Arkena Drives Future Broadcast Workflows

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On stand TV17 at this year's Africa Com/TV Connect on November 17-19, Arkena, a market leader in

content management, file transfer and OTT solutions, will showcase its productivity-enhancing

workflow solutions based on the latest Arkena Harmony content management platform. End-to-end

OTT solutions will also be featured at Africa Com/TV Connect.

Rule your workflow with Arkena Harmony The foundation for Arkena productivity-enhancing workflow solutions, Arkena Harmony is a Media Workflow Management platform featuring a powerful framework for system integration, advanced BPM capabilities, and monitoring tools.

Feature highlights of the Africa Com/TV Connect premiere include:

Intelligent Technology to Orchestrate Workflows

The Arkena Harmony BPM workflow engine unifies the content chain by managing assets, metadata, workflows and processes across multiple and diverse production, distribution and archive systems. It automates many tasks and processes, and provides operational and business visibility to enable content owners to improve productivity.

Unprecedented Third-Party Integration Thanks to Open IT Architecture

Developed from the ground up to meet the needs of the broadcast and media industries, Arkena Harmony is an open platform that boasts integration and support for a wide variety of equipment including Quality Control, transcoding, archiving, file transfer, security, and watermarking systems.

Extensive Support for Formats

Thanks to its REST API interface, Arkena Harmony offers tremendous versatility, supporting a wide range of media including IMF (Interoperable Master Format), which is about to become the international format for file-based exchange of cinema and audiovisual content.

Clear and Effective Reports

In order to keep businesses and deadlines under control, Arkena Harmony offers advanced monitoring features and KPI, including real-time tracking of every single workflow step.

Prepare, automate, secure and accelerate file transfers with Cloud4Media Fully integrated with Arkena Harmony, Cloud4Media is a unique solution to quickly prepare and move any size files to customers and partners worldwide. This modular suite incorporates many tools to create a smooth workflow and increase productivity.

Cloud4Media features a wide range of capabilities including:

Outstanding Preparation tools

Thanks to intuitive post-production tools for subtitling, editing and branding, making your content ready to meet customers' expectations has never been easier. To further enhance flexibility, Cloud4Media also expertly manages rights and VOD scheduling across multiple platforms and devices.

High-quality transcoding

Cloud4Media transcoder efficiently turns the content that owners have into the content their customers want. Including format and standard conversion, Cloud4Media offers best-in-class image processing and allows for fast and effortless content repurposing.

Secure and fast content delivery

Arkena private network benefits from the company's file acceleration technology that speeds up transfers and from a proven encryption system that ensures rock solid reliability.

Flexible Automation Templates

Simple design tool lets administrators easily model and deploy workflows combining user and automated tasks and then monitor workflow instances in detail as media moves through the chain.

Deliver your live or on-demand content to new audiences with Arkena OTT Featuring a modular set of turnkey components, Arkena OTT allows content owners, telecom operators and broadcasters to efficiently deliver and monetize their content to their subscribers on any connected device. Arkena OTT supports any business model, whether it is Live, catchup, TVoD, EST or SVoD.

Centered around OTT Service Manager, the company's open and cloud-based video distribution platform, Arkena OTT is an end-to-end solution covering the entire preparation and delivery chain. On the back-office side, an intuitive interface facilitates content ingest, cataloguing, metadata handling, editing, subtitling, rights management, encoding, security encryption as well as commercial offers management and billing. On the front-end side, subscribers experience a user-friendly interface allowing them to browse and bookmark content, view videos on any of their device and easily subscribe to offers through simple payment methods.

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