Recorded Music

Today music industry is under a massive transformational change with the unbundling of the album, flexible consumers’ buying options, the vast array of music-based products - ring tones, SMS-tones, ring-back tones, music videos, song clusters, etc. And, for the perfect execution of their product-innovation strategy and to meet the growing challenge of maintaining centralized data records for an ever growing number of geographies, music companies need IT systems that are flexible enough to accommodate continuously changing business and products innovations and provide tight integration with the Digital Supply Chain.

The volume of integration points to external systems for content data has also grown significantly over the past several years. The technology being used to support these interfaces creates delays in the business process that adversely impacts time to market as well as flexibility and control of the business processes. As music companies seek to expand and diversify revenue generating activities by creating different exploitable versions (like Ringtones and Caller back tone versions), they face the challenge of managing an ever increasing number of asset types, keeping track of rights and royalties.

HCL, with its wingtip to wingtip capability spanning applications, infrastructure and business process management has an extensive track record in providing services to major music companies around the world.

HCL works with world’s leading Music Companies with services offered throughout the value chain catering diversified and geographically dispersed user base. The services offers include:

• Total IT outsourcing to drive transformational growth in the digital era
• Core Application development for monetization of content
• Development of new platform to better engage with customer

Today, we work with some of the biggest names in the Music Industry - top three of the four music companies - and help them in developing and maintaining applications across the value chain. Through strong relations with leading players and service providers in the recorded music space, we possess rich experience in a range of services like Content aggregation, Asset and metadata management, and Royalty management. We help our customers to optimize their entertainment content management and distribution strategy with our solutions and services and rich experience in implementing these solutions.