MISTV Mira: Programme Planning

With more than 25 years of experience in the business, MISTV® MIRA is our brand-new generation of integrated solutions built to meet today’s complex demands and needs for the operational administration of your TV station and/or advertising sales house. Our system will lead you to the maximization of your revenue and minimization of the operational costs.   MISTV® MIRA is strongly focused on automatization and optimization of all processes in the TV business, offering a fully customizable environment according to the client’s needs, powered by Microsoft® .NET Framework and Oracle® RDBMS. It is a user friendly, scalable, efficient, and powerful tool for the administration of your media business.

Programme planning

• Multi & cross channel/network planning, Linear and non-linear (VOD) broadcasting


• Automated changes and series planning


• Content-needs planning and schedule cost analytics

Scheduling

• Daily plans, Playlist, Post transmission log (As-run log)


• Breaks, Jingles and Secondary events


• Automatic scheduling and Alternative schedules

Automatic booking

• Advertising sales campaigns and ON-AIR self-promotion campaigns


• Optimization of delivery and inventory use


• Adjustable booking targets and conditions

Self-Promotion (OAP)

• Promo library and production requests


• Scheduling rules and conditions, Promotion campaigns management


• Promo inventory views and booking

Reporting, Interfaces and Jobs

• Playout, Research, Finance and Production, MAM, VOD, WWW, EPG, OTT, CGI


• RESTful API, FTP, DB views, XLS, XML, Printed


• Server based scheduled jobs, DB links

Professional service

• Helpdesk, Ticketing system, 24/7/365 technical support


• Fast and flexible on demand customizations


• User training and Consulting services

MIS is a long-established, leading player

on the international market providing complex solutions for advertising sales, rights, content and broadcast management. The company, with headquarters in Prague, has been specializing in the development of software solutions for TV broadcasters since it was established in 1995. Using innovative technologies and an exceptionally client orientated approach with outstanding flexibility, it is a partner you can rely on.

With more than 25 years of experience in the business, MISTV® MIRA is our brand-new generation of integrated solutions built to meet today’s complex demands and needs for the operational administration of your TV station and/or advertising sales house. Our system will lead you to the maximization of your revenue and minimization of the operational costs.   MISTV® MIRA is strongly focused on automatization and optimization of all processes in the TV business, offering a fully customizable environment according to the client’s needs, powered by Microsoft® .NET Framework and Oracle® RDBMS. It is a user friendly, scalable, efficient, and powerful tool for the administration of your media business.

Advertising sales and traffic

• Multiplatform Inventory - TV, online, OTD


• Pricelists, Coefficients, Discounts, Bonuses, Variable price modifications per client


• CRM, Budgeting, Contracts, Invoicing, Ratings, Campaigns fulfillment evaluation

Programme planning

• Multi & cross channel/network planning, Linear and non-linear (VOD) broadcasting


• Automated changes and series planning


• Content-needs planning and schedule cost analytics

Scheduling

• Daily plans, Playlist, Post transmission log (As-run log)


• Breaks, Jingles and Secondary events


• Automatic scheduling and Alternative schedules

Title & Content library

• Titles-Programs, Films, Series & Episodes


• Title description and categorization, Metadata and MAM integration


• Media management, Shipping, Clip versions, Formats, TCs and Breaks

Rights management

• Acquired rights and Own production


• License contracts and conditions, Runs, Costs, Payments


• Amortizations and Impairments, Dubbing, Used music / Royalties

Automatic booking

• Advertising sales campaigns and ON-AIR self-promotion campaigns


• Optimization of delivery and inventory use


• Adjustable booking targets and conditions

Self-Promotion (OAP)

• Promo library and production requests


• Scheduling rules and conditions, Promotion campaigns management


• Promo inventory views and booking

Reporting, Interfaces and Jobs

• Playout, Research, Finance and Production, MAM, VOD, WWW, EPG, OTT, CGI


• RESTful API, FTP, DB views, XLS, XML, Printed


• Server based scheduled jobs, DB links

Professional service

• Helpdesk, Ticketing system, 24/7/365 technical support


• Fast and flexible on demand customizations


• User training and Consulting services

MIS is a long-established, leading player

on the international market providing complex solutions for advertising sales, rights, content and broadcast management. The company, with headquarters in Prague, has been specializing in the development of software solutions for TV broadcasters since it was established in 1995. Using innovative technologies and an exceptionally client orientated approach with outstanding flexibility, it is a partner you can rely on.

