February 13, 2012: Prague, London, Dubai, Belgrade:  Leading Broadcast and Multiscreen System Integrator Visual Unity has expanded its management team with two key appointments – Tony Hasek and Asheem Parikh. These appointments will further strengthen Visual Unity’s sales channel and its ability to help customers as they make the transition from traditional broadcasting to a modern multiscreen workflow.

As Vice President of Sales, Tony Hasek will drive Visual Unity’s international business development and take charge of internal sales management. He brings 20 years experience in both Systems Integration and Mobile technology to the role, having previously founded system integrator Kinetik and Anyware, a developer of custom and stand-alone applications for Apple’s iOS (iPhone/iPad) and Google’s Android OS, Blackberry and Windows Mobile.

Client Services Manager Asheem Parikh, who joins Visual Unity from KIT Digital, will assist customers with effective project deliveries. His extensive experience in programme management and professional services will ensure best practice and a smooth transition for customers who are expanding or adapting to the multiscreen environment.

Commenting on the new appointments, Visual Unity’s CEO Jakub Kabourek says: “Tony and Asheem are valuable additions to our team and their experience extends our unique expertise in linear and multiscreen solutions. They join at an exciting time for Visual Unity, following the successful delivery of a High Definition production OB vehicle to Czech TV and news that the national broadcaster’s online service iVysilani, driven by Visual Unity’s vuMedia™ integrated multiscreen content and delivery platform, has won two industry awards for innovation to power the second screen.”

Visual Unity is now consolidating its position as a multiscreen specialist by launching new and enhanced mobile features for its vuMedia™ platform and extending its Content Delivery Network outside Europe with new pops in the Middle East.

Over the next 12 months Visual Unity will be taking part in a number of trade events including the CABSAT, NAB and IBC exhibitions.

For more information about Visual Unity, its products and its services, please visit www.visualunity.com

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Contacts:
Tomas Petru, President, Visual Unity
T: +420 271 742111  |   M: +44 7408 804 040   |   tomas.petru@visualunity.com
Sue Sillitoe, White Noise PR
T: +44 (0) 1666 500142  |     M: +44 (0) 7798 621891  |   sue@whitenoisepr.co.uk

About Visual Unity
Visual Unity is an international Systems Integrator bridging the gap between broadcast and software-based media systems, to help clients reach and engage audiences – wherever they are. The team has been designing and delivering turnkey TV systems, broadcast-IT convergent and multiscreen solutions worldwide since 1991 – from HD Outside Broadcast vehicles and major playout facilities to automated Direct-to-Web platforms.

Visual Unity’s award-winning vuMedia^TM platform helps broadcasters and content owners control how their brand and assets are managed and monetised in the multiscreen environment.  Through four highly scalable and flexible modules, the vuMedia^TM platform delivers a cutting-edge web-based and mobile viewing experience, comprehensive VOD services and a secure robust Content Delivery Network – all of which can be seamlessly deployed into existing workflows.

Visual Unity is based in Prague, London, Dubai and Belgrade. For further information, please visit www.visualunity.com

Visual Unity: Na hrebenech II 1718/8, Prague 4, 147 00, Czech Republic
T: +420 271 742 111    F: +420 271 742 112    E: info@visualunity.com

February 10, 2012: London, U.K; New York, USA; Tampa, USA; Prague, Czech Republic: UNITY Mobile, a provider of cloud-based services, will showcase its innovative solution for mobile website creation, management and mobile video delivery at CABSAT 2012 on Stand S1.C20, 28 February – 1 March 2012, Dubai.

UNITY Mobile is revolutionizing the way that businesses connect to the entire mobile ecosystem, enabling organisations of all sizes to create and manage best-in-class mobile websites, mobile applications, multimedia content, e-commerce, and mobile marketing tools.

At CABSAT, UNITY Mobile will demonstrate how its platform helps broadcasters and content owners to engage and interact with mobile audiences, as well as implement effective, measurable mobile campaigns. Using video transcoding technology, the platform automatically converts and optimizes multimedia for streaming and download – making it easy to manage and monetize content.  And thanks to a unique device recognition system, it is able to deliver video content to any device, providing the best mobile viewing experience possible for audiences on the go.

