BZA-7000 software, which utilizes an Oracle database engine, consists of a number of modules that can be implemented as needed. These include an archive manager, device controller, cataloger, browse server, web server, and a link to Sony's NewsBase news editing system. The latter capability, with planned expansion to support other edit systems, automatically extracts metadata from news footage to build the archive's database. But that doesn't stop advertising agencies such as Grey Worldwide from using it, too. Oriented toward asset tracking rather than a full-on MAM system, CakeS starts by differentiating two distinct groups of media, the physical and virtual.
Physical management comes via stickers placed on incoming video and data cassettes.
Read by microwave radio devices around the facility, such object management enables the tracking of tapes throughout the facility. In the virtual space, automatically generated proxies sit on a server. CakeS can be set to watch specific drives too, say, one where approval edits are dumped. Again, the system automatically creates proxies. The CakeS database integrates proxies with other modules such as a contact manager, jobs database, scheduler, and dispatcher.