Flowing Content™ strategy of distributing content can be compared to 2 current alternatives: File server and Peer-to-Peer systems. This method is different from the 2 others in the sense that it is a fully centralized hierarchical programmatic distribution process in which the central point completely commands and operates the deliveries. Users are instructed to receive the keys enabling content decryption, restore the content data, execute any local command associated with the content received, and automatically report back to the central point.

Deliveries are fully accounted for by a reporting management system on the users' terminals as well as users' interaction with the media delivered.

In the File Server and Peer-to-Peer systems, the content circulation follows completely different rules: the user is free to download on-demand shared content that can be either on the File Server or on other users' computers if Peer-to-Peer. The user himself drives the distribution and controls the communication with the point which stores and releases the content: he is not obliged to report back.

This method compared to the 2 others provides the optimum approach when it is to define and implement a fully centralized, controlled, secure, and supervised content delivery strategy where the central point decides and organizes all actions which the users always report back.

Flowing Content™ has furthermore developed a comprehensive set of Web services to enable rapid and efficient interfacing with corporate applications (ERP).

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