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Enterprise Media Supply Chain Orchestration
Integrate content pools and automate workflows across verticals
Transform Your Operations
Connect silos
Increase efficiency and agility
Build business intelligence
Connect silos
Leverage the wide range of out-of-the-box connectors, from industry standards like FIMS to pre-built custom partner technology integrations, to connect systems and services. Eliminate silos!
Increase efficiency and agility
To stay ahead of the pack there is no choice but embracing change and getting the entire organization to become as agile as the requirements put on the business. The key to achieve this lies in the way the assets are managed and the workflows are distributed across the operation.
Build business intelligence
The solution brings Business Intelligence (BI) to the organization, allowing users at various levels to monitor and analyze key performance indicators (KPIs) about their operations in order to make more informed immediate decisions and over time build proper data-driven strategies.
Solution Overview
Designed to Streamline the Media Enterprise and Unify Operations
!Content owners, post-production houses, broadcasters and other media organizations face the challenge of adapting to the media industry’s constant change, producing and delivering content to an increasing number of platforms, in a growing number of versions and formats.
To stay ahead of the pack there is no choice but embracing change and getting the entire organization to become as agile as the requirements put on the business. The key to achieve this lies in the way the assets are managed and the workflows are distributed across the operation.
Solution Highlights
Powerful Workflow Designer & Orchestration Layer
Web-based graphical interface to design and model business processes, including user & service tasks
Orchestrating Advanced Media Operations
Dalet Media Supply Chain Orchestration automates configurable processes combining system services and customized user tasks, leveraging rich assets to enable complex tasks such as EDL, Playlist and Package creation.
Reducing the Complexity of Multiplatform Distribution
Distributing effectively to a wide variety of outlets is one of the key challenges for broadcasters and media organizations today. From social media to websites and linear broadcast, the need for an agile, orchestrated solution is greater than ever to reduce complexity and the number of steps required to publish rich, multimedia content.
Key Features
Powerful Orchestration & BPM Engine
Dalet Orchestration automates configurable processes combining system services and customized user tasks, leveraging rich assets to enable complex tasks such as EDL, Playlist and Package creation.
Workflow Orchestration
Task Automation
User Tasks and Tools
Orchestrate both automated jobs and user tasks to enable truly smart decisions in your workflows. User tasks can be customized to fit a specific action. To manage a large number of different tasks, templates can be created with appropriate information such as Name, Description or Instructions. Once the template is created it can be used in the designer.
Advanced BPM
User Task Management
Dashboard & Business Intelligence
Delivered with a full Report Center, the solution brings Business Intelligence (BI) to the organization, allowing users at various levels to monitor and analyze Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) about their operations in order to make more informed decisions with actionable data and build data-driven strategies.
Business Intelligence Reports
Data-Driven Strategies
Native connectors and integrations
Leverage a wide set of connectors to the most widely used media and metadata services and systems.
Integrations with media and metadata services
Asset-based integrations with systems
Professional Services
Our team of media workflow and industry specialists helps you at every step of the project, to design your
operations, model your processes, define Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), and deploy and support the
Orchestration solutions.
Finally, on top of standards like FIMS, Dalet offers workflow customization services to deliver on the fly ad-
hoc technology integrations.
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