Lately, there seems to be a lot of talk regarding the problems VFX professionals are facing in the industry. Many studios all over the world are being forced to shut down because they cannot remain profitable in their highly competitive market. California has been the poster boy for this problem, but it’s a problem that [...]
Why Business Process Management?
June 25th, 2009 by Benoit MartelDef: BPM an umbrella term for defining, recording and improving business processes.
01- Is the definition, recording and use of business rules
02- Is a method of gathering management information
03- Is a means of auditing everything a worker does
04- Is a logical progression from automation in the production line to automation in the office
05- Includes the notion [...]
Philosophy of business process
June 11th, 2009 by Benoit MartelEvery company have their own business process. In the media & entertainment industry production companies, postproduction, visual effects studios and sound studios needs tools to manage critical enterprise information with a platform on top of which tools can be built so that business people can used them to manage the complete lifecycle of processes. [...]
Montreal VS Toronto
May 10th, 2009 by Benoit MartelHistory
Since I’m young the rivalry between Montreal and Toronto have been going on. It’s started a long time ago, actually in 1960. Both Montreal and Toronto where living enormous growth. The population of the cities where growing at a rate around 20% in the 60s and 30% in the 70s. At the time, Montreal [...]
TOP 10 reasons to manage your business process:
May 10th, 2009 by Benoit Martel01- Informational, capturing process information for purposes of understanding
02- Sequential, changing process sequence, or enabling parallelism
03- Collaborative, allowing participants to manage sets of shared work processes
04- Tracking, closely monitoring process status and participants
05- Integrative, consolidating and integrating sub-processes and tasks
06- Analytical, improving analysis of information and decision-making across processes
07- Geographical, coordinating processes across distances
08- Intellectual, [...]
Philips 21:9 Cinema display; the Carousel movie
April 23rd, 2009 by Benoit MartelPhilips is now offering highend cinema display, 21:9 screen TV. It’s probably very nice on the wall. I’m not writing about the TV, I’m actually posting because I think they got it right in terms of giving the audience a very catchy short movie. The movie is about a camera traveling into a robbery in [...]
Assets management definition
April 19th, 2009 by Benoit MartelBefore we deep into asset management, it’s important to put everyone on the same page and provide a good definition of what is a Digital Assets Management System by defining who uses DAM system & why it’s become more essential than ever in a production environment.
What is Digital Asset Management?
Digital asset management (DAM) systems consist [...]



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