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Piksel Digital EnterpriseFeature Guide

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OverviewMaximize the reach and return on your digital communication assets. Piksel’s Digital Enterprise is a SaaS-based system that empowers organizations to advertise, inform, educate and motivate their prospects, customers, partners and employees using live or on-demand video and signage.

This innovative solution answers the need for a truly enterprise-wide digital communication strategy that provides targeted communications, centralized content management and control, social engagement and robust analytics with minimal start-up and maintenance costs, driving an excellent ROI.


Account and Content Management Manage your media library so that you can easily create playlists, edit and tag media, sync PowerPoint slides, assign appropriate user roles, and much more. • Account access and restrictions • User access and restrictions • Content sharing and moderation • Manual and smart playlists • Content migration

Ingestion and Encoding Ingest all types and sizes of video content from single titles to an entire video library and use our advanced encoding technology to prepare your media for delivery in any format to any screen. • Drag and drop media uploader • Batch ingest • API ingest • MRSS/remote asset ingest • Configurable transcoding profiles • Third-party encoder integration • FTP Drop Folder • Video and audio length cropping

Security and Encryption Protect content from unauthorized viewing and re-use with a wide range of security options and encryption solutions. • RTMP

• Conditional access • SSL

Integration Our platform architecture was designed with the exibility and control to be easily extended through the addition of new, discrete components, as well as integration with third- party solutions. • API developer documentation • Third-party CDN compatibility • OSMF plugins

Digital Enterprise™Digital Enterprise capitalizes on the demand from prospects, customers, employees and partners to access brand information when, where and how they want it. Responsive design and a rich feature set underpin a robust, flexible broadcast-grade platform that works in a variety of environments connected on any device. Powerful analytics track content performance and enable data-driven decisions about how to better grow and target audiences; social publishing tools deliver the capability to share, post and tweet. Digital Enterprise features can be configured to meet your organization’s individual needs:

Delivery Distribute live and on demand media across multiple platforms and environments. • HD Streaming • Akamai HD • Apple HTTP Live Streaming (HLS) • Mobile Web/HTML5 • iOS • Android • Roku

Live Streaming Capture your live broadcasts and deliver to any screen for smooth, uninterrupted viewing. • 24/7 monitoring and support • DVR playback • AppStudio smart players • Deep project customization • Social interactions and chat on hosted landing pages • Third party encoder integration • Live stream with multiple bitrates • Simulated live event • Customizable scheduling • Cloning projects • Live event stats • Live streaming with time shifting DVR

Video On Demand The On Demand module provides you with the tools necessary to quickly and easily publish your video

content to the Internet. After uploading and transcoding audio and video files they are ready for placement into On Demand projects. A variety of player templates are provided for addition to your projects. Advanced project features enable customization of projects at every level. • AppStudio smart players • Deep project customization • Add media manually or automatically • iTunes RSS feeds • Embed players on social platforms • Security • Custom metadata • Syndication • Industry standard ad integration • Ad management • Third party player tracking • Delivery type

Player Management • Customizable players • Mobile and Web apps • AppStudio player authoring • Social sharing

Advertising and Monetization Monetize your media assets with exible advertising capabilities. • Third-party ad platform integration • Pre-, post-, and mid-roll ads


• Industry standard ad integration • Third party paywall

Social Sharing Share video assets via Facebook and Twitter.

