Newsno |

3 ottobre 2017

| by

EVENT: coming next exhibitions

Citta2

SI Media is waiting for you!
Follow us all over the world, from Moscow, to Jakarta, Cape Town and Tokyo!

After a successful IBC, SI Media will proceed in the next 2 months exhibiting with its own booth in several exhibitions all over the world.

We take this occasion to invite you to stop by our booth and check our latest news and discuss about our recent projects.

First appointments will be 25-27 October, when SI Media will exhibit at the same time in Moscow (for the 8th year in a row we will be present with our own booth, B40), and in Jakarta at Broadcast Indonesia together with Ideal Systems Indonesia (first appearance there).

prime 2

Later on, beginning of November, SI Media will participate to two additional exhibitions, in South Africa and in Japan.

In Cape Town, together with our partner Onset Systems, we will exhibit at AfricaCOM, booth K2.

Image 2

Finally, from 15th to 17th November, SI Media will be present to the broadcast exhibition of Japan, Inter BEE (Tokyo), with our local system integrator Ideal Systems Japan

download (1)

Newsno |

2 ottobre 2017

| by

CASE STUDIES: Televisa, Inter Channel, Aruji, AACGMMA, CBC

Summer 2017 will be remembered as one of the busiest period in SI Media recent history.

Thanks to the great effort of all SI Media team, from our installers, to the developers and the support, we were able to successfully deploy five projects in the short window of 3 months.

These installations have involved four different continents: from Central American and Caribbean, to Europe, Asia and Africa.

In Mexico SI Media has provided a full digital MAM+NRCS system to Televisa, the biggest media producer in Spanish language in the world. Our platform allows journalists from several interconnected regional sites to send their contributions via web to the main site, where our MAM take care of all the workflow management  up to the transmission from the studios with SI Media playout.

TELEVISA
SI Media studio playout at Televisa (Mexico)

In the meantime, CBC (the national broadcaster of Barbados), has chosen SI Media, together with the American systems integrator BIG, for its traffic, mam and playout system. In less than one month, our technicians have performed the installation, configuration and training of the operators, allowing CBC to be the first broadcaster in the Caribbean area to ever transmit in full HD, for the special occasion of Carifesta (the main Caribbean Festival of Arts, 17th-27th August).

IMG_0959

CBC (Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation Barbados)

In July, our team has been also to Japan, in order to deploy the expansion of 16 additional playout channels for Aruji, one of the most important teleport companies in Tokyo. Now the system is composed by 32 main channels fully mirrored, based on IT technologies, which receives contents from several contributors, importing and integrating the playlist from local software application. Also this second phase has been deployed together with our regional partner Ideal Systems Japan

ARUJI

Aruji main server room (Tokyo)

Meanwhile, in Italy, SI Media provided also an end-to-end automation system for the thematic channel of Inter FC, another successful reference in that market (already Milan Channel, Juventus Channel and Roma Channel are among SI Media’s customers).

Besides all these projects, in this period SI Media has also completed the deployment of a full SI Media platform (MAM, NRCS, Automation and Traffic), for AACGMMA (national television of Ethiopia), together with our regional partner Onset Systems.

STUDIOB

AACGMMA main studio (Addis Ababa)

 

 

Newsno |

2 ottobre 2017

| by

INTERVIEW: post IBC with SI Media team

Gruppo_IBC2017_01SI Media ‘s crew at IBC2017

This year exhibition has been without any doubts a great success for SI Media. The booth has been crowded from the beginning until the very last moment.

Partners, old and new customers, system integrators and simple onlookers have stopped by to check out the latest news of our software platform (as the end-to-end cloud based platform and the studio automation), enjoying also a glass of classic and unique Italian Prosecco, accompanied by original Parmesan, olives and made biscuits.

We have taken this occasion to briefly chat with Mr Andreas Panozzo (SI Media CTO) and Mr Paolo Favaro (EMEA pre sales manager), to get the latest on the products and on the market.

“What is new on SI Media platform and how the company is responding to the new demands coming from the market?”

ANDREAS: In this 2017, we have focused our resources in order to be one of the first software house, which can provide an end-to-end workflow based on the cloud (both public and private), from ingest to delivery of the contents. This, to properly answer the main trend we have collected from the market, which is quickly moving to IPTV, OTT services and video on demand.

Besides this, we have also significantly empowered our NRCS suite, developing Studio Automation to control all the devices involved in the Studio Management (master control, audio\video mixers, lights, camera robotics, lenses, virtual sets, a\v routers, graphics sytems) and adding several features to increase our integration with Social Media of our digital integrated (script + video) newsroom platform.

“What’s next? In which direction is SI Media looking to improve such an already comprehensive solution?”

ANDREAS: we are now working on the web based proxy editor engine. Our web platform already allows to manage all SI Media applications (from daily playlist generation, to asset browsing, press reports and rundown creation, remote playout control, just to mention the main tasks). However, in an environment where the available time to generate and upload a story is getting shorter and shorter, we believe the journalists need to have a tool to perform editing in real time from any device.

“It is time to take a stock of the first half of 2017 for SI Media. How has it been so far?”

