U-TO Solutions (I) Pvt. Ltd

EMPOWERING MEDIA BUSINESSES WORLDWIDE

U-TO stays true to its promise to deliver unmatched media solutions to clients spread across the APAC region with its flagship offerings ‘RightsU - Rights Management Solution’ and ‘BroadView – Broadcasting Management Solutions for scheduling, programming, acquisition, ad-sales and traffic’. Trusted by industry leaders globally for over a decade, U-TO’s expertise and in-depth understanding of the media domain has helped broadcasters, studios and distributors address the complexities of their evolving business needs.

The rapid evolution of digital devices and consumer behaviour is reinventing the broadcasting industry. To keep up with new challenges, media and entertainment companies have leveraged U-TO’s capabilities to maximise revenues from their content, advertising and promotional inventories.

Since its inception in 2000, U-TO has innovated and reinvented its solution offerings with scalable technology, to provide cost-effective solutions and operational efficiency. Companies choose U-TO for its expertise in consultancy, project management, design, integrations via web services/API, flexible workflow, implementation and training, maintenance and post-implementation support.

As the media landscape shifts towards non-linear platforms, U-TO is adding the appropriate tools to manage programme scheduling on OTT, electronic sell through, download to own (DLTO), TV everywhere, cable VOD, SVOD, web and IPTV.

Company Goal “At U-TO, we believe in merging technology, innovation and business knowledge to help our clients achieve more,” says Sumit Suri, Founder of U-TO. Suri, a technology enthusiast leads a young team of domain experts in global broadcast and media.

Middle East Footprint From its regional base in the UAE, the company is poised to offer broadcast solutions and services to existing and

prospective clients spread across the Middle East, Africa, Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan. With continuous investments and rapid expansion, U-TO has created a strong presence in the Middle East and this is the company’s second consecutive participation at CABSAT.

MENA Penetration in the Last Year • Image Nation, Abu Dhabi

In partnership with Discovery

Communications, Image Nation launched Quest Arabiya, a free-to-air channel for the Middle East region. The channel showcases locally produced

Arabic infotainment content as well as leverages the large Discovery library dubbed in Arabic.

U-TO implemented a playout interface with Ericsson at TwoFour54 which supports automatic generation of dynamic secondary events with native support for Arabic.

• Moby Group

Tolo, Tolo News and Lemar TV

Channels in Afghanistan and Lana

TV in Iraq, which are being uplinked from the Moby Group’s first-of-its-kind, state-of-the-art facility in Afghanistan. Alliance Media-Urdu1 leading GEC in

Pakistan uplinked out of DMI (UAE).

• Fatafeat, UAE

Fatafeat, a part of Discovery

Communication is the first free-to-air food channel in the Arab world with playout from Samacom facility. Broadcast Management System U-TO Solutions and BroadView Software are dedicated to deliver solutions to the television broadcast industry worldwide. With over 500 channels using U-TO software globally, the company offers cutting-edge technology to support any format in any country in multiple languages. U-TO provides an extremely powerful, yet easy-to-use software solution that helps these groups manage all their multi-channel needs in programming, traffic, on-demand, media and ad-sales for linear and non-linear platforms. U-TO and BroadView’s collaboration has brought a significant change in broadcast management.

Clients include: • Television networks and stations. • Radio networks and stations.

• Speciality channels and cable networks. • OTT and On-Demand needs. • Non-commercial broadcasters. • DTH operations.

Content Rights Management and Business Intelligence The media domain has evolved in recent times and is now more aware of its content rights and exploitation. Rights are treated as a strategic investment bringing about an overall change in business perspective. U-TO designed and developed a product ‘RightsU’ that addresses all these business scenarios with intelligent modules and granular reporting.

RightsU provides complete visibility and control over all acquired and syndicated media assets. This powerful solution empowers businesses to manage content at every stage of the assets life. From acquisition to syndication, get complete flexibility and convenience in managing assets across multiple platforms, territories, hold-backs and languages along with intelligent built-in reporting systems that help broadcasters track royalty payouts, custom defined revenue/profit sharing rules, etc. RightsU also provides insight into all available asset inventory across platforms or territories enabling revenue opportunities. It manages and monetises assets helping businesses achieve more. What sets RightsU distinctly apart from its competitors is: • Protection from intellectual property rights violations. • Asset availability.

Recent Achievements The last quarter of 2015 was an indicator of U-TO’s success and its impact in the media domain.

RightsU - BroadView Integration In a key strategic move, U-TO accomplished native integration of asset rights (RightsU) and programme scheduling (BroadView) - the first of its kind in the Indian sub-continent.

The integration eliminates intellectual property rights violations. This comes as a huge relief for broadcasters facing potential losses from law suits of intellectual property rights violations. The data exchange between two systems is seamless, reducing dual data entry efforts and maintains data consistency across all business units.

Compatible Interface Protocols & Mechanism U-TO has significant experience in developing interfaces and integrations to suit client systems. These interfaces are text or XML-based and APIs or direct database connections. Furthermore, an open database structure that is ODBC, JDBC and .Net compliant also makes it easy for other systems to extract key data directly from a database.

Today U-TO integrates with automation systems, media asset management systems, video servers, ingestion systems, character generators, graphics systems, accounting systems, EDI systems, sales proposal systems, media archive systems and various email delivery platforms.

Client Footprint Sony Pictures Network A global commercial television provider with operations in Mumbai, Singapore and London, the group operates 30+ channels across six time zones.

Discovery Communications, USA A $4 billion company, Discovery Communications has implemented BroadView’s scheduling and asset metadata tools for all of its 10 US networks. Worldwide, Discovery reaches 1.8 billion cumulative subscribers in 218 countries

and territories through its 155 channels. The implementation involved complex interfaces to numerous legacy systems in the Discovery environment.

PBS, USA BroadView is used by the PBS network to manage over 15 video streams that serve the 300+ PBS member stations across the USA. This system has over 350 users in Washington, DC. PBS has been using BroadView from 2006 and has been implementing workflow improvements and customisations ever since.

Rogers, USA A large North American group, it owns and manages 46 local television channels arranged into a complex web of parent and child schedules. The group has over 725 users and has been managing these channels on BroadView since 2002.

Viacom18 Network, India BroadView’s programming, scheduling, traffic and sales system is used by Viacom 18 network for 25+ channels across various genres such as general entertainment (English, Hindi and regional) music, kids shows, etc. Viacom18 Media Pvt. Ltd. is a 50/50 joint venture operation in India between Viacom Inc, US and Network18 Group.

Tata Sky, India BroadView is deployed at TataSky, which is one of India’s largest DTH platforms with over 11 million subscribers. BroadView also manages EPG content for TataSky integrating with NDS. CONTACT

U-TO Solutions (I) Pvt. Ltd. 1st Floor, Todi Building Lower Parel (West) Mumbai - 400 013. Tel: +91 22 43 222 222 Email: info@uto.in Website: www.uto.in

BroadView Software Toronto, Ontario M5C 1K9

MENA O ce Richard Saldanha Media City, Dubai, UAE Tel: +971 55 966 2815 Email: richard@uto.in