2121stst Century Broadcast Century Broadcast SupportSupport

Enabling Asset Management for the Enterprise

Tim Senior

19 March 2009

AgendaAgenda

• Introduction

• Current position

• 21CBS vision

• Proposed Solution

• Questions

IntroductionIntroduction

• Sky is a media company

• Leveraging assets key to success

• Current systems largely manual– Slow, error-prone, cumbersome

• Need to move to modern, integrated asset management system

Current positionCurrent position

• Media assets stored on tape

• Resource bookings done manually

• Low level of system integration

System componentsSystem components

• BSS– Maintain booking templates– Define asset versions– Associate template with version to produce an

asset booking request

• ScheduAll– Schedule resource activities– Monitor workflow

Existing data flowsExisting data flows

Asset store

BSS

ScheduAll

Enabling systems

21CBS Vision21CBS Vision

• Central, accessible content store

• No-touch asset & resource booking

• Media Asset Management system– Editing & storage functions

• All applications integrated

Revised Component FunctionsRevised Component Functions

• MAM– New system– Take over template maintenance– Asset store & editing functions

• BSS– Maintain current functionality except template

maintenance

AssumptionsAssumptions

• MAM will maintain workflow requirements to produce asset versions

• Message volumes are not excessive

• Interfaces from ScheduAll to enabling systems exist– Possible exception if MAM will provide eg

editing facilities managed by ScheduAll

Design PrinciplesDesign Principles

• Components & interfaces based around SOA principles– Loosely coupled– Defined contracts

• Communication via SOAP messaging over ESB– Guaranteed delivery– Transactional

Proposed solutionProposed solution

MAM

Media store

ESB

ScheduAll

Enabling systems

BSS

Message sequenceMessage sequence

BSS ScheduAllMAMEnabling systems

createAssetVersion

bookResource

taskComplete

assetVersion complete

*

*

taskComplete

*

executeTask

*

Template handlingTemplate handling

Is template list

populated?

Update template list

Yes

No

Exit

Update template list

Is template in cache?

Update template details

Yes

No

Exit

Update template details

Is template list populated?

Is template in cache?

Select desired template

Retrieve template list from MAM

Retrieve template details from MAM

Return selected template details

Yes

No

Yes

No

Select template

BSS

Integration requirementsIntegration requirements

Service Provider Consumer/s Parameters Purpose

getTemplateList MAM BSS Synchronous

Request/response

Retrieve list of templates from MAM

getTemplate MAM BSS Synchronous

Request/response

Retrieve specific template details from MAM

templateListChanged MAM BSS Publish/subscribe Push template list changes to BSS

templateChanged MAM BSS Publish/subscribe Push template changes to BSS

createAssetVersion MAM BSS Asynchronous

Request/response

Send asset booking request to MAM

bookResource ScheduAll MAM Asynchronous

Request/response

Send resource booking request to ScheduAll

QuestionsQuestions

Thank you