As digitalization of broadcast media continues to progress, proprietary solutions are giving way to standard solutions that optimize:

• Integration and interfaces within larger digital media ecosystems
• Flexibility and speed of deployment to support rapidly evolving business needs
• Maintainability over successive generations of technology and business models
• Breadth of format support, and
• Overall system cost

Whether looking to preserve digital content within an archive and footage library, enhance post-production workflows, or streamline review, approval, and distribution processes, Open Text is a proven market leader. Influential broadcast and entertainment media companies like Discovery Networks, BBC, and Paramount depend on Open Text's Digital Asset Management solution to produce and distribute their digital content.

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  Freedom Forum

  Opportunity: Highlighting the historical role of a free press in democracy is a big mission. That and staying current with media's role in democracy today is the mission of the Freedom Forum. It's a huge task. To deliver, the Freedom Forum has created an amazing new facility right on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C. in which visitors can explore the interaction between news and democracy. It is not a passive affair. There are hundreds of displays, 15 theatres, and millions of digital assets to manage. At the same time, every minute of every day more media is created.

  Solution: Freedom Forum turned to Open Text for help in organizing, tagging, managing, and distributing its vast collection of media and take in dozens of HD channels in real time today with the same organizational rigor. Open Text devised a solution that monitors content directly from a media server, automatically picks up assets for transcoding, ingests low-resolution proxies into Artesia DAM, and stores original source content in external storage systems.

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  Televisa

  Opportunity: Grupo Televisa is the largest Spanish-language media company in the world, with four networks and over 250 affiliated stations. In 2006, it sought a solution to manage its growing library of content and position it to take advantage of emerging new distribution channels. Televisa turned to Bearing Point and its Media Management Solution which has Artesia DAM embedded at its core.

  Solution: The resulting solution, online today, integrates broadcast business rights management, editing applications, video transformation, and HD storage solutions. Artesia DAM is the single central application orchestrating the high level operations including: ingest, quality control, search, edit, delivery, transformation, digital rights management, and external disk and tape storage. Key partners in this process include Telestream and Front Porch Digital whose Flip Factory and DIVArchive solutions, respectively, are now fully supported product options with the Open Text Digital Asset Management platform.