Beam Dynamics, an enterprise asset management platform, is focusing its spotlight on managing multi-vendor technology assets. Its intelligent, vendor agnostic, data-driven approach ensures that broadcasters and media businesses understand and optimise their technology platforms to more effectively manage the complete lifecycle of their investments.
Beam offers a system for tracking live statuses, locations and operations of all technology assets. The system maintains a visible log of both the current and historical technical and financial performance of every equipment piece, ranging from production assets such as cameras, lenses and accessories to a full studio and playout infrastructure.
David Kaszycki, Co-Founder & CEO of Beam Dynamics, said, “Today’s media businesses manage thousands of technology assets sourced from various vendors, purchased at different times, and utilised in diverse locations and workflows.
“Traditional spreadsheets and self-developed systems can no longer efficiently track these interconnected products and applications amid the complexity of the technological landscape … Beam was designed to address these issues by offering a comprehensive, intelligent solution.
“Beam provides a single, reliable source of data on technology status, usage, and ongoing updates, enabling media companies to focus on producing and delivering quality content.”
Combining information from customers’ own enterprise resource planning (ERP) and financial platforms, with engineering reports and logistics, then adding the most up-to-date published technical information and software updates from every manufacturer, Beam provides a central repository for the status of the technology inventory, at every location, department, rack or machine room.
Users can see at a glance where upgrades or modifications are required, where new versions are available, and when devices or applications are nearing the end of manufacturer supported life. Beam tracks where and when equipment is scheduled and used to provide actionable utilisation statistics, and is compatible with existing support ticketing systems.
David Kaszycki and his colleagues will be at IBC2023 on September 15 -18 to demonstrate the simplicity of Beam, and how it will transform technology lifecycle investment and management.