The way business is conducted in our field is antiquated, slow and misaligned with the speed of change required in today’s world. This disconnect hinders progress across the entire industry, affecting both technology providers and end users alike. While our tools and technologies have evolved, the operational processes and industry norms have not. That’s why at Dalet, we are on a journey to “rebase” the media technology industry itself—much like rewriting a piece of code to be cleaner, faster and more effective.

By rebasing, we mean redefining the foundation of industry practices to align with modern business needs, ensuring greater agility, efficiency and innovation.

I’m not just talking about improving Dalet’s way of doing business. This is about driving collective change across the industry.

The Problem at the Heart of Media Technology

My professional path has allowed me to serve in various capacities, from CEO to CMO and Sales Leader in technology giants such as IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Sage and Cisco. Since I joined this industry just over a year ago, I’ve observed a troubling pattern. Typically, a project could begin with a perceived problem in 2025. Requests for Proposals (RFPs) are sent out in 2026. Proof-of-Concepts start in 2027. A decision is made in 2028. By then, the world has shifted entirely.

This glacial pace of operation is not only inefficient, but also counterproductive. It leaves businesses delivering solutions to yesterday’s problems, while today’s opportunities—and tomorrow’s—slip away.

It’s time for a reset.

Redefining Expectations

At Dalet, we are determined to redefine what the industry can expect when it comes to speed, accountability and value delivery. While we’re not there yet, we are fully dedicated to this journey and making continuous progress every day.

• Time-to-Value, Not Time-to-Wait: Time-to-value is now a central tenet of our approach. Media executives can no longer afford years to see returns on their technology investments. We are leveraging agile, scalable solutions that will deliver immense value in weeks, not years. This is a perspective shift that we believe should be adopted industry-wide.

• Customer-Centric Accountability: Accountability is often talked about, but rarely implemented effectively in our field. Going forward, at Dalet, when we make a commitment to a customer, we will ensure we deliver on it—with speed. Transparency is key. When challenges arise, we will communicate them clearly, identify solutions together, and push tirelessly to achieve results. Investing energy in meeting today’s dynamic needs ensures customers can trust us tomorrow.

• Simplified Business Processes: In conversations with customers and partners, I’ve heard one consistent critique of doing business within our industry framework—it is too complex. Changing a contract, receiving updates, or resolving issues often feels more like navigating bureaucracy than advancing operational goals. At Dalet, we are working hard to untangle this web, so that we can create a smoother, simpler way to deliver the capabilities our customers demand.

• Elevating the User Experience: Many industry innovations have failed to succeed, not because the technology doesn’t work, but because the user finds it cumbersome. At Dalet, user input is integral to our solutions—ensuring systems feel modern, cohesive and intuitive. In today’s tech-driven business landscape, delivering an exceptional user experience is essential.

What “Rebasing” Truly Means

“Rebasing” isn’t merely a metaphor. It’s a call to action that requires questioning every assumption. It means analyzing every outdated process and determining whether it has any place in a modern industry. We need to align operations with the breakneck speed of current content distribution methods, the complexity of emerging digital platforms, and the growing demands of hungry audiences. This requires involving the wider community in the conversation—our employees, our customers, our partners and our industry peers.

The first step in our journey is to rebase Dalet’s operations, aiming to set a precedent for improving business practices across the industry. What does “good” look like in media technology? What does “speed” and “reliability” mean in the context of mission-critical tools? We strive to answer these questions through the changes we’re implementing internally.

The Industry Needs a Cultural Shift

This goes beyond technology. It’s a cultural challenge. The broadcast and media industry has often been slow to adapt, protective of entrenched ways of thinking and reactive rather than proactive. A change is needed.

At Dalet, we are renewing our guiding principles to emphasize transparency, customer-focused accountability and agility. We hope this serves as an industry reminder that change is possible and can bring positive outcomes.

