Southpaw releases TACTIC Resource - a SaaS Artist and Resource Management Tool
Award winning global VFX and animation studio Jellyfish Pictures deploys TACTIC Resource Manager to plan, organize and manage artists and other resources.
Toronto, Canada – June 13, 2023 – Today, we are pleased to announce the release of the TACTIC Resource product. Resource is a cloud-based product developed with the team at Jellyfish Pictures to meet the needs of their senior management team, who strive endlessly to deliver growth and customer excellence.
Southpaw is the creator of TACTIC, which is known for its capabilities in heavy production environments. In partnership with Jellyfish Pictures, Southpaw developed a solution to an age-old problem, within the VFX and animation industry, that now gives managers the ability to plan, then schedule crew with real time data. It works in multiple currencies and offers features and tools to meet real life needs such as generating alternative crewing scenarios for comparisons.
Southpaw CEO, David Lowe said, “Over the past year, we have had the pleasure of collaborating with the Jellyfish Pictures team to develop an efficient planning tool that has replaced the excessively bulky and inefficient planning spreadsheets that are prevalent in the industry. We are excited about the results.” Working with the Jellyfish innovation and virtual studio experts was vital to the initial product roadmap as “the Jellyfish group paid close attention to the multitude of details and recognized the game-changing significance of utilizing efficient planning tools to accomplish their growth goals”.
Jellyfish Pictures COO, Mark Warburg commented, “The partnership with Southpaw to develop TACTIC Resource has solved our need for project and financial clarity in our business and will be the cornerstone for managing our projects and crew in the most cost-effective way possible whilst delivering the highest quality product to our clients”.
PRODUCT DETAILS
TACTIC Resource is a highly secure, completely customizable, cloud-based artist and resource planning tool and enables management, producers, finance team, crew planners to:
Budget Plan: Plan projects according to your bids:
● Add roles with real time budget calculation.
● Plan role allocations by dates according to bid allocation.
● Track margins based on Bid vs Cost rates.
Crew Plan: Plan projects your crew is working:
● Booking multi-disciplinary crew to projects
● Overbooking conflict resolution.
● Holiday, vacation, sick day tracking.
● Time entry and capture of actual work hours to all projects.
Real Time Project Reporting: Monitor the plan.
● Crew utilization reporting.
● Resource project costs and hours reporting.
● Software/hardware assigned to crew and projects reporting.
PRICING AND AVAILABILITY:
TACTIC Resource is available now, through the TACTIC Portal and offers three tiers of pricing:
Financial & budget Premium user: $45/user/month
Crew Planning user: $28/user/month
Timesheet user: $5/user/month
Contact: info@southpawtech.com
More product information at: https://www.southpawtech.com/tactic-resource
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About Southpaw Technology
Based in Toronto, Canada, Southpaw Technology (https://www.southpawtech.com/) develops SaaS products and deploys highly customizable, cloud-based digital asset management (DAM) and workflow management solutions to companies of all sizes.
Past and current customers include Technicolor, Adidas, The Mayo Clinic, Lockheed Martin, P&G, Viacom, General Dynamics, Warner Brothers, Bell Helicopter, and more.
For more information, visit https://www.southpawtech.com/ or contact info@southpawtech.com
About Jellyfish Pictures
Jellyfish Pictures is a London based BAFTA, Emmy, and Annie award winning global VFX and animation studio.
Delivering critically acclaimed work for clients including Disney, Netflix, DreamWorks, Apple TV, HBO, Sky, the BBC and Amazon, the company has undergone rapid growth in recent years.
www.jellyfishpictures.com
