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DAX is a cloud based Software as a Service production workflow application used by the television and film industries for media production and digital asset management. The name DAX is derived from "Digital Asset Exchange," and was first registered as a trademark by Sample Digital Holdings, LLC., the name by which the company that developed and provided the technology was known until 2012.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Dax Receives Patent for Cloud Production Workflow Application )〕 Acquired in April, 2014 by Prime Focus Technologies,〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Prime Focus Technologies to acquire DAX )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Prime Focus Technologies acquires DAX )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Prime Focus Technologies acquires DAX )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Prime Focus Technologies acquires DAX )〕 the company's North American operation is headquartered in Culver City, California. Prime Focus Technologies (PFT), the technology subsidiary of Prime Focus (BSE code: 532748), is a provider of cloud-based production workflow and media asset management applications to the entertainment industry. The DAX software is used to collaborate on content created throughout the course of motion picture and television production, as well as for marketing and distribution of the final product. DAX is used for storage, review and distribution of digitized production elements, including video, audio, photography and documents such as screenplays, legal contracts, budgets, schedules and basic text documents, among other uses, according to the company's website. The mobile application also adapts the technology to the industry's increasing global production methods.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Sample Digital Offers iPad App )〕 The company owns several patents on the technology, including US Patent No: 7,660,416 and 8,218,764 for "System and Method for Media Content Collaboration Throughout a Media Production Process," and trademarks in addition to DAX, including Digital Dailies and iDailies, an application that allows video to be viewed on mobile devices such as the iPad and iPhone. DAX 4.0, released in April 2013 at the National Association of Broadcasters Show in Las Vegas earned the Studios Daily Prime Award for Ease of Use.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Studio Daily Prime Awards Winners Announced )〕 == History == DAX Founder and current President〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title= Prime Focus Acquires DAX )〕 Patrick Macdonald-King headed the company at its beginnings as a merger of three businesses: DAX Solutions (digital asset management software), Digital Dailies (the creator of online dailies), and Sample Media Services (a digital media encoding facility). Sample Digital/Digital Dailies was co-founded by Josh C. Kline and Mike McCoy in 2000. In April 2007, Sample Digital secured funding from Hyperion Media Group and merged the three businesses under the Sample Digital brand, with a focus on building an end-to-end media production workflow platform for content producers and distributors. Sample Digital presented its new platform DAX D3 in April, 2009. In 2011, Sample Digital introduced DAX MOBILE with iDailies exclusively for iPad, allowing the DAX platform to be accessed via iPad.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=On Location Goes Mobile )〕 In 2012, the company’s product, DAX, became the company’s name and brand. DAX was a sponsor of the Cloud Computing Conference, organized by the Distributed Computing Industry Association as part of the 2013 NAB Show program, where Macdonald-King delivered the keynote address on Cloud Solutions for Content Creation 〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Cloud Computing Conference )〕 In October 2013, Kline was awarded a Primetime Engineering Emmy Award for his efforts in inventing and launching Digital Dailies, a service that Prime Focus Technologies continues to offer.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title= Primetime Engineering Emmy Awards )〕 In March 2014, Macdonald-King sold DAX to Prime Focus Technologies and was appointed President, PFT North America.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title= Prime Focus Acquires DAX )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title= Prime Focus Technologies to buy DAX )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title= Prime Focus Technologies acquires DAX )〕 DAX opened its first international office in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 2013.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title= Hollywood Production Workflow Outfit DAX Launches in Canada )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「DAX (application)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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