SDVI Rally Media Supply Chain Platform

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For over 55 years we’ve been providing satellite services for governments and multinational businesses. We offer satellite product across BT for managed services through our carrier-class and broadcast-grade Madley earth station in the UK, and with partner teleports around the world.

Our capabilities include:

• Satellite Broadband Pro.


• Satellite IP carrier grade services.


• Broadband Global Area Network (BGAN).


• Custom solutions.


• Broadcast satellite uplinks.

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The exponential growth of mobile devices, allowing for 24/7 connection, has been a boon to streaming digital audio. To profitably tap into this growing audience, publishers need the ability to manage distribution and monetization from the office, from home, or while on-the-go.

WO Streaming helps broadcasters monetize streaming digital content via direct-sold campaigns, as well as through WideOrbit’s ad sales partners and our programmatic digital audio platform. Our solution makes it simple to drive revenue, expand listenership, and extend content from linear broadcast to digital audio platforms.

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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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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?”.

With Mediaflex-UMS you get the best of both worlds: buying a system that allows authorised personnel to use the tool-sets built into the system to design, modify and configure it to meet the ever-changing demands of the business as the consumption of media continues to change.

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The Draco ultra DP Gaming Extender enables extension of gaming signals at the ultra-fast response times demanded by professional gamers. Gamers can compete in Esports events without the noise and clutter of local gaming machines. Organizers can relocate gaming equipment to a protected and secure remote server room, for better performance and to reduce the risk of unauthorized access.

Smooth mouse movements

The Draco ultra DP Gaming KVM Extender is tailored to the needs of professional gamers. The device supports frame rates up to 240 Hz at full HD resolution (1080p) with no perceivable delay in game controller interaction.  During fast action play, gamers view smooth and sharp images with no controller lag that might hinder their play.

IHSE’s Draco ultra DP Gaming Extenders constitute a new generation of digital KVM signal extension. Developed in collaboration with the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (IIS), the revolutionary coding technology ensures brilliant image quality at the highest video resolutions with full 30 bit color depth and optimal 4:4:4 sampling.

Variable frame rates

The high refresh rate and instant interactive response of the Draco ultra DP Gaming KVM Extender allows players to operate remotely located computers over a single duplex fiber cable up to 5 km away and at video resolutions up to 5120×1440 at 144 Hz or 1920×1080 at 240 Hz.

The Draco ultra DP Gaming Extender incorporates lossless, real time video conversion from 240 Hz to 60 Hz, enabling simultaneous live screen display, over-the-air and online broadcast and social media distribution directly from gaming computers.

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The Draco ultra DP Gaming Extender enables extension of gaming signals at the ultra-fast response times demanded by professional gamers. Gamers can compete in Esports events without the noise and clutter of local gaming machines. Organizers can relocate gaming equipment to a protected and secure remote server room, for better performance and to reduce the risk of unauthorized access.

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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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The Draco ultra DP Gaming Extender enables extension of gaming signals at the ultra-fast response times demanded by professional gamers. Gamers can compete in Esports events without the noise and clutter of local gaming machines. Organizers can relocate gaming equipment to a protected and secure remote server room, for better performance and to reduce the risk of unauthorized access.

Smooth mouse movements

The Draco ultra DP Gaming KVM Extender is tailored to the needs of professional gamers. The device supports frame rates up to 240 Hz at full HD resolution (1080p) with no perceivable delay in game controller interaction.  During fast action play, gamers view smooth and sharp images with no controller lag that might hinder their play.

IHSE’s Draco ultra DP Gaming Extenders constitute a new generation of digital KVM signal extension. Developed in collaboration with the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (IIS), the revolutionary coding technology ensures brilliant image quality at the highest video resolutions with full 30 bit color depth and optimal 4:4:4 sampling.

Variable frame rates

The high refresh rate and instant interactive response of the Draco ultra DP Gaming KVM Extender allows players to operate remotely located computers over a single duplex fiber cable up to 5 km away and at video resolutions up to 5120×1440 at 144 Hz or 1920×1080 at 240 Hz.

The Draco ultra DP Gaming Extender incorporates lossless, real time video conversion from 240 Hz to 60 Hz, enabling simultaneous live screen display, over-the-air and online broadcast and social media distribution directly from gaming computers.

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latakoo is a cloud-based platform that is the fastest, easiest and most secure way to get video from anywhere to anywhere, regardless of connectivity or file size.

Using the latakoo Flight mobile or desktop application, broadcasters and post-production companies can select video from editing programs, professional cameras, or phones and send files from anywhere in the world wherever they need to go. Files arrive in the latakoo cloud, for viewing, sharing, and transcription. Depending on the workflow selected, files may be automatically downloaded to the broadcast center, to content management systems, or social media platforms.

latakoo securely complies with corporate firewall and security standards and integrates seamlessly with asset managers such as Avid, Dalet, Grass Valley and bitcentral systems.

