AREMA NewsletterIBM Archive and Essence Manager

Q1/2015

Dear Customer,

I hope you had an enjoyable Easter holiday with your family and friends.

This is our first newsletter of 2015 and I want to use the opportunity to thank you for your continued interest in our solutions.

Very shortly this year’s NAB Show in Las Vegas will begin and we hope you will be able to meet with us there. We are exhibiting in North Hall Booth #5223, and would appreciate the opportunity to present our new and innovative solutions.

We look forward to seeing you at our booth.

Kind Regards,

Thomas Ross Leader of Media & Entertainment, IBM Global Business Services

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Silke Anja KrämerAREMA ProgramManagementIBM Deutschland GmbH Nahmitzer Damm 1212277 Berlin

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NAB 2015 AREMA will be showcased at NAB. We will demonstrate several use cases which highlight some of the new functionalities of AREMA and encourage you to discuss them with our experts.

IBM Watson Watson’s great performance in the US gameshow Jeopardy back in 2011 illustrated the power of cognitive computing. Cognitive computing is going beyond big data – unstructured textural data is understood and put into relationships.

Beginning this year, IBM provides Watson services in the cloud. As a first step we integrated “visual recognition” (the eyes of Watson) into AREMA and are showing this in the context of an import and analysis workflow. In this case, both AREMA and Watson are running in the IBM Softlayer Cloud. The results can be searched and displayed in the AREMA Portal. Selected material can be transcoded either via an Elemental transcoder or via the Softlayer cloud transcoding service.

Events

Elemental Server Agent As a new feature, AREMA provides an agent for an API-based controller of the Elemental Server Transcoder. This extends the current supported transcoders fromHarmonic, Telestream, Nablet, and Mainconcept by another well known transcoder. The agent passes potential error messages and progress from the transcoder to the AREMA monitoring clients. With the help of the notify agents, the complete creation of an Elemental job with profiles, cuts, water marks etc is possible.

Aspera Faspex Agent Until now, the Aspera Transfer Agent had the function to transfer essences to an Aspera endpoint via the FASP-protocol. In its latest version, the agent can also use the Aspera’s Faspex Webservice not only to transfer the essence, but also to make those essences visible and downloadable.

Dalet Medialife Integration Based on our experiences with Dalet Galaxy, AREMA now offers integration with Dalet’s MAM System Medialife. This integration supports polling the Dalet search engines (i.e. to identify new or updated assets) as well as API-based metadata extraction. These mechanisms are used to start a workflow in AREMA without any active intervention by the Dalet users. Furthermore, AREMA is able to export and import the essences via the Dalet API.

Archiving Daemon With the new AREMA Archiving Daemon it is now possible to group independent archive requests in TSM or LTFS based environments so that they are written onto tape as one batch. In order to achieve this, the “put to tape” step is replaced by a step that creates an entry in the database. The Archiving Daemon searches for the entries in configurable intervals, groups them based on different criteria (tape pool, min and max no. of essences per job etc.) and starts archive jobs in AREMA. All essences are written to tape within one single tape-session, which leads to a noticeable performance improvement.

Product development

New Portlets supplementing EssenceViewer In the context of our ongoing work to port the AREMA Clients onto an integrated, portal based frontend, we have introduced 3 new exciting portlets. These supplement the essence-lookup in the job monitor and the Essence Viewer portlet by providing fast, index based search & filtering capabilities. A detailed view of the metadata with an HTML5-based videoplayer, a keyframes view and means to trigger an AREMA job is provided. These Portlets are linked so that a complete, user-focused workflow can be created to search and find essences. This can then can be used to start jobs – e.g. the transcoding and transfer of essences.

Rule-based transcoding and deliveryUsing the AREMA rules engine, we will show automatic transcoding and delivery based on metadata of imported essences. The transcoder and its profiles are selected by rules using this metadata and the appropriate transfer-protocols and metadata-schemas are automatically determined.

Human Task Workflows with IBM Business Process Manager (BPM) In case that in addition to a technical orchestration an orchestration of business processes or “human tasks” managementare required, AREMA can also be extended by IBM BPM. IBM BPM will provide human tasks with task lists and forms and also integrate with business systems. We will show a demo of AREMA integrated with BPM based on the FIMS standard.

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