VCM for a Global Mobile Communication Company

Application
Our highly customizable system imports, packages, promotes and monetizes video content.
Industry
Video content management (VCM) system for digital media and broadcasting companies
Quick Fact
360° visibility for digital media assets
Services Used
Larvel
JavaScript
Java
Swift
Objective

The Need Our Client Had

Our client is a global mobile communication company from the UK. The client reached us with the request to develop a VCM system that could support up to 10k TV channels.

Challenge

The Challeng We Have Faced

Being one of the largest international companies among representatives of the new era of mobile communication and media distribution services, our client requested the VMS to support IPTV, OTT, DVB. 

The client also shared with us their requirements for the end-user role: personal video recorder, parental control, favorite channels list, and electronic program guide (EPG) support.

Solution

How We Solved The Challenge

From the corporate perspective, our Video Content Management system equipped broadcasting companies to import and manage their content libraries without any coding needed.

The features we implemented for the system’s end users include:

  • Video-on-demand (VoD) support
  • Smart Player
  • Soundtrack Management tool
  • Subtitles Management tool
  • Replay functionality
  • EPG Support
  • User Favorite Channels List
  • Personal Video Recorder (PVR)
  • Network PVR
  • Parental Control
  • Recommendations Feed

The Billing module has a user interface that allows clients to register accounts, view and update account details, check bills and review past activity. Through the billing system, customers can sign up for email-delivery of bills and activate accounts on PCs, IPTV and mobile devices. The billing options are: subscriptions plans, events subscriptions, pay-per-view, sales and promo-codes.

We provide a simple way to customize the UI on our clients’ applications. In this way, a service provider can have a customized design that is consistent with its corporate identity. It is possible to define colors, icons, logos, backgrounds, etc.

Together with professional DRM/CAS partners, the system enables platform security and fully secured content for operators. Our VCM solution supports a token content security mechanism which ensures basic conditional access functionality. This is achieved by authorization of client devices, whereas access to content is only allowed to authorized subscribers.

Seamless is provided on these devices: Web (HTML5 video player) – PC, MAC OS, Linux; Smart TV – Samsung, LG, Mobile; Android smart TV – IOS (iPhone, iPad), Android (Phone, Tablet).

Results

Which Results Got Our Client

Our VCM system is the central component of an interactive TV ecosystem, enabling simple platform management via different APIs. Whether for OTT, hybrid, or multicast IPTV setups, the system connects all of the parts into a complete, end-to-end solution.

On the server side, the VCM system integrates with DRM, VOD, EPG, provisioning, and billing systems, and provides all of this information and functioning to end users’ devices. On the client side, the client applications connect subscribers over any access network to a unique interactive TV service.

The system’s Recommendation Engine tool equips service providers with the capability to treat their end users with personal recommendations, which in turn equips them with highly targeted offers and ad campaigns. End users enjoy more engaging experiences, and service providers enjoy a higher ROI.

Team and Duration

The Resources Needed for a Project Realization

  • 2 backend developer
  • 4 mobile app developers
  • 1 frontend developers
  • 1 designer
  • 1 project manager
  • 1 business analyst
  • 2 QA/TA

18 months for the MVP