CGI, (NYSE: GIB) (TSX: GIB.A), one of the largest IT and business consulting companies in the world, will showcase its latest media solutions and IT services on Stand 8.B47 at IBC2024, Amsterdam, September 13-16. These have been designed to address the critical challenges of modern broadcasters and radio stations as TV merges with online and social platforms.
CGI will show key updates across the main pillars of its business.
dira radio production suite
CGI will debut the latest version of 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.
CGI will also introduce 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.
CGI will present new AI-driven functionalities within dira. This includes Speech-to-Text capabilities for audio transcription, enabling faster and more accurate content management. Additionally, Text-to-Speech technology will be showcased, allowing for automated announcements and further enhancing the automation capabilities of the dira suite.
“The new capabilities in dira showcase our commitment to integrating AI throughout our product range,” says 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 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 will showcase 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. Additionally, 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,” says 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 economical choice from the 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, and 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,” comments 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.”
The company will also be highlighting the benefits of its CGI Unicorn Academy. Established in Germany in 2018, it now works with over 30 startups to develop innovative solutions to meet its clients’ needs enabling enhanced speed to market, accelerated technology integration, improved customer interaction, and advanced solutions for sustainable growth.
For more information, visit https://www.cgi.com/en/event/cgi-ibc2024-show.
About CGI
Founded in 1976, CGI is among the largest independent IT and business consulting services firms in the world. With 90,000 consultants and professionals across the globe, CGI delivers an end-to-end portfolio of capabilities, from strategic IT and business consulting to systems integration, managed IT and business process services and intellectual property solutions. CGI works with clients through a local relationship model complemented by a global delivery network that helps clients digitally transform their organizations and accelerate results. CGI Fiscal 2023 reported revenue is CA$14.30 billion and CGI shares are listed on the TSX (GIB.A) and the NYSE (GIB). Learn more at cgi.com.
