S4M - Solutions for Media GmbH - ANNOVA and S4M accompany armament for this year's NAB show

OpenMedia’s affiliation strengths on appearance in Las Vegas

ANNOVA Systems, developer of the beat band-aid for able account management, OpenMedia, will be partnering with Cologne based Solutions for Media (S4M) for a collective attendance at the NAB Show 2009 to be captivated from April 20 to 23 in Las Vegas, Nevada. ANNOVA will advertise the new adaptation 3.6 of OpenMedia in two variants: the Open MEDIABOX, a accepted amalgamation for midmarket customers, and a awful configurable action version. As a appropriate highlight, ANNOVA will barrage 4MORE, a new, absolute video administration bore for OpenMedia, based on S4M’s Video Production Management System (VPMS) and alms able ingest, editing, and playout capabilities. Visitors to the NAB Show will acquisition ANNOVA and S4M in anteroom 4, berth no. SU10224A/F.
For the aboriginal time, the new adaptation 3.6 of ANNOVA’s flagship product, OpenMedia, will be on appearance in Las Vegas. It comes in two variants: The Open MEDIABOX takes the anatomy of a basic arbor anchor apparatus from Quantum, Omneon, Chyron, and ANNOVA’s Open Media 4MORE absolute video administration modul, all seamlessly chip and acquainted to anniversary other. 4MORE provides browsing, retrieving, and alteration of texts and associated video footage as able-bodied as abacus voice-overs.
Open MEDIABOX the preconfigured band-aid is provided for barter in the midsize bazaar articulation in seek for a turnkey solution, with action akin accessories but affordable aural a bound investment budget.

The action OpenMedia adaptation 3.6 band-aid now appearance an added planning container. This bore serves to clue the planning of account items and its capabilities to allotment abstracts and media above assorted assembly units such as radio, TV, or Web departments accept been abundantly improved. The Event Calendar, a new planning bore for OpenMedia, offers daily, weekly, and account views, and accessories and contest can be automatically entered from agency sources. This bore is decidedly advantageous for ample projects and advantage of above events, acceptance journalists to identify, locate, and acceptance all contacts, sources, advertence files, research, video, and added abstracts accompanying to a accurate event.
ANNOVA and S4M will be partnering for a collective actualization at this year’s NAB Show. S4M –Solutions for Media will advertise its chip advertisement administration systems as able-bodied as software solutions for the able administration of agenda video assets. S4M’S action solutions managing alone stations, base groups and networks cover systems accoutrement authorization and rights management, affairs planning and scheduling, traffic, ad sales and optimisation as able-bodied as video agreeable management. Amongst others, S4M presents the latest affiliate of its artefact family: ClipJOCKEY – a flat assembly apparatus tailored to the needs of TV broadcasters and assembly companies.
ClipJOCKEY supports the circadian processes agitated out in ascendancy rooms. At the aforementioned time, it enables clearing into a file-based environment. The apparatus corresponds to a ambit of appearance that amidst abounding others is provided by VPMS, S4M’s video assembly administration system. The difference: ClipJOCKEY focuses on amount workflows in ascendancy apartment and covers the appropriate needs of TV broadcasters and (post)production companies apropos blot and playout functionalities. For instance, MOS-enabled account formats can be agitated out tapeless. Likewise, the pre-production of TV magazines may be able after tapes. Especially to that end, S4M has developed the “add-on mode” acceptance the aforementioned abundance that ahead was alone accessible in a tape-based context. In accomplishing so, a “multi-channel hotlink feature” supports key-fill applications and multi camera productions.
“We are a lot of aflame about the accessible barrage of Open MEDIABOX and 4MORE in Las Vegas, and acutely admiring to be able to display accordingly with S4M at this year’s NAB Show,” says Michael Schueller, CEO, ANNOVA Systems GmbH. “The 4MORE bore is an awfully admired accession to OpenMedia for TV newsroom solutions and it helps bear best abundance solutions at awful aggressive amount tags.”
ANNOVA’s attendance at the NAB Show in Las Vegas is allotment of its abiding cardinal move to globalize its sales and business scope. Presently, the aggregation is extending its ability to the North American bazaar and is gluttonous partnerships for artefact sales and abutment in this region.

About S4M
The Cologne based company, S4M - Solutions for Media GmbH, a collective accessory of arvato systems and RTL Television, develops and distributes software solutions specialized for the broadcast- and new media industry. Today, S4M systems are acclimated in 30 countries about the world. S4M provides solutions for bartering air time sales, video agreeable management, affairs planning, rights licensing, ratings evaluation, and assembly planning. Furthermore, the S4M portfolio includes able consulting casework confined to accomplish accumulated media and IT ability accessible to customers.

About ANNOVA
ANNOVA Systems GmbH provides software, development, consulting, and accomplishing casework for the advertisement industry. With over 10,000 users, its flagship OpenMedia band-aid is advised to be one of axial Europe’s arch action newsroom systems on the bazaar today and can draw on 15 years’ acquaintance in the advertisement field. Its users cover account apartment of the broadcasting services, ARD, SWR, WDR, BR, SR, Deutsche Welle, RTSI, Swiss Radio DRS, RTR, Mediaset, RFI, and RTL TVI. For the future, ANNOVA affairs to position OpenMedia angrily in the all-embracing arena. With this in mind, the aggregation is systematically developing its all-around sales organisation, a lot of afresh with an Office in Singapore.

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