Syndication Keep content and your audience up-to-date on multiple distribution channels. • Publish videos to YouTube and Vimeo • Synchronize videos to YouTube • Piksel media property syndication sites

Analytics Optimize the effectiveness of your campaigns, reach your audience more ef ciently, and drive results with our powerful reporting and analytics module. • Account, Live, On Demand, and Linear Playout metrics • Third-party web analytics application integration • Operating system tracking

Linear Playout With Linear Playout with Electronic Programming Guide (EPG), schedule on demand assets and live events to play out on a 24/7 customized channel. You have the tools necessary to schedule content like a broadcast television channel, but for the Web. Schedule content streams like a broadcast television channel, but for the Web; the EPG displays what is scheduled to play and

when for viewers. • Broadcast live and on demand • Flexible scheduling • Programming bundles • Electronic Programming Guide (EPG) • Content categories and subscription packages • Manual or automatic channel publish • Multiple embed code options • Player-side stitching

Audience Engagement Let us help you engage with your audience in a deeper and more meaningful way. • User Generated Content • Live Question Submit • Social interactions and chat on hosted landing pages

Secure Internet The EnterpriseTV media players support HTTPS protocol for communication with every aspect and various components of the solution. Customize your console accesses with login/password, and secure connections such as IP filtering and password policies.

Customizable Admin Users Create specific, customizable user administration roles to specify what features the user has access to. Default roles include: • Supervisor – Create accounts, allocation of rights and content • Contributor – Ingest and manage content • Operator – Monitor and manage media player control • Director – Manage and program content and playlists

Powerful Media Library The hub for managing and organizing your content – the Media Library houses all your uploaded images, PowerPoint, videos, templates, even FLASH content. It’s easy to modify any custom or pre-made template, make changes to your content within the Media Library.

You’ll also have the ability to tag your media assets (create metadata) for quick organization. Since the EnterpriseTV solution is connected with Piksel Digital Enterprise, our online video platform, it’s easy to retrieve and manage assets within a single workflow.

Effortless Content Management Manage your media library assets by creating playlists or automatic variables (such as RSS feeds). We make it easy to assign external data variables and playlists to your specified media players for automatic broadcast.

Pre-set Templates Predefined graphics templates are also available in just a few clicks, to create customized and branded content. These templates can also be adapted directly from the EnterpriseTV console to create new templates that specifically meet your broadcasting needs.

Easy Optimized Playlist Programming EnterpriseTV offers flexible playlist programming that allows for sequencing media with advanced operating conditions such as: • Dates • Days • Time of day • Periodicity • Appointment You are also able to create a playlist ‘hierarchy’ to publish to all media players or to a specific set, by using rights management. Each playlist may be authorized or not to each player or group of players.

Enterprise TV™Capture viewers’ attention with Piksel EnterpriseTVTM, a robust cloud-based or on-premise digital signage solution. Flexibility, autonomy, and convenience are bundled together to create a communication tool that makes your job easier. With Piksel’s EnterpriseTV, you can upload and manage content to any screen you desire. Console Features This flexible set of tools is comprehensive – you’ll be able to access our integrated console via any standard Internet browser. EnterpriseTV is also robust enough to distribute your content to all screens or to a select few that you choose.


Dynamic Content Builder Build artwork and animations for your playlists straight from the EnterpriseTV console. You can customize a pre- set layout or develop your own with background images/ videos with a limitless variety of elements layering each slide. Each skin you develop has the ability to change dynamically based on the information provided. Once you nish, every element publishes with HD-quality to your media players.

Monitor Publishable Content With the administrative rights you’ve set up, the console allows you to monitor playlists and media that are uploaded by any contributor. Grant or deny the broadcasting of any media, or set email alerts to review a user’s media uploads. You also have access to advanced player monitoring, which allows users to observe playlists within an Internet browser along with technical support information that includes: • Network availability • Current status updating content • Status of Media Player device

Manage Live Streams Broadcast a live stream on a Media Player and preview the source for real-time broadcast monitoring. Manually start/ stop or schedule your event to your set of selected players.

Automate Real Time Syndicated Feeds Enhance your viewer engagement with the inclusion of a variety of automated information flows to provide valuable near real-time traffic, weather, and news feeds. Feeds include: • Weather • News (Top, Economy, Sport, International, Technology...) • Infotrafic • Exchange • ... You can connect to external RSS feeds without subscription for automatically getting a de ned number of news, as texts and images, and for displaying them inside a ticker, or you can use pre-de ned templates for creating a dedicated playlist of media. You can also request to integrate any type of external ows from various providers.

