Ardendo

www.ardendo.com

Ardendo is a software company with focus on integrated solutions for the broadcast industry. Ardendo delivers products and services for media asset management, ingest automation, digital archives, desktop media processing and system integration. The key strength of the Ardendo approach is the modular architecture which is built to serve customer requirements for scalability, availability and customized solutions. From headquarters in Stockholm, Sweden, Ardendo supports a growing global customer base. Ardendo has several high-profile reference installations of systems for IT-based processing of digital media. The current customer base covers customers in news, general program production, playout services and post production. Ardendo founded in 1997 and became a part of Vizrt in April 2006. With the roots in academia and high-performance computing, Ardendo maintains an “extreme competence” corporate culture.

BroadView Software

www.broadviewsoftware.com

BroadView offers a fully integrated application and database server that combines program acquisition, scheduling, traffic, ad management, reporting, automation management and more. BroadView is a true, three-tiered, client/server implementation that scales to any size organization and enables access from anywhere in the world using relatively low bandwidth Internet connections and corporate WAN environments. These components provide central storage, process control, reporting, and business rules management at an attractive price point.

Castify

www.castify.net

The Castify EBN™ content distribution system integrated with Omneon MediaGrid active storage and with Omneon MediaDeck and Spectrum media servers provides managed, secure and efficient content distribution across multiple sites. Broadcast networks, stations groups, studios, and post-production facilities can benefit from globally networked systems. Both content distribution and storage for collaborative production, edge-casting, distribution to regional playout centers and disaster recovery can be managed, monitored and secured with one integrated system.

Crispin

www.crispincorp.com

Crispin Corporation is a leading provider of reliable, cost-effective broadcast automation solutions for the commercial, news playback and program recording markets. Working in conjunction with the Omneon Spectrum Media Server System and most popular news and traffic systems, Crispin offers simple or full automation solutions plus video server mirroring, asset management and a variety of automatic reporting functions.

Dalet

www.dalet.com

Dalet Digital Media Systems and Omneon Video Networks have teamed up to deliver a reliable and scaleable end-to-end solution for producing, managing and broadcasting television news. DaletPlus News Suite reduces time-to-air by giving broadcasters full access and control over the entire news production process. DaletPlus News Suite offers flexible ingest, user-friendly desktop editing, robust asset management, powerful scheduling and playout control of Omneon video servers. Together, Dalet and Omneon offer broadcasters a modular, scalable architecture that adapts to any existing environment. Facilities can grow from a single channel to a large multi-channel system with ease. View the Dalet & Omneon relationship.

EMC (Avalon)

software.emc.com/solutions/business_need/content_management/digital_asset_management/digital_asset_management.htm

EMC Corporation is the world leader in products, services, and solutions for information storage and management. We help customers of all sizes manage their growing information—from the time of its creation to its archival and eventual disposal—through information lifecycle manangement, networked storage technologies, storage platforms, software, and services to help organizations better and more cost-effectively manage, protect, and share information.

ETERE

www.etere.eu

ETERE Automation is modular software that takes care of all aspects of a TV broadcasting station including automation, scheduling, indexing, browsing, traffic and archiving. ETERE Automation software does not require dedicated hardware and works on a standard PC. The ETERE Automation and Omneon partnership provides users with a very powerful, scalable and reliable system. ETERE is a single package, in a single interface and is suited for all kinds of broadcasting stations.

Fighting Bull (FBBT)

www.fbbt.co.uk

We are a group of dedicated software professionals developing a broadcast operational system support from our Belfast office. By applying our experience in database and 3D programming, engineering, access layer design and 3D graphics, we are working with our industry partner to address a global need. We are focused on developing and expanding relationships, being recognised as thought leaders throughout the industry and creating name and brand recognition through a presence at the major industry trade shows.

FileCatalyst™

www.filecatalyst.com

FileCatalyst™ is a software-based solution designed to accelerate and optimize file transfers across global networks. It is immune to the effects that latency and packet loss have on traditional file transfer methods like FTP, HTTP or CIFS. Using patent pending technology, FileCatalyst™ ensures efficient file transfers and eliminates file transfer bottlenecks for applications that rely on Omneon MediaGrid™ or Spectrum™ active storage systems. FileCatalyst is a product of Unlimi-Tech Software Inc.

