CREST DIGITAL SELECTS
XYTECH EXPRESS SOFTWARE TO AUTOMATE ITS DVD
PRODUCTION WORKFLOW
Burbank, CA/London
UK, December 1 2008 - Xytech Systems
Corporation, a leading provider of media
business software and services for workflow
management, resource scheduling, and media asset
management, announced today that Crest Digital
in Los Angeles, California is now live on Xytech
Express software to streamline its workflow and
media business operations.
Crest Digital
is one of the world's leading media facilities
with 45 years of experience providing DVD/CD,
postproduction and digital asset management
services to major film studios, software
companies, record labels and industrial clients
throughout the world. They have facilities in
Hollywood and Anaheim, CA and a joint venture
with China Film Group in China.
After an
extensive search and review of available vendors
and solutions, Crest Digital selected Xytech
Express software to manage its DVD department's
workflow and media operations. To achieve their
goal of resource efficiency, Crest decided to
operate in a paperless manner without printed
work order forms. Instead, the DVD staff will
utilize Xytech Express' Schedule Book for
viewing their daily assignments. The Work Order
Maintenance application's Attachments
tab contains the detailed instructions and
documents (Word or Excel) provided by the
customer. As work is completed, the DVD staff
utilizes the Actualize Work Order program from
the Schedule Book to enter the hours worked and
update the work order phase. Besides being
ecological, this allows for easier communication
of last minute changes to the schedule and
orders.
The department head will utilize
Xytech Express to monitor the progress of each
job. Billing information, such as,
customer-specific rates or flat bid allocations,
automatically populate the transaction details
of each work order based upon set up. This not
only reduces waste, but it also accelerates the
work order to invoice process.
Crest has identified the
need for a system that offered a user-friendly
scheduling interface in order to achieve the
improvement to their operations. Xytech Express'
customer, job, and work order structure makes it
easy to manage workflow based upon the common
disc image deliverables.
Doug Palmer,
VP/GM of Crest's Digital Media group states, "I
am pleased to be using Xytech Systems' software
in our facility. It allows our DVD team to work
more cohesively and efficiently. As Crest
expands to handle Blu-ray services in 2009, this
will become increasingly important as the team
is exposed to a greater volume of work with
increasingly complex requirements across a wider
range of departments."
Richard
Gallagher, President of Xytech Systems
Corporation, comments, "Crest Digital is one of
the pillar facilities in Hollywood with a long
and rich history. We are pleased that Crest
chose Xytech Systems' software to streamline
their DVD authoring workflow and media business
operations. Xytech Express has the capability to
support their diverse operations across multiple
workflows and technologies as well as their
growth into the future."
About
Xytech Systems Corporation:
Xytech
Systems Corporation is a leading provider of
media business software and services for
workflow management, resource scheduling, and
media asset management in the media and
entertainment industries.
Customers
include most film studios, many broadcasting
companies, postproduction facilities, rental
houses, media content providers, and the media
departments of numerous Fortune-1000
corporations. There are over 350 Xytech Systems
software installations throughout the world
supported by a global professional services team
with extensive experience in studio,
postproduction, and broadcasting.
Xytech
Systems is headquartered in Burbank, California,
and has regional offices in New York
and London, UK. For more information about
Xytech Systems, please visit
www.xytechsystems.com or call
+1-818-303-7800 USA / +44 (0)20-7903-5170 UK
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