Screenly is, at heart, the cloud: the one place you manage everything from your browser. It does three jobs.
Managing content is the part you see most, and it is what makes Screenly a content management system, or CMS. But it is only one of the three: the cloud also manages the devices behind your screens, and it monitors them, watching that each stays online and in sync.
1. Managing your content
You bring in content and arrange it into playlists. You decide what each screen shows and when.
When you make a change, your screens pick it up automatically. No visit to the hardware, no manual push. From one place, every screen across your whole fleet stays in step with what you set up in the cloud.
2. Managing your devices
Screenly also looks after the devices that drive your screens, without anyone needing to be on site. This is device management, the discipline known as mobile device management, or MDM, applied to the hardware behind your screens.
A screen on a factory floor, or in a branch office in another city, is something you manage from your desk.
3. Monitoring your screens
A screen is only doing its job when it is online and showing the right thing.
Screenly monitors the health of every screen remotely, and tells you the moment one goes offline or falls out of sync. You find out before the people standing in front of the screen do.
Most of what the cloud surfaces is designed to be read at a glance, with no technical background needed. Underneath that, a deeper layer of data is available for those who need it: network address, storage, device health, a live snapshot of what is on screen, and more.