It is recommended that partners take advantage of the free, yet powerful, tools offered by the Control Cloud. There are two ways that partners can utilize the Control Cloud. Both offer full control of the CMS UI that end users will interact with while also providing partners with essential capabilities like player provisioning, remote diagnostics, and more.

Control Cloud Integration

This method will appeal to many partners because partners can access many pre-built services and features using the free Control Cloud. End users interact with a single UI for authoring, publishing, content management, and player management.

Control Cloud “Swivel”

Some partners may desire the capabilities of the Control Cloud but are not yet ready for full integration with it. These partners can offer the Control Cloud alongside their CMS.

With this architecture, end users have access to the capabilities of the Control Cloud via the default Control Cloud web interface, accessible at https://control.bsn.cloud. By having a browser tab for the CMS and a browser tab for the Control Cloud, users can quickly “swivel” back and forth between the CMS and Control Cloud.

Next, let’s take a look at how the Control Cloud can used to remotely provision players.