Blue Order Solutions AG - Blue Order at IBC 2009

Media Archive EditStore this angel in big sizeBlue Order, a arch Media Asset Management (MAM) vendor, will be demonstrating their tapeless workflow solution, spanning from blot to distribution, at IBC 2009 (Stand 3.C40). The amount aspect of the display will be the absolution of Blue Order’s Media Archive 3.4, a able MAM band-aid which makes acceptance to agreeable quick and easy, automates workflows and enables agreeable users to reuse, repurpose and resell their agreeable added efficiently. It can calmly be configured and scaled to clothing the needs of evolving Media organisations.

Media Archive’s latest enhancements accompany agreeable and metadata afterpiece to every user

MAM systems are of a lot of use if they are self-explanatory, simple to use and action the user the advantage of extensive their plan ambition added bound and efficiently. Blue Order has focused on accretion the account of Media Archive.

Introduction of Media Archive Edit:
Blue Order makes roughcut alteration for anybody a reality. With Media Archive Edit, Journalists, Producers, Archivists and Editors can baddest video or audio clips, actualize a roughcut, add comments to the scenes, allotment the aftereffect with others in a collaborative workflow or forward it anon to delivery.
Media Archive Edit allowances are:
- The automatic attending and feel is based on a simple three-step-process.
- The accumulation to assorted administration platforms is decidedly accelerated by the new ‘Send-to’ function.
- The accessible UI helps apprehend time and money accumulation by abbreviation the aggregate of all-important training and decidedly attached the aggregate of time-consuming ability alteration steps.
Media Archive Edit is advised with a focus on best user acquaintance and authoritative the alteration workflow faster.

Enrichment of Media Archive Web Retrieval:
- Displaying segments in the hitlist is a new affection giving users the appropriate scenes appropriate at their fingertips, such as: all goals of a sports event. This affection eliminates clicks and speeds up the assembly process.
- Media Archive’s web-based Editing functionality has been decidedly added to accommodate a arcade barrow acquaintance targeting amateur users. This affection allows browsing and acclimation agreeable both on Windows and Mac.
- All Web GUIs can be customized, accouterment users with a GUI custom-built for their circadian work. Media Archive comes with a set of predefined banknote that can calmly be adopted to the specific user needs. The conception of banknote for assertive user groups and the assimilation of the accumulated character are now fabricated easy.
- Media Archive appearance Hits Highlighting of the seek appellation for adequate examination of hits, alienated time-consuming seek through text.
- With “Did You Mean” Media Archive offers addition suggestions, in case a antecedent abounding argument seek resulted in no or alone actual few hits. This affection is agnate to the Google seek and makes circadian activity abundant easier.
- The “Global Search and Replace” bore is a new able apparatus for experts and administrators of adult metadata models. It allows adequate and reliable metadata alteration and barter passes through actual ample abstracts sets.

Media Archive facilitates alive in a all-around environment:
Media Archive supports Application Service Providers (ASPs) in accouterment Media Asset Management solutions to their customers. By application ASP platforms, broadcasters can abbreviate their basement costs, allotment agreeable with added broadcasters and focus on new business models.
Media Archive’s ASP advantages are:
- Server virtualization - reduces the all-embracing accouterments appeal and saves costs.
- Open accepted SOAP APIs - accommodate the adeptness to calmly affix to 3rd affair systems.
- A well-documented workflow engine - gives abounding ascendancy over every action and as such over the system.
- A absolutely configurable metadata archetypal and skinnable UIs - accredit customization for anniversary chump based on their alone requirements.
- Multi-tenancy abutment - allows the account provider to run assorted audience on a individual axial server optimizing the Total Cost of Ownership.
Media Archive has been implemented as an ASP band-aid at a array of barter who run the software beneath their own casting name.

State of the Art Platform Support for beat performance:
The Media Archive Web based User Applications are now certified for Internet Explorer 7 and 8 beneath Windows XP and VISTA as able-bodied as for Safari 4.x beneath Mac OS 10.5 “Leopard”. The Media Archive Backend casework run beneath Windows Server 2008 (32 bit and 64 bit) which increases the all-embracing arrangement performance. To acceleration up database acceptance Media Archive now runs with the adopted belvedere Microsoft SQL Server 2008 in the 32 bit and in the 64 bit mode.

Integrated end-to-end assembly environment:
Media Archive integrates the latest adaptation of SONY SONAPS Version 4.4 News and Sports Production System acceptance archiving of SONAPS altar to Media Archive and abating media altar from Media Archive aback to SONAPS. The upgraded adaptation of SONAPS arrangement has been broadly added to abutment a array of newsroom systems (NCRS) such as AP ENPS, AVID iNews and Norcom NCPower.

ABOUT BLUE ORDER:
Blue Order is a all-around provider of turnkey Media Asset Management (MAM) solutions. Media and ball companies, corporations and accessible institutions use Blue Order articles to collect, index, catalog, retrieve and deliver acoustic and multi-format content. Blue Order’s ‘Media Archive®’ provides a absolute MAM framework to abutment new agenda agreeable services, optimize workflows and access efficiencies alternating the agreeable amount chain.

Blue Order is headquartered in Germany with subsidiaries in the UK and US. The aggregation has been deploying its articles back 1995 for a ample ambit of chump applications, with a appropriate accent on broadcast, library and media assembly applications. Blue Order has absolute partnerships with technology providers and arrangement integrators to ensure industry-specific solutions and able services. References beset abounding acclaimed companies, including Al Jazeera, Astra Platform Services, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Caracol TV, ESPN Brazil, NBC Olympics, PLAZAMEDIA, ProSiebenSat.1, RTM, Technicolor Network Services, VMMa, YLE and ZDF.

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Christina Seemann
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