production visual effects post production game development 3d animation project management software business intelligence founded 2005 headquarters toronto canada key people gary mundell ceo co founder remko noteboom chief technology officer co founder david lowe president coo products tactic 1 website southpaw technology southpaw technology is a commercial open source software company that provides products solutions 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 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 . 1 tactic has also started to gain attention as a business intelligence solution . 2 contents 1 technology 2 clients 3 references 4 external links 5 see also technology edit southpaw technology develops and supports tactic a production asset management and data management solution that manages the creation of digital assets for visual effects feature films video games advertising engineering and 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 . 3 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 . 4 in 2014 southpaw released tactic version 4.3 . clients edit as of may 2013 southpaw s diverse client base includes procter and gamble turbine inc. viacom nissan 5 astral media 6 philips ubisoft blohm voss lockheed martin 7 and legend3d . 8 references edit http www.southpawtech.com customers http www.enterpriseappstoday.com business intelligence 5 open source business intelligence tools.html http www.awn.com news business southpaw unveil new asset management solution tactic 30 siggraph 2010 http digitalassetmanagementnews.org open source southpaw upgrade tactic to version 4 0 http www.cgchannel.com 2013 02 southpaw technology open sources tactic http www.southpawtech.com company blog 2013 05 case study how astral is streamlining its workflow with tactic http www.deskeng.com articles aaatzn.htm http www.vfxtalk.com threads 24873 southpaw technology lands legend 3d external links edit southpaw technology see also edit comparison of project management software retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title southpaw technology & oldid 651817893 categories technology companies of canadacompanies based in torontohidden categories articles created via the article wizard navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 17 march 2015 at 19 07 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view