Customizable metadata collection and transcription are part of the integrated solution. This means any metadata associated with the file travels with it - to the cloud for sharing and ingested into the asset manager.

Through its flexible and easy-to-use system, latakoo can be configured to meet your unique video workflow. latakoo delivers video wherever it’s needed with seamless integrations to CMS providers, social media platforms and more.

Closed captioning can be implemented for both broadcast and social media workflows.

latakoo is now launching Manifest, which will track an assignments from concept to delivery, with notifications when files are ready to share or send to playout.

latakoo is packed with the most sophisticated technology and supported 24/7 by people who live and breathe on your broadcast deadlines, just like you. latakoo is Avid Platform Certified and an Avid Alliance Partner.

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TMD’s Media Portal has been developed to provide a standardised method of receiving content. It is designed to make it simpler for media organisations to manage the process of receiving content, along with making it easier and more efficient for studios and third-party collaborators to deliver content to them. Media Portal provides an intuitive solution to transfer media content, with no technical knowledge required. This is preferable to many other methods of transferring content, where there may be limitations on file sizes and formats as well as security challenges.

With Mediaflex Media Portal, all that is required is for suppliers to access the web address of the organisation’s portal, which could be on the public internet. Once logged in the user is immediately presented with what media content they need to transfer to the Mediaflex platform. The first screen the user sees is a hierarchical list of media content grouped by Series, Season, Episode and Versions, all ordered by deadline date.

Once uploaded, the video content then goes through an initial set of pre-configured ingest technical QC processes, making it easy to see which files have been successfully uploaded, passed the initial technical checks and are ready to send onto the next stages of the content supply chain processes. Any number of users can upload at the same time from different user accounts located across multiple locations around the world. Configurable metadata fields are completed by the user at the same time, enabling discoverability and searchability of the content once it is enters Mediaflex as a media item.

Media Portal includes comprehensive logging of events including capturing the details of all files uploaded, sent and deleted. The interface is configurable for each media organisation, and intuitively provides support information and support availability based on the location of the user.

 

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eMAM is a powerful media asset management platform that provides users an intuitive web interface to collaboratively produce, share, and deliver video and other media.  Artists and designers use integrated tools inside Adobe Creative Cloud and Apple Final Cut systems.  With built-in tools and over 80 technology partners, eMAM manages native resolution files and integrated workflow processes needed by leading organizations worldwide since 2006 in local, cloud, and hybrid environments.  eMAM helps organizations respond to emerging demands with scalability, easy reconfiguration, and multiple ordering options:  by purchase, by subscription, or by turnkey cloud SaaS and VM/PaaS.   Contact one of our system integration partners at emamsolutions.com/reseller or get eMAM Cloud from the AWS and Alibaba Cloud Marketplaces or emamcloud.com.

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The Mediaflex Video Browser is an intuitive web-based UI, enabling the viewing of all Parliamentary sessions in legislature chambers and meeting rooms, as well as recordings from studios and external locations. Where recordings are from the chambers, during and after the sessions, senators and senate aides and any authorised personnel can view the recordings and access any section of the clips in near real-time as they are being recorded. Selected clips can be added to a workflow, which makes the clip recordings available to senators and staff for use in their parliamentary duties.

The Video Browser is configurable for access rights. It can be set to only be accessed via a login screen from an authorised network, so it is only available to approved users, or set to have open access if desired.

Recorded content is searchable by configurable criteria, including date, what is currently being recorded, by location, and by keyword (the content of each recorded session). All sessions are recorded to a preservation format and a browse format, with the browse format being configurable including live frame-accurate HLS with closed captions. A thumbnail of the recording and the close captions can also be viewed. The Video Browser reads the captions with corresponding timecodes from the database and/or a file. It supports captions in any language, and in any number of languages.

A recording may be many hours long. Video Browser enables the user to select a single clip from the recording, several short clips as well as single or multiple clips from multiple recordings. The user is the able to see the selected clips in a timeline, which can then be added to a workflow.

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Flow Works specializes in the technical processing of media content (of any type) as well as editorial & management processes of any kind.Flow Works consists of 6 core parts: Flow Center, Flow Device and Workflow Manager, Flow Coder – Media Transcoding, Flow Storage Manager, Flow Fuel Playout Modules & Interfaces, Flow ANT – the Micro Media Management System. Flow Center is a highly integrated, complete workflow and asset management solution. It specializes in the technical processing of media content (of any type) as well as editorial & management processes of any kind.

Flow Center covers all technical, workflow and integration needs encompassing:

• Editorial to administrative management of media content (archive, editorial processes, automated workflows, communication, distribution / publishing)


• Complete technical handling and editing of media content (transcoding, cut, brand, mux, crop, delivery, playout)


• Integration of third-party technical, management and distribution applications into complete and automatable workflow chains.

