Vscape is a complete web-based digital asset management platform that enables large hotel brands, management companies and individual hotel properties as well as other travel suppliers to store, manage and distribute digital assets with increased efficiency and convenience.
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Vscape Benefits
Specifically designed to address the challenges of managing and distributing large quantities and all forms of digital content for the hotel and travel industries, Vscape is the most sophisticated (yet extremely easy to use) application of its kind.
Convenience
Vscape allows you to store and manage all of your digital media assets all in one place, including still images, virtual tours, video, Flash etc. Just as importantly, it allows you to control distribution of those assets throughout VFM’s distribution network with one single point of entry. At a simple click of a button, a hotel can replace or add an image, video or virtual tour to its display on thousands of third-party travel websites. Similarly, a hotel can determine which specific content to display on a particular site or group of sites.
Ease of Use
Vscape has been designed to be entirely user-friendly, requiring no advanced computer skills. The simple drag and drop interface makes it simple to upload, organize, manage and distribute all your media.
One-to-Many Distribution
As important, you can now control distribution of these files across the Internet with one single point of entry. Gone is the inconvenience of uploading images to multiple contact points with various GDSs or a number of content distribution providers. Using Vscape, distribution is greatly simplified, whether you’re using it as a stand-alone solution or in conjunction with an existing content management system using an efficient XML feed.
Vscape Features
Universal Integration
Vscape offers a sophisticated platform intended to serve as an end-to-end digital management platform. Because VFM began as a rich media company, our technology has been developed to support complex rich media files out of the starting gate. Unlike legacy systems that were designed only to support simple static images, Vscape is based on a seamless technology platform, offering the most robust platform to support all your digital assets including photos, virtual tours, videos and flash presentations – all with one platform.
Improved Media Control
Using Vscape Image Compare, a proprietary technology to VFM, Vscape automates many tasks that till now have been manual for hotels, and therefore plagued by user error or neglect. Image Compare automatically eliminates duplicated images using proprietary sophisticated image compare algorithms. Image Compare also helps hotels remove outdated “rogue” images from distribution – that is, removing outdated, poor quality or wrong images that have somehow made it onto a hotel’s display on third party sites’. And finally, Image Compare’s technology will detect differences between images, replacing low resolution images with higher resolution, ensuring consumers are always seeing the best quality –and the most current -- media in your library.
Selective Distribution Control
With Vscape, you can easily control exactly where your hotel or brand images and rich media are distributed. This is designed to support your marketing plans and relationships with various distribution partners. Changing ‘on/off’ status is simple to administer according to factors such as preferred partners, inventory or seasonality.
Security and User Control
Vscape allows you to store all your digital assets securely and control user access rights using SSL and login authentication. For large brands, this enables you to control access to media at head office, across individual properties, as well as with partners such as advertising or marketing firms or the media. This feature is designed to ensure you maintain control of the standards of your brand with all visual representation from imagery to logo treatment.
Integration with Existing Content Management Systems
For hoteliers who are already utilizing a digital content management system, VFM provides a method to link their internal content management systems to, and allow them to distribute their rich media through, Vscape. This provides the ability for hoteliers to leverage their existing content management systems by providing standards based interfaces into Vscape.
