Evolution of collaboration management tools for complex productions

Learning from the past 22 years, farmerswife has constantly adapted to the media industry’s needs.

With clients in production, post-production, broadcasting, equipment rental, agencies, and education; they’ve been proudly serving those clients across the globe with their streamlined resource management solution to save time, energy, and money. It’s all backed up locally by a highly experienced multilingual support team, and they are continuing to expand their product offerings:

“We have this great new tech platform called Cirkus. It’s designed to be both a powerful standalone collaboration tool plus a great add on to the existing farmerswife platform. Cirkus will also evolve over the coming years to absorb a lot of the farmerswife functionality as the new generation of clients demand“ , says Stephen Elliott, CEO of farmerswife.

Evolving technologies

farmerswife has been providing resource scheduling, project management, and team collaboration software for the demanding needs of today’s media industry. From these needs Cirkus was created, designed to address the specific project needs of media organisations.

Available as both an integration for farmerswife, or as a standalone product, Cirkus has been built to reflect and adapt to the way teams work and collaborate in the real world. It allows users to schedule, assign and manage projects and tasks; track status and report time; and collaborate efficiently with anyone, anywhere by coordinating resources and sharing files in one central hub.

Cirkus accommodates all devices and is available on macOS, iOS, Android and as a web app.

“From early on we worked really closely with a post production team in Apple who couldn’t find a tool on the market which met their needs, so we built Cirkus! They helped us shape the task management and collaboration side of the product, and build a really solid, well designed and powerful base that we now have expanded to include scheduling” says farmerswife CTO Michelle Griffin.

“Cirkus is an active product, we work directly with the clients to get feedback.” Michelle Griffin continued. “Based on this feedback we develop new features all the time to solve real life workflows. We’re really excited about the roadmap, to see where our clients and products take us next.”

The team at BEWETGE BILDER agrees “Cirkus is THE tool we were searching for many years. It combines the different functionalities of multiple other planning tools in one single place, making communication easy and workflows transparent”, says Carsten Schuffert Bewetge Bilder’s CEO-Managing Director.

“The speed Cirkus is developing is breathtaking. Within the last 1.5 years we have seen so many new functions which make the tool an indispensable must-have.”

If you are already a farmerswife user you can add-on Cirkus for your collaboration needs, and use both tools together. Kick off a Cirkus project with predefined tasks from farmerswife; work in Cirkus and sync back to farmerswife for invoicing and reporting. Push your budget items as tasks to Cirkus and get work delivered.

The best people

“People are a big part of this evolution. Our experienced and responsive team provides the bedrock on which our products can take root and flourish.” says Stephen Elliott, farmerswife’s CEO.

The farmerswife team has a wealth of experience supporting and implementing post production workflows. Cirkus is adapted for media order task handling - compression, ingest and other file management tasks. It’s here that the task collaboration in Cirkus can really boost productivity and get this work done. Linking back to farmerswife gives the full picture to control costs and invoice for the work completed.

Their client Urban Brew Studios said: “The farmerswife team is a Rockstar team! The turnaround time on queries is very quick even with the different time zones”

Check out some of their client experiences here.