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Vantage allows content owners, producers, and distributors to quickly, easily, and cost-effectively ingest, edit, package, monetize, quality-check, and distribute their media. It sits above your content and media workflows, orchestrating best-in-class media processing services, on-premises and in the Cloud – to quickly address changing production demands or to test new business concepts. Based on a flexible service-oriented architecture, Vantage is made up of discrete Services, Media Management Tools, and Connectors that combine to create powerful automated workflows – all under unified robust system control. Vantage Services provide media capture, transcoding, metadata processing, and media analysis. Vantage Management Tools provide advanced compositing, assembly and powerful workflow automation. Vantage Connectors enable seamless, API-level integration with third-party systems and our own Vidchecker QC. Vantage offers scalability from simple standalone systems to complex, multi-server systems to meet growing business needs today and well into the future. Running on standard, off-the-shelf server hardware, or best-in-class Telestream Lightspeed® GPU acceleration servers, Vantage provides disaster recovery, and utilizes all of the capabilities of today’s enterprise-level IT infrastructures and best practices. Where cloud deployment is preferable, Vantage can flexibly run in private or public clouds solely, or in addition to your on-premises systems. Vantage utilizes the latest technologies to deliver pristine quality, exceptional processing speeds, plus the industry’s most intelligent and scalable workflow automation system. We offer a broad range of enterprise-class transcoding and workflow solutions based on the Vantage media processing platform to ensure flexibility and scalability to meet your business needs well into the future.

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WO On Demand is a cloud-based, SaaS platform that simplifies management, monetization, and measurement for on-demand audio content, including podcasts. With dynamic server-side ad insertion, robust ad templates, podcast hosting, download/impression/revenue reporting, broadcast-to-podcast functionality, a dynamic RSS engine, and powerful programmatic capabilities, WO On Demand includes everything audio publishers need to drive revenue.

WO On Demand can also be paired with WO Streaming to provide side-by-side management of your digital audio inventory across channels, and with WO Ad eXchange to provide holistic yield optimization across your direct sold and programmatic channels.

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The demand for first-to-market video content, at the highest quality and lowest cost, are exploding. Are you prepared to keep up? Dalet Flex, Dalet's poly-cloud content supply chain solution, is here to help. It will unlock your content supply chain and revolutionize the way your content is managed, distributed and monetized throughout its lifespan.

The latest release of Dalet Flex now offers enhanced security capabilities and additional OVP integrations, including Brightcove and JWPlayer plug-ins, as well as custom integrations with Bitmovin and Kaltura, improving OTT preparation and multiplatform distribution workflows to help content owners quickly scale their operations. Dalet Flex will reinforce your business continuity with a hybrid or fully-cloud based content supply chain.

For those involved in delivering content to consumers, the task of providing top quality content has never been more complex and fiercely contested. You have to source the highest quality content from multiple sources preparing it and delivering to many platforms and geographies, on tighter budgets and schedules.

Dalet Flex delivers an open solution that simplifies and streamlines content preparation and video publishing. It can utilize your existing investments in best of breed solutions joining your business together, removing manual tasks that can cause errors and delays, meaning, less cost and complexity, more engagement, and maximum revenue.

The core of Dalet Flex handles the metadata, orchestrates workflows, and collects analytic data. It’s enhanced with native applications that support key parts of the supply chain. Then it adds multiple third-party integrations for extra functionality. You can configure the platform to solve even the most complex or siloed supply chain issues:

• Content Production: Manage, integrate and orchestrate your content pipeline


• Content Distribution: Deliver engaging content to each and every channel


• Intelligent Archive: Use artificial intelligence and automation to increase revenue from your content archive

Flex applications unlock and streamline value chain stages like acquisition with FlexMOVE, asset management with FlexMAM, approval workflows with FlexREVIEW, publishing and syndication capabilities with FlexB2C and, linear and multi-platform delivery. Obtain real-time data from every stage of the production and distribution process with FlexTRACK and gain solid business insights from the platform’s reporting capabilities. And to complement this impressive stack, we work closely with Microsoft, Google Cloud Platform, Avid, Oracle Telestream, Interra, AWS, Brightcove and other best-of-breed technology partners to build powerful integrations that seamlessly connect your supply chain.

The flexible open APIs also allow you to develop your own integrations or work with Dalet's Professional Services team to build them.

The result: powerful metadata-driven workflows that move your content through your business seamlessly.

Key Benefits

• Boost your speed to market


• Unblock your content supply chain to open up new revenue opportunities


• Configurable and extensible, so it changes with your needs


• Unrivalled custom workflow orchestration


• Powerful asset management and the most sophisticated metadata on the market


• Integrates via public APIs and SDKs


• Reduces manual work so your team can focus on creating engaging campaigns


• Drives down the total cost of ownership

It’s finally easy to onboard new partners, offer new services and deliver new digital viewing experiences. It’s time to really connect with your partners and your consumers. It’s time to change the way you run your media business – with Dalet Flex.

 

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dira Medox

Multimedia Content Management

Everyday life for media enterprises working with multimedia content can be complex, the audio lies in a database; texts are saved somewhere as Word documents; pictures and videos are buried in folders and so on.

The new dimension of dira is our web-based multimedia content management system, dira Medox. In addition to functions such as storing, editing and searching for media assets, the solution offers some new features like a new organization system which enables cross-media operations, as well as an innovative and intuitive contributor system. dira Medox supports all media types, meaning that all audio, video, image, and texts can be stored in one place and found quickly and easily with our integrated search engine. Furthermore, users can easily edit metadata and compile different types of content into coherent multimedia stories.