Thomas Wittig, CEO UNITY Mobile says, “Mobile is central to maintaining and attracting new audiences.  A recent Nielsen report found that 86% of mobile internet users (and 92% of 13-24 year olds) use their devices simultaneously with TV.  A quarter of them say they are browsing content related to what they are watching.  That’s a compelling opportunity for broadcasters and content providers to complement the TV viewing experience on the mobile platform, particularly in the Middle East, where both mobile penetration and demand for mobile content are so high.”

UNITY Mobile will be co-exhibiting at the show with Visual Unity, a leading Multiscreen Systems Integrator.  Together they will highlight vuMedia^TM, Visual Unity’s integrated content management and delivery framework for TV everywhere.  vuMedia^TM comprises four scalable modules to manage, monetise and deliver multiscreen content and applications.  The framework’s mobile component, vuMobile^TM, employs UNITY Mobile technology to enable broadcasters (via the cloud, global or local Content Delivery Networks) to easily deploy and seamlessly integrate mobile services into existing broadcast workflows and business services– with minimum investment and minimum operational disruption.

Visit the UNITY Mobile in Dubai for a demo of their mobile platform, including tools for interactive mobile marketing and to learn how Visual Unity’s vuMedia^TM framework, powered by UNITY Mobile, enables broadcasters to harness the enormous potential of mobile audiences.

About UNITY Mobile
UNITY is a provider of a cloud-based services platform that enables organizations to easily leverage Internet strategies and operations directly in the mobile channel. UNITY’s innovative publishing, management and marketing platform enables brands and advertisers to rapidly build on core digital media investments and processes and seamlessly access new mobile audiences.

Headquarters / EU Office: Na hrebenech II 1718/8, Praha 4 14700, Czech Republic | T: +420.226.003.400
US Office: 5401 W. Kennedy Blvd,Suite 1060 Tampa, FL 33609 | T: +1.888.519.8561

Statement
Except for historical information, this news release may contain certain ‘forward-looking statements’.  Forward-looking statements are statements that are not historical facts and are subject to a variety of risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the actual results, level of activity and performance to be materially different from the Company’s expectations and projections.

Contacts:
Thomas Wittig, CEO, UNITY Mobile
T: +420.226.003.400  |   wittig@unitymobile.com
Sue Sillitoe, White Noise PR
T: +44 (0) 1666 500142  |     M: +44 (0) 7798 621891  |   sue@whitenoisepr.co.uk

Visual Unity Introduces Middle East To Its Award-Winning vuMedia Multiscreen platform

11 January 2012. Prague, London, Dubai: Leading Broadcast and Multiscreen System Integrator Visual Unity will use CABSAT 2012 (Stand S1.C20) to highlight vuMedia^TM, its integrated content and delivery framework that allows broadcasters to effectively deliver and monetise content in the multiscreen environment.

At the show, Visual Unity will demonstrate how vuMedia^TM helps manage, automate and monitor multiscreen delivery.  Through four highly robust and scalable modules, it delivers a cutting-edge web-based and mobile viewing experience, comprehensive VOD services and secure distribution – all of which can be seamlessly deployed into existing workflows:

• vuChannel^TM for web-based and mobile viewing, fully integrated into the station backend;
• vuDemand^TM for comprehensive VOD services, including billing & reporting;
• vuMobile^TM for mobile content and applications;
• vuNet^TM providing secure content control over distribution and user-experience management.

“We are excited to showcase the full capabilities of the vuMedia^TM platform, particularly the vuMobile^TM module, which provides mobile-optimised content and enhanced video, with application and interactive marketing tools, to effectively engage mobile audiences“ says Visual Unity’s CEO, Jakub Kabourek.