With more than 25 years of experience in the business, MISTV® MIRA is our brand-new generation of integrated solutions built to meet today’s complex demands and needs for the operational administration of your TV station and/or advertising sales house. Our system will lead you to the maximization of your revenue and minimization of the operational costs.   MISTV® MIRA is strongly focused on automatization and optimization of all processes in the TV business, offering a fully customizable environment according to the client’s needs, powered by Microsoft® .NET Framework and Oracle® RDBMS. It is a user friendly, scalable, efficient, and powerful tool for the administration of your media business.

Title & Content library

• Titles-Programs, Films, Series & Episodes


• Title description and categorization, Metadata and MAM integration


• Media management, Shipping, Clip versions, Formats, TCs and Breaks

Rights management

• Acquired rights and Own production


• License contracts and conditions, Runs, Costs, Payments


• Amortizations and Impairments, Dubbing, Used music / Royalties

Self-Promotion (OAP)

• Promo library and production requests


• Scheduling rules and conditions, Promotion campaigns management


• Promo inventory views and booking

Reporting, Interfaces and Jobs

• Playout, Research, Finance and Production, MAM, VOD, WWW, EPG, OTT, CGI


• RESTful API, FTP, DB views, XLS, XML, Printed


• Server based scheduled jobs, DB links

Professional service

• Helpdesk, Ticketing system, 24/7/365 technical support


• Fast and flexible on demand customizations


• User training and Consulting services

MIS is a long-established, leading player

on the international market providing complex solutions for advertising sales, rights, content and broadcast management. The company, with headquarters in Prague, has been specializing in the development of software solutions for TV broadcasters since it was established in 1995. Using innovative technologies and an exceptionally client orientated approach with outstanding flexibility, it is a partner you can rely on.

The consumption of content continues to accelerate on an upwards path and the need to efficiently acquire, manage and deliver across the entire content supply chain becomes ever more compelling.

To achieve optimum performance we need to consider following a digital transformation strategy that builds on the four pillars of the content supply chain:

• Content – in all its forms, digital and physical, video, audio, graphics, captions, subtitles, scripts and documents, as well as all the associated and additional metadata


• Workflow – Nothing happens to content without direction, as simple or complex as needed. Business processes, logic and decisions must be performed to create cohesive and efficient workflows, taking into account both manual, and the increasing amount of automated tasks


• Resources – Workflows don’t happen without somebody or something managing and orchestrating them, whether it be a person and/or technology


• Analytics – How do you know how well your operation is running and that you’ve implemented efficient working practices? Analytics. Being able to measure and manage the business across the above 3 pillars enables an organisation to automate elasticity in resource utilisation, to understand the metrics of its operation, how efficient they are and ultimately how the bottom line is affected by them.

Undertaking a strategy that creates tight integration of all 4 pillars will deliver significant benefits to the organisation. Maximising the benefit requires the implementation of an agile and flexible content supply chain solution, so implementing a business solution, such as Mediaflex-UMS (Unified Media Services), that embraces all 4 pillars will ultimately lead to a significantly more efficient operation.

From its concept, Mediaflex-UMS has been designed to integrate these 4 pillars and place clients in control of their content, metadata and the business processes across their content supply chains. Equally as important, it was designed to place our customers in control of the Mediaflex-UMS platform.

So often organisations find out the hard way that the implementation of a new system requires them to go back to the vendor and/or rely on technology experts to modify the code to cater for new business processes, or modify existing ones, as the business changes. This often leads to the question “Do I build or buy?”.

Tiger Spaces is a project & user management software that enables you to create, assign and manage virtual project workspaces. Gain the freedom to move projects and assets across a mix of heterogenous storage solutions (shared Tiger SAN storage and any NAS SMB & NFS protocols), while preserving users’ mount points and data paths intact. Tiger Spaces carves out separate workspaces in your shared storage and users see each one as a local attached drive, which prevents inefficient scanning of workspaces and ensures best performance. You still manage one shared storage space - no added complexities. Tiger Spaces allows elastic project sizing as well as setting workspace quotas. Optional Avid bin-locking improves collaboration by allowing users to work on the same project simultaneously.

• monitoring hardware


• software and applications


• workflow orchestration of any complexity


• event recording for SLA reporting and later analysis


• controlling external devices and services


• media manipulation and delivery.

• Configuration, authentication, presentation


• Workflow tools


• Resource scheduling and analysis


• Device control


• Alarms and monitoring


• Dashboards and reporting

• Busby Configuration


• Selector (presentation of the current configuration)


• Busby Admin (an overview of the Busby system status)

• Centralized user interface for managing the configuration of your Busby system


• Allows configuration of all available services


• Versioning available for rollback to a previous state


• Secure


• Core system settings


• Various levels of deployments can be assigned to multiple machines or hosts


• All services can be configured through a simple form


• Drivers for connecting to numerous third-party hardware/ software devices

• Manual steps allow the Busby user to interact with the workflow directly


• Automatic steps might be an action performed on an asset like transcoding or the compilation of a report/schedule


• Multiple paths can be easily created in a workflow by adding ports


• Scripts can be added at any point in a workflow. Written in modern scripting languages and utilising built in libraries, frameworks and functions

• To present a workflow in a meaningful way we use boards.


