ACN launches its new Digital Platform powered by Ebantic, Watchity and Aureacolor

The Catalan News Agency (ACN) launches its new Digital Platform in the cloud for the management and publication of multimedia content to its clients using technologies from Ebantic y Watchity.

The content manager DAM4cloud of Ebantic becomes a key piece to streamline, simplify and facilitate the work of the Agency's writers, substantially increasing the productivity of the writing and quality of the service offered. Furthermore, being deployed in a cloud environment, allows access and collaborative work to the Agency's editors distributed throughout the Catalan territory.

The Platform has a new web portal, designed jointly between the company Aureacolor and Ebantic, based on the project requirements, which offers ACN clients to have news in all its versions (video, audio and images) immediately.

All the multimedia content It is managed on the Watchity platform, which ensures the generation of different versions of the material, including watermarks and the distribution service through its CDN.

For your director, Marc Colomer, with this project the Agency recovers the innovative vocation, an inseparable part of its DNA, together with the vocation of plural and independent public service, territorial proximity, journalistic ambition and the will for external projection.

The project, according Anna Nogue, deputy director of the ACN, has been an example of collaboration between the different parties, which guarantees that it is technologically viable while meeting the requirements posed by journalists. A platform has been achieved that will allow the development of new products and services, in accordance with the needs of the communication sector.