Ease Acquires Scenechronize

Deal will allow company to offer a complete system for managing TV and film productions

By George Winslow -- Broadcasting & Cable, 2/5/2013 3:33:06 PM

The payroll and production accounting firm Ease Entertainment Services has acquired Scenechronize, a cloud-based production information management system.

Since first developing its product in 2006, Scenechronize has grown its client base to include nearly every studio and television network, along with countless independent films, the two companies reported.

Its platform allows members of a production team to access and share a wide variety of key information, including budgets, scripts and schedules.

All existing employees of Scenechronize will be retained. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Ease is planning to integrate its production accounting technology with Scenechronize's production software program to create a platform that can be used to manage both production office information and production accounting information in a way that can handle every aspect of the production, from script development to the actual production and eventually the payment of residuals.

"Today's announcement marks the start of a new era in production technology, one that will save producers time and money -- and paper -- while delivering the information they need, exactly how they need it," said Michael Rose, chairman and CEO of Ease Entertainment, in a statement. "Scenechronize's ability to manage production information was the perfect complement to Ease's accounting and financial systems."

"We are already developing methods for securely offering pertinent financial, production and scheduling data to the user through their dashboard hub," he added.