MuleSoft in Digital Media

Digital media companies face bewildering complexity, with multiple requirements for format (e.g., SD, HD, Web) and channel (broadcast, streaming, download) for every media asset. In addition, customer demand for quality and variety continues to increase inexorably, creating a massive challenge for media companies of today to deliver the right content to the right people, where they are and when they want it.

Mule’s adaptive lightweight footprint and flexible architecture are ideal for media companies, who need to integrate a variety of systems, which are often legacy and/or proprietary in nature. In addition, Mule’s powerful streaming capabilities allow media companies to move massive media files with minimal overhead and latency.

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• TiVo, a pioneer home entertainment and in the creator of the world’s first digital video recorders (DVRs), uses Mule as its SOA infrastructure for over 40 services that it delivers internally and for business partners such as DirecTV, Virgin Media, Roxio, and HP.
• Scripps Networks uses Mule at the core of its service-oriented infrastructure for media asset management. Executing business process workflows through Mule, the composite application ingests, registers, repurposes, and schedules Scripps’ core media assets for its various delivery channels.
• Levels Beyond, a leading data and media platform company, uses Mule ESB as a core component of its Reach Engine, helping organizations such as Comcast, NBC Universal Company, and The Ultimate Fighting Championship to turn their islands of data and media into a streamlined ecosystem with minimal touch points and a single user interface.
• A major online sports entertainment company uses Mule as the infrastructure to deliver live play-by-play games online to users, amounting to over 70,000 live games and 1.8 billion visitors per year.