OpenVision® Asset Manager

Open Standards-Based Asset Management Platform Creates
and Distributes On Demand Content and Services

On Demand service providers require absolute precision and efficiency in managing their media assets–even the simplest error can bring production to a halt. Managing the flow of content, from ingestion to distribution and delivery, is becoming more challenging and complex as service providers strive to meet the growing need for On Demand real-time content. To maximize revenues, ensure a high level of service and realize return on investment, service providers require a distribution infrastructure that quickly and automatically assembles assets, routes them properly and delivers them accurately.

The IMAKE OpenVision® Asset Manager is a flexible open standards-based software platform that integrates into your existing enterprise system and automates content flow. OpenVision Asset Manager brings intelligence to asset management by automating the enforcement of business rules while anticipating and automatically resolving most technical and operational issues. As the industry’s leading workflow-based solution, OpenVision Asset Manager supports more than 16 million subscribers across 50 headends and ingests over 3,500 hours of content from multiple providers each month.

Offering real-time support and functionality, OpenVision® Asset Manager allows users to conveniently log into the system from any location, create customizable product-appropriate reports and develop new content packages. Intelligent workflows, extensive features and business intelligence capabilities offer service providers the flexibility to grow, allowing full capitalization on existing infrastructure investments.

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Automated Ingestion and Distribution Workflow and Monitoring
Boxes shaded in light blue indicate other OpenVision products, though the Asset Manager can be integrated to similar products from other vendors.

OpenVision® Asset Manager is part of IMAKE’s open standards-based solution suite that easily integrates with existing systems enabling a total solution with best-of-breed components from multiple vendors. The highly scalable OpenVision® suite grows with your needs, making it possible to cost effectively add applications to your existing infrastructure as service offerings expand.

Benefit Highlights

• Reduces operational expenses by automatically managing large volumes of assets to multiple sites.
• Automated enforcement of business rules for multiple metadata fields ensures compliance with business procedures and standards.
• Business intelligence gives service providers the ability to modify and create site-specific metadata.
• Offers the flexibility to export metadata in different formats to different video servers.
• Multicasting capability allows faster content delivery by enabling ingestion and simultaneous distribution of content.
• Centralized solution connects separate systems, reducing the number of IT and operations staff needed to monitor and support the systems.
• Password-protected access to the system allows tailored views of content and applications based on the needs of the authorized user.

Feature Highlights

• Asset tracking to all servers and sites where content is loaded
• Full support of CableLabs® 1.0 and 1.1 specifications
• Intuitive user screens provide operators with a simple way to manage and monitor multiple site assets and system status
• Ability to define and configure multiple sites
• Ingestion and distribution workflow monitoring
• Integrated with leading video servers and catchers
• Customizable metadata fields and templates
• Automatic category mapping based on business rules to manage the set-top box GUI
• Validates receipt of content using content providers pitch list
• International language support (UTF-8)
• State transition model for content lifecycle
• Automated retry capability of failed content and metadata to all server types
• Supports multiple versions and formats of assets including SD, HD, Windows Media 9, MPEG 2 and MPEG 4
• Package and playlist support
• Manual metadata editing and automated distribution
• Validation and enforcement of provider contract dates
• Automated creation of contract and providers for received assets
• Content tank library management and multiple deletion policies
• Guarantees delivery via multicast, FTP and copy
• Multiple priority transfers queues for content and metadata distribution
• Multiple asset products, prices and categories by site
• Shelf space management of content providers’ assets
• Validation of ingested content against checksum and file size