thePlatform Integration

thePlatform is one of Cypress Consulting's key technology partners. thePlatform's broadband video ASP provides a thorough set of digital media management services for content providers, broadband media sites, and mobile businesses. With the media publishing system thePlatform's customers get the tools that best solve their broadband video management and publishing challenges.

Cypress has worked with thePlatform to deliver digital media publishing solutions to a variety of customers, including Microsoft, Primedia, CSTV, CBS, Total Training, and Comcast. Our knowledge of thePlatform's media publishing system allows Cypress to quickly deploy solutions ranging from storefront and portal implementations to API-level integration between thePlatform and third-party websites and web applications.

Projects we have developed using thePlatform's Media Publishing System have included the following features:

Digital Rights Management (DRM)
multiple eCommerce models: Download/Purchase, Pay-Per-View, Subscription and others
Media Object Ingestion
Media Object Metadata management
Content Syndication and RSS
Content Format Transcoding

"Cypress Consulting is a valued technology partner for CSTV. We relied on their expertise to design and implement the user registration and eCommerce engines of our broadband platform. With Cypress' help, we launched the solution on time and with exceptional quality - all resulting in record numbers of registrants and conversions this year.

They take the time to learn our business, ask the right questions - and we rely on their strategic advice on how to meet our business drivers by best utilizing technologies."
-- Ed Talvy, CSTV.com