Florical

www.florical.com

Florical Systems is the technical leader in television automation for on-air broadcast presentation, media management and program asset acquisition. System solutions can be configured for a simple single channel or can be scaled to the needs of very large, multi-channel, fully redundant operations. As an expert in centralcasting automation, Florical offers the advanced ShareCasting system that shares broadcast control and media source between a hub and many regional stations. Florical products that support Omneon servers include: * AirBoss™ - On-air presentation automation * MediaMaster™ - Manage assets for automation * MediaFiler™ - Ingest assets for automation * MediaTimer™ - Segment program assets * ShowTimer™ - Program asset acquisition

Front Porch Digital

www.fpdigital.com

Front Porch Digital Inc. (FPDI) is transforming the digital world by developing unique software and services that convert audio, video, images, text and data into digital formats that enable searching, browsing, editing, storage and on-demand delivery of content in nearly any other digital format through a single capture. The leading DIVArchive content storage management software product interfaces with Omneon Spectrum and MediaGrid media servers as well as with leading automation systems and media asset management applications, providing broadcasters with an integrated end-to-end solution for managing their digital video assets.

Harris Automation

www.broadcast.harris.com

The collaboration between Omneon and HARRIS Automation - formerly Louth Automation - began in 1999, and continues with the development of improved interfaces for the transmission marketplace. Omneon has adopted the widely used video disc control protocol (VDCP), strengthening the interface capabilities of both companies and underlining Omneon's commitment to preserving (and enhancing) their customers' legacy systems. Harris Automation now supports Omneon’s widely adopted Player API for Ethernet control on both their ADC 100 and next generation automation system (HRS). Omneon's file system simplifies the operation of Harris' media management function, and provides a powerful platform for interfacing with Harris automation systems. Omneon also has a proven solution with the Harris GMT product used in conjunction with archive managers (namely OTG) during the past two NAB conventions. Encoda Systems was acquired by Harris in late 2004. Encoda offers a full range of master control, ingest automation, asset management, remote automation and network monitoring systems that meet the engineering needs of TV and radio broadcasters, cable networks, cable operations and satellite operations. The DAL product family can be scaled from single station/channel operations up to 1,000 channel, centralized operations. Its systems allow broadcasters to support a wide range of operational models, whether everything is controlled from one location or multiple locations.

Ibis

www.ibistv.co.uk

The Omneon partnership with IBIS (the UK company that offers Station Automation, Channel Management and Newsroom Automation Systems) provides the technology to give broadcasters a key advantage when controlling increasingly sophisticated multi-channel systems and newsroom operations. In conjunction with Omneon, IBIS offers news and sports management systems as well as asset management, acquisition, playout and media management solutions.

IBM

www.ibm.com

IBM Digital Media Center is a combination of an IBM digital video storage system based on storage area network (SAN) technology and industry-leading broadcast components for ingest, news production, and playout. The storage solution allows broadcasters to escape from their traditional reliance on videotape as the shared video storage medium of choice. The shared IBM digital storage model increases broadcast workflow efficiency by eliminating unneeded, costly, and time-consuming media copying. The modularity of the Omneon architecture is complimentary to the IBM Digital Media Center approach, allowing broadcasters flexibility in video formats and transmission standards.

IPV

IPV is the driving force behind the world's most advanced solutions for video browsing over standard IT networks in a multi-user desktop environment. SpectreView is used for news, asset management, sub-titling, automation and wherever broadcast professionals need exact and frame-accurate access to manage and manipulate content. IPV’s XCode engine delivers faster than realtime transcoding to WM9 and MPEG4 complete with multiple audio channels and resolutions, the combination of Omneon active storage systems and IPV has been selected by major broadcasters to increase the efficiency of their browse-based workflows.

Konan

www.konandigital.com

Konan Digital is a leading provider of dedicated and focused Media Asset Management (MAM) technologies in the world today. Our products represent the next generation of MAM technologies and are designed to be lightweight, platform agnostic and standards based. KONAN DigitalArc is comprised of a series of interoperable components that seamlessly integrate to form a fully file-based enterprise environment or independent components open to integration into existing systems. Konan has distinguished itself as a thought leader in the digital media sector and proudly holds numerous technology patents including an MPEG-7 International Standard. The company's headquarter, Konan Technology Inc., is based in Seoul, Korea and the US subsidiary, Konan Digital Inc., was launched in California early 2005. For more information, visit www.konandigital.com.

Marquis

www.marquisbroadcast.com

Marquis Broadcast offers specialist services to the television broadcast industry including project management, workflow development, systems and engineering design, operations training and custom software development. The Marquis Broadcast partnership with Omneon Video Networks provides software integration between third party non-linear editing systems, and the Omneon Spectrum media server.