• They allow for ultimate flexibility when deciding on the what workflow steps should be included and in what order.

• Allows for the presentation of a workflow where each vertical strip corresponds with a step in the workflow.


• Each separate job is represented as a card in a column. Behind the scenes a record is kept of the jobs progress and varying ‘states’ as it travels through the workflow.


• ‘Info-block’ metadata can be attached to jobs at any point


• Each board is customisable for  different user groups

• Other user interfaces are available


• Each can be displayed depending on the users' access permissions.


• Screens can also be tailored to display different parts of a workflow depending on the users’ requirements

• Creation of a Resource scheduling and diary modules


• OTT/TX chain overview user interface


• Multi-site connections using secure zone trunking


• Additional connectors to third-party system and services

The process begins by defining the reference commercials, either by marking them from the recorded feeds or by importing sample files.

The system automatically computes one specific fingerprints for each of the marked commercials.

AdWatch monitors the live feeds of all selected channels, and compares the fingerprint of the live feeds to the fingerprints of all the marked commercials (ads) or any other content stored in the database.

At the end of the process, AdWatch creates a database of all certified detections.

The user may produce a large set of reports from this database, by date, channel, brands, campaign and many other attributes.

For further analysis, there is a possibility to export any report to excel (.csv)

An integrated proxy-browse interface makes it simple to search, discover and browse media with its associated metadata, select clips, and carry out partial restore of content before downloading, saving both time and money for your organisation.

Paragon has the flexibility to be used as a standalone archive solution as well as being capable of being extended for wider business requirements by combining it with other TMD media services platforms.

• Reduce rework and save costs, by continuously validating IMF compliance throughout workflows to eliminate downstream errors


• Improve customer satisfaction and grow repeat business by always delivering 100% compliant IMF packages


• Realise the Quality Control cost benefits of IMF by aligning QC with the componentised, distributed processing of IMF workflows


• Ensure interoperability of your systems by testing new releases against the latest standards

VirtualNOC - a holistic approach to your live video infrastructure

Our end-to-end monitoring solution VirtualNOC collects data from all endpoints of the video delivery chain and monitors it 24/7. This allows operators to visualize issues clearly and take action before they affect viewers.

Stop finger-pointing, start fixing immediately:

Our real time, direct data sharing with CDNs removes arguments with your technology providers. Keep everyone focused on where the problem lies and solving it as quickly as possible.

Always stay in control, no matter where you are:

With a connection to the internet, operate from anywhere with cloud based VirtualNOC. Give your operations team the visibility tool they need for their complex workflows no matter where they are.

Replay and increase video ops efficiency:

Virtual NOC's Incident Playback System (IPS) enables comprehensive root cause analysis. Replay errors from the past to pinpoint root causes and prevent future issues to improve long term QoS.

Primestream is taking AI workflow to the next level with our new AI DataViewer module built into Xchange. Now through a powerful and simple interface, users can view and modify AI data such as speech to text transcription, or facial and object recognition from popular AI solutions like Microsoft’s Video Indexer.

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  • Dedicated servers reduce latency by up to 40% vs. virtual machines
  
  
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• Interconnected
  
  
  
  • Connect all 60+ bare metal PoPs via Zenlayer’s private backbone
  
  
  • Directly connect to public clouds such as AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, etc.
  
  
  
  


• On demand
  
  
  
  • Activate in 10 minutes
  
  
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• Enables classification of video-content and sub-content.


• Enables personalised user-experiences through playlist generation.


• Enables Contextual Advertising.


• Improves Search Engine Optimisation.


• Improves Content Recommendation Engine.

In this digital age, where the sheer amount and demand for content are unprecedented, and content access requires ubiquity, every organization faces the challenge of addressing explosive content growth while effectively managing libraries and adding value to their digital assets by making them available anywhere. Simply put, the proliferation of content necessitates better ways to store and manage digital content—whether that be media files, branded materials, or documentation.

MediaPower takes asset management to new heights with Arkki EVO, a powerful and innovative digital asset manager that enables you to store, catalog, share, edit, retrieve, and distribute digital assets quickly and efficiently. Arkki EVO is a global content platform that lets you manage all types of assets and asset correlations effectively.Built on a dynamic and scalable architecture, Arkki EVO lets you take control of your digital content through its data-driven and user-centered features, so that you can focus on your core business and less time on searching and managing the right digital asset.Arkki EVO provides an online proxy library of digital content with enterprise-level features and powerful tools accessible from any web browser or mobile device. Users can upload, process, edit, download and share multiple assets and projects, proofed with version history that enables monitoring and analysis of a digital asset’s updates and duplications. It is also fully integrated with blockchain standards (Merkle Tree concept) for extending security and content ownership.