Working with multimedia content has never been more convenient

Key benefits: 

• Intuitive full-text search


• Ability to edit and create audio, images, videos and documents


• Web-based single-track audio editor for quick turnaround


• Built-in workflow engine for transparent control of technical processes


• Transcode multimedia content


• Use of descriptors and folders to organize content


• Contributor-management to reduce multiple entries


• Truly built with web technology for access on desktops and tablets


• Cloud friendly service oriented architecture


• Role-based configurations


• Multi-site functionality

Find out more about dira Medox

CGI offers a wide range of professional news and content delivery solutions for innovative media companies across local, national and international markets. This includes the market-leading flagship dira radio delivery software product family, serving many key players in broadcast and delivery.

Learn more about CGI's radio solutions

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VIA Orchestrate is a workflow engine to help you manage your video pipeline from ingest through transcoding and DRM encryption, to playout. VIA Orchestrate makes video workflow management simple,  and does not require editorial staff to be video processing experts.  Video can be ingested from live and VOD content and transcoded.

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SMART Central is a powerful web-based Business Process Management (BPM) solution for broadcast facilities. At its core, SMART Central offers an array of automated management and reporting tools to give operators and decision-makers immediate access to critical information. The building block solution can be scaled, and apps can be added to help facilities optimize operations and reduce costs. SMART Central is designed for multi-departmental use including Sales, Traffic, and Master Control to help create efficiency. What’s more, SMART Central is permission-based which allows for controlled access on unique user rights.

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VIA Live allows you to manage linear and event based live streams, automating the creation of VOD assets for distribution to OTT platforms and multimedia services. This significantly reduces the amount of manual work, making the process more efficient and cost effective.By combining the broadcasters' channels and electronic program guide (EPG) data, VIA Live is a one stop shop for channel planning and monitoring. Monitor inbound live feeds on a streamlined timeline, and use imported EPGs as a basis for program creation, complete with content ingest and scheduling.

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Building on the dual reputations for fast, accurate, unbiased news in all formats and tech innovation with the market-leading newsroom computer system ENPS, the Associated Press was ideally placed to deliver a new cloud-hosted, integrated common platform to solve a range of editorial workflow challenges accessible through a browser

AP Playbook is an editorial planning solution to manage tasks and assignments and to plan coverage across many different output channels.

Originally conceived for the AP’s own newsteams, Playbook has been used for three years by all AP’s 1000+ journalists in over 250 locations globally and subsequently adopted by world-renowned digital and broadcast news organisations.  Filter and display planned news coverage by newsroom, channel, platform, category, journalist in real time.  Maximise your newsroom activity by giving journalists access to the system via the Playbook app.

Contact us to find out how AP can help you transform your coverage and output planning.

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Limecraft Flow is used by producers and post production facilities worldwide to streamline their workflow end-to-end. It uses proxies for cloud-based collaboration, while keeping the high-resolution material, stored on premise or 3rd party cloud services, linked at all time. Hence it allows significant savings in bandwidth and online storage cost, and it is perfect for setting up remote post production and solo editing operations.

Limecraft Flow is used for sharing and approving dailies and rushes, logging and pre-cutting, and it manages the complete workflow through the different stages in post-production. It uses AI to automatically create same language subtitles for accessibility and translated subtitles for localisation of content. Eventually it is used as well for verification dispatching of the masters.

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Hiscale‘s technology and scalable solutions offer cost-efficient deployment and operation. Developed by recognized media industry experts for OTT/xVOD providers, broadcasters, and other companies that process video content, JOBS offers the performance and flexibility that you need to manage and automate increasingly complex video IT ecosystems. With JOBS, customers can respond to new and changing business needs to control the core of a high-quality video processing infrastructure and reduce costs with automated workflows. With BPMN-compliant tools, you can build, deploy and modify your own workflows. Based on open-source technology, JOBS provides open, well-documented RESTful APIs, scripting capabilities and an easy to use plugin SDK to give you all the tools you need to build advanced integrations yourself. From ingest to distribution, JOBS connects, manages and monitors file processing in automated and optimized end-to-end workflows.

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Acquire, distribute and route live B2B video streams via M2A CONNECT and harness the power of the global AWS network.  M2A CONNECT offers point-to-point security, the flexibility of unlimited scale, reduced set up time, global distribution, and all of this at a fraction of the cost of satellite or fibre networks.

Fully integrated with AWS MediaConnect, MediaLive and MediaPackage, M2A CONNECT delivers the peace of mind that comes with M2A Operations’ best-in-class 24/7 support.  Setting up and securing events, enabling last-minute changes and eyes-on-glass monitoring are all covered in the M2A CONNECT managed service, assuring faultless end to end transmission.

We’re continually updating useful features to M2A CONNECT including routing and switching, source-based routing, event scheduling and more. Recently, we’ve launched optional Add-ons to M2A CONNECT. These enable you to add capabilities to your M2A CONNECT instance to enrich the experience and move more of your workflow to the cloud. Add-ons include:

 

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  Frame Rate Conversion to convert live feeds between frame rates using market leading, motion-compensated technology.

  
  


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  Live Capture to output live video streams to AWS S3 storage for VOD, archive, or regulatory compliance.

  
  


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  Extended M2A Operations for eyes-on-glass, hypercare monitoring.

  
  


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  Event-based routing for distribution of live content based on event metadata.

  
  

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Three Media's XEN:Pipeline is a new generation Business Content Management System that will drive transformational change across the content supply chain.

Sitting at the heart of operations, its automated workflows and business processes are designed to discover, transform, curate and manage your metadata and content throughout its lifecycle, from concept through to distribution.