Pain:  We are struggling post-merger because all of our processes and legacy systems are heavily siloed, making it slow and difficult to share information and content between departments without losing control over usage rights and auditability.  We are discussing migrating everything to a unified platform but this is a long-term project and we need to find a way to effectively share real-time information and collectively purchased content.

Pill:  MediaHub integration with AWS CMS S3 Storage

Description:  By using MediaHub to non-destructively incorporate all of the publisher’s image and content inflow streams into a single high-performance AWS S3 cloud based storage solution, the entire organization gains immediate access to all content inflows in real time with faster access speeds and significantly improved rights control and auditability 

Proof:  Though initially planned as an interim solution, using MediaHub and cloud based S3 has been tremendously successful and we are expanding how we use these services.  By providing transparent, secure and auditable image and content access to our entire organization we have been able to improve our editorial responsiveness and even reduce some of our overhead costs.

Keywords: Amazon S3, CMS, MediaHub, Content sharing, Mail input

• Cloud storage service connects to SMTP server, FTP catalogs and folders

• When contents is available, Cloud storage service writes content to S3 and extracts metadata (XMP/IPTC/EXIF/etc..) when complete sends MediaHub the message "new content available"

• Subscribing services/applications get messages and all can now fetch the desired content from one place (S3)

• Multiple CMS systems / services / apps now have full access to the same Content in real time