Especially relevant to Middle East broadcasters is vuNet^TM, which provides a robust and secure infrastructure to effectively ingest, manage, monetise and distribute assets.  vuNet connects seamlessly with global CDNs and cloud-based services. However, in regions such as the Middle East where cloud access is unavailable, expensive or may be unfavourable to the content owner, clients can benefit from Visual Unity’s own Content Delivery Network (CDN), with a current installed capacity of more than 100 Gbps and almost 400 TB storage space. Capable of supporting tens-of-thousands of concurrent users, the CDN provides coverage across Europe and Central Europe, including Germany, Hungary, Slovakia and Romania and Visual Unity has recently established pops in Dubai, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia.

Kabourek concludes: “With pops now across the Middle East, Visual Unity’s CDN is effectively supporting the development of more regionally executed services, delivering a much-improved user experience and securing the future of multiscreen broadcasting in the region.”

With more than 20 years’ experience of Broadcast and Multiscreen System Integration including the design and delivery of turnkey TV systems, broadcast-IT convergent and multiscreen solutions for global brands, Visual Unity helps broadcasters bridge the gap between traditional broadcast and new media systems, enabling them to integrate web and mobile delivery into existing workflows and improve operational performance.

Visual Unity will be showcasing its leading integration capabilities and demonstrating the vuMedia^TM platform at CABSAT 2012, 28-February- 1 March, Sheikh Saeed Hall 1, Stand S1.C20.  

Contacts:
Tomas Petru, President, Visual Unity
T: +420 271 742111  |   M: +44 7408 804 040   |   tomas.petru@visualunity.com
Sue Sillitoe, White Noise PR
T: +44 (0) 1666 500142  |     M: +44 (0) 7798 621891  |   sue@whitenoisepr.co.uk

About Visual Unity
Visual Unity is an international Systems Integrator bridging the gap between broadcast and software-based media systems, to help clients reach and engage audiences – wherever they are. The team has been designing and delivering turnkey TV systems, broadcast-IT convergent and multiscreen solutions worldwide since 1991 – from HD Outside Broadcast vehicles and major playout facilities to automated Direct-to-Web platforms.

Visual Unity’s award-winning vuMedia^TM platform helps broadcasters and content owners control how their brand and assets are managed and monetised in the multiscreen environment.  Through four highly scalable and flexible modules, the vuMedia^TM platform delivers a cutting-edge web-based and mobile viewing experience, comprehensive VOD services and a secure robust Content Delivery Network – all of which can be seamlessly deployed into existing workflows.

Visual Unity is based in Prague, London, Dubai and Belgrade. For further information, please visit www.visualunity.com

Visual Unity: Na hrebenech II 1718/8, Prague 4, 147 00, Czech Republic
T: +420 271 742 111    F: +420 271 742 112    E: info@visualunity.com

ERA Showcases New Automated Workflow & Collaborative Editing Solutions at BVE 2012

9 January 2012 – London, Manchester: ERA Ltd, a leading IT infrastructure and application reseller specialising in Post Production, Broadcast and Media, will showcase its latest multi-client workflow automation solution and launch a new cost-effective platform for secure collaborative editing at Broadcast Video Expo, Earls Court 2, London, 14-16 February (Stand K54).

ERA MediaFlow is an enterprise-class multi-client workflow automation solution that allows broadcasters and post-production companies to effectively control media assets, projects and resources, both technical and human – all through a single platform. Resilient, reliable, scalable and feature-rich, ERA MediaFlow helps identify and eliminate bottlenecks in even the most complex workflow.  At BVE 2012, the team will demonstrate how ERA MediaFlow, through a web-based interface, lets users access and collaborate on their content, invoke workflows and interact with clients in reviews and approvals from wherever they are.

Also on show will be ERA MediaEdit, the company’s new platform for secure collaborative editing. Powered by CandIT Media WARP storage and with FilmPartners’ MXFServer at its core, ERA MediaEdit is designed to enable editing workgroups to share and manage virtualised project files securely, with guaranteed high performance and minimal infrastructure costs. The entry-level configuration supports up to eight clients of Avid, Apple Final Cut Pro and Adobe Premiere, expands in easy steps, with multi-format ingest from any device, including sixteen simultaneous streams of DNxHD and integration with EVS. It has been designed to run over Gigabit Ethernet keeping infrastructure costs low and provides a cost-effective scale-up-and-out path should editing requirements grow.

