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This week, we announced our partnership with PRS for Music, the leading music rights organization. This collaboration is set to revolutionize the music industry in Africa as PRS expands its licensing coverage to music users based in Africa supported by Orfium’s licensing and technology infrastructure. This will provide access to tens of millions of works, […]
We’re back As described in a previous blog post from ORFIUM’s Business Intelligence team, the set of tools and software used varied as time progressed. A shorter list of software was used when the team was two people strong, a much longer and more sophisticated one is being currently used. 2018-2020 As described previously, the […]
Foreword This is the story of Business Intelligence and Analytics in Orfium, from before there was a single team member or a team itself within the company, to now, where we have a BI organization that scales, Data goals and excited plans for future projects. Our story is a long one to tell, and one […]
Today, we’re delighted to share that Orfium has acquired Soundmouse, bringing together the global market leaders in digital music and broadcast rights management and reporting. Who is Soundmouse? Soundmouse is a global leader in music cue sheet reporting and monitoring for the broadcast and entertainment production space. They share our vision to revolutionize digital music […]
Black box testing for non-data engineers with DBT Black box testing is a software testing method in which the functionalities of software applications are tested without having knowledge of internal code structure, implementation details, and internal paths. Let’s borrow that term and use the same analogy to test our black boxes, meaning our dbt models. […]
Introduction He is, of course, a recording artist and a guest actor in Game of Thrones. His shape, without going into details, is pretty human. But you knew that already. You made the connection between these words and the entity they represent. However, this isn’t quite as easy and straightforward a task for a computer. […]
Do you ever wonder how many times your favorite movie exists on digital platforms? My favorite animated video when I was a child was Happy Hippo. I spent innumerable hours watching videos of the plump hippopotamus on YouTube. One thing that I remember clearly, however, is how many videos of the same clip were uploaded. […]
Why did I want to do another internship? After interning last summer and another year of studying, I was looking forward to getting my hands on more practical matters in the orientation I wanted my career to take, which is AI Research. So, after finishing my studies, I felt like I wanted to put all […]
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, there was a development team with the mission to liberate the true value of content in the entertainment industry by empowering artists and composers with solutions that optimized the monetization of their assets. The battle against the complexity of the music industry was fierce. The […]
ORFIUM is pleased to announce its membership in the ISNI  International Agency. Now an active ISNI Registration Agency, ORFIUM will begin to contribute to the ISNI database, both through the provision of curated and enriched metadata and by providing ISNI-related services to its client and industry stakeholders.  “Making sure we are attributing compositions and performances […]