Top Broadcasters Embrace Collaboration Technologies

Online, November 23, 2010 (Newswire.com) - ScheduALL today announced that its groundbreaking ERMa technology is a winning solution for the global media and broadcast community.

ERMa enables real-time connectivity and collaboration from one ScheduALL system to another, allowing broadcasters to subscribe, view and book availability from their vendor network "just in time" from their core ScheduALL system. This eliminates fumbled phone calls and email exchanges that often take hours or days to confirm bookings.

A specific area of interest for broadcasters is how they make bookings to distribute their content over satellite and terrestrial networks. With ERMa, broadcasters can subscribe to numerous providers with their unique service offering and have the flexibility to choose the shortest, cheapest or fastest path to get their content to market. More competition means better visibility, improved service levels and often stronger relationships with vendors who best serve the broadcasters growing business needs. The ERMa module is an extension of a core ScheduALL system that most broadcasters are already using to manage their operation, workflows are now accelerated and bookings are streamlined for even greater profitability.

"ERMa made perfect sense for CBS. It gives us better visibility of what is available to get the work done. We really like how ERMa and the marketplace create real-time choices for our business, which saves time searching and responding to phone calls, email exchanges and third party portals that do not tie back into our core ScheduALL booking and tracking system," said Christine Ehrenbard, Director of Broadcast Distribution, CBS Network. "ScheduALL has figured out how to simplify the way our broadcast community interacts, and that's a very good thing."

Broadcasters not only win with this real-time ability to buy what they need when they need it at competitive price points, but they also improve order accuracy and reporting via system-to-system auditing and reporting tools from their core ScheduALL system. This provides the broadcaster with deeper analytics on how much they buy, from which providers and how often to better manage their inventories and investments. Matching actual use to a project invoice then on to payables eliminates hundreds of hours each year in auditing and improves collection capabilities for the vendors themselves.

"Real-time system-to-system collaboration is something the industry has been talking about for over a decade," said Samantha McCloskey, VP Global Occasional Use Services & Special Events, SES WORLD SKIES. "ScheduALL's ERMa functionality allows us to get closer to our customers and make bookings easier. With ERMa, we are able to leverage ScheduALL to expand our platform and client reach as well as better serve our existing trusted broadcast and teleport partners."

"ERMa is really creating operational and financial wins for our media and broadcast client community. The purchase and implementation of these technologies by global satellite, terrestrial and broadcast companies validates the relevance of our deep investments over the past several years to do more than tweak dials or simply update the way our product looks. Collaboration is a very real problem that we are uniquely addressing and one that we recognize is hyper critical in nature to where our industry is going," said Joel Ledlow, CEO, ScheduALL.

To find out more about ERMa, please visit http://scheduall.com/solutionsERMApplication.

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