{{Short description|US software company}} {{Infobox company | name = | logo = SouthpawLogo.png | type = | foundation = 2005 | location = Toronto, Ontario, Canada | key_people = Gary Mundell, CEO, Co-Founder <br> Remko Noteboom, Chief Technology Officer, Co-Founder <br> David Lowe, President, COO | industry = {{unbulleted list|Digital asset management|Feature film production|Visual effects|Post production|Video game development|3D animation|Project management software|Business intelligence}} | products = TACTIC <ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.southpawtech.com/tactic.html |title=TACTIC Southpaw Technology |access-date=2010-11-03 |archive-date=2011-02-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110203004535/http://www.southpawtech.com/tactic.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> | revenue = | net_income = | num_employees = | homepage = [http://www.southpawtech.com/ Southpaw Technology] }}

'''Southpaw Technology''' is a commercial, open-source software company that provides products, professional services and technical support for TACTIC. Founded in 2005 by Gary Mundell and Remko Noteboom, Southpaw Technology originally developed TACTIC to facilitate project management, workflow and digital asset management for production pipelines in feature films, television series and game projects. As TACTIC's technology developed and expanded, Southpaw shifted into providing solutions{{solution-inline|date=August 2019}} for enterprise content management. Southpaw's client base now includes enterprise customers from many diverse industries, including media and entertainment, broadcasting, health care and defence.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://southpawtech.com/customers/|title=Customers - Southpaw Technology|website=southpawtech.com}}</ref> TACTIC has also started to gain attention as a Business Intelligence solution.{{solution-inline|date=August 2019}}<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.enterpriseappstoday.com/business-intelligence/5-open-source-business-intelligence-tools.html/ |title=5 Open Source Business Intelligence Tools - Enterprise Apps Today |access-date=2015-03-17 |archive-date=2015-03-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150310064108/http://www.enterpriseappstoday.com/business-intelligence/5-open-source-business-intelligence-tools.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Technology== Southpaw Technology develops and supports TACTIC, a web framework that is used to build enterprise solutions{{solution-inline|date=August 2019}} of many types. Southpaw solutions and products are all built on TACTIC and they always share a workflow engine combined with production asset management and data management solution{{solution-inline|date=August 2019}} that manages work across collaborative teams. The output of the workflow can be anything from the creation of digital assets for visual effects, feature films, video games, advertising, engineering to consumer packaged goods, sportswear, on boarding documents, a regulatory audit trail and many other enterprise uses.

TACTIC is available to download as open-source software under the Eclipse Public License for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows and Linux. It is also available through a fully supported commercial license. As of summer 2013, TACTIC can be accessed as a hosted cloud service through Amazon Web Services Marketplace.TACTIC combines asset management, file system management, project management, workflow management, data management and web applications. Southpaw announced TACTIC 3.0 at SIGGRAPH 2010 in Los Angeles.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.awn.com/news/southpaw-unveil-new-asset-management-solution-tactic-30-siggraph-2010|title=Southpaw to Unveil New Asset Management Solution, TACTIC 3.0, at SIGGRAPH 2010|website=Animation World Network}}</ref> Two years later Southpaw made the move to open-source, making TACTIC available to download for free under an Open Source Initiative and the Eclipse Public License. In May 2013, Southpaw released TACTIC version 4.0.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://digitalassetmanagementnews.org/open-source/southpaw-upgrade-tactic-to-version-4-0/|title=Southpaw Upgrade Tactic To Version 4.0 — Digital Asset Management News|website=digitalassetmanagementnews.org|date=8 May 2013 }}</ref> In 2014, Southpaw released [http://community.southpawtech.com/downloads TACTIC version 4.3].

==Clients== As of April 2019, Southpaw's diverse client base includes Procter and Gamble, Turbine, Inc., Viacom, Nissan,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cgchannel.com/2013/02/southpaw-technology-open-sources-tactic/|title=Southpaw Technology open-sources Tactic &#124; CG Channel}}</ref> Astral Media,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://southpawtech.com/company/blog/2013/05/case-study-how-astral-is-streamlining-its-workflow-with-tactic/|title=TACTIC by Southpaw|website=southpawtech.com}}</ref> Philips, Ubisoft, Blohm + Voss, Lockheed Martin,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.deskeng.com/articles/aaatzn.htm |title=Aaatzn.HTM |access-date=2010-11-01 |archive-date=2015-01-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150108000543/http://www.deskeng.com/articles/aaatzn.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> Legend3D,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.vfxtalk.com/threads/24873-Southpaw-Technology-Lands-Legend-3D |title=Southpaw Technology Lands Legend 3D |accessdate=2013-05-29 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130403075805/http://www.vfxtalk.com/threads/24873-Southpaw-Technology-Lands-Legend-3D |archivedate=2013-04-03 }}</ref> Adidas, Technicolor, Tegna, Transunion and Teague.

==See also== * Comparison of project management software

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