MassTech

www.masstechgroup.com

MassTech Group, Inc. is a developer of software and embedded hardware centered on a powerful core database. MassTech products enable management, conversion, distribution, and sharing of digital content across IT storage and networking infrastructures.

Nesbit Systems

www.nesbit.com

The Nesbit Media Library System (MLS) is an easy to use and powerful media archival and tracking system. WebMLS allows searching of your MLS database from the web. Preview+ adds video proxy files to the information managed by Media Library System. Preview+ is affordable and the proxy files provide frame-accurate representation of the digital content, so you can log, browse and select clips all from the MLS portal. Dub Order facilitates your dubbing administration and order processes. MLS is integrated to Omneon ProBrowse, and many other systems.

NVerzion

www.nverzion.com

NVERZION provides the full range of digital media tools to allow broadcast stations to efficiently acquire, prepare, manage, transmit and report crucial data and programs. In partnership with Omneon, the Ncontrol™ automation application interfaces to a station's existing hardware for a facility-wide solution. The Ncontrol product is scalable and upgradeable to NVERZION's archiving and asset management products.

Pebble Beach

www.pebble.tv

Pebble Beach Systems offers a suite of tools for Ingest, Media Management, and Playout. Neptune is a full-scale multi-channel automation system able to control a full range of devices, including, Omneon media servers, VTRs, cart machines, routers, master control switchers, character generators and logo inserters. Neptune’s flexible and scalable architecture makes it suitable for use in broadcast, pay-per-view, near video-on-demand and news and sports applications. Anchor is an integral part of Neptune and provides powerful media management capabilities centered on an SQL database with intelligent direct control of content movement between Omneon MediaGrid active storage, Omneon MediaDeck and Spectrum media servers, data tape libraries, and other near-line storage. Two types of browse tools are available; Razorfish - a cuts-only editor and Media Porthole – a content review application. Both can work either with MXF high resolution media or low-resolution proxies generated by the Omneon ProBrowse system. Razorfish can export EDLs via XML directly to Apple Final Cut Pro edit systems. Neptune Lite is an entry-level package that meets the needs of small broadcasters. It is a frame-accurate, effective, and easy-to-use tool that can run up to four television channels.

Pharos

www.pharos-comms.com

Pharos delivers solutions for better workflow management to broadcasters and service providers in television, radio, IPTV and telecommunications. For 10 years Pharos has continually developed the unique mediator, playtime and pilot desktop broadcast management solutions. Pharos solutions offer a next-generation platform to better manage media workflow for rapid expansion in playout, presentation and publishing. Using Pharos software architecture and integration services, broadcasters and transmission service providers can now integrate previously disparate broadcast and IT technology systems and processes under one unified enterprise. Pharos systems can accommodate many third party technology choices for library management, ingest, storage technology, media formats, transcoding, creative services and playout. Pharos is an open company embracing open standards, we are proud of our people and of our unique development philosophy. Potential clients are welcome to inspect our development methods and fully evaluate the Pharos software platform and its unique distributed systems architecture.

Pictron

www.pictron.com

Pictron Media Gateway Suite Broadcast Edition automatically monitors Omneon media servers to create low-resolution video proxies. The Media Gateway also uses advanced artificial intelligence technology to automatically segment and index video into meaningful clips based on visual scene changes, speech recognition, and human face recognition. With a standard Web browser interface, Pictron Media Gateway Server uses the video metadata index extracted through Video Gateway to enable Internet and Intranet users to search video based on speech, text, visual content, face ID, and broadcast automation and traffic system information. Pictron Incorporated is a leading provider of interactive media solutions making video searchable and interactive on the Internet. Major customers include ABC Television Network, Comcast, the Federal Reserve Bank, and PBS TV Stations.

Pro-Bel

www.pro-bel.com

Working with the Omneon Spectrum media server, Pro-Bel offers proven play-to-air automation applications designed for single through to multi-channel operations. Pro–Bel's scalable solution address every area of transmission, from content ingest, storage and playout, to interfacing with back-office business systems.

Proximity

www.proximitygroup.com

Proximity products provide a simple and seamless end-to-end solution for ordering, creating, storing, viewing, transcoding, delivering and re-purposing broadcast content. Xenomotion transparently converts media between different video formats and delivers to production, broadcast & web platforms over data networks. Xenostore provides comprehensive content management and workflow features. Proximity's Xenomotion integrates with the Omneon Spectrum media server to provide seamless transfer and transcoding of content between creation, editing, broadcast and web-delivery environments. With Xenomotion's simple web browser interface, you can: * Transfer material between creation or editing systems and Omneon servers. * Xenomotion transcodes content to an appropriate format. * Search and Browse the Omneon server * Generate and view a browse quality proxy from your desktop web browser Proximity's Emmy-award winning products have a proven track record with installations worldwide in 14 countries. It's blue chip customer base includes the industry leaders in each key market including NBC, CNBC, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, Fox News & Sports, Tribune, Turner, BBC, ITN, TF1, PrimeTV, and many others.