ERA MediaEdit enables effective secure management of data and user rights for shared projects, with bin-locking functionality to prevent files or sequences being accidentally overwritten or deleted. It also optimises overall operational performance by allowing both the virtualisation of growing files – Edit Whilst Capture – and the direct ingest of media files from any source into projects without starting up the NLE – freeing up edit suite capacity and making operations more efficient and agile.

“Our clients face the daily challenge of delivering more for less – both in terms of time and money. ERA MediaFlow and ERA MediaEdit have been developed to address the market need for entry-level workflow solutions, based on open architecture, combining flexibility and guaranteed performance with affordable scalability” says Sean Baker, ERA Technical Director. “We are excited to demonstrate how these solutions will enable media companies to handle more jobs, more effectively, with more speed and with less error – freeing up valuable creative resources to do what they do best and securing real strategic advantage in today’s competitive market.”

ERA is partnered with many industry-leading brands worldwide to provide leading solutions and with offices in Soho and new premises opening soon in MediaCityUK Manchester, ERA is well placed to provide support to both new and existing customers throughout the UK.  Clients include:  BBC, ITV, University of Salford (MediaCity UK), Envy, Deluxe, Smoke & Mirrors and Red Bee Media.

Contact:
Sean Baker, TD, ERA Ltd | T: +44 (0) 207 607 4224  | sean.baker@eraltduk.com
Melanie O’Brien, MJO Communications Ltd | T: +44 (0) 7851 375 247  | mel@mjocommunications.co.uk

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 About ERA Ltd
ERA is an established IT infrastructure and application reseller, specialising in the Post Production and Broadcast, with offices in Soho, London and MediaCityUK, Manchester. Over the last 10 years, ERA has become synonymous with the delivery of exciting, innovative and reliable technical solutions for broadcast, media and visual computing organisations.  Strategic alliances with leading vendors and outstanding technical capability have made ERA an easy choice for any business looking to harness IT, video and file-based workflows. For additional information about ERA, visit www.eraltduk.com

ERA Ltd (Head Office): 17 Tileyard Studios,
Tileyard Road,
London
, N7 9AH, UK
Tel:+44 (0)207 607 4224
 Fax:+44 (0)207 609 8647  Email: sales@eraltduk.com

TAMPA, Fla., Jan. 5, 2012 - StratCorp Inc., a provider of media, technology and training solutions to government and commercial customers worldwide, has announced the appointment of Robert Riegle as Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Riegle joins StratCorp with more than twenty years of successful government, industry and active military service.  In this new role, he will be responsible for the strategic direction and growth of StratCorp’s business divisions, including media, technology and Information Operation solutions as well as the Apalach Regional Training Complex (ARTiC), the most capable multi-terrain training platform for military and law enforcement professionals in the world.

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Melanie & Paul will be attending the following tradeshows and industry exhibitions over the next few months, so if you’d like to meet up, catch up or book an appointment to discuss how MJO’s marketing services can help your business, do call or drop us a line.

Broadcast Video Expo 2012: 14-16 February, Earls Court 2, London

CABSAT MENA 2012: 28 February – 1 March, Dubai World Trade Centre, UAE

IPTV World Forum: 20-22 March, Olympia Exhibition Centre, London

NAB 2012: 16-19 April, Las Vegas, Nevada USA

IBC 2012: 7-11 September, RAI Centre, Amsterdam

As CABSAT MENA 2012 approaches, Tomas Petru President of Visual Unity, a leading multiscreen systems integrator, explores the challenges of delivering solutions to meet multiscreen demand in the Middle East.

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Visual Unity will be showcasing its leading integration capabilities & demonstrating the vuMedia^TM platform at CABSAT 2012, 28-February- 1 March, Sheikh Saeed Hall 1, Stand S1.C20

November 24^th, 2011.  Prague, London, Dubai:  Leading systems integrator and multiscreen platform provider Visual Unity has enabled Czech TV to enhance its production capabilities by delivering the broadcaster’s fully High Definition-equipped Outside Broadcast vehicle.

