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August 16, 2011#

See You At Cineposium

AFCI Cineposium 2011

OpenBrolly is delighted to announce its sponsorship of AFCI Cineposium 2011 at Enghien-les-Bains, France – 11-14 September 2011.

We will be on hand to discuss demonstrate our MovieSite application for Film Offices covering locations, crew and facilities and production tracking / relationship management. We will also have an official launch of our MovieSite mobile application and What’s On systems.

Cineposium is the Association of Film Commissioners International’s premiere member educational event, held annually in conjunction with AFCI University courses. Film commission staff seek out this lively event for its incredible educational and networking value to their profession.

This year’s Cineposium looks at strategic futures. Any discussion or exploration of future strategies, must seriously consider phrases such as “working sustainably” and “working in partnership”. Any effective organisation has to constantly consider what their back-up plan could be, should the funder or investor decide to withdraw or cut back. To be effective and withstand the ups and downs of decisions that may impact negatively, commissions have to think strategically.

To contact us about MovieSite before the event, or to arrange a demonstration, please email enquiries@openbrolly.com or telephone +44 1309 638077. See you there!

June 3, 2011#

Tighter Integration for OpenBrolly Databases

OpenBrolly Integration

OpenBrolly IntegrationOpenBrolly has released a new version of its database integration software offering tighter integration with our clients’ existing web presences. It also offers an improved mechanism for our clients to distribute their content on third party sites from MovieSite and TouristSite.

Search forms, search results and all database content can all now be integrated directly into third party web sites and portals. For example, a tourism marketing organisation could offer nearby attraction listings to its member businesses to display on their web site, updated in real time. A screen agency could provide a dynamically changing selection of locations on an industry portal.

Key advantages:

  • More control over the look of the site by site designers
  • Your database content becomes part of (virtually) any web site – change the look or navigation of your site without penalty.
  • More control for web designers
  • Leading edge search tools possible – on site widgets, fast retrieval of search results, offline mode

For more information contact David Sim (david.sim@openbrolly.com) or @davidrsim on Twitter.

April 14, 2011#

Integrated Film Tourism

Mobile Film Tourism

The more we have looked at film tourism the more we have become convinced that it should become work integral to screen agencies and filmcommissions. Doing it that way means additional work load is minimal but the benefits large.

What are the benefits?

The benefits can be enormous, particularly for non-commercial agencies. Creating a wider relationship with businesses outside of the creative sector has a lot of ‘political’ benefit. A wider range of businesses, and  more of them, understand the value of the service. Also, you can form better relationships with tourism oriented businesses and agencies who often also have significant influence.

Oh, and of course there is the economic impact which is easier to measure if you have relationships with the tourism sector.

We, at OpenBrolly, continue to develop new ways of delivering valuable information and services for film tourism as part of an integrated service.

Useful links:

Kent Film Office Movie Map

MovieSite demo Movie Map

The Independent article

March 16, 2011#

Reaching for the Cloud

Cloud

OpenBrolly prides itself at being at the pragmatic leading edge of technology. That doesn’t mean jumping on every technological bandwagon; rather we are aware of upcoming changes in technology and help our clients understand the implications and take advantage of them where there’s a positive business benefit.

We operate high-availability web sites, portals and services on behalf of our clients, accessed by hundreds of thousands of end users every day. Our services have sophisticated processing capability and we store terabytes of images and videos.

Our clients’ businesses are evolving: new ways of working, increased collaboration and data sharing, more mobile, more visual use of information and more in-depth reporting. Overall usage of the services we provide continues to grow rapidly.

We are therefore evolving our server and data storage platform to enable us to grow with our clients and offer new ways of working.

All core MovieSite, TouristSite and other similar services will be delivered from the Amazon Cloud. In short, this is an incredibly flexible platform that enables us to allocate more data storage, processing power and bandwidth within minutes. Next week one of our clients will be launching a major competition which will generate significant volumes of web traffic and require the storage of large amounts of data. Using a cloud computing platform means that we will be able to bring a new server online just for the duration of the competition, tailored to the needs of our client.

Our existing data will be hosted within the EU – in Dublin – meaning there are no new data protection implications for our existing clients. However, we can now offer service delivery on other sites, including US East Coast, US West Coast, Singapore and Tokyo.

Security and safety of data remains key: all servers are firewalled against intrusion. All data is copied to a second data repository with multiple versions – then backed up again to our own, non-cloud servers. Finally, there’s off-line storage. You can never be too paranoid about data security.

Working with our clients is exciting: moving to the cloud is another way in which we’re continuing to innovate to move forward with them. If you have any questions, please contact David Sim at david.sim@openbrolly.com or on 01309 638077 (+44 1309 638077).

 

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