Skyline Communications – dataminer.MediaOps
BaM Award® – Support
The revolutionary dataminer.MediaOps product seamlessly blends media technology and workflows with information and communication technology (ICT), introducing a new era of data-driven, automated, and simplified media operations. Central to its architecture is the concept of the digital twin of the media operation—housing all network statistics, metrics, counters and configurations, coupled with vital business information like event schedules, asset inventory, playlists, electronic program guide (EPG) data, and more. This digital twin allows for unprecedented opportunity for:
- Resource Planning and Scheduling
- Live Media Orchestration
- Automation of File and Asset Workflows
While dataminer.MediaOps encompasses the entire media operation, it allows each tenant—internal teams or external stakeholders like customers, contractors, network providers, rental companies, and reporters—to work independently within their designated area, while maintaining seamless harmony with other teams. Many users rely on dataminer.MediaOps for their specific needs:
- Booking teams schedule resources, spanning staffing, satellite transponder slots, IP network capacity, and technical resources.
- MCR and Tx room operators perform ad hoc and scheduled connection management, media processing controls, smart monitoring and redundancy switching.
- Engineering teams design, automate, and test media workflows running on-premises, in the cloud, or hybrid.
- Media asset teams automate asset and file workflows, from ingest to distribution, publication, and archiving.
- IT and SecOps teams manage ICT infrastructure, automate security workflows, and track IP multicast flows.
- Media and ICT cloud teams dynamically deploy and undeploy workloads on demand or according to the master event schedule.
- Finance and procurement teams analyze resource utilization, costs, and generate billing records using dataminer.MediaOps.
Key features that set dataminer.MediaOps apart include:
- Seamlessly integrating over 30 years of expertise in managing, orchestrating, and monitoring media networks with state-of-the-art ICT technology, recognizing the convergence of media and ICT domains.
- Acknowledging the inherent connection between various processes by merging workflows for event planning, resource scheduling, live media operations, and file workflows.
- Designed from the ground up to handle the complexity and scale of SMPTE ST 2110 while accommodating a variety of media transport protocols such as SRT, SDI, SMPTE ST 2022, ASI, and L-band, contrasting with traditional solutions limited to SDI-only bespoke products.
- Interoperating with diverse media and ICT technology products, including media processors, gateways, IP fabrics, multi-viewers, intercoms, probes, SDI routers, and even cloud workloads, facilitates infrastructure-agnostic workflows.
- Adhering to industry standards (NMOS) and bespoke products, ensuring seamless integration across diverse systems.
- Integrating seamlessly with installed broadcast controllers, SDN controllers, IPAMs, CMDBs, ERP systems, and other systems, catering to both brownfield and greenfield operations.
- Possessing resource awareness means enabling teams to request resources for ad hoc operations, planned media events, or maintenance without conflicts while offering comprehensive insights into resource utilization and costs.
- Including SecOps automation to customize security workflows to specific policies and integrating with SIEM systems.
- Promoting collaboration across various teams—from business planning to finance—through collaboration tools like Teams, Slack, ChatOps, and cloud sharing.
- Embracing continuous change in media operations by leveraging platform innovations such as low-code applications, workflow designers, user-defined control surfaces, DataMiner Object Models, open scripting engines, CI/CD, user-defined APIs, etc.
In essence, dataminer.MediaOps revolutionizes media operations by combining modern ICT practices with deep media domain knowledge. With dataminer.MediaOps, M&E companies deliver better service quality and user experience, respond faster to business needs and technology innovations while increasing productivity and cost-effectiveness.
In choosing dataminer.MediaOps as the Support BaM Award® winner, the judges said: “Groundbreaking integration of media and ICT, offering a comprehensive inventory management system that spans technology, operational resources, and more. Its ability to automate and orchestrate workflows represents a leap forward in efficiency and cost-effectiveness, challenging traditional operational silos…it helps ‘automate the automation’ by aggregating various disparate workflows from different sources.”
