Abstract
Workflow as a Service (WaaS) is a term representing a platform that serves users wishing to deploy their workflows on-demand onto cloud-managed, hybrid, or on-premises services. While the idea of WaaS has been around for many years (and perhaps has its origins in the Ptolemy 1 and Kepler 2 projects), it is only now, as a consequence of broadcast facilities being constructed based on information technology (IT), that the WaaS paradigm is becoming applicable and relevant to broadcast production workflows. The Dynamic Media Services Architecture (DMS Architecture) described in this article lays out an architectural approach that has the potential to deliver WaaS to the media industry. Truly dynamic facilities require the near-constant creation, consumption, and dissolution of workflows, workflows that are created by taking advantage of capabilities provided from a pool of shared resources. This article describes an architecture capable of delivering this vision and breaks down the functionality in the architecture into major layers. The DMS Architecture provides a way forward, identifying key concepts, components, and layers required to deliver some of the many promises of IT to our industry.
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