TMS Launches OnConnect Managed Services

TMS Launches OnConnect Managed Services PR Newswire CHICAGO, Nov. 28, 2012 - New Data Delivery APIs and Image Hosting Will Enable Innovation Among Developers Creating Advanced Entertainment UIs CHICAGO, Nov. 28, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- TMS, the leading provider of entertainment metadata, has just launched OnConnect Managed Services, a new "Data as a Service" platform offering a powerful set of application programming interfaces (APIs) and an image hosting service. Offering easy access to dozens of data delivery API methods, OnConnect gives application developers reliable, flexible, and scalable delivery of the company's industry leading On® TV Entertainment metadata. TMS partner Digitalsmiths led development and will manage many of these data delivery APIs through its powerful, scalable Seamless Discovery platform. In addition to data delivery APIs, OnConnect includes Image Cloud, an image hosting service that provides on-demand access to the TV, movie and celebrity images uniquely available from TMS. All images adhere to the TMS Image Standard and all metadata is fully synchronized with the TMS Unique ID. OnConnect will help TMS customers innovate by shortening research and development timelines and accelerating speed-to-market for advanced, visually-rich entertainment applications. With a focus on hosted image files and efficient data queries, OnConnect has been specifically designed to support tablet and mobile applications.