- Scalable, flexible business process management provides critical competitive advantage -

Red Bee Media, a leading broadcast services provider in the United Kingdom, has selected a platform from Cordys, a global leader in next generation Business Process Management (BPM), to support its media management services for major broadcasters.

With over 1400 staff, Red Bee Media is the largest broadcast playout and channel management business in the UK. Clients include the BBC, UKTV, Channel 4 and Virgin Media TV.
 
With the Cordys Business Operations Platform, Red Bee Media will be able to automate business processes faster and more effectively using a Service Oriented Architecture. Red Bee Media will use the Cordys platform to help manage its media logistics operations, from ingesting material and schedules, to managing the production of promotions and subtitles, through to delivery.

“Red Bee Media was looking for a strategic partner to help them automate their workflows across a range of processes and systems,” said Jon Pyke, Chief Strategy Officer of Cordys. “They went outside the traditional broadcast sector to find a solution to meet their particular requirements.”

Flexibility is a key requirement for Red Bee Media, in order to quickly adapt to changing needs and to allow end-to-end business processes to be fine tuned over time.

“Deciding on the right technology partner was a critical business decision,” said Dr Sue Farrell, Head of Architecture at Red Bee Media. “Cordys demonstrated a clear understanding of the dynamics of our operation based on their experience of managing complex business processes in other industries.”

“As the broadcast, communications and information technology markets converge, we are moving to a Service Oriented Architecture that is increasingly based on integrating systems to provide a flexible platform on which to deliver new services,” added Dr Farrell. “Business agility and speed-to-market are key differentiators”.

“Scalable, flexible business process management provides organisations with the competitive advantage needed to enhance innovation and improve business agility. We are delighted that Red Bee Media has selected Cordys to help drive their business forwards,” said Jon Pyke.

The Cordys Business Operations Platform enables organisations to dramatically improve their business agility, enabling rapid changes and allowing them to fundamentally alter the way they innovate their business operations to embrace a true customer-centric philosophy. Customers across the globe are achieving significant business performance improvements including increased productivity, reduced time to market and faster response times to ever-changing market demands.

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About Cordys
Cordys is a global provider of software for business process innovation. The industry-leading Cordys Business Operations Platform (BOP) consists of a complete suite for next generation Business Process Management (BPMS), Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) and an open, integrated set of tools and technologies including Composite Application Framework (CAF), Master Data Management (MDM) and a SOA Grid. The Cordys platform empowers customers to dramatically improve the speed of change, fundamentally altering the way they innovate their Business Operations to achieve a true customer-centric philosophy. Global 2000 companies worldwide have selected Cordys to achieve business performance improvements such as increased productivity, reduced time to market, higher security and faster response to ever-changing market demands. Headquartered in the Netherlands, Cordys is a global company with offices in the USA, the UK, Germany, China, India and Israel.

About Red Bee Media
Red Bee Media is a world-leading expert in the distribution and promotion of multimedia content, offering a comprehensive range of services to playout, publish, promote and provide media access for content across all media, from television to mobile phones.

Services include:

• Digital Hive: a one-stop shop for content owners, rights holders and distributors to digitise, store, enhance and deliver content to any platform whether it is for television, mobile, web, or tomorrow’s latest gadget.
• Metadata: navigate audiences to content across multiple platforms. TV scheduling and editorial information for electronic programme guides (EPG)
• On Demand Content Distribution: a platform that makes it possible to offer content on demand to PCs, mobile phones or set top boxes.
• Creative: promotions, design and branded content.
• Playout and media management: broadcast playout outsourcing, archive and video on demand media logistics.
• Access services: subtitling, signing and audio description.
• Language localisation: dubbing and subtitles for localisation of content.
• Listings: TV scheduling and editorial information for electronic programme guides (EPG).
• Piero: 3D sports graphics system that allows play to be viewed from any angle.
• Results: real-time 3D information-graphic systems.

Red Bee Media is majority owned by Macquarie Advanced Investment Group, a fund managed by Macquarie Group.

For more information visit: www.redbeemedia.com

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