Designed to capture mainly sporting and cultural events, the new vehicle is based on a 26 ton MAN chassis with a single expanding side. At 12 meters long and nearly four meters high, it is the second completely HD equipped vehicle in Czech TV’s fleet and provides the entire technical infrastructure needed to deliver Outside Broadcast content in full HD.

Visual Unity was commissioned to handle this prestigious project on the basis of its extensive experience of designing, delivering and integrating turnkey TV systems, broadcast-IT convergent and multiscreen solutions. Borne out of respected international SI Visual Connection (latterly KIT digital Czech), Visual Unity offers an in depth understanding of the complexities of the broadcast chain coupled with extensive in-house software expertise.

Jakub Kabourek, CEO of Visual Unity, says: “As the Czech Republic’s state broadcaster, Czech TV is committed to delivering a premium viewing experience for its audience and constantly strives to deploy the latest technology to optimize its operations. This philosophy was the driving force behind its decision to invest in a new vehicle that could deliver High Definition content from major outside broadcast events.”

Visual Unity’s brief was to ensure that the new vehicle was compatible with Czech TV’s existing systems and interfaces, while also providing the high standard and effective design needed to tackle demanding video and audio productions. As one of the region’s most respected and successful broadcasters, Visual Unity was conscious of the importance Czech TV placed on this project and was fully committed to delivering a state-of-the-art solution that fulfilled all of the design criteria.

Jiri Jires, Head of Czech TV’s Outside Broadcast department, says: “Our main aim was to build a truck that could easily be used for the daily production of material from smaller sports venues and theatres, and from places within cities where we can’t use larger trailers. We intend to gradually expand and upgrade our OB fleet and we believe that our next truck will follow the design of this latest vehicle. I was very impressed with the way in which Visual Unity incorporated all our special requirements into this project.”

Under the direction of project leader Tomas Vesely, the new vehicle was coachbuilt in the UK by Spectra Engineering and engineered together with Megahertz. Once this part of the project was completed, the truck was driven to Visual Unity so that the engineering team could finish the custom installation. In total the project took just 10 months to complete.

Tomas Vesely says: “The most demanding stage of the project was the initial layout design, which we worked on very closely with the customer. We needed to install a lot of equipment, while at the same time provide an efficient, ergonomic operational space for the crew, including a comfortable 5.1 surround sound suite for audio mixing. Achieving this required some thought, given the fixed size of the 12 meter chassis. Another issue we had to resolve was incorporating several different heating systems, which are needed because Czech TV plans to use the truck extensively for winter sports events. The final systems integration challenge was integrating LSB’s VSM control system, which is used to control the majority of the systems on board the truck.”

The vehicle is equipped with eight cameras – six LDK 8000 Elite series HD cameras (all Triax based), plus one radio camera and one SuperMotion camera. It also has two EVS XT-3 servers, IP Director, XF2 storage with removable drives for data exchange with post production facilities, a Snell Kahuna 3ME vision mixer, a Miranda NVISION NV8280 matrix router, an LSB VSM control system, a Studer Vista 8 audio console, Genelec and Fostex audio monitoring, Dolby E encoders-decoders, Clear-Com Eclipse intercom and Harris G5 graphics.

Czech TV took delivery of its new OB truck in October and has already put it through its paces. Its first successful live production was the Euro Floorball Tour 2011, which took place in Bmo, Czech Republic, at the beginning of November.

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Contacts:
Tomas Petru, President, Visual Unity
T: +420 271 742111  |   M: +44 7408 804 040   |   tomas.petru@visualunity.com
Sue Sillitoe, White Noise PR
T: +44 (0) 1666 500142  |     M: +44 (0) 7798 621891  |   sue@whitenoisepr.co.uk

About Visual Unity
Visual Unity is an international Systems Integrator bridging the gap between broadcast and software-based media systems, to help clients reach and engage audiences – wherever they are. The team has been designing and delivering turnkey TV systems, broadcast-IT convergent and multiscreen solutions worldwide since 1991 – from HD Outside Broadcast vehicles and major playout facilities to automated Direct-to-Web platforms.

