Tactic Southpaw Technology

TACTIC™ Features

Asset Management

TACTIC™ tracks every aspect of every asset in a department, a production or an organization. Even the most complex interdependencies and associations within assets are tracked and recorded. Nothing is ever lost. TACTIC™'s asset management system has years of development behind it and has been proven in the most difficult production environments imaginable.

Control how files are stored on the server with simple expressions.
No need to worry about where files are saved or what they are named.
Use the API to trigger processes as files are checked in.
TACTIC™ can adapt to any existing file structure.

Project and Workflow Management

Eliminate inefficiencies in your workflow. Simplify the most complicated production process with TACTIC™'s fully customizable and flexible workflow tools. With TACTIC™'s Interactive Pipeline Editor, an entire production pipeline with its workflows, handoffs and deliverables can be crafted and visualized with simple drag and drop interaction, allowing for a complete overview of the production process. At any point in the process a single click can drill deeper into any aspect of the production to retrieve even the smallest details.

Create dynamic windows into any aspect of the production.
Build reports based on the required criteria for every different team member.
Keep team members immediately aware of the status of processes upstream and downstream.
Bring accountability to all aspects of the business operation.
Simple events can trigger complex events elsewhere in the workflow.

Communication

In any organization, everyone should know only what they need to know to be productive. With TACTIC™, any type of communication can be defined, including how information is delivered in the user interface, how and to whom emails are sent and how reports provide up-to-the-moment information on the projects.

Present your team with what they need to see and how they need to see it.
Associate communications directly with your assets and their production data.
Send emails to the right team members based on events in the system.
Provide live views and reports presenting all team members with information generated from a single central location.

Interoperability

TACTIC™ is the glue that binds different systems and services together. Through TACTIC™'s powerful API and flexible interface any number of disparate systems can be unified into a single, centralized working solution, allowing a production to run smoothly and efficiently.

Take full advantage of the backend power of the server through client side interaction. Meaning No harm can be done to the server itself.
Take advantage of the power of the API directly in the User Interface with Javascript.
Integrate any scriptable application or custom studio tool to further fit TACTIC™ into your workflow.
Execute custom API scripts which can create new assets, import files, generate previews and much more...