ENVY POST’S DANIEL SASSEN & JAI CAVE ON BUILDING ENVY REMOTE & THE POWER OF HP you want to work half and half?’
”And over 70% of them wanted to work half and half. That meant hybrid was really where this was going.”
Collaboration DS ”The challenge for us was creating a system that would be able to support not only hundreds of people working remotely but also support teams with production toolsets to help with collaboration. I don’t believe this has been fully explored by any other systems that are available on the market.
”And we had to create a solution that was not only great for hundreds of people working remotely, but also a hybrid solution that could very easily switch between people working locally, if they came into ENVY, or from home.”
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JC “I think ENVY REMOTE is truly unique in the marketplace: the way the set of hosted collaboration and communication tools including Storyboards, Live Chat, Notes, Tasks and the mobile apps we’ve built bring everything together is really unique.”
A natural choice JC ”At the core of this whole process is HP ZCentral Remote Boost that offers us rock solid performance for our workstations and rock solid performance in sharing the screen with a producer at the same time, seamlessly and perfectly in sync. And without that none of this would be possible. It’s also about how do you do that securely. ”Using HP ZCentral Remote Boost was quite an
easy choice for us. Our whole estate is HP in terms of the workstations we use. We are an HP facility. “The licensing was already there. We have used Remote Boost locally for years in advertising, so our engineering
A data centre for remote editorial JC “As part of our solution, we built a data centre at ENVY to manage the remote-only systems. This wasn’t something we could put in the cloud because hybrid working is so crucial to the way our clients want to work. We essentially had to become the cloud. We went with the HP Z4R; 1u workstations with the same power as the Z4, which is perfect, and scaled that up. “We now have a data centre that is full of
HP kit for those projects that want to work solely remotely.”
WE ESSENTIALLY HAD TO BECOME THE CLOUD
team are very familiar with it - from the networking set-up to how that needed to integrate. It’s been fantastic for us. Rock solid in terms of performance. “We use a lot of HP workstations, with over 250 Avids running on HP currently. So for us it was quite an easy decsion to go for an HP solution for that PC over IP connection to the workstation.
“ZCentral Remote Boost is at the centre of the ENVY REMOTE offering. We’ve built a whole host of collaboration tools around that. We’ve built our own iPhone and Google apps that offer those tools and expand that process and opportunities for clients, but that core process of being able to connect to your workstation reliably - not drop frames and be in sync - is crucial to the whole operation.”
The future is flexible workflows JC “Feedback on ENVY REMOTE has been fantastic - editors, producers and people in production offices have really seen the benefit of those additional tools that we’ve added; from storyboards to
Frame.io links to calendars and live chat all running on top of a really solid
HP solution for connecting to the workstation.”
DS “I’m really proud of what we have built and the fact that we can easily set up 50 clients in a day with the self-service system. It’s really efficient and effective and we’ve had a lot of complements from clients about it.”
JC “I think the future of post is flexibility around offline. This isn’t a Covid solution. This is how we’re working long term, how post is going to change and how we can adapt. Because if you don’t adapt, you’re going to be left behind.”
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DS “As everyone knows in this industry, we do work long hours and we have very demanding deadlines. Escape are always been available and at the end of the phone to help at any time they’re needed. “I’d recommend Escape Technology. They are a great company to work with. They only recommend solutions that work. They’ve been a great partner.“
To find out more about the power of HP and Escape Technology, go to
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ON WORKING WITH ESCAPE
Both Daniel Sassen and Jai Cave have no hesitations in recommending Escape Technology
DS “We’ve been working with Escape Technology for about ten years and I would consider them a partner of ours. On a personal level, it’s like having an extension of our team. ”
JC “Escape are great. We work really collaboratively with them. They understand that we need things on time and that we don’t have a lot of wriggle room with our clients, so we need them to not have a lot of wriggle room with us. Everything’s delivered on time. They do really well in finding what we need within their network and that may be from several places and they need to bring that together, but they always deliver for us.”
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