PAOLO: Well, first of all, it has been an extremely busy summer for all our team. Just to mention the last 3 months, SI Media has completed the deployment of a NRCS platform for Televisa in Mexico (one of the biggest media companies in the world) and an automation system for the national television of Barbados (CBC).

At the same time, on the other side of the planet, our engineers were installing 16 additional channels in Tokyo at Aruji (one of the biggest teleports in Japan, which now has 32 channels on air with our software).

All this without forgetting SI Media native country, Italy, where an automation+traffic+mam system has been deployed to Inter Channel, the thematic television of one of the most important football teams in the world.

“What do you expect from the next months?”

PAOLO: In this period, our team has already been working hard on two main fronts. We have installed and deployed and end-to-end complete system to the national television of Ethiopia (AACGMMA), which is now close to launch officially on air the new system (as usual together with our regional partner Onset Systems).

In these weeks we have also started the installation for the national television of Uzbekistan (MTRK), which is going to be the biggest installation for SI Media so far (13 fully redundant automation channels, 6 studios, MAM, NRCS for more than 200 journalists, 12 additional regional sites interconnected with the main site in Tashkent).

Considering all the contacts we have collected during the exhibition and the huge references we are gathering around the world, I’m quite confident the next months will be extremely busy for all our team.

Newsno |

15 giugno 2017

| by

INTERVIEW: Massimo Begotto, SI Media pre-sales manager for CALA

^88E10A6DC2AA0E20074E577F14290F51324D473C88C8934DBB^pimgpsh_fullsize_distr

SI Media ‘s presence in the American continent is growing fast, with many systems already deployed and several incoming projects.

We take this occasion to talk about it with Massimo Begotto, SI Media pre-sales manager for CALA, in charge of SI Media branch office in Miami

 

1) In which countries has SI Media decided to start working and increasing its presence in the last months?

The presence of SI Media in CALA is a fact since many years, as the number of installations has grown starting from the first done in Mexico (2013) to the several we can count currently. Moreover we will update this number very soon, with brand new installations that are about to be deployed.

Apart from the CALA side, the challenge we are now facing is related to the US market: we concretely approached this market last year, with the opening of a new branch in Miami. This is a huge market, we still need to promote our brand but we have already reached many of our goals related to the building of a strong distribution network, with some giants of the market, and the new opportunities that are coming in these very days are the confirmation that we are in the right way.

2) Which are SI Media’s products that have been more successful in this period?

MediaNews, our NRCS module, is for sure the product with more success in the last period. SI Media has continuously developed the platform in order to have a cutting-the-edge digital newsroom, consequently this module is becoming more and more considered in the market: the new GUI, the embedded Social Media Manager, the integration with our MAM and the Proxy Editor lift MediaNews among the most completed and appreciated NRCS worldwide.

Besides I think that what we shown during the last NAB in Las Vegas is very meaningful, as we presented the Studio Automation (for the newsroom) and the Media Cloud (for the automation system), two novities that allows us to provide an even more complete end-to-end workflow. SI Media is well-known for its capability of providing a full solution for broadcasters, with the Cloud module and the NRCS add-on we have significantly enriched our offer. We have listened to the market needs, and the customers are replying positively.

3) How has been your experience in this area so far?

It has been excellent. The area I attend is very heterogeneous, that means we have to study different solutions for very different needs. Therefore I have the opportunity to sit down with the customers to study their needs in details, allowing SI Media to leave them satisfied at the end of the installation, due to its typical Italian capacity of tailoring the products, but allowing also me to live in first person enriching human experiences.

4) And regarding next steps?

The path is already traced: we have to continue on our way to develop the platform, in order to maintain our high-technology standards and a complete solution, especially with the Cloud and Studio Automation modules.

Then to enhance our presence we will go on with the same schemas adopted for the entire CALA, and in parallel we must push on the US side, since we know the potential is enormous and we are sure to have products that can fit with this extraordinary market.

Newsno, Senza categoria |

13 giugno 2017

| by

EVENT: SI Media at Broadcast Asia and AT Expo

SI Media is chasing you!
Follow us all over the world, from US, to Asia and further, to see the latest news of our platform!

 

After a successful NAB, luckily there was no time for SI Media to rest. Projects are coming from several different regions around the world, from Ethiopia, to Mexico, Uzbekistan, Poland and Japan, and in the meantime, we are attending all the major exhibitions to promote our solution and our brilliant results.

In May, SI Media exhibited with its own booth at Broadcast Asia in Singapore, where the company has one of its two branches (the other is in Miami), an area which has been very successful in the latest years; and at At Expo in Astana (Kazakhstan), a market that SI Media has recently approached.

In both cases, our booth has been among the most crowded and the interest for our software modules is growing everywhere.

In the last exhibitions, SI Media has presented many new features and modules, such as the Studio Automation, the end-to-end solution based on the Cloud and MediaSwitcher, SI Media solution for IP-routing.

Besides all the tools present in our suite, what customers and partners are appreciating the most is the modularity, the scalability of the system and, above all, the fact that the solution is completely customizable and the platform open to integration with any 3rd party systems, devices and existing architectures.

PicsArt_06-12-12.25.46