Minerva Has Been Shortlisted in the 2016 Distinguished TV Connect Industry Awards
March 24 2016, UK London – TV Connect — Minerva Networks has been shortlisted in the 2016 TV Connect Industry Awards, Best TV Experience Enhancement category. The TV Connect Industry Awards celebrate excellence, innovation and achievements in the global IP, TV and connected entertainment markets. Their esteemed judging panel consists of key representatives from the main Telcos and Service Providers around the world. They independently assess; shortlist and select the winners for the various categories.
Minerva’s new enhanced platform (Minerva 10) is a complete subscriber management platform that enables operators to efficiently deploy advanced pay TV services to their subscribers across a broad range of devices. Major design goals for the platform included enhancing content discovery through personalization, integrating and enriching the subscriber experience across multiple content sources and device types, and insuring a consistent and responsive user experience on any device and at any scale. The result is an innovative user experience enabling service providers to better reach and engage their pay TV subscribers, and more successfully monetize their services.
While Minerva 10 offers a compelling and enhanced solution for the delivery of connected entertainment, many of the concepts of personalization, metadata acceleration, and thin client architectures have applicability beyond pay TV services. For instance, applying many of the user paradigms introduced through Minerva 10 for services including home control, home automation and other broadband services will enable service providers to engage their subscribers in ways that standalone OTT offerings will be unable to do. Service velocity and the ability to support “mass customization” of services are powerful attributes that will allow the market to evolve and excel as the next generation of broadband services are introduced.
Minerva was also shortlisted in the 2015 TV Connect Industry Awards for Best Service Delivery Platform for IP TV & OTT TV and in 2013, Minerva won the award for Best Service Delivery for IPTv and OTT.
[gdlr_quote align=”center” ]We are thrilled to have received this recognition and believe it reinforces once again how Minerva’s proven solution can enable pay TV operators to offer a more compelling and personalized entertainment experience to help in retaining and growing their subscriber base.“said Eric Freund, Vice President, Product Marketing at Minerva.[/gdlr_quote]
About Minerva
Minerva is a leading provider of service and subscriber management solutions for the delivery of television services. By supporting a best of breed open ecosystem, the Minerva platform has been deployed by over 290 operators worldwide to offer enhanced next-generation TV entertainment services.
For more information, please visit http://www.minervanetworks.com/minerva-platform/.
Contact:
Diena Diallo
ddiallo@minervanetworks.com
(408) 240-1204
Visit Minerva at CABSAT
Join Minerva at the 22nd annual CABSAT show in Dubai. CABSAT is the leading platform for the broadcast, production, content delivery, digital media and satellite sectors across the Middle East, Africa and South Asia. Minerva will be showcasing its Minerva 10 subscriber management platform, including our STB and OTT clients that enable operators to cost effectively deploy a range of entertainment services to their subscribers. From a compelling, personalized user experience to cloud-based analytics – Minerva has you covered! Visit Minerva in the Content Marketplace Hub, Booth ZG3-32
Cincinnati Bell Selects Minerva to Power Enhanced Television Services
October 13, 2015, New Orleans, LA – SCTE Cable-Tec Expo Minerva Networks, the leading provider of software solutions for the delivery of connected entertainment services, today announced that Cincinnati Bell Inc. has deployed Minerva’s platform to offer enhanced television services. Cincinnati Bell’s next-generation Fioptics TV service is now available to new subscribers in most areas, and will be made available in all remaining areas next year.
Partnering with Minerva, Cincinnati Bell is able to offer a full range of premium features including Whole Home DVR, Video on Demand, Pay-per-View, Catch-Up TV, Restart TV and a robust HD channel lineup.
“Working closely with Minerva and its eco-system partners, we intend to deliver an entertainment experience that will delight our customers,” said Mark Fahner, Vice President of Consumer Product Operations at Cincinnati Bell. “The Minerva platform provides us with the stability and flexibility we need to quickly introduce new services that will keep us ahead of the competition.”
“Cincinnati Bell came to us with very specific goals and milestones,” said Eric Freund, Vice President of Product Marketing at Minerva. “Collaborating closely with our partners, we were able to deliver a solution that we feel has met all of Cincinnati Bell’s short term goals while positioning the company for strong future growth through product innovations that will continue to enhance the entertainment experience.”
About Minerva Networks
Minerva is the leading provider of carrier-class solutions for the delivery of connected entertainment services. Over 300 operators worldwide have deployed Minerva’s service delivery platform.
For more information, visit www.minervanetworks.com
About Cincinnati Bell
With headquarters in Cincinnati, Ohio, Cincinnati Bell Inc. (NYSE:CBB) provides integrated communications solutions – including local and long distance voice, data, high-speed Internet and video – that keep residential and business customers in Greater Cincinnati and Dayton connected with each other and with the world. In addition, enterprise customers across the United States rely on CBTS, a wholly-owned subsidiary, for efficient, scalable office communications systems and end-to-end IT solutions. Cincinnati Bell effectively owns approximately 11 percent of CyrusOne (NASDAQ: CONE), which is held in the form of CyrusOne common stock and CyrusOne LP partnership units. CyrusOne specializes in highly reliable enterprise-class, carrier-neutral data center properties and provides mission-critical data center facilities that protect and ensure the continued operation of IT infrastructure for its customers. For more information, please visit www.cincinnatibell.com.
Join Minerva at the Calix User Group
Minerva is a proud sponsor of the Calix User Group Conference. This year, Minerva’s Eric Freund will be presenting a very special session during the event focused on “The Future of Video.”
As video services migrate from the traditional network broadcast model to Over-the-top unicast streaming, the device enabled subscriber is emerging as the new programmer. What does this mean for the video provider, their network, and the multimedia bundles they’ve built?
Join Minerva and industry experts who are helping drive this evolution, and shaping the new all-video world. Don’t miss this opportunity to hear their perspectives on subscriber and service transformation, and what this means for our industry.
Register for the Calix User Group Conference, October 24-27 at the Wynn Las Vegas, then join us as we answer the question, “Is TV Dead” on Tuesday, October 27 at 2:15 PM.
Visit calix.com/usergroup to find out more about one of the industry’s premier events.
Minerva and ContentWise Get Personal with Live and On-Demand Content
Amsterdam, NL – IBC — Minerva Networks, a leading provider of software solutions for connected entertainment, today announces new content navigation, personalization and discovery features of its Minerva 10 entertainment delivery platform, powered by ContentWise’s content search, discovery and recommendation solution. The integration will support personalization for live and on-demand content, enhancing subscriber engagement for pay TV operators.
“Personalization has become critical for pay TV operators looking to retain and grow subscribers in today’s competitive markets,” said Eric Freund, Minerva’s Vice-President of Product Marketing. “The breadth of ContentWise’s personalization system has given us a great deal of flexibility in enhancing content discovery with a personalized user experience and recommendations across live, on demand, and recorded content.”
The integration of the ContentWise solution with the Minerva 10 platform enables the delivery of personalized pay TV services across multiple devices. ContentWise’s automated content personalization system will ingest cross-device consumption data collected by the Minerva platform and provide recommendations based on usage history, overall program popularity, and target device. Recommendations will then be presented to subscribers through Minerva’s innovative user interface, delivering seamless access to recommended programming, regardless of content source. The ability to support multiple user profiles per account and to dynamically change the user interface layout based on ContentWise’s input will ensure highly targeted and personalized pay TV services.
“The benefit of personalization for both TV operators and subscribers is clear and if pay TV operators want to increase retention, deliver engaging user experiences and most importantly, drive revenues, then adding personalization to their services is an absolute must,” said Pancrazio Auteri, CTO of ContentWise. “The integration of our ContentWise personalization system with Minerva’s platform will allow pay TV operators to offer subscribers a more compelling user experience, improve customer satisfaction, increase engagement and ultimately stay ahead of their competitors.”
The integrated solution will be demonstrated at Minerva’s booth at the 2015 IBC show in Amsterdam: Hall 14, Stand A12.
About Minerva Networks
Minerva is a leading provider of service management solutions for the delivery of advanced television services. Over 300 operators worldwide have deployed Minerva’s platform to deliver next-generation entertainment services to their subscribers. For more information, visit www.minervanetworks.com.
About ContentWise
ContentWise adds personalization to multi-screen pay TV, OTT and streaming services. ContentWise works with CMS platforms and front-end applications to deliver dynamic UX personalization, discovery, recommendations, metadata management and predictive analytics to content acquisition, marketing and editorial teams. The ContentWise Personalization Management System serves as a personalized UI autopilot for user choice and engagement, while the ContentWise Knowledge Factory, a set of metadata automation and management tools, improves the quality of metadata and reduces data management costs. ContentWise is working with leading operators and content providers from around the world, including maxdome, Mediaset, Sky, TIM Brasil, and TrueVisions.
Learn more about ContentWise at www.contentwise.tv and @contentwisetv
For further information please contact:
Chloe Pope
Platform PR
Tel: +44 (0)20 7486 4900
chloe@platformpr.com
Minerva Receives Prestigious Frost and Sullivan Award
September 10, 2015. – Amsterdam, Netherlands – IBC: Minerva Networks, the leading provider of software solutions for the delivery of connected entertainment services, today announced that it has been recognized by Frost & Sullivan with the 2015 Latin America Digital Media Solutions Industry Company of the Year award. The award is given to companies that Frost & Sullivan has identified as being the industry leaders in their respective markets.
“Having a unique value proposition while keeping barriers to adoption low will allow digital media solutions providers to succeed in today’s pay TV market. The provider’s solution needs to be at least as attractive and easy to use as the competing OTT offerings, while also giving operators the ability to deliver a more comprehensive and targeted service to consumers,” stated Ignacio Perrone, Telecom Industry Manager at Frost & Sullivan. “Vision, innovation, performance and customer impact embody the solutions offered by Minerva Networks.”
Personalization, ease of content discovery, a responsive user experience, and broad device support are becoming essential ingredients for pay TV operators to retain their subscriber base. In addition, operators need to innovate at “Internet speed” to stay ahead of new agile competitors, while maximizing operational efficiencies in order to scale their services reliably and cost effectively. Developed to meet these stringent requirements, Minerva’s service management platforms are enabling an increasing number of operators in Latin America to deploy next generation television services across a variety of networks and devices.
“We are thrilled to be recognized by Frost & Sullivan as a Digital Media Solutions Industry leader,” said Mauro Bonomi, Minerva’s CEO. “Operators need new tools to be successful in today’s competitive television environment, and this award acknowledges the positive impact of our innovative solutions in the Latin American market.”
About Minerva Networks
Minerva is the leading provider of carrier-class solutions for the delivery of advanced television services. Over 300 operators worldwide have deployed Minerva’s entertainment delivery platforms.For more information, visit www.minervanetworks.com
About Frost & Sullivan
Founded over 50 years ago, Frost & Sullivan is recognized as a global market analysis and solution leader with offices located in more than 50 cities around the world. The Company’s Best Practices Awards, highly respected in the global market, recognize superior products and services, strategic alliances, technological innovations, mergers and acquisitions and initial public offerings.