Southpaw Technology

Industry Digital Asset Management, Feature Film Production, Visual Effects, Post Production, Game Development, 3D Animation, Project management software, Business Intelligence
Founded 2005
Headquarters Toronto, Canada
Key people
 Gary Mundell, CEO, Co-Founder
Remko Noteboom, Chief Technology Officer, Co-Founder
David Lowe, President, COO
Products TACTIC
Website Southpaw Technology

Southpaw Technology is a commercial, open-source software company that provides products, solutions, professional services and technical support for TACTIC. Founded in 2005 by Gary Mundell and Remko Noteboom, Southpaw Technology originally developed TACTIC to facilitate project management, workflow and digital asset management for production pipelines in feature films, television series and game projects. As TACTIC's technology developed and expanded, Southpaw shifted into providing solutions for enterprise content management. Southpaw's client base now includes enterprise customers from many diverse industries, including media and entertainment, broadcasting, health care and defence.[1] TACTIC has also started to gain attention as a Business Intelligence solution.[2]

Technology

Southpaw Technology develops and supports TACTIC, a production asset management and data management solution that manages the creation of digital assets for visual effects, feature films, video games, advertising, engineering and other enterprise uses.

TACTIC is available to download as open-source software under the Eclipse Public License for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows and Linux. It is also available through a fully supported commercial license. As of summer 2013, TACTIC can be accessed as a hosted cloud service through Amazon Web Services Marketplace.TACTIC combines asset management, file system management, project management, workflow management, data management and web applications. Southpaw announced TACTIC 3.0 at SIGGRAPH 2010 in Los Angeles.[3] Two years later Southpaw made the move to open-source, making TACTIC available to download for free under an Open Source Initiative and the Eclipse Public License. In May 2013, Southpaw released TACTIC version 4.0.[4] In 2014, Southpaw released TACTIC version 4.3.

Clients

As of May 2013, Southpaw's diverse client base includes Procter and Gamble, Turbine, Inc., Viacom, Nissan,[5] Astral Media,[6] Philips, Ubisoft, Blohm + Voss, Lockheed Martin,[7] and Legend3D.[8]

References

  1. ↑ http://www.southpawtech.com/customers/
  2. ↑ http://www.enterpriseappstoday.com/business-intelligence/5-open-source-business-intelligence-tools.html/
  3. ↑ http://www.awn.com/news/business/southpaw-unveil-new-asset-management-solution-tactic-30-siggraph-2010
  4. ↑ http://digitalassetmanagementnews.org/open-source/southpaw-upgrade-tactic-to-version-4-0/
  5. ↑ http://www.cgchannel.com/2013/02/southpaw-technology-open-sources-tactic/
  6. ↑ http://www.southpawtech.com/company/blog/2013/05/case-study-how-astral-is-streamlining-its-workflow-with-tactic/
  7. ↑ http://www.deskeng.com/articles/aaatzn.htm
  8. ↑ http://www.vfxtalk.com/threads/24873-Southpaw-Technology-Lands-Legend-3D

See also

Comparison of project management software

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