Southpaw Technology is a commercial, open-source software company that provides products,, professional services and technical support for

TACTIC Tactic(s) or Tactical may refer to: * Tactic (method), a conceptual action implemented as one or more specific tasks ** Military tactics, the disposition and maneuver of units on a particular sea or battlefield ** Chess tactics ** Political tact ...

. Founded in 2005 by Gary Mundell and Remko Noteboom, Southpaw Technology originally developed

to facilitate project management, workflow and digital asset management for production pipelines in

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, television series and game projects. As TACTIC's technology developed and expanded, Southpaw shifted into providing solutions for

enterprise content management Enterprise content management (ECM) extends the concept of content management by adding a timeline for each content item and, possibly, enforcing processes for its creation, approval and distribution. Systems using ECM generally provide a secure ...

. Southpaw's client base now includes enterprise customers from many diverse industries, including media and entertainment, broadcasting, health care and defence. TACTIC has also started to gain attention as a Business Intelligence solution.

Technology

Southpaw Technology develops and supports

, a web framework that is used to build enterprise solutions of many types. Southpaw solutions and products are all built on TACTIC and they always share a workflow engine combined with production asset management and data management solution that manages work across collaborative teams. The output of the workflow can be anything from the creation of digital assets for visual effects, feature films, video games, advertising, engineering to consumer packaged goods, sportswear, on boarding documents, a regulatory audit trail and many other enterprise uses.

is available to download as open-source software under the Eclipse Public License for Mac OS X,

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and Linux. It is also available through a fully supported commercial license. As of summer 2013, TACTIC can be accessed as a hosted cloud service through Amazon Web Services Marketplace.

combines

asset management Asset management is a systematic approach to the governance and realization of value from the things that a group or entity is responsible for, over their whole life cycles. It may apply both to tangible assets (physical objects such as buildings ...

, file system management, project management,

workflow management A workflow consists of an orchestrated and repeatable pattern of activity, enabled by the systematic organization of resources into processes that transform materials, provide services, or process information. It can be depicted as a sequence of ...

data management Data management comprises all disciplines related to handling data as a valuable resource. Concept The concept of data management arose in the 1980s as technology moved from sequential processing (first punched cards, then magnetic tape) to r ...

and web applications. Southpaw announced

3.0 at SIGGRAPH 2010 in Los Angeles. Two years later Southpaw made the move to

open-source Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use the source code, design documents, or content of the product. The open-source model is a decentralized sof ...

, making

available to download for free under an Open Source Initiative and the Eclipse Public License. In May 2013, Southpaw released TACTIC version 4.0. In 2014, Southpaw release
TACTIC version 4.3

Clients

As of April 2019, Southpaw's diverse client base includes Procter and Gamble,

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, Philips, Ubisoft,

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, Legend3D, Adidas, Technicolor, Tegna, Transunion and Teague.

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Technology

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