Video-on-demand (VoD) services offer viewers the attraction of watching what they want, when they want. They also give service providers the chance to enrich their business model while staying in control of the content – an important issue for content providers.

There are countless VoD products you could offer. They include transactional avante-premieres (pre-broadcast on-demand availability), weekend or theme packages, special promotions, season / subscription packages and more. Factor in attractive multipricing models and your contract conditions with content providers, and managing these services quickly becomes extremely complex.

With our integrated VoD back-office solution, you have complete and highly automated control of all VoD processes. It handles content ingestion, product definition, consumer catalogue generation and the creation of royalties and other business reports. It also supports promotional services allowing you to introduce new business models such as happy hour, or loyalty programs.

The VoD back-office features integrated resource management for optimal use of system components such as edge QAM devices and VoD servers. In combination with the eventIS SPECTRIS monitoring system, stream paths are dynamically assigned to another video server or QAM channel when such a device or part of it fails.

The system interfaces easily with all kinds of on-demand, head-end equipment via flexible adapters. And its operator-centric graphical user interface (GUI) simplifies tasks and can even eliminate the need for manual intervention at all. In short, our VoD back office solution provides you with a solid base for a smooth-running operation and satisfied customers.

Key features

• Fully automated workflow management for asset ingest, productising, content propagation, catalogue generation and transaction handling
• Creation of free, loyalty, subscription and transactional VoD and push VoD services
• Embedded time shift TV functionality enables advanced VoD services such as network PVR, Catch up TV and Restart TV (including trick mode control)
• Flexible, operator-centric, drag-and-drop graphical user interface
• PRODIS module for asset and product management - connects to a wide variety of content-ingestion sources, IT systems and video servers - supports channel / service, event, asset-content and asset metadata management
• TRAXIS module for transaction, session and resource management - communicates with VoD client applications, edge QAM devices, video servers and DRM / conditional access systems - takes into account status of edge QAM and video servers as delivered by SPECTRIS
• Supports a range of content protection mechanisms including pre-encryption, session based scrambling and tier based scrambling

Complete management solution
The eventIS VoD back office solution is a complete, independent VoD management system for hybrid networks. It connects to a variety of IT systems, such as Customer Relation Management (CRM) and billing systems to exchange transaction / usage records and subscription information. As many of these systems are highly personalised or even custom-made, the VoD back office incorporates a highly flexible architecture based on adapters, enabling support for differentinterfaces. This flexibility guarantees seamless communication and ensures the solution is truly independent from video server, edge QAM and conditional access (CA) vendors. The VoD back office solution also manages the conditions of your contracts and agreements with content providers, ensuring they are correctly enforced on all assets imported into your VoD system. It then automatically generates a variety of reports based on all registered transactions with consumers. With built in redundancy and fail-safe mechanisms, the integrated system lets you take one of the modules (PRODIS or TRAXIS) offline for upgrading, maintenance or support without disrupting the availability of your VoD functionality, thereby ensuring maximum resilience. Choose from Standard and Enterprise editions, depending on whether you need standard functionality or extended functionality together with customisation potential. Please consult your eventIS Sales Manager or designated partner to explore the feature sets available for your application.

Standards compliance and compatibility

• Runs on standard server hardware
• PRODIS ingest adapters available for most popular industry standards including ADI (CableLabs) and TV-Anytime
• TRAXIS works with any set-top box middleware such as MHP, OpenTV, Linux and browser-based implementations
• Supports wide range of CA systems and scrambling methods
• Supports wide range of video server and edge QAM equipment