The Comet Platform
Comet is a platform built to manage huge amounts of content in a media independent format. The Broadcast edition of Comet is adapted to manage rich metadata for the broadcast industry including texts, facts and images. It introduces a new and more effective way of working with metadata making it possible to save money on existing services and time to market when new services are introduced.
The philosophy behind the Comet system and the way it encourages you to work is to integrate all your current services and systems and get your different departments to work together in a more integrated way using Comet as a middleware.
Making the most of Comet's potential means integrating it with your broadcast/traffic system and your end user systems such as the source for your EPGs, teletext, web sites, web TV services, press services, mobile services and VOD services.
The result is a more effective organization where departments can work together in a way which allows you to save money by not having to reinvest in multiple systems or duplicate activities, freeing up personnel for new challenges.
Investing in Comet means investing in a scalable system based on Microsoft’s latest .Net technology. You get a system that does not require any installation on your users’ computers, an easy to maintain web based system built on industry standards that minimize your hardware and support costs. Comet fulfils one very specific need and integrates with your other systems that are in turn designed to carry out specific tasks. This makes it a future proof investment allowing the rest of your systems and your organisation to evolve without limitations.
Comet is a web based system which means that your users can work from anywhere and no specific client software is needed. The user interface is self explanatory minimizing the need for user training and making it easy to get started with Comet. The ability to work from anywhere also makes it easy to outsource metadata management services should you want to cut personnel costs.