Red Bee Media selects Cordys to support its media services for broadcasters

- Scalable, flexible business process management provides critical competitive advantage -

Red Bee Media, a leading broadcast services provider in the United Kingdom, has selected a platform from Cordys, a global leader in next generation Business Process Management (BPM), to support its media management services for major broadcasters.

With over 1400 staff, Red Bee Media is the largest broadcast playout and channel management business in the UK. Clients include the BBC, UKTV, Channel 4 and Virgin Media TV.
 
With the Cordys Business Operations Platform, Red Bee Media will be able to automate business processes faster and more effectively using a Service Oriented Architecture. Red Bee Media will use the Cordys platform to help manage its media logistics operations, from ingesting material and schedules, to managing the production of promotions and subtitles, through to delivery.

“Red Bee Media was looking for a strategic partner to help them automate their workflows across a range of processes and systems,” said Jon Pyke, Chief Strategy Officer of Cordys. “They went outside the traditional broadcast sector to find a solution to meet their particular requirements.”

Flexibility is a key requirement for Red Bee Media, in order to quickly adapt to changing needs and to allow end-to-end business processes to be fine tuned over time.

“Deciding on the right technology partner was a critical business decision,” said Dr Sue Farrell, Head of Architecture at Red Bee Media. “Cordys demonstrated a clear understanding of the dynamics of our operation based on their experience of managing complex business processes in other industries.”

“As the broadcast, communications and information technology markets converge, we are moving to a Service Oriented Architecture that is increasingly based on integrating systems to provide a flexible platform on which to deliver new services,” added Dr Farrell. “Business agility and speed-to-market are key differentiators”.

“Scalable, flexible business process management provides organisations with the competitive advantage needed to enhance innovation and improve business agility. We are delighted that Red Bee Media has selected Cordys to help drive their business forwards,” said Jon Pyke.

The Cordys Business Operations Platform enables organisations to dramatically improve their business agility, enabling rapid changes and allowing them to fundamentally alter the way they innovate their business operations to embrace a true customer-centric philosophy. Customers across the globe are achieving significant business performance improvements including increased productivity, reduced time to market and faster response times to ever-changing market demands.