Both as primary purpose or line-extention, Flow Works offers a wide range of made-to-measure web based services/surfaces for specific tasks. These services, collectively called “Fuel”, can be categorised into four groups:

• Production workflows (uploader, dailies, screening & approvals, file exchange)


• Project workflows (uploader, multiple content pool management, projects management, screener, file exchange)


• Publishing workflows (content pool management, distribution / channel management, file delivery)


• Playout (web TV, corporate TV, showrooms / crm, press-services, shops, apps, hybrid, social media – all via any device)

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Draco tera compact matrix switches enable switching between various computers and remote consoles (keyboard, mouse, monitor and other peripheral devices). The Draco tera compact is available with fiber and Cat X ports in all switch sizes (with 8, 16, 32, 48, 64 and 80 ports). The 64 and 80 ports chassis switches are also available as hybrid versions, equipped with 48 Cat X ports and 16 / 32 fiber ports. Integral Flex-Port technology provides dynamic configuration of all input and output ports. The matrix serves as a repeater. Data transmission via fiber optic cable allows transfer distances of up to 10 kilometers on either side of the matrix, which is ideal for interconnection between buildings. Computers can quickly be accessed from any position. You can access the Draco tera compact for configuration via OSD, Draco tera tool or serial interface.

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Cloud-based production management software to automate and to centralize end-to-end production process. Designed with the latest web and mobile technologies for today’s digital workplace, Teamium provides extended teams with all the collaboration tools they need to coordinate production work including budgeting scheduling and resource management.

A full, simple and collaborative solution that allows the user to coordinate editorial and production teams, manage in-house or external resources and accurately track costs.

Resource and Talent Scheduling

With a simple, intuitive and interactive interface, Teamium will help you wean off spreadsheets. Simply drag and drop, shrink and stretch your selection, for a single item or a group. Once the resources are scheduled, you can instantly notify one or more members for action from within the application.

Planning & Budgeting

Simplify your task with all the resources you need with your cost and pricing rules. Teamium allows you to build complex multi-variable rate cards for resources and customer specific pricing rules into the system. The interactive tool then allows you to quickly achieve your desired budget. Once the project is green-lighted, the information is automatically saved into a functional work order so you can start scheduling resources.

Resource Management

Whether it is keeping a record of maintenance schedule for a camera or leave management for an employee or availability of a freelancer, Teamium handles it all. Teamium lets you import data from your company systems using our open API. Teamium also supports barcode integration and RFID.

User-defined Business Processes

Increase your team engagement and participation with configurable push notifications, approvals with e-signatures, group chats, task assignments for instant communication. Keep all stakeholders with up to the minute information for making decisions and getting things done. With Teamium’s user-friendly workflow builder, create robust, work processes focused on optimizing your activities tailored to your business rules.

Saas

Get benefits from Teamium® in the Cloud, without actually having to install any software, but rather through a simple subscription to the relevant package.

BYOD

Teamium®, as a scalable and flexible solution, connects you on any devices, and allow you to manage your production from your home or office or on the go.

The following licensing models are available:

• perpetual license with a maintenance contract


• rental license

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Unify media operations with BLAM from Blue Lucy.

Designed to meet the complex content production and delivery requirements for the multiplatform age. BLAM combines media management, workflow orchestration & operational task management in a single solution.

BLAM workflows are entirely customisable through an easy to use drag-and-connect interface. BLAM is truly transformative in operational optimisation.

BLAM Benefits

Operationally Focused BLAM enables your business to:

• Create efficiencies through automation:

BLAM enables the controlled migration of production and operations to cloud-based service models.

• Reduce operational costs and exploit new revenue opportunities:

BLAM enables content owners and distributors to capitalise on a multiplatform presence.

• Connect disparate systems:

BLAM connects production and business systems to provide broad visibility and enables ‘low friction’ business operations.

See BLAM in action: https://bluelucy.com/in-action/

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Industry leading Management Tools for your Media Business

 

Serving clients across production, post-production, broadcasting, equipment rental, agency, and education

 

Organize and track project resources, plan and control the project lifecycle, and manage day-to-day tasks.  farmerswife exists to simplify your work

 

Expert global multilingual team will help you all the way from implementation to day-to-day support

[1] schedule

Powerful Resource Scheduling developed from 21 years of deep experience of client needs

Simple to use for all employees from management to creatives

Real time updates whether in the office, work from home or on the road

[2] manage

Unlimited resources, including people, rooms, desks, equipment

Assign and manage projects across your entire team Track your production costs from start to finish and everything in between

[3] collaborate

Work on Team Tasks using a powerful set of mobile tools

Coordinate resources, communicate and share files in one central hub

Instantly improve efficiency with custom workflows & templates

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ONE GUI gives access to all information and controls that are relevant to the software operators. And it hides all options and controls that a user at his role level should not have access to. Different access levels based on a user/group/role definition can be configured. A login dialogue grants access and gives access to the options according to the user’s role. This said the processing farms “customers” for instance can be limited to watch the status while only operators can change priorities but just supervisors can stop and delete a job within the job list of a processing farm.

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WHATS’ON is Europe's most advanced platform for managing and programming radio, TV and online content channels. With modular desktop applications or web-based applications in the cloud that sit at the centre of future-proof media operation ecosystems, MEDIAGENIX help optimise and automate the life cycles of content, and drive efficiencies throughout the content supply chain from acquisition over planning, scheduling and rights management to publication and beyond. The solution supports the entire content workflow, or drives content/rights/media/EPG/finance workflows as a central system complemented with best-of-breed niche applications, to strategically run a mix of OTT, VoD and Linear business.

MEDIAGENIX started out in 1992 helping a commercial channel move away from Excel sheets and handwritten programme schedules. After decades of co-creation with an ever growing international customer community, MEDIAGENIX rank among the top of tech vendors in the international media industry, serving  customers in Europe, the Middle East, the United States, Asia, Latin America and Oceania. Customers include public and commercial radio and TV stations, on-demand platforms, OTT streamers, telcos and their service providers.

Your benefits

Optimally exploit your content on any VOD services Driven by rights. Fully verified. Completely integrated with multiformat workflow management. Catch-up & preview services driven from the linear schedules.

Manage smart linear channels end to end Integrated workflows, from budget plan to fully crafted playlists. Automatically in line with rights,regulations, business rules, branding and marketing targets. Use the same toolset for your VOD operations.

Don’t leave money on the table Exploit your rights to the full. Always know the value of stock and schedule, and your ROI. Manage your commercial inventory.

Streamline the material workflow Manage and monitor the workflows for both VOD and Linear publication.

Integrate, automate & future-proof media operations Integrate with standard interfaces or with the toolkit to create your own REST API calls. Set up workflows across departments and systems.

Hit the targets and report on everything Calculate and report on statistics, quota values, financial information, content and all other kinds of information.

Effortlessly stay within legal boundaries Always be sure your scheduling is in compliance with parental ratings, and observes licence conditions and government regulations.

Build your audience Schedule promotions — automatically, manually or combined — based on ratings and targets.

 

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Eliminate tools, increase productivity and collaborate using Cirkus

Schedule, assign and manage projects

Bring clarity to your plans, and task ownership to your team

Collaborate with anyone

Coordinate resources, collaborate and  share files in one central hub

Create custom templates

Reuse your successful workflows and instantly improve efficiency

 

https://cirkus.com/getting-started/

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Protect your valuable data with Paragon for Archives

Designed for flexibility and ease of use, Paragon is a Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM) platform that can scale from systems for a single user or small workgroups, through to large national archives responsible for the safe storage of petabytes of data.

The Paragon system provides an open architecture to deliver a media-aware storage management system by utilising the LTFS standard and controlling LTO data libraries. It creates a fully-managed, digital content library that is device independent, future proof, and secure, while enabling easy access to archived content and making it simple to repurpose it across teams and organisations.

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.

 

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Accedo One is a cloud-based SaaS platform that enables video providers to configure, manage, and scale video experiences across multiple devices. It includes:

Customizable Designs

Accedo One gives customers access to premium native apps, a flexible front-end, and the ability to easily configure a video service that is unique to their brand.

Partner Marketplace

The Accedo One Marketplace features a partner ecosystem of streaming vendors to cover every area of configuring, managing, and growing a video service. The Marketplace is constantly expanding and Accedo’s Software Development Kit makes it easy to extend these integrations with additional platforms according to demand.

Service Analytics

Accedo One offers an aggregated display of essential business analytics so that users can optimize their service based on real data.

 

User-Friendly Editor 

Accedo One features a visual WYSIWYG editor for easy content curation and UI management. This enables users to test and roll-out changes to live services without re-submitting to the app stores.

 

More information: https://www.accedo.tv/one/

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Accedo Android Launcher is a Google certification-ready custom launcher for operators with high demands on reliability, customizability, and premium user experiences. Powered by the Accedo Control SaaS solution, it allows customers to brand, manage and update their UX dynamically, so that it can continuously evolve as the customer base and their expectations grow. Accedo Launcher helps companies create a highly engaging experience by seamlessly aggregating their own content and that from selected 3rd party applications in one carefully branded interface.

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The Accedo Elevate solution works as a starting point for the app development process. It ensures a quick time to market by using an established architecture that is simple to integrate, customize, and extend as required, Accedo Elevate reduces the complexity of managing device fragmentation and an often lengthy vendor certification process, allowing customers to focus their efforts on content creation and bottom line revenue growth.

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MediaPulse

MediaPulse is the only end-to-end software solution for the complete content lifecycle. MediaPulse provides scheduling, automation, asset management, billing and cost recovery for broadcasters, media services companies and transmission facilities in a scalable platform-independent solution.

 

The robust and flexible architecture manages not only today’s requirements but is designed for your future needs.  Specifically created to provide operational mastery and financial control to our clients’ facilities, MediaPulse provides a transparent and evolutionary solution for all resource, media based and transmission workflow requirements.

 

The driving force behind MediaPulse is a commitment to deliver custom configured software with the economies of a commercially available software package.

 

Here is a list of features in MediaPulse:

 

MediaPulse Sky is a complete user experience reimagined for the web and mobile devices. The interface is completely configurable through our Layout Editor. Each screen and every user can have separate Client, Web and Mobile layouts. This tool allows the layout of every screen to be fully customized to individual user needs by a system administrator.

 

The Job Management module incorporates the fundamental tools needed to manage jobs and projects, such as service codes, rate cards, job costing and invoice production.

 

A wide range of standard reports are included with the MediaPulse system, and all can be tailored to fit specific needs and automatically run on a defined schedule. The Report Designer, a built-in feature allows the creation of completely custom reports fitting your unique business requirements.

 

MediaPulse offers a flexible architecture with unique tools and security infrastructure. Designed using the latest methodology to take full advantage of the technology benefits of the .NET framework and open standards, MediaPulse is primed for the future.

 

MediaPulse can be internationalized to run in any language. The language used for all field prompts, menus, tab headings and other text used in the software may be changed based on the individual user’s log-in identity.

 

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Accedo Orchestra is a highly customizable video management platform for live and VOD workflows. Leveraging AWS Media Services, the solution can be deployed on customers’ AWS accounts and allows them to quickly and seamlessly manage all baseline functionalities in place.

It allows the flexibility to change, add, or remove any piece of the video ecosystem as required, either by adding new features or removing unnecessary components. It is also easy to integrate with front-end apps and backend systems.

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Accedo XR is a cross-platform solution that allows customers to easily launch Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality experiences and step into the Metaverse. By using templated designs, video service providers can quickly build and launch entirely new services or opt to transform existing content and applications.

 

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Accedo Social Watching enables video service providers to deliver a social viewing experience through the synchronized co-watching of live, VOD, or linear content. Users can host public or private watch parties, invite their friends directly, or publicly share invitations. The ability to text, video or audio call alongside the video playback creates a truly interactive and social experience which keeps users engaged.

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VIDA is the first content operating system and the next stage in SaaS library management combining the best of cloud-native content operations with predictive, intelligent tools that support today’s media workflows. From clip sales and production collaboration to library management and connected platform distribution, VIDA’s flexible ecosystem supports the scalability and agility required to meet industry demand for library content. With exceptional customer service, best-in-class technology infrastructure and quality-first solutions, VIDA ensures you get the most value out of your library – at every stage.

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SDVI Rally is a cloud-native media supply chain platform that deploys all the applications and infrastructure to create a dynamic, responsive media supply chain. These resources can be located on-premise, in a public cloud, in a private cloud, or in any combination.

Growth  |  Rally helps you to make smart business decisions quickly, supporting new revenue streams and accelerating time to revenue. Predictable costing data paired with technical flexibility allows you to align costs with expected revenue. Consumption-based pricing means you only pay for what you use, with freedom to switch at any time.

Agility  |  Reduce capital infrastructure and align costs with output. Rally radically shortens design and implementation: no procurement, no hardware, and no systems integration all mean no delay. Rally allows you to choose the right tools for the job and retain security and control of your content and infrastructure.

Efficiency  |  Rally helps you do more with less, increasing output by applying resources where they add real value. Smart automation minimizes error and provides more productive interactions with the entire supply chain​. Create tailored user experiences to improve operator engagement. Vendor-agnostic flexibility gives you instant access to the best-fit tools, and a comprehensive dashboard helps you monitor content flow, observe trends, spot potential problems, and measure performance.

Elasticity  |  With the ability to utilize resources in any on-premise or cloud environment, Rally frees you from traditional infrastructure constraints.  All data within Rally is encrypted in-transit and while at rest using cloud-provider or customer-defined encryption keys.

Explore our Application Services Market, the widest array of best-in-class tools in the industry - there when you need them, gone when you don't.

Learn more about how some of the biggest names in media are using Rally.

-- Read about the Emmy for Pioneering Cloud-based Media Supply Chains

Learn about Rally use cases, from content receipt and normalization to localization and archiving.

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DejaEdit is a ground-breaking film tool that allows editors and operators to collaborate between multiple remote Avid editing platforms. It ensures that media and timelines created or imported in one connected system are shared and mirrored to the local or network storage of other connected systems. This takes place automatically, quickly and securely in the background, using an internet connection. Although it is not necessary to be online continuously.

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It automates the end-to-end process of defining,
assigning and executing work across the content lifecycle.
Leveraging this, Media & Entertainment (M&E) enterprises can track every incoming work request across the entire content supply chain down to its associated processes, tasks and deliverables, till completion. In addition, the assets required during each stage of work are conveniently available on the same system.
With BPM driven tasks, smart resource allocations, due date-based work order dashboards, in-depth data analytics and reporting, Work Order Management is a vital ingredient that helps content enterprises improve output quality and maintain on-time delivery alongside increase in scale. It lays the foundation for streamlining content operations and helps enhance efficiencies across core processes like Acquisition, Review & Approval, Cataloguing, QC, Mastering, Distribution, Promos and Localization

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Dimetis mX Media Exchange is a powerful media workflow automation platform for broadcasters, service providers and content creators. It provides comprehensive management, automation and transfer of large files with enhanced metadata handling for video and audio files while providing an elegant user experience. mX Media Exchange enables the creation and management of complex file-based workflows and easily connects with 3rd party systems (transcoders, file checkers, workflow and process systems, WAN accelerators, wrappers, NMS’s, storage, planning tools and more). mX Media Exchange can be deployed as standalone or cloud-based, and is based on a modularized architecture for unmatched flexibility and scalability.

Advanced Metadata Editor and Management Users can view, edit and manage a powerful set of technical and editorial metadata with the mX Media Exchange editor – Frame rate, duration of video (and duration of usable content), start frame, file name, file format, size, scanning and codec information, audio coding, and much more. For an efficient workflow, mX can automatically import metadata from remote sources such as Media Asset Management (MAM) systems, planning systems, and media files. mX can read and export metadata based on given or required metadata formats. For a quick lookup of files, they can be tagged and categorized. Because metadata is directly integrated with workflows, you can define rules which trigger decision-based workflows based on metadata input (FlowControl).

Workflow Builder Build your own workflows with the graphical-based Workflow Builder to automate technical processes like transcoding and QC, or to notify users when their job has been completed. Orchestrate your existing tools and systems, trigger systems to take actions and share your data between different storage systems. With the latest new scripting feature, you can take control and enhance workflows to communicate with your own applications and transform existing scripts into one umbrella platform.

Preview Player The mX Media Exchange preview player was developed to achieve a real-time view of video files, without the need of any browser plugins. The player also supports the selection of available audio channels in real-time and provides demuxing of streams. Users can also inspect all the metadata and audio levels of a file within the preview player.

3rd Party Systems Integration mX Media Exchange provides many interfaces to 3rd party applications and systems such as file checkers, transfer systems (Aspera, Signiant, Tixel, etc.), transcoders, storage, wrappers and metadata servers. mX Media Exchange can be entirely controlled from external systems by Rest JSON or XML-based REST API.

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Managing metadata is hard

It “lives” in lots of different places. making quality a real problem.  Fixing quality issues takes time and money.

Fuse Metadata Manager tackles those issues head-on

It’s a single store for all of your metadata. Automation consolidates data and eliminates duplicate records. It can help you turn metadata into better data.

Fuse Metadata Manager can help you manage, monetise and maximise the value of your metadata

Create a single source of truth for your metadata, Turn raw data into decision-making power. Cut the amount of time and money spent on manual tasks. Empower a slicker, more rewarding customer experience and get future-ready with a reliable, scalable metadata platform

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With nearly a decade of developing AI and computer vision tools for the world’s number one interactive video platform at WIREWAX, and with another two decades of experience in the video and broadcast space, the team identified ways to leverage the platform’s award-winning image processing technologies in the big media sector too.

Lightning fast; face and object recognition, segmentation, fingerprinting, speech recognition and many other unparalleled tools available in the suite has changed the game for the broadcast and media industry.

Being able to scan entire archives of video assets and create a powerful, digital understanding of videos, programmes and movies with this core technology has enabled large TV and movie studios to leverage data and digital tools and services like never before.

 

We’ve not met a media business on the planet that doesn’t have a digitised asset problem. Lack of metadata, no understanding of content, zero monetisation capabilities and gigantic and disorganized archives. Not to mention expensive asset management, overpriced syndication and VOD preparation, and notoriously slow and extortionate manual services.

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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.

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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.

 

 

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Ateliere Connect is a fully cloud-native platform for content servicing that centralizes geographically-distributed workflows, allowing content owners full control and visibility. It’s designed to operate natively in the cloud to scale up and down automatically depending on volumes and urgency. With Connect, content owners can efficiently manage and store assets, create versions, and deliver content to countless broadcast endpoints from one unified platform. Our proprietary parallel-scaling technology, made possible by the cloud, enables efficient and high-quality production workflows.

Connect is fully provisioned to manage workflows for over 100 platforms, which means every step can be handled within our platform, from ingest to delivery. End-to-end supply chain workflows can be completely automated with AI-driven microservices within Connect.

FrameDNA™ is an AI image recognition tool within Connect that scans multiple versions of content, identifies the frames that are similar and different, and automatically deduplicates the versions, allowing users to consolidate multiple versions into lightweight, nimble IMF packages. By running their content libraries through FrameDNA, companies have been able to reduce their overall storage footprints by an average of 70%. In addition, their titles are now ready to be rendered out in any localized or conformed version quickly and efficiently for global distribution to any platform endpoint.

FrameDNA works in tandem with Deep Analysis, a media probing tool within Connect that rapidly analyzes video files, identifies various elements, including scene changes, color bars, blacks, texted scenes, slates, and essences, and displays them on a graphical timeline view without the user having to watch the file back. For a 54-minute 2K HD ProRes show, this process happens in about 10 mins--that's a time savings of 80%. Deep Analysis can also detect when subtitles overlap with on-screen text. The push to bring legacy libraries into global streaming services requires language/caption support in 26+ versions. All major streaming services immediately reject a show if there’s an issue with caption/texted scene overlap. The quality assurance task once only performed by humans is now fully automated with Deep Analysis. It can detect instances of timed text/texted scene overlap with around 40% more accuracy and 80% faster than manual QC methods.

Connect affords studios and post houses maximum flexibility under their control. Companies can choose the model that works for them--SaaS or PaaS-- and use our modular framework to select only the components of the platform that they need. They don't have to build an entirely new supply chain from scratch to take advantage of the benefits. Connect seamlessly integrates with existing partners and systems via a fully accessible API.

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Sony NMS Ven.ue offers content distribution solutions in a variety of models based on a customer's distribution needs. This includes content distribution to multiple endpoints (i.e. Sony Pictures assets in and distributed out to iTunes, Amazon, Netflix, etc.) as well as content aggregation on behalf of a single endpoint (I.e. sourcing of SPE, NBCU, Fox, etc. assets in and distributed to Google Play platform).

Supply chain services encompass content ingest, content processing, transcoding, QC, closed caption/subtitle conform work, packaging and delivery to digital endpoints per the technical specifications required by these endpoints. Our clients include BBC Studios, Google Play, Under the Milky Way, Sony Pictures, Sony PlayStation, Filmbank Media, Funimation and The National Hot Rod Association.

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GO Live solution consists of Contego CAS/DRM,  GO Live back-end, pre-integrated partner equipment for encoding and streaming, secure client and apps. The end-to-end solution enables deploying the service within 30 days! The GO Live multiscreen solution will enable you to: • Stream live-TV to iOS and Android devices• Expand TV offerings outside a fixed network footprint• Obtain new customers and create new revenue streams• Retain customers and increase loyalty• Increase revenue of existing customer base• Improve customer satisfaction• Improve understanding of customer viewing habits with our monitoring system

The most important features of GO Live are: • Live-TV, Start-over TV, Pause live-TV, Trick play and Catch-up• TV guide with catch-up support• Personalized channel listing & EPG• Fast channel zapping• Intuitive and user-friendly interface• Support for native language & subtitling• Customizable to fit operator branding• Google Cast and AirPlay support

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OpenTV Video Platform is the next level, operator grade, business centric, streaming video solution, that delivers dynamic sports, media & entertainment content, in the home or on the go, returning exceptional ROI through its content & services management console (OpCon). We have created a solution that can be packaged to excite consumers, keep them consuming, thus reducing churn & creating paths for revenue growth opportunity. A cloud-based platform for operational efficiency where disparate services can be merged to streamline operations, get the out of the plumbing and back to the business of keeping and growing subscribers. OpenTV Video Platform allows operator to design out complexity, in order to launchpad future innovation and build new and interesting consumer offers. Under the hood the analytically driven operational & business engines enable fine-tuning of content campaigns, content promotion, targeted advertising and video-commerce to develop the business offers. The (UI-UX) user experience and personalisation elements can be focus group trialled and if this delivers on the intention (e.g. increase VOD, download to go etc.)  and be implemented instantly on the fly. Choose OpenTV Video Platform to usher in the next level of exciting sports, media & entertainment consumer video services with a cost-effective, secure, intelligent, revenue generating, video streaming solution for your future.

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Gaining control

Information is your greatest asset. ILLUMINATOR gives access to the key data that is vital to your business performance, presented in a way that is easy to visualise and interpret. Users access data through a client customisable control layer, known as a workspace, which sits on top of the core ILLUMINATOR framework. This allows the software to be tailored to exact client’s needs. The workspace provides users access to any data, whether mastered within ILLUMINATOR’S extensible database, or resident externally in other systems.

ILLUMINATOR allows users to view and manage data from legacy or difficult to maintain datasets, in a single environment. It can consume data in many formats reducing the need for multiple, disparate ‘data islands’ often constructed in spreadsheets, Access or bespoke SQL database solutions.

Work Together

In addition to the user defined Workspaces, the ILLUMINATOR core framework facilitates pre-built or custom functional module plugin capability. Existing modules can be adapted, or new and specially tailored modules can be created with Graphical Data’s support, to ensure you get the solution you need. These functional modules are designed to enhance the power of ILLUMINATOR, improving how users view and work with their data, on a daily basis.

All parts of the business can contribute; suppliers, contractors and customers can also engage if required. Each user has their part to play and every team member's input contributes to overall success. ILLUMINATOR’s communication features allow quick, consistent input and feedback to and from all.

Complete Integration

ILLUMINATOR allows multiple processes to come together in a single integrated workflow tool. These can include processes managed in other systems and if unified with Graphical Data’s RESOLVE software - exceptional end to end project performance improvements can be realised. ILLUMINATOR and its comprehensive toolkit are designed to manage large volumes of complex data. This can include systems procured from scratch, the re-structuring of existing databases, or the unification of data mastered elsewhere in multiple discrete repositories to provide a ‘single view of the truth’, ILLUMINATOR can deliver it all. ILLUMINATOR facilitates exceptional levels of software configuration to meet unique/specific data management requirements but can also realise these very rapidly.

Asset management databases and configuration management databases are numerous. However, ILLUMINATOR’s power is that in addition to these standard functions, it can be configured to be capable of much more. This includes integration of very unique data sets not normally managed in broad enterprise level applications.

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PFT’s flagship product, CLEAR is the world’s first, proven Hybrid Cloud-enabled Media
ERP Suite that automates the content supply chain. CLEAR helps M&E companies drive
creative enablement, enhance efficiencies, realize new monetization opportunities and
reduce Total Cost of Operations (TCOP) like no other. With work order management
embedded with Media Asset Management (MAM), CLEAR is now more powerful than
ever. It enables broadcasters, studios and service providers to seamlessly manage
human led tasks and machine enabled tasks, facilitating faster decision making and
quicker time to market.
With CLEAR, all you have to do is BUILD ONCE — One infrastructure; one platform, one
process. You can innovate on ONE platform, rather than on multiple silo’ed platforms -
no more duplication and repetition.
PFT’s flagship product, CLEAR is the world’s first, proven Hybrid Cloud-enabled Media
ERP Suite that automates the content supply chain. CLEAR helps M&E companies drive
creative enablement, enhance efficiencies, realize new monetization opportunities and
reduce Total Cost of Operations (TCOP) like no other. With Work Order Management
embedded with MAM, CLEAR is now more powerful than ever. It enables broadcasters,
studios and service providers to seamlessly manage human led and machine enabled
tasks, facilitating faster decision making and quicker time-to-market.
With CLEAR, all you have to do is BUILD ONCE — One infrastructure, one platform, one
process. You can innovate on ONE platform, rather than on multiple silo’ed platforms

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Bare Metal Cloud, BMC, makes bare metal servers available on demand. BMC combines high-performance computing with cloud-like flexibility – it’s the best of both worlds.

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  • Connect all 60+ bare metal PoPs via Zenlayer’s private backbone
  
  
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Designed to address the needs of a new entertainment era marked by more content going more places, Deluxe One is a cloud platform for modern content that unifies our Hollywood-tested, end-to-end products and services - from content acquisition and title and asset management, to localization, distribution, and OTT playout - and integrates them with all your workflows through a single, intuitive interface. With Deluxe One, you can integrate your systems and vendors via Deluxe One’s open API architecture and can then seamlessly move content through Deluxe’s micro-services (or those of our partners) that are now all connected in the cloud, unifying what was once a fragmented media supply chain. A window into your content, Deluxe One’s gives you total visibility into your workflow, tracking content from lens to living room. What this means for you, and the industry as a whole, is that content can now reach global audiences faster, simpler and more reliably, than ever before.

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A modular approach to agile business: Manage content, data, workflows, devices and more—with an entire system designed precisely for your business. Our Media Solutions Toolkit offers a library of cloud-native microservices that can combine, scale and deploy across cloud, on-premise or hybrid environments.

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XDCAM air is the flexible bridge between field-based camcorders and your studio infrastructure, orchestrating the seamless exchange of live video, media files and project metadata. So you can focus on your story, save precious time and cut costs.

Sony’s XDCAM air Professional Cloud Service for News Production delivers live streaming and/or file transfer directly from the field and combines this with advanced cloud-based tools to instantly connect your news production team with the day’s hot stories.

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Video Cloud provides the full range of video-related functionality, including uploading, publishing, playback, monetization and analysis. It also offers extensive workflow capabilities and APIs to support both simple and highly customized solutions. This lets users focus on content, viewership, conversions, and revenue rather than wrestling with technical challenges.