Visual Unity’s award-nominated vuMedia^TM platform helps broadcasters and content owners control how their brand and assets are managed and monetised in the multiscreen environment.  Through four highly scalable and flexible modules, the vuMedia^TM platform delivers a cutting-edge web-based and mobile viewing experience, comprehensive VOD services and a secure robust Content Delivery Network – all of which can be seamlessly deployed into existing workflows.

Visual Unity is based in Prague, London, Dubai and Belgrade.

For further information, please visit www.visualunity.com

Visual Unity: Na hrebenech II 1718/8, Prague 4, 147 00, Czech Republic
T: +420 271 742 111    F: +420 271 742 112    E: info@visualunity.com

November 11^th, 2011 – London, UK: Visual Unity, a leading systems integrator and multiscreen platform provider, and sister company UNITY Mobile, a cloud-based mobile services provider, will play a leading part in Marketforce’s Inaugural Conference, Broadcasting and Digital Entertainment, which takes place in London on November 29^th, 2011.

Tomas Petru, President of Visual Unity, and Thomas Wittig CEO of UNITY Mobile, are amongst a wealth of speakers, including keynotes from the BBC and Facebook, who will deliver practical case studies and strategic discussions enabling attendees to learn about new technologies, developments with mobile infrastructure, emerging thinking on revenue models and the impact of social media.

Entitled Innovating for the Multiscreen World, Petru and Wittig’s conference session will explore why multiscreen broadcast should matter to today’s TV companies and discuss how broadcasters can exploit existing infrastructure to deliver an effective and profitable multiscreen strategy.

“With the focus on the rollout of HD and 3D Services, the broadcast industry has been taken unawares by the extraordinary pace of the multiscreen movement,” Tomas Petru says. “Many broadcasters are now struggling to realign business and operational strategies, as well as resources, to meet these new demands.  Those who fail to successfully implement a multiscreen strategy will miss out on 78% of today’s potential audience – a demographic representing a valuable income stream that cannot be ignored.”

Thomas Wittig continues, “Mobile content is now vital to the future of broadcasting. Companies must connect with the mobile ecosystem from both a technology and cultural perspective to harness the enormous potential of audiences on-the-go. The key to an effective multiscreen strategy is audience engagement and interaction, delivering real value in real time – whether the viewer is mobile or at home in front of the TV set. The good news is that thanks to mobile operators, the infrastructure is already in place, so broadcasters can add mobile services with minimal investment and minimal risk.”

Petru concludes:  “Visual Unity and UNITY Mobile’s contribution to this debate will be to show broadcasters how they can grow audience share across every screen, monetise their content and generate revenue, by adapting their current operations. With our combined experience of broadcast and multiscreen systems integration, optimised mobile content distribution and audience engagement, Visual Unity and UNITY Mobile are ideally placed to help broadcasters optimize their existing workflows to effectively deliver monetized content and reach new audiences, on new screens, in new ways.”

The Broadcasting and Digital Entertainment Conference provides a unique opportunity for senior executives from content owners, broadcasters, platforms, music, gaming and publishing to discuss the key challenges with delivering and monetising content across multiple platforms.

Other key speakers taking part in this event include:

Kerstin Mogull, Chief Operating Officer, BBC Future Media & Technology
Alex Green, Executive Director, Commercial, TV & Online, Virgin Media
Michael Comish, Chief Executive, Blinkbox
Ben McOwen Wilson, Content Partnerships Director, YouTube/Google
Claire Enders, Chief Executive Officer, Enders Analysis
Karla Geci, International Head of Media Partnerships, Facebook

The conference takes place on Tuesday 29 November 2011, 1 Whitehall Place, London.  For more details about this event please visit http://marketforce.eu.com/Conferences/digital11/

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Contact details: 

About Visual Unity
Visual Unity is a Systems Integrator bridging the gap between broadcast and software-based media systems, to help clients reach and engage audiences – wherever they are. The team has been designing and delivering turnkey TV systems, broadcast-IT convergent and multiscreen solutions worldwide since 1991.  Visual Unity’s award-nominated vuMedia^TM platform helps companies control how their brand and assets are managed and monetised in the multiscreen environment.  Through four highly scalable and flexible modules, vuMedia^TM delivers a cutting-edge web-based and mobile viewing experience, comprehensive VOD services and secure, robust content delivery – all of which can be seamlessly deployed into existing workflows.

