The Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, Kansas City’s flagship entertainment venue has one goal: uniting performers with patrons. The vision of VP Operations and CFO, Bud Jeffress is clear – if a task does not meet this one goal, it is outsourced. This operating model means a facility that would usually be staffed by upward of 150+ has just 30 full time employees. Not a single member of the team is a systems engineer, technician or even a CTO.

 

There’s no need for an IT staff when you have Clarity™

 

With Clarity™ empowering the operation, artists can take the stage at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts and the organization is confident that everything from networks and servers to ticketing applications will function without a hitch. As well as equipping this world class performing arts center with Fortune 500 technological infrastructure and support, Clarity™ is projected to save The Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts over $600,000 over three years when compared to a similar in-house solution.

“It’s as if the NetStandard employees are our employees. We feel that they belong here”

The entertainment industry’s product, if it is successful, appears to the consumer to be an effortless venture – fun, exciting, and glamorous. While it may be fun, exciting, and glamorous, it is anything but effortless. The behind-the-scenes work involved in bringing any creative product to the stage or screen is overwhelming, and as any Hollywood producer will confirm, the technology requirements are very serious. Collaboration between what could be thousands of participants must be flawless and enormous amounts of data files must be easily accessible at every moment.

 

You can accomplish a lot more with less when you don’t need to manage your IT.

 

Clarity™ is much more than IT. Clarity™ allows you to focus on the Information that is critical to your business while we at NetStandard manage the technology.