Dalet's MAM platform, integration expertise, and
workflow tools deliver metadata and media management with
streamlined production for broadcast, web, and VOD.
New York, New York - March 21, 2012 - Dalet Digital Media
Systems has announced that Shaw Media, one of Canada's
largest privately owned television broadcasters, has
begun deployment of Dalet Enterprise Edition at their
Television Playout Center in Toronto. Eighteen of the
country's most popular specialty channels, including HGTV
Canada, Food Network Canada, History Television, and
Showcase, originate from the Center. The deployment was
executed in cooperation with broadcast consultant and
reseller Majortech; it unifies all of the Toronto
facility's production, playout, and distribution systems
within a robust and flexible framework for media and
metadata management.
"Dalet Enterprise Edition has been incredibly open
and agile in meeting our functional and technical
requirements, which include Media Asset Management and a
large number of third party system integrations,"
says Shawn Kelly, Shaw Media's Senior Director of Media
Operations. "With cross-system management and
flexible metadata schemes for handling all types of
assets, the Dalet Enterprise Edition acts as our 'super
glue' and overall workflow engine. It ties together all
the diverse systems while respecting our preferred ways
of working. Dalet's enterprise-wide approach offers high
scalability and multiple integration methods, providing a
tremendous advantage from a business perspective and
potential for expansion to include new technologies down
the road."
Dalet Enterprise Edition includes a comprehensive MAM
platform with a centralized content catalogue and
powerful workflow engine. Dalet also packages Enterprise
Edition with specially designed toolsets to boost
productivity in production, programming, and archiving
workflows. Accessible from a single user interface, these
purpose-built tools enable a more collaborative workflow.
"Shaw Media was looking at the big MAM picture - much
more than a content repository. They wanted an advanced
MAM system that would also orchestrate workflows between
the various areas of their operations. We're pleased that
Dalet Enterprise Edition can fulfill their vision.
Enterprise Edition will manage ingest, QC, program prep,
and distribution of material in a fully integrated
workflow that will allow Shaw Media to maximize their
media assets as well as their human resources,"
explains Frederic Roux, Director of Sales, Dalet USA.
"It's a fully collaborative environment now with
Dalet managing and tracking assets and work processes
across systems. Assets are easily searchable, accessible
for everyone who needs them, regardless of what
application or system they are working in. Many tasks in
the production chain are driven by work orders and tied
together by the Dalet workflow engine - from QC at
ingest, editing in Final Cut for compliance editing or
Promo creation, captioning, and version management to
broadcast, archiving, and delivery to VOD, web, and other
platforms."
Dalet integrations at the Shaw Media facility in Toronto
include Harris D-Series automation, Omneon MediaGrid
production storage, Omneon Spectrum video file servers
for ingest and playout, Harris Platinum video router,
Apple Final Cut NLEs, Rhozet transcoders, Interra Baton
for automated file-based QC, S4M traffic system, and
Front Porch Digital HSM archive, as well as several
systems developed in-house by Shaw Media.
About Dalet Enterprise Edition
Dalet Enterprise Edition is a flexible, highly scalable
media asset management platform that melds different
production workflows, multiple formats, and diverse
systems into a unified, managed environment that improves
productivity and drives business. Built-in tools
streamline production and distribution workflows in
sports, news, and entertainment programming. Dalet
Enterprise Edition also provides a foundation for
incorporating other systems and software so facilities
can design the media universe of their choosing. The
SOA-compliant web services APIs and multiple exchange
methods ensure fluid media and data movement with
lifecycle metadata tracking.
At the core of Dalet Enterprise Edition is the content
catalog that manages media, essence files, and metadata
across the organization, storing and tracking contextual
sets of associated multimedia of all kinds along with
metadata, including time-coded locators. The catalog
provides ultimate flexibility to satisfy the needs of
every type of media organization.
About Shaw Communications Inc.
Shaw is a diversified communications and media company,
providing consumers with broadband cable television,
High-Speed Internet, Home Phone, telecommunications
services (through Shaw Business), satellite
direct-to-home services (through Shaw Direct) and
engaging programming content (through Shaw Media). Shaw
serves 3.4 million customers, through a reliable and
extensive fibre network. Shaw Media operates one of the
largest conventional television networks in Canada,
Global Television, and 18 specialty networks including
HGTV Canada, Food Network Canada, History Television and
Showcase. Shaw is traded on the Toronto and New York
stock exchanges and is included in the S&P/TSX 60 Index
(Symbol: TSX - SJR.B, NYSE - SJR). For more information
about Shaw, please visit www.shaw.ca.
About Dalet
Dalet solutions enable broadcasters and media
professionals to create, manage and distribute content to
both traditional and new media channels, including
interactive TV, the Web and mobile networks. Dalet
combines into a single system a robust and proven Asset
Management platform with advanced metadata capabilities;
a configurable workflow engine, and a comprehensive set
of purpose-built creative and production tools. This
integrated and open environment enables end-to-end
management of the entire News and Sport and Program
content chain, and allows users to significantly improve
efficiency, and to maximize the use and value of their
assets. Dalet's solutions are delivered through a
dedicated Professional and Integration Services
Department to ensure the highest possible standards.
Dalet systems are used around the world by many thousands
of individual users at hundreds of TV and Radio content
producers, including public broadcasters (ABS-CBN, BBC,
CBC, DR, France TV, RTBF, RFI, Russia Today, RSR & TSR,
RT Malaysia, VOA, WDR), commercial networks and operators
(Antena 3, Canal+, FOX, eTV, Mediaset, Orange, Time
Warner Cable, Warner Bros., Sirius XM Radio) and
government organizations (Queensland JAG, Canadian House
of Commons, The European Commission). Dalet is traded on
the NYSE-EURONEXT stock exchange (Eurolist C): ISIN:
FR0011026749, Bloomberg DLT:FP, Reuters: DALE.PA.
Dalet is a registered trademark of Dalet Digital
Media Systems. All other trademarks and products
mentioned herein belong to their respective owners.
For more information on Dalet visit www.dalet.com
Press contact:
Janice Dolan
Zazil Media Group
(p) +1 617-817-6595
(e) Janice@zazilmediagroup.com
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