers media companies to overcome their challenges around efficiency and cost reduction.
With CubeWorkflow 2.0 Cube-Tec International has revealed exciting new media automation technology to provide a unified toolset for media process improvement. It contains a complete set of tools for best of breed Media Processing, enriched Media Quality Control, Team Collaboration, Business Intelligence and Business Activity Monitoring. It is designed to sit on-top of your current infrastructure and provide a new agile and lightweight layer for industrial-grade process automation and media quality validation. CubeWorkflow 2.0 does not need and does not intend to replace a full blown heavyweight Enterprise middleware infrastructure, nor an Enterprise Media Asset Management System. CubeWorkflow 2.0 can start compact as a single server system. Through its highly scalable design and automation with support for streamlined human workflows. Still people think innovation and open standards can’t go hand in hand – but they are wrong! In a pioneering effort CubeWorkflow 2.0 brings together the best of emerging open standard media technology in service oriented architecture for media (SOA), business process management (BPM) and business activity monitoring (BAM) all packed in lightweight services.
Media Process Modeling
Basis of every modern quality management initiative is the explicit documentation of the used business processes, to provide process transparency.
At that stage it is not relevant whether these processes are executed automatically or realized by the workforce. The de-facto standard to model business processes graphically is the Business Process Modeling Notation language (BPMN). It is an open standard developed by OMG that supports Business and IT alignment by being easy enough to be loved by business professionals and powerful enough to fulfill the needs of the IT department wanting to use BPMN to define a model driven architecture (MDA) which describe the process model in detailed level so that the model description can be automatically translated in executable processes. Modern process modeling tools provide in addition feature for collaborative process design, support full version control and are accessible without software installation via web browser. There are solution available as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) with a pay per use model and also corporate wide installations within the organizations IT infrastructure.
CubeWorkflow Products
The universal CubeWorkflow framework technology is used by Cube-Tec to solve workflow demands in different very specific QC areas.
Products which are built with the CubeWorkflow framework technology include:
CubeWorkflow is designed to generate a quick return of invest by streamlining the flow of work, exact where the most business value is added."