You have the ability to customize each stream with appropriate graphics for a seamless viewing experience within your Playlist. On request we can provide you with special graphic services to further customize the information/image presentation.

• Automatically synchronize with the Piksel EnterpriseTV platform for the automatic retrieval of content as soon as it’s available.

• Locally store your content for broadcasting from the local cache, without network worrying about load. In instances of network outages the media players continue to broadcast the stored content without any impact.

• Report the broadcasted content and equipment status, for efficient monitoring from the EnterpriseTV platform.

• Control and remote control each Media Player (stop/restart, standby, settings and more) from the EnterpriseTV platform.

• Control all screens by Serial Comm (RS- 232) (optional depending on the type of screen) to suspend/automatic reboot of the screen, depending on the time of distribution, with monitoring of the screen.

• Display high quality content with transparency and compositing of multiple layers, that can include a video as background.

Media PlayersChoose either an Android-based Media Player device or a Windows-based Media Player housed in mini- PC architecture with Windows 7 Embed operating system.

Piksel’s Media Players have been specifically created for professional broadcasting – so if you plan to stream content 24/7, our devices are robust to handle any timing parameter you set. Our Media Players are enterprise-grade equipment, and have been built with features to optimize content creation and performance.


Feature ComparisonsThe Piksel Digital Enterprise can be configured with Enterprise TV to deploy a singular work ow using a shared media bin (does not include audio, which means users can simplify their production processes). Users will be able to create or modify slides (Windows devices are read-only). The following table provides a comparative look between two configurations of Digital Enterprise with EnterpriseTV (Android or Windows), and EnterpriseTV as a standalone solution (Android or Windows).

Digital Enterprise + Enterprise TV

Enterprise TVDigital Enterprise + Enterprise TV

Enterprise TV

PRELIMINARY REQUEST

Security

Internal network compliance

X (On premise)

Cloud (HTTPS) X X X X

Broadcasting

Screen network X

Internet + screen network

X X

Intranet + screen network

X (On premise)

CONSOLE ADMINSTRATION

Media Bin Support

Digital Enterprise mediabin

X X

EnterpriseTV mediabin X X

Language Support

French X X X X

English X X X X

Spanish X X X X

White Labeling X X



Enterprise TV

User management

User management X X X (Advanced) X (Advanced)

Roles X (Advanced) X (Advanced)

Groups

Group of users X X

Group of devices X X X X

Logs & Help

Logs X X X X

Help X X X X

CONTENT & BROADCAST MGMT.

Media

Add/upload, modify, delete

X X X X

Moderate X X

Videos X X X X

Pictures X X X X

PowerPoint as images X X X X

Native animated PPT X X

PDF as images X

Flash X

Audio X (With DSM)

Slides/Templates (as media)

Animated slides X X




Enterprise TV

Transparency (see layout bkgd)

X X

Enhanced animation (timing, synch)

X X

Creation (template + text + image + video)

X X

Feeds in slides (text, images)

X X

Playlist

Create, modify, delete X X X X

Scheduling X X X X

Channel

Create, modify, delete X X X X

Scheduling X X X X

Layout

Modify X X X X

Create X

Overlays (ticker, logo, clock)

X X X X (Advanced)

Channel in a Window X X X X

Image or video as background

X (Images only) X X (Images only) X

Dynamic transitions X X

Logo X

Transparency X



Enterprise TV

Ticker and RSS feeds

Transparency X X X X

Text only (manual & auto feeding) from RSS URL or XML

X X X X

Images within text (auto feeding)

X X

Roll/scroll with custom parameters

X X

Yammer X X

Live

Live events (MS, Flash) X

DEVICE MANAGEMENT

Administration

Add, delete X X X X

Monitoring X X X X

Preview X X

Simple maintenance X X X X

Advanced maintenance

X X


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