- 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.

Read more: Red Bee Media selects Cordys to support its media services for broadcasters

Mobile Internet Platform Provider Named to Prestigious EContent 100 List

Reading, UK – December 1, 2008 – Recognizing its innovation and influence in mobile content and service delivery, SurfKitchen has been named one of the digital content companies that matter most in the mobile industry by EContent Magazine. Judges recognized SurfKitchen in the mobile content category of the EContent 100 list, acknowledging SurfKitchen’s expertise in helping mobile operators and their partners around the world deliver a personalized, compelling and intuitive user experience for mobile content and services. 

“The uptake of mobile content and services is transforming the global mobile industry,” said Michel Quazza, chief executive officer, SurfKitchen. “This presents a huge opportunity as even in the current economic downturn, we are seeing a significant increase in people accessing mobile content and services.

Read more: SurfKitchen Honored as Innovator in Mobile Internet Market

Rostrvm Solutions will discuss the benefits in a seminar session at Professional Planning Forum

Woking, UK, December 2008: Call centre managers can review the challenges and benefits of task blending to optimise call centre resources in a seminar session at the Professional Planning Forum next week. Ken Reid of Rostrvm Solutions will draw on twenty years industry experience to explain how managers can fine-tune the balance between real-time resource availability and demand across multiple media and multiple tasks in order to maximise staff productivity in trying economic times.

The seminar will examine methods of maximising spare capacity by mixing and matching available agents to communications requirements.

Read more: Learn How Call Blending Can Maximise Call Centre Productivity

New application facilitates resource booking from mobile phones while on the move

1 December 2008, London, UK – BusinessSolve, a world leader in resource scheduling solutions, has today announced that it has increased its product portfolio with the launch of Workspace Manager Mobile Suite, an advanced resource scheduling application that brings all of the convenience and productivity benefits of BusinessSolve’s popular Workspace Manager to a mobile phone. Easy to use and compatible with smart phones and feature phones, Workspace Manager Mobile Suite is available immediately.

Companies are reassessing their working practices and adopting flexible working strategies in order to lower their real estate costs. However, they still need to ensure that when staff do return back to base, they have all their work-related resources readily available.

Read more: BusinessSolve Launches Workspace Manager Mobile Suite

- Tremor Media moves into Europe and opens offices in the UK -

Tremor Media, the leading global online video advertising network, announced today that it has opened offices in London and appointed a new managing director for the UK, Adrian Lacey.  Tremor Media is one of the top four video advertising networks in the USA[1] and as such has ambitious growth plans for Europe. Tremor plans to quickly establish itself as the de facto experts in online video advertising in the UK market.

Tremor has experienced significant success in the US working with leading advertisers such as IBM, Mars, Disney, Ford and L’Oreal. As the reallocation of TV advertising money to digital takes place, Tremor’s expertise in online video means that it is well placed to capitalise on this trend. Online video advertising continues to be a growth sector despite the economic downturn and subsequently Tremor made the decision to expand its operations in Europe.

Read more: US market leader in online video advertising to enter the UK