Featuring CGI's newest radio and newsroom solutions

CGI showcased its latest media solutions and IT services at this year's IBC2024 event in Amsterdam. The show addressed the critical challenges of modern broadcasters and radio stations as TV merges with online and social platforms. CGI highlighted key updates across the main pillars of its business.

CGI dira radio production suite

CGI debuted the latest version of our radio production solution dira Dimension, which now includes seamless integration with applications from the Adobe Creative Cloud, such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe Audition. This new feature allows users to edit media files externally within Adobe's industry-standard software, providing greater flexibility and efficiency in media production workflows, including AI-driven functionalities for enhanced automation.

We also introduced a fully web-based, multi-track audio editor. This cutting-edge tool is equipped with server-based rendering functionalities, allowing users to edit and render audio projects directly from their web browsers. This development is set to revolutionize the way media professionals collaborate and work, providing unprecedented flexibility and ease of use.

Additionally, CGI presented new AI-driven functionalities within dira. This included speech-to-text capabilities for audio transcription, enabling faster and more accurate content management. We showcased how this technology allows for automated announcements and how it’s further enhancing the automation capabilities of the dira suite.

“The new capabilities in dira showcase our commitment to integrating AI throughout our product range,” said Michael Thielen, Vice President Consulting Services at CGI. “As always though, we are doing this while also paying close attention to the human factors in newsroom and radio processes, ensuring that any deployed AI is there for a compelling reason and augments existing workflows.”

OpenMedia newsroom solution

A key innovation in the CGI OpenMedia Newsroom solution is the CGI OpenMedia Intelligent Assistant, which offers AI-driven news production in a secure and fully GDPR-compliant manner. There are also important updates to OpenMedia NewsBoard, ReporterApp, Metrics, and Insights that further improve the OpenMedia newsroom solution. 

At IBC2024, CGI showcased new third-party integrations with OpenMedia, enhancing newsroom solutions with leading cloud production tools like Grass Valley AMPP, Vizrt® Viz Flowics, and Chyron LyricX. These integrations facilitate advanced media asset management and enable broadcasters to produce shows more efficiently for multiple digital platforms. Furthermore, OpenMedia now supports improved communication through an extended Microsoft Teams integration for easier data exchange in newsrooms. 

“We have several integrations to show live at IBC covering both, traditional and cloud-based production workflows.” said Michael Pfitzner, Vice President Consulting Expert at CGI. “Supporting on-prem and cloud production solutions in OpenMedia is an important factor enabling our clients to make the best and most economic choice from market’s variety of production systems.”

Proven IT services for broadcasters

CGI, as one of the largest IT and business consulting companies in the world, works insights-driven and outcome-based and can provide the media industry with a full range of end-to-end services including:

  • Project and change management
  • Digital transitions
  • AI-based consulting
  • Cybersecurity solutions trusted by financial institutions and the defense sector
  • Testing services
  • Smart data solutions to help analyze and monetize archives  

“Our successful recent implementations with clients such as MBC Group and Swisscom highlight our capabilities in different segments; delivering an advanced digital platform such as Shahid for MBC Group’s streaming services and conversational AI solutions that enhance customer interactions and support for Swisscom,” commented Clemens Daum, Vice President Consulting Services at CGI. “These and many more show that we are ideally situated at the confluence of broadcast and IT. And the ideal partner to help facilitate broadcasters’ digital transformations as the move towards IP-based workflows accelerates.”

We also highlighted the benefits of our CGI Unicorn Academy at IBC2024. Established in Germany in 2018, the Academy works with over 30 startups to develop innovative solutions to meet clients’ needs—enabling enhanced speed to market, accelerated technology integration, improved customer interaction, and advanced solutions for sustainable growth.

Learn more about IBC2024.

 

 

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