STX Entertainment (STX) used a variety of in-house, on-prem, cloud, and outsourced tools and services to manage core rights and content operations. In a move to upgrade and consolidate operations, while reducing cost, STX made the decision to partner with Molten Cloud. The implementation of the Molten Cloud platform achieved landmark success in operational efficiency, control, and cost reduction. The following passage outlines the key aspects of this success.
A powerhouse in the entertainment production and distribution arena, STX boasts an impressive library of major films and television series, including original, and critically acclaimed content like Molly’s Game (2017), I Feel Pretty (2018), Hustlers (2019), and Bad Moms (2016), an original which grossed over $100 million at the box office. Renowned for its name-brand recognition and star-powered library, STX consistently delivers compelling narratives crafted by some of the industry's most celebrated talents.
As a leading global media company, STX’s footprint spans hundreds of contracts and millions of content files, turning everyday operations into a series of complex, time consuming workflows. STX’s data and content spanned across a variety of tools and services, such as IBM Aspera, AWS, Azure, Dropbox, Sharepoint, Filmtrack, film labs, and on-prem servers and drives. This widespread use of various tools and services is common among long-established companies, presenting key challenges that STX needed to address:
.png)
Recognizing the need to modernize their operational infrastructure, STX sought out technology partners and ultimately chose to collaborate with Molten Cloud.
Molten Cloud tackled this challenge with its hallmark flexibility and holistic approach to operational efficiency.
STX Entertainment's collaboration with Molten Cloud transformed its operations. By working together to integrate and consolidate various systems, they achieved significant improvements in efficiency, control, and cost savings. The joint effort in overhauling rights and contracts management, streamlining content migration, and eliminating duplication, greatly simplified STX's workflows globally. As a result, STX reduced storage overhead by 25% while gaining real-time access to secure global content delivery with enhanced previews.
"With our partnership with Molten Cloud we reduced the bottle neck of content overhauling our on prem systems. The de-duplication technology that Molten has developed significantly reduced our costs on all things content related". - David Messinger, VP of Content Management, STX
The ability to swiftly ingest massive volumes of data to Molten Cloud fundamentally transforms the operations for organizations like STX. This project provided evidence that businesses with large, complex content infrastructures can indeed move swiftly, securely, and efficiently to integrate and organize their content operations with Molten Cloud. Instead of being burdened by a sprawling mass of information and files scattered across a myriad of tools from hard drives to cloud services, organizations can look forward to a future where their content is not just manageable, but streamlined and optimized. The success of this partnership highlights the power of collaboration and sets a new standard for media operations in the industry.
"Molten Cloud has been a game changer for STX from a content perspective. Their Inventory Management System can be designed to the specifications that you require or desire. The ease of uploading content into the system and sending content out to partners was designed perfectly by them." - David Messinger, VP of Content Management, STX
