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Are your creative teams spending too much time pushing paper?

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A Case Study:

Convert-It!, Tag-It!, and Route-It! allow designers to focus on creative tasks.

Client Description

A Southern California apparel company with a unique style and emphasis on skateboarding, surfing, music, and “fun”.

Business Problem

Product Designers wanted to be able to use their beloved Adobe Illustrator and nothing more. Data was being handed off to a data analyst to be re-keyed into business systems taking way to much time and creating vulnerability to errors in data. This company needed a way to reduce labor costs while keeping designers happy.

E-Spec Solution

The implementation of E-Spec’s Convert-It!, Tag-It! and Route-It! allowed designers to remain in Adobe Illustrator and trigger a workflow by tagging AI files with pertinent metadata as they are saved, automatically converting copies of the AI files on the fly to a format their business systems can understand, and delivering the copies to two waiting business systems behind the scenes. With these tools the company was able to automate some very manual tasks and reduce errors.

 

“We were able to re-assign a data analyst thus reducing the overall labor costs of the product design area. Our number one goal was to keep our designers in the tool they use most—Adobe Illustrator. This lead to an overall increased satisfaction rate for our designers.” – IT Business Consulting Manager

 

Having originally implemented the solution with Gerber’s WebPDM product development system, when the decision was made to switch to Innovative Systems’ Full Circle ERP product, E-Spec was able to redirect the movement of the images on the backend without changing the process for end users.

Technologies Used

 

Business Benefits

  • Labor reduction allowing data analyst that had to re-key information into 2 business systems to be reassigned
  • Fewer clerical errors
  • Increased job satisfaction for Designers
  • Increased performance of image and data creation

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A down to earth solution for an out of this world problem

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Oh NO!
When we first heard the report about NASA soliciting the public’s assistance in identifying and tagging over 1.8 million photographs taken from the International Space station, we gasped! This could have been prevented. We wish we would have known to call.

What Happened?
As it happens, the astronauts failed to identify and categorize photos as they were taken and neglected to indicate the subject matter or direction the camera was pointing. As a result the massive collection of photos became too large for staff to parse through and organize. 1.8 million photos is a lot to navigate and kind of useless from a data mining stand point without tagged context. NASA has resorted to crowd sourcing the identification in order to complete this monster task in a timely fashion.

What Should We Do?
If they had only used our tool Tag-It!, NASA could sort by any number of customizable categorization keywords like Earth, Deep Space, Moon and then narrow the focus therein. Using subcategories and descriptive text fields the photos could contain any number of identifying characteristics like urban or rural, country name, city name, time of day, weather pattern, you name it. Back here on Earth, we all find ourselves often falling victim of the same oversight. Does your business have an effective digital media categorization workflow?

Tag Early Tag Often!
At E-Spec we believe the best approach is to identify that media at the time of creation. Don’t let it build up into the monster like NASA did. Tag-It! early and Tag-It! often. The beauty of it all is once a file is tagged, the metadata becomes part of the file so no matter where it is moved or copied, the identification information goes with it.

Contact us for more information, and hey NASA perhaps you should give us a call sometime.