Arkki EVO incorporates a robust set of features from the types of file it supports, to unique and powerful data structures, built-in video editing capabilities, and OTT streaming capability:

• Asset Collections- Create, edit, and share collections of assets between users.


• Different File Types Supported - Full range of multimedia files, images, and documents, with OCR support.


• Graph Database and Link Object - Deep graph structures with unique Link Object for asset correlation.


• Storage Management - Store assets in different storage and archive tiers for optimal balance.


• Standalone or Cloud-based - Hosted on a single Virtual Machine for standalone or scalable cloud system.


• Semantic Search Engine - Semantic algorithm to contextualize data and find asset correlations.


• Built-in Video Editing and Transcoding - Built-in video editing and transcoding tools to handle and process videos.


• Digital Asset Management Workflows - Create workflows – from importing to delivery, with automation triggers.


• Collaboration Tools - Collaborative tools for asset creation, licensing, marketing, to distribution.


• Multi-user - Complete user management system for managing users, groups, & access.


• Sharing-friendly - Share links to projects or individual assets to internal & external users.


• Rights Management Plugin - Built-in rights management support to ensure control over licensed assets.


• Multi-tenancy - Share or distribute digital assets to user groups and external parties.


• Resource Optimization - System resources are balanced and made available for all services.


• GDPR compliant - Supports GDPR with tokenization, cryptography & advanced data management.


• OTT delivery - Deliver video assets via OTT connector to IPTV, Web TV, or Social Networks.


• A.I. Integration - Integrates with Google, AWS, Microsoft and IBM A.I. infrastructures.


• Flexible and Configurable - Customize and control to a simple MAM, large DAM, or archive libraries.

Arkki EVO’s graph database, Link Object, advanced tagging and the robust processing engine work in tandem to create complex nested data collections and customize and control the entire platform as appropriate—from a simple MAM, or large DAM, to archive libraries.

What is FPS

FPS software presents an interface to the user to launch their applications, the key objective is to make it easier for the user to create, production staff to manage and companies to minimise risk. The direct result is less stress and improved output.

The interface can be modified to suite the job at hand and focuses on managing the content and sharing this content between multiple teams on the local network, remotely or in the Cloud.

FPS is production asset management software that dynamically tracks workflow components from ingest to archive. With a simply but clever interface to tag and search we do not get in the way of the editor or graphics person creation, their work comes to them.

FOCAL POINT SERVER operates a ‘traffic light’ system that allows seamless collaboration. As the number users grows so does the importance of FPS.

How can we Help?

Enforce correct file naming

Save to the correct file location

Control versions & overwriting

Pushes out project preferences and system templates

Track Projects & Manage Media

Work comes to you by using intelligent filtering and search

Compatible with all major software eg Adobe Suite, Resolve, FC Pro X, Avid, Pro-Tools etc

Find files in 1..2..3 Clicks

The Result:

Flexible working LAN, WAN, Cloud and Remote

Manage users unfamiliar with rules e.g freelance or new staff

Assist production and IT Staff to manage and track work

Reduce File Management

Eliminate file loss

Increase productivity

Maintain company compliance

Protect against accidental deletion

Reduce costs across the board

FPS is a workflow orchestration tool, we work with your existing software, manage the content – create a folder with the name of the job, put your files in the correct place, and make available to other users through intelligent filtering and search.

So in fast moving environments where there is no time to tag assets or where there are many difference types of users and output requiring sharing and organising FPS is perfect.

• Boost subscriber value: NAGRA Insight recommends the most relevant actions to acquire and retain subscribers, upsell, and offer the best price and package content. It provides precise data on service usage, on a per-subscriber basis, in real time and also enables the operator to optimize the user interface and the customer experience.


• Improve content management: with NAGRA Insight, service providers can increase the usage of their services through individual recommendation. NAGRA Insight also enables them to quantify the value of every content asset, in order to better program, package and negotiate.


• Drive operations: NAGRA Insight optimizes resource-intensive areas especially regarding device management and software update roll-out. It also aggregates data from all networks to increase speed of diagnosis of network issues, keep CDN costs under control and manage the quality of video displayed on OTT services.


• Increase advertising efficiency: NAGRA Insight increases programmatic TV advertising revenues. It delivers linear slots inventory and valuation and enables audience qualification, advertising attributes, demographics and interests. As a result, advertising is more precise, targeted, efficient and cost-effective.