Quantum

www.quantum.com/am/default.htm

Quantum, a global leader in storage, delivers highly reliable backup, recovery and archive solutions that meet demanding requirements for data integrity and availability with superior price/performance and comprehensive service and support. Quantum offers customers of all sizes an unparalleled range of solutions, from leading tape drive and media technologies, autoloaders and libraries to disk-based backup systems. Quantum is the world's largest volume supplier of both tape drives and tape automation and has pioneered the development of disk-based systems optimized for backup and recovery.

SGL

www.sgluk.com

Software Generation, Ltd. produces advanced, easy to use archive software for the broadcast and other industries. SGL is a privately held software company headquartered in Southampton, England. SGL has been in business since 1989 and its flagship FlashNet product is installed in over 4,000 customer sites around the world.

SGT

www.sgt.fr

Capitalizing on 12 years of experience in the broadcast environment, SGT is a leading software and services company that develops Media Solutions designed for the demanding broadcaster. Controlling the Omneon Spectrum system, SGT provides global management in various types of projects like newsroom, multi-channel transmission, media archive...and more. The wide range of SGT products (Transmission Management, Traffic Management and Media Management) enables building the perfect solution for each TV channel workflow. This is borne out by the number of major TV channels managed by SGT products worldwide.

SmartJog

www.smartjog.com

SmartJog, the global leader in fast, secure digital delivery of entertainment media, provides fully managed end-to-end digital solutions designed to accelerate and optimize tape-less workflows. SmartJog’s integrated applications make master material ready-to-air with the Wrapping Tool in order to directly ingest into Omneon servers. SmartJog has been in operation since 2002, and currently has over 450 customer locations in 65 countries. SmartJog is a subsidiary of TDF, a leading operator and provider of audiovisual, new media and broadband services to Radio, TV and Telecom Operators, based in Paris.

Snell and Wilcox

www.snellwilcox.com

For HD MPEG ingest, the Omneon Spectrum media server solution integrates seamlessly with the Memphis encoder from Snell & Wilcox. Both companies have embraced a common implementation of various SMPTE specifications to enable tight integration between products. Common support of the SMPTE 328M standard puts a timecode stamp on every video frame so that timecode remains frame-accurate even when jogging through content. Common support of SMPTE 302M provides proper mapping of PCM and Dolby E to maintain audio phase and support eight channels on a single PID, critical issues for surround sound applications.

Solid State Logic

www.solidstatelogic.com

Solid State Logic has introduced a new video production editing and asset management system called Gravity. It features a picon based - format independant, cataloging, indexing, editing, and playout system with features of local or remote encoding, transcoding, database management and more. All functions within Gravity are render-free and because of its transparent technology- it speeds your workflow.

Solutions for Media

www.s4m.de

S4M - Solutions for Media, is an international software and technology company serving the media industry. The company's fully integrated, cross-media, software suite and "cutting edge" business tools make S4M a leader in media enterprise technology. Whether air time sales or video archiving, whether program planning, licensing, ratings evaluation or cross media publishing -- today and tomorrow -- S4M solutions help manage the world's leading media businesses. The S4M solutions for Video Content Management and Rich Media / Cross Media Publishing work with partners for reliable technical solutions, and their partnership with Omneon provides all aspects of efficient data storage and management.

Sony

www.sony.com

Sony is dedicated to providing customers with the most advanced audio and video equipment and systems for the broadcast, production, business, industrial, government, medical and education markets. Sony also provides support for XDCAM and HDCAM formats. Sony provides specialized equipment and systems for data recording, duplication, electronic photography/publishing, videoconferencing, high-definition video, interactive and security applications. Sony products and systems offer leading-edge digital video technology in acquisition, recording, production, storage, display and projection.

SuitcaseTV

www.suitcasetv.com

Suitcase TV develops and supplies a range of monitoring and logging products for the broadcast industry and to provide focused development resources for individual broadcasters’ specialized requirements. Purple is the Suitcase TV media processing range of products. Compliance recording, channel monitoring and video streaming are just three of the Purple applications.