Visual Unity is based in Prague, London, Dubai and Belgrade.  For further information, please visit www.visualunity.com

Headquarters: Na hrebenech II 1718/8, Prague 4, 147 00, Czech Republic
T: +420 271 742 111    F: +420 271 742 112    E: info@visualunity.com

About UNITY Mobile
UNITY Mobile is a cloud-based mobile services provider that enables organizations to easily leverage Internet strategies and operations directly in the mobile channel. UNITY’s innovative publishing, management and marketing platform enables brands and advertisers to rapidly build on core digital media investments and processes and seamlessly access new mobile audiences. For further information, please visit www.unitymobile.com

Headquarters/EU Office:
Namesti 14. rijna 642/17
Prague, 5 Smichov 15000, Czech Republic

ERA showcases efficient workflow solutions at BVE North 2011

London, Manchester – 24 October 2011: ERA Ltd, a leading IT infrastructure and application reseller specialising in Post Production, Broadcast and Media, will be showcasing the latest WARP storage platform and its new multi-client workflow automation solution at BVE North, Manchester Central Arena, 16th and 17th November (Stand 108).

WARP from CandIT Media is a consolidated, resilient, easy-to-manage storage platform that can scale performance and capacity linearly and rapidly adapt to any change in your workflow.  Combining storage, tape, network and server technologies into a single integrated scale-out platform, WARP offers the benefits of streaming performance for all file-based media assets, application virtualization and an open platform framework that eliminates hardware vendor lock-in.  At BVE North, ERA will demonstrate workflows with FilmPartners’ MXFServer and Adobe on WARP – configurations successfully deployed by customers in recent projects in the region.

In addition, ERA will preview ERA MediaFlow, the company’s new multi-client workflow automation appliance. ERA MediaFlow is an enterprise-class solution that allows broadcasters and post-production companies to effectively control media assets, projects and resources, both technical and human – all through a single platform. Resilient, reliable, scalable and feature-rich, ERA MediaFlow helps identify and eliminate bottlenecks in even the most complex workflow.  It provides a web-based interface to let users access their content, invoke workflows and interact with clients in reviews and approvals from wherever they are.

“Our clients face the daily challenge of delivering more for less – both in terms of time and money, says Sean Baker, ERA Technical Director. “In addition, they must adapt their workflows and processes to support the file-based operations and demands of their own customers. ERA is focused on delivering innovative and reliable technical solutions that enable businesses to harness IT, video and file-based workflows and gain real-time strategic advantage.  We are excited to preview ERA MediaFlow at BVE North and demonstrate how it will enable media companies to handle more jobs, more effectively, more quickly and with less error – freeing up valuable creative resources to do what they do best.”

ERA is partnered with many industry-leading brands worldwide to provide leading solutions and with offices in Soho and new premises opening soon in MediaCityUK Manchester, ERA is well placed to provide support to both new and existing customers throughout the UK.

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Contact details:

Sean Baker, TD
ERA Ltd
T: +44 (0) 207 607 4224
sean.baker@eraltduk.com
www.eraltduk.com

Melanie O’Brien
MJO Communications Ltd
Tel: +44 (0) 7851 375 247
mel@mjocommunications.co.uk

About ERA Ltd
ERA is an established IT infrastructure and application reseller, specialising in the Post Production and Broadcast, with offices in Soho, London and MediaCityUK, Manchester. Over the last 10 years, ERA has become synonymous with the delivery of exciting, innovative and reliable technical solutions for broadcast, media and visual computing organisations.  Strategic alliances with leading vendors and outstanding technical capability have made ERA an easy choice for any business looking to harness IT, video and file-based workflows. For additional information about ERA, visit www.eraltduk.com

ERA Ltd (Head Office): 17 Tileyard Studios,
Tileyard Road,
London
N7 9AH, UK
Tel:+44 (0)207 607 4224
 Fax:+44 (0)207 609 8647  Email: sales@eraltduk.com