In the Media & Entertainment industry, we’ve reached a tipping point. With rising content costs, intense competition from global platforms, and a saturated streaming market, the default response to a shifting landscape was to build custom, platform-specific, and highly complex media supply chains. At Fabric, we have been in the trenches of these projects and built a wealth of expertise in our teams. We’ve seen first hand how these "bespoke" stacks, while built with the best intentions, eventually become anchors—expensive to maintain, impossible to scale, and increasingly out of step with a globalized market.
Today, we are taking a stand for a better way. We’re introducing Origin—a unified family of DaaS and SaaS offerings designed to power the next generation of simplified, cost-effective media supply chains.
Hard-Earned Discipline: our Product Strategy
You might notice we’re becoming more intentional—even strict—about what does and does not go into our products. I'll be clear: This isn't arrogance; it's the only path forward. It’s a philosophy born from the real-world learnings of our customer projects.
We’ve learned that when a product tries to be "everything to everyone," it ends up being "maintenance-heavy for everyone." By focusing on common architectures and industry best practices, we are moving away from the costly "unique" IT models of the past. My commitment to you is that we will excel at the specialized core, and we empower you to build the rest using generalized IT best practices. Whether you choose to leverage our Professional Services expertise for orchestration or build it yourselves, we provide the foundation.
A Product Family Built for Intelligence
This discipline goes beyond cost-savings and simplicity. We fundamentally believe that the greatest bottleneck to successful, scaled AI in the media supply chain isn't the technology itself, but the chaotic data and architecture it has to navigate. Origin's commitment to a unified, predictable structure is not just about today's efficiency; it is the essential blueprint for tomorrow's intelligent operation. By consolidating around world-class data (Nexus and Insights) and a streamlined workflow (Studio), we are providing a clean, trusted foundation that is inherently "AI-Ready." We are building a system where data is a trusted asset, not a chaotic silo, allowing you to finally realize the transformative potential of artificial intelligence.
The Origin Lineup: Data and Software in Sync
The Origin family integrates global data with intuitive software to ensure your supply chain is as lean as it is powerful.
1. Origin Nexus (DaaS)
The foundation of global discovery. Origin Nexus provides world-class Metadata-as-a-Service for movies, episodic TV, and more.
The Heritage: You may know Nexus as the evolution of Internet Video Archive (IVA).
Global Scale: By merging the powerhouse datasets of both IVA and BB Media, we haven’t just created a new database—we’ve created the industry’s first global, unified data set. It combines IVA’s deep technical metadata with the expansive international reach of BB Media, giving you a singular, powerful view of the global content landscape.
2. Origin Insights (DaaS)
Stop guessing and start analyzing. Origin Insights offers deep research on global title availability and pricing.
The Intelligence: Utilizing our global research footprint, pricing and availability data, and proprietary HITS™ score (refined through our acquisition of BB Media in Buenos Aires), Insights shows you what is actually trending in specific territories. This is the market intelligence our team has spent years perfecting.
3. Coming Soon: Origin Studio (SaaS)
Nexus and Insights provide the global context so that Origin Studio can provide you with the control. This upcoming SaaS product is designed for the management of your private title catalogue, allowing you to oversee your unique assets within a framework that prioritizes efficiency over "customization for customization’s sake."
Partnering for a Simplified Future
I truly believe that the way we build and design our media supply chains provides the foundational blueprint for a more sustainable industry, and Fabric is grateful to be considered as a partner in your own journey. Our professional services team and our SI partners bring best-practice architecture, integration, and deployment models to every Origin implementation, and we’d be delighted to collaborate and share our knowledge and expertise with you.
We are focusing on what we do best—providing world-class data and core management software. This, in turn, empowers you to focus on the content that moves the world, and provides the essential, clean foundation required to unleash the next generation of generative and predictive AI across your entire operation. Look out for future posts where we’ll dive deeper into Fabric’s view on AI and the media supply chain. The era of the "over-customized" supply chain is ending because it has to.
Join us in building something simpler.
Author: Andy Hooper, Head of Product and GM, EMEA
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