Who We Are
Front Porch Digital is the leader in Content Storage Management for the broadcast, media and entertainment industry. Front Porch makes it easy to manage, search, protect, share, and convert your content regardless of where it resides. Our success is built on developing innovative digital archive management technology and providing excellent service and support.
With over 200 installations of DIVArchive in more than 40 countries, Front Porch Digital manages the largest broadcast archives in operation in the world. Today, DIVArchive supports more than 37 petabytes of content across all customer sites, far more than any competitor. In a report entitled "The Broadcast Value Chain", published by Datamonitor in 2005, Front Porch Digital is described as the “global leader” of the industry based on quality of technology, market share and customer references.
How We Do It
Front Porch’s success is founded on innovation and customer satisfaction. We take pride in the quality of our products, the services we provide, and the integrity of our customer engagements. These are core values, and we encourage prospective buyers to validate these claims by talking to our current customers.
Innovation
Front Porch is an innovator in Content Storage Management technology. The company was the first to introduce what are now mission-critical functions within many broadcast operations such as dynamic allocation of resources, timecode-based partial restore, integrated transcoding in the archive workflow, and application filtering.
In December of 2005, the Company's DIVAworks 'archive in a box' solution, featuring a full instance of DIVArchive in a plug-and-play appliance, won the "Technology in Content Management" award from the Royal Television Society of the United Kingdom. As further evidence of our technology leadership, Front Porch Digital has been awarded US Patents (#6,947,598, #7,035,468 and #7,110,664) for 'methods and apparatus' to cover key concepts within our products. As a result, our intellectual properties, and our customers, are protected against potential cases of infringement. Additional
patents are pending.
Front Porch continues to invest heavily in new product innovation with an eye toward open standards. As soon as it is approved, Front Porch will adopt the new SMPTE standard for digital archive management. The company is the first and currently the only broadcast archive management vendor to make this important commitment. In addition, during the coming year, we will continue to add development, testing and validation personnel and equipment within our Mt. Laurel, NJ labs. We will also be executing on a well-defined product roadmap of new features and functionality designed to improve the utility, scalability and reliability of our market-leading products.
Customer Satisfaction
Our customers are very satisfied with Front Porch as indicated by the fact that 19 of our customers now operate DIVArchive in more than one facility. In fact, several have deployed DIVArchive in at least five global locations. We also see a significant amount of repeat business as customers purchase additional functionality introduced in new versions of DIVArchive or for other additional products.
We invite prospective buyers to validate our claims by talking to our current customers. We are confident that those who do will hear compelling reasons why Front Porch has become the content storage management solution preferred by the global
broadcast industry.
How We Sell It
Front Porch Digital sells its products throughout the world either directly or through a strong network of integration and reseller partners. We make it a habit to work closely and consult with our customers all the way from our first interaction to implementation.