Southpaw Ships Digital Production Workflow Solution, TACTIC 2.0

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Forum: CG News
Posted By: LiaisonPDX
Post Time: 10-06-2008 at 07:10 PM
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Southpaw Technology Inc., makers of TACTIC™, a leading digital asset management system, today announced the immediate availability of TACTIC 2.0, the next generation of its easy to use, fully customizable workflow infrastructure. Available for Mac OSX, Windows and Linux, TACTIC 2.0 offers a single software solution to manage the complex flow of digital assets, ensuring workflow pipelines to be dependable, efficient and cost effective. For more information or to see a TACTIC 2.0 demo please visit www.southpawtech.com.

"I looked under the hood of several digital asset management systems before deciding to use TACTIC for the production work we're doing at iloura," said Stefan Gillard, general manager of technology at Omnilab Media. "We selected TACTIC because of its easy integration and modern underlying architecture that can scale to meet our production teams' complex content demands. We've also been very impressed with the support and openness of the Southpaw team, who has worked closely with us to ensure that TACTIC's product functionality will continue to evolve with our studios' growing needs."

TACTIC 2.0 Highlights
TACTIC 2.0 is the only one-stop solution for asset, workflow and project management. New project tools allow artists to explicitly define and visually streamline software pipelines, improving efficiency and workflow within multiple departments.

New and improved features in TACTIC 2.0 include:

• New Project Customization Tools to easily individualize projects or fine-tune current productions
• New Visual, Node-based Pipeline Editor intended to visually create pipeline processes
• New TACTIC Browser and Custom View Builder designed for creation of custom views within the TACTIC web interface
• Robust and Powerful Client API enhanced to control every aspect of TACTIC directly from custom scripts and in-house studio tools

“Our goal has always been to keep everything open and all things possible,” said Remko Noteboom, CTO of Southpaw. “With TACTIC 2.0’s innovative advanced new features, facilities can construct and integrate their own pipelines seamlessly across various departments, creating limitless potential for project and tool customization.”

Pricing and Availability

TACTIC 2.0 sells for a suggested retail price of USD $895 per user. This includes all software upgrades and technical support for the first year. Ongoing upgrades and support may be purchased for USD $185 per user, per year. TACTIC is licensed per "Active User" – meaning a studio can assign as many user accounts as they need; only those that are set as active by the TACTIC administrator require a license. TACTIC is sold and supported by a network of authorized resellers from across the globe. For a complete list, or to directly purchase TACTIC 2.0, please contact sales@southpawtech.com. For more information, please visit Southpaw’s website at www.southpawtech.com or contact Southpaw at (416) 651-4729.





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