By: Richard Trask, VP Marketing

I read a very interesting article on the Digital Signage Blog entitled 6 Reasons Why Role-Based Administration is Essential to Digital Signage Success. The article’s premise is that network operators should look to the future and consider issues of security and accountability when they implement their digital signage networks.

Role-based administration can mean different things to different people. For the purpose of this article, role-based administration is the ability to carve up a single server, giving separate administrative access to separate users for similar and separate networks and the content running on the network.

Think about how businesses operate and the levels of accountability that exists within the company. This level of accountability should also manifest itself in the deployment of players, creation of playlists, and the delivery of content throughout the network. The ability to manage a subset of the content or playlist and have it approved by a network manager is critical to the integrity of the network. Read the rest of this entry »