Dalet Media Life, MAM platform at MediaCorp Singapore

Dalet Media Life offers advanced content lifecycle and workflow management within a fully integrated environment, based on a SOA architecture that unifies the different coexisting systems

Singapore's national broadcaster MediaCorp has opted for Dalet Media Life from The valley as a MAM platform within the migration of its operations to a fully file-based environment, including the digitization of its archive. This platform will manage the entire end-to-end workflow from material preparation, production and distribution. After an extensive bidding process, in which one of the premises was the integration of this solution with the centralized content management system (ICE), Mediacorp awarded the project to TSL.

Dalet Media Life offers advanced content lifecycle and workflow management within a fully integrated environment, based on an SOA architecture that unifies the different coexisting systems at MediaCop's broadcast center in Caldecott.

The result will be a more fluid and efficient workflow that will result in improved production. At the same time, MediaCorp will be able to take advantage of the investments already made in its existing systems such as the traffic and playout system of IBIS, the automation of Harris, and the production and studio servers EVS, among others.

Arnaud Elnecavé, Asia Pacific director at Dalet, said: "Our experience with MAM best practices in programming preparation, promo production, editing and archiving environments has melded perfectly with MediaCorp's strict broadcast requirements and needs for multi-platform production and distribution. With a centralized and highly structured database with fully customizable metadata schemes, Dalet Media Life manages media, metadata and streaming. work across multiple systems. It is a highly flexible all-in-one solution that replaces isolated production islands with transparency that optimizes human and technical resources. Being an open system ensures the ability to adapt to new technologies and future improvements.

Kelvin Ma, vice president of technologies, architecture and support at Media Technologies Corp. added that "Dalet's SOA-based open architecture has been a really important factor in this integration, allowing us to maximize our investments in existing systems while migrating to greater file-based workflow flexibility. With all content, metadata and processes managed by Dalet's MAM, we expect to increase production and achieve significant workflow improvements. In particular, we look forward to the second phase of the plan, when “If we upgrade to the new Dalet MAM Galaxy platform with its powerful process management capabilities, we will have even more efficiency in our operations.”

This project also involves the digitization of 60,000 hours of MediaCorp assets. The company hopes to launch an interesting package of HD channels in December 2013 under the DVB-T2 television standard.