Visual Unity And PROVYS Partner For NAB 2013

Multiscreen solution provider Visual Unity has announced it will team up with media software solutions provider PROVYS by integrating Visual Unity’s next generation vuMedia™ Over the Top (OTT) platform with PROVYS’ advanced broadcast management and planning system.
This joint venture will be on show at NAB 2013 at the PROVYS booth (N5818).
Visual Unity’s vuMedia™ offers the ability to manage and monetise audio, video and image libraries.
This Cloud-based service intends to alleviate the need for businesses to build an expensive, in-house and resource-intensive media library by allowing content owners and distributors to publish content online. The platform also supports live streaming of High Definition video. Graphics and other audio and visual material can be associated with files, for brand promotion or to generate advertisement revenue.
PROVYS’ software solution provides broadcasters with the channel management and advertisement sales tools needed to "increase productivity and gain strategic insight into business processes".
With the integration of vuMedia™ with PROVYS, no additional inputs are required. Customers who choose PROVYS with vuMedia™ will have front-end access to their own catalogue, charts and metadata, as well as a video player with a smart URL, which will allow movies to be played on a variety of different devices.
Other vumedia™ features such as statistical analysis, advertisement injection and social network integration are also available.
Tomas Petru, CEO of Visual Unity, says: "This is a significant development for PROVYS’ customers as it offers a completely automated online video platform where content can be managed centrally, thus saving time, equipment cost and manpower. It will also increase business bandwidth by providing broadcasters with an easy and effective way to utilise all their content rights."
The new solution is completely connected to Visual Unity's content delivery Network (CDN) module, vuNet™, with connectors to other worldwide CDN's such as Akamai, Limelight, Level3, Du and MediaNova.
Josef Vasica, CEO of PROVYS, comments: "We are delighted to present the results of our common development at our booth. Visual Unity brings years of OTT expertise and breath of services that complement our own. This as a triple win situation for all: PROVYS, Visual, and our customers. The combined best practices allow us to build even better products, services and overall solutions for our clients."
Gabriel Dusil, Senior Vice President of Marketing and Corporate Strategy, adds: "This is an exciting joint project we have developed with PROVYS, and we see it as a major endorsement of our vuMedia™ OTT platform. Our joint offering is a solution that speaks to what is at the top of the broadcaster’s agenda - a Cloud-based service that allows them to maintain rights to their content, while providing flexible methods to monetise their content onto multiple screens."
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