Building a Collaborative Ecosystem

No single entity can transform an entire industry alone. This effort requires collaboration across partners, customers, analysts and thought leaders. By working together to build an ecosystem focused on shared value creation, we seek to fuel innovation for the entire community.

The industry needs passionate people—from journalists to engineers, creators to consumers—working closely to reimagine what is possible. Together, we can achieve this transformation.

Why It Matters

At its core, media technology is about enabling stories that move the world. Whether it’s breaking news, a transformational documentary, or live sports content, the work our industry supports has the power to connect people, inspire change and create shared understanding.

To ensure we continue this vital mission, it is our collective responsibility to evolve our tools, processes and expectations.

By taking deliberate steps to modernize how we work, we can ensure that the media technology industry not only survives, but thrives—ready to deliver the stories of tomorrow, today. At Dalet, we’re at the start of this transformational path.

If this resonates with you—whether you’re a broadcaster, technologist, or innovator—join us in redefining the future of media technology. It’s time for us to step into a faster, simpler and more accountable industry together. Find me at the 2025 NAB Show (booth W1717) to be part of this movement.

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Deep Technical Expertise and Complete Independence 

Dalet, in partnership with Caretta research, presents ‘The future of newsroom workflows: How the world’s leading news organizations are redesigning operations and technology to survive and thrive‘ a first-of-its-kind, in-depth industry report, drawn from a comprehensive global survey of over 60 leading news organizations, offering insights and actionable strategies for news organizations looking to thrive in the digital era.

A Roadmap for Newsroom Leaders

The report isn’t just data; it’s a roadmap for newsroom leaders and decision-makers navigating a complex media environment. Through a global survey spanning diverse regions and roles from newsroom executives to technical staff at both public and commercial broadcasters, news agencies and organizations, as well as local network affiliates across the U.S, we’ve captured the collective experiences and insights of news and media professionals to reveal the most pressing issues faced today, from the impact of budget constraints to the evolving roles of AI and cloud technology in newsroom operations.

Caretta Research and Dalet are uniquely positioned to provide these insights. Both organizations have a deep understanding of the pulse of the newsroom and the challenges faced by today’s content creators and strategists.

Whether your newsroom is wrestling with limited resources, exploring monetization strategies, or investing in AI, this report offers crucial perspectives and solutions that can help you make data-driven decisions to future-proof your organization.

“Newsrooms must now create more content for multiple platforms with fewer resources. Our findings highlight the crucial role technology and modern toolsets play in supporting journalists to meet the evolving demands of their audiences,” states Marcy Lefkovitz, SVP of Product Innovation at Dalet. 

“Our partnership with Caretta Research enables us to share a current view of newsroom operations. The result not only outlines ongoing challenges but also provides actionable insights for future success.”

Key points include:

1. Technology Choices: Shaped by IT, Powered by Necessity 

A significant proportion of newsroom tools are chosen by technical and IT staff rather than journalists, with newsroom computer systems (NRCS) remaining the primary technology focus. Although new tools like Microsoft Teams, Google Docs, and Trello are widely adopted for collaboration, NRCS systems, video production tools, and central planning tools are essential for newsroom workflows. 

• 70% of newsroom tools are selected by technical staff, rather than journalists, suggesting a strong influence of IT and engineering departments on technology decisions.

2. Budget Pressures and Cost-Tracking

More than half of newsroom operations reported budget cuts in the last year, prompting changes like role reallocations and increased use of automation. Despite financial pressures, only a fraction of newsrooms are tracking the cost of individual stories or their return on investment (ROI). 

• 54% of newsrooms have experienced budget cuts in the last 12 months, leading many to reallocate roles and reduce staff.

3. Exploring New Monetization Strategies

Newsrooms are exploring new revenue streams, with almost half using business-to-business (B2B) approaches like content licensing and over a quarter using direct-to-consumer (D2C) strategies, such as subscriptions. Encouragingly, most news organizations report that these efforts are generating new revenue.

• Of those using new monetization methods, 70% report these strategies as at least somewhat effective in generating revenue.

4. AI and Automation: Opportunity or Threat? 

AI tools are gaining traction, especially for tasks like speech-to-text transcription and research. While most newsrooms view AI as beneficial for efficiency, a minority remain cautious, worried about job security and ethical implications. 

• Over 50% of newsrooms use AI tools, with 86% of those utilizing speech-to-text transcription and translation tools.

5. Cloud Technology Adoption: Slow but Steady

The transition to cloud-based solutions remains slow, with few newsrooms fully deploying in the cloud. A hybrid model is more common due to concerns around resilience and costs, especially for operations with extended daily usage.

• Only 12% of newsrooms have fully deployed cloud-based or SaaS technology solutions, indicating a cautious approach to cloud adoption.

6. The Social Media Challenge: Managing External Pressures

Newsrooms are increasingly concerned about social media platforms controlling content visibility, the threat of “fake news,” and declining audiences for traditional platforms like TV. Despite these challenges, the majority of newsrooms feel positive about the future, indicating optimism toward adapting to a rapidly changing industry landscape.

• Despite challenges, 68% of newsrooms feel “good” or “very good” about their future, with many optimistic about adapting through new business models and technology.

Moving Forward with Confidence and Caution

These insights highlight the critical role of technology and the strategic shifts in revenue generation, resource management, and operational flexibility. The ongoing digital transition and reliance on technology present both challenges and growth opportunities for newsrooms navigating today’s media environment.

The future of news media is undeniably digital, dynamic, and challenging. This report underscores the growing need for newsrooms to embrace flexible workflows, invest in efficient technologies, and adapt to an increasingly decentralized and competitive media landscape. The findings highlight how key trends such as centralizing planning, leveraging automation and AI, and exploring new revenue models can equip newsrooms with the agility they need to excel. 

With the help of these insights, news professionals can reimagine their operations to meet shifting audience expectations and overcome budgetary challenges without compromising content quality.

If you’re ready to empower your newsroom with forward-looking strategies and stay ahead in a rapidly evolving industry, download the full report to unlock a wealth of data-driven insights and best practices.

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The World We Knew

It is just another day at work, newsrooms are trying to produce stories as fast as possible. News breaks, the producer assigns a story, and the journalist hits the road. Once in the field, the journalist shoots footage, assembles a rough cut, and heads back to the newsroom. After getting content from the on-premises system and working with the video editor, the news professional gets approvals and finally send the story to the rundown. Does it sound familiar?

To produce a story, the journalist had to meet several people and depend on a physical newsroom. At that time, we could travel and meet anyone anywhere. Going back and forth to the newsroom was not a big deal, until our circumstances changed. We had to be spread apart and confined in our own spaces. The ability to produce news was jeopardized, and the newsroom dynamic as we knew it was gone.

A New Wave in (Remote) News Production

There is something we learnt from the pandemic: things will never be the same. Even if most lockdowns were lifted, remote and hybrid work is not going anywhere. Newsrooms must adjust and implement different strategies to produce stories in this new context.

At Dalet, we designed collaborative tools for news professionals to thrive in any environment. We recently introduced The Dalet Pyramid Remote Editing solution, a platform that extends the power of newsroom systems outside their physical location, having no need for the producer or any journalist to be in the newsroom. Our vision is to make news creators — producers, editors, journalists, etc. — feel that all are in the same space, collaborating and crafting news together, even when they are miles apart.

The remote-native solution is a platform to produce and edit news stories. Journalists have access to assignments, the newsroom’s content, and production tools in real- time, allowing the team to have an immersive experience.

The “plug and play” Remote Editing solution is offered in subscription to allow customers to use what they need, when they need it, and scale as they grow.

New Tools for News Production

Pyramid Cut: Web-Based, Fast-Paced Media Editor

Pyramid Cut, our browser-based multimedia editor, was specifically designed for modern news storytelling. