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SintecMedia at BroadcastAsia2014 30 May 2014

With a new and expanded product offering resulting from the Pilat Media acquisition, SintecMedia now offers its customers the ultimate tools for monetizing their assets and streamlining their operations in todays complex and rapidly changing media environment. At BroadcastAsia2014, SintecMedia will showcase the leading-edge media-business management solutions that have made the company a driving force of innovation in media-business management.

A 360-Degree Solution for Comprehensive Broadcast Management

With the acquisition of Pilat Media, SintecMedia now offers the most comprehensive range of broadcast management solutions to support business-critical functions related to multiplatform, linear, and nonlinear programming. The companys products, including OnAir, IBMS, MediaPro, Medea, Nestor, and SIMS, are the market-leading solutions for managing advanced rights, ad sales, traffic, programming, scheduling, and promotions. With SintecMedia solutions, broadcast and media businesses can gain the complete insight and operational control they need to adapt quickly to new media conditions, increase revenue streams, comply with licensing rights and corporate regulations, and increase efficiency and productivity.

Broadcast Management in the Cloud www.CloudOnAir.TV

At BroadcastAsia2014, SintecMedia will highlight CloudOnAir, the first enterprise-level cloud-based business management solution tailored to smaller broadcasters. Offered as software as a service, CloudOnAir delivers robust capabilities for managing broadcast sales, traffic, scheduling, programming, promotion, and billing all without the expense or operational hassles of managing on-site hardware, applications, and IT resources. With high-level security and easy accessibility and integration, the system is delivered via a secure website with extensive online support. Utilizing a library of built-in templates, CloudOnAir provides smaller broadcasters with specific tools to maximize airtime and increase revenue for standard and multiplatform delivery.

OTTilus Next-Generation TV Everywhere Platform

SintecMedia will feature OTTilus, an enterprise-class over-the-top (OTT) platform that enables broadcasters, platform operators, and new media ventures to launch the next generation of TV Everywhere services. OTTilus includes two core components: OTTilus Service Manager for advanced backend service management, monetization, and unified operation of TV and OTT services; and the OTTilus Video Platform, a pre-integrated end-to-end solution addressing media preparation, secure content delivery, and end-user applications for all popular consumer devices. The OTTilus Service Manager offers comprehensive content management with sophisticated scheduling tools for managing VOD catalogs and catch-up TV services, advanced rights, ad-serving rules, and rich metadata, along with multilanguage support. The OTTilus Video Platform is an out-of-the-box managed service that provides a robust and cost-effective platform for delivering every phase of a profitable OTT service, from content acquisition to player applications.

Medea Managing Affiliate Revenue

Medea is the only end-to-end affiliate revenue-management software for the television industry, designed to make billing and collecting on pay-TV revenue (affiliate and subscriber fees) easier. Medea brings key stakeholders together to manage distribution sales, launch channels with operators, process all billing and collections, and provide critical management reporting for all network services. Medea simplifies contract management, billing, and collections, and streamlines communications with headends that manage TV signals.

Nestor Smarter Cost Management for Greater Visibility and Control

SintecMedias Nestor product family gives media enterprises the tools they need to manage their largest expense fees paid for content. Nestor processes over US$10 billion in programming expenses each year for operators worldwide. Giving operators complete control over programming expense margins, Nestor automates payments and provides the business tools to optimize programming payments and budgets. From contract negotiation to payment processing to business intelligence, Nestor helps operators plan, pay, predict, and perform with more precision, less effort, and fewer resources than ever before.

IBMS Glocal Management of the Distributed Business

Responding to the needs of geographically expanding media businesses, SintecMedia has introduced a blueprint for a modular business-management deployment concept using IBMS that allows users to harmonize their central and geographically dispersed local operations. This approach gives regional locations the ability to streamline their operations and the autonomy to create local programming. The new architecture integrates local deployments of IBMS Express with a centralized business-management system that permits sharing of content and rights metadata across the entire ecosystem, giving the decision-makers the necessary information to run the glocal operation while generating an economy of scale for the different regions.

Company Overview:

SintecMedia is the leading global provider of management solutions designed to meet the dynamic and diverse business needs of broadcasters; media companies; multichannel video providers including satellite, cable, and OTT; and station groups. With the recent acquisition of Pilat Media, SintecMedia now offers the industrys most robust and comprehensive family of business management software, in use by more than 60 blue-chip media companies around the world to manage billions of dollars in advertising revenue and programming that reaches hundreds of millions of viewers. By combining critical functions such as traffic, sales, programming, and new media into a single, centrally ma

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