Background For the University of Salford, the delivery of a new state-of-the-art campus at MediaCityUK would allow it to deliver new graduate and post-graduate courses that were relevant in a digital era to students and help it train tomorrow’s broadcast journalists and production specialists. The multi-purpose building was also established to house fi rst-class media research facilities and to provide a sought-after location for the UK and international commercial production community. Customer Challenge Traditionally, the University’s studios, post-production areas and laboratories operated in silos, with media transported on disk or tape between units and all media management carried out manually. In addition, none of the media systems sat on the core IT systems, so functi

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