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Missing link (corrected)

I met Gorazd in a course. He is the director of a Slovenia-based animation production company.
He was very happy with Missing Link, a software that he finds very useful for production control, that they use for their productions, which span along different time zones around the globe.

Achim corrected the wrong link I had been given, so we now have a new piece of software to check out. Take this introduction as an appetizer (from their web):

"The web-based software Production Kit is an innovative solution designed for a better workflow and an efficient project management, especially when dealing with company wide or distributed content creation (...) The software is setting the organizational framework in which any user-defined process (in consecutive production steps) can be displayed."

Another thing that called my attention was thos, on the history section: " Thanks to the vocational experiences of the founders and their co-workers, who have collected their knowledge in different media companies, the Missing Link Software can rely on more than 10 years of international experience in the areas of computer animation, production, software development and database design. "

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tee said…
this is such an interesting article. see http://www.unn.edu.ng for more interesting articles

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