Implementations of DDEX Standards

In October 2008 DDEX announced a number if implementations of its standards

• The ERN Main Profile Message Suite has been successfully implemented by companies that include Sony Music, Warner Music Group, Real Networks and the Harry Fox Agency;
• The DSR Main Profile Message Suite has been successfully implemented by companies that include Apple iTunes, SFR, Spotify, Orange, MCPS-PRS and SACEM; and
• The DSR Simple Profile Message Suite has been successfully implemented by companies that include Muzak, Telefónica Servicios de Música S.A.U., ASCAP, BMI, SGAE and SUISA.

The experiences of these initial implementations have shown at a real and practical level that the implementation of DDEX standards offers significant benefits over the use of proprietary formats because:

• Whilst the specifications are extremely large documents, once started, they are nothing like as daunting as they first appear;
• After study of documentation no implementer deployed more than 50 man-days in creating their implementation, and most have spent significantly less; and
• After the first implementation the incremental resource required to roll out to other partners is usually less than a week's work.

Since October a number of other implementation partnerships have been announced and the existing implementers continue to roll out use of the DDEX standards with the rest of their business partners.