Ted - Vice President of Major International News Agency

My company is a major international provider of news services, and we provide news stories, photos, and info graphics to the most important media sites throughout the world. I knew that it was extremely important that we deliver our news content to our customers in a reliable, robust, and timely manner, but my distribution systems were outdated, inflexible, and slow.

While I knew that I needed new systems to handle the explosion of multimedia content, I had a very difficult time getting my internal development department to deliver the multimedia distribution platforms I needed in any reasonable time frame. Don't get me wrong . . . we have a very competent development organization; but I couldn't afford to wait for the systems that would likely already be behind the technology curve by the time I had them up and running.

I was introduced to Mainstream Data, and I soon found that Mainstream already had all of the systems I was looking to build internally. I also found that Mainstream was at the head of the technology curve for our industry, because they are looking across the industry and building the technology to meet the needs of their other high profile news agency customers. I feel like Mainstream is an absolutely indispensible partner, as I can turn to them for advice and input on industry trends, technology innovations, and other general issues surrounding the news industry.

So, instead of using my internal staff to build, manage, and monitor our distribution systems, I use Mainstream Data for all of my distribution needs. When I have a special project or custom development I need done on the platform, Mainstream gets things done quickly. They really are like having my own personal SWAT team of developers, testers, and support staff.

Between Mainstream's MediasBrowser platform, Medias Server network, and MediasFTP delivery system, my customers get the data they want, in the formats they need, in near real-time and with ultimate flexibility. I couldn't ask for more than that.