The backbone information system for the broadcast cooperation -  integrating systems, functionalities and workflows.

The partnership with DAVID Systems has resulted in the transfer of the Hydrogen products to DAVID Systems. The Hydrogen products continue to play a big role in the workflow solutions provided by Silex Media.

All workflows in the broadcast environment can be supported by  the Hydrogen framework. As the heart of a 3 tier system architecture Hydrogen Lifecycle Management takes care about the overall information sharing:

• Between functions in workflow (client applications)
• Between systems (System to system)
• Between different media types (TV, Radio, Web, etc.)
• Between departments (editing, news, archive but also legal or admin)
• Between organizations (Business to business)

Customers can develop their solution at a pace that suits their business rather than needing to take all the "all or nothing" approach while at the same time remain flexible in their choices, now and in the future.

3 degrees of freedom

Easily replace or introduce new editing systems, adding new types of storage, start with megabytes, grow to petabytes, these changes are often not trivial because many systems force the customer to live with the choices made when the system was introduced. Not with Silex Media's Hydrogen Lifecycle Management, which uses a 3 tier system and allows the customer to remain flexible in the choices they make. 

The 3 tier system architecture consists of:

• user interface and client applications;
• business logic: management of meta-data and workflows;
• infrastructure consisting of servers and storage. The functionality of these 3 layers is highly integrated, however: the choices and scalability of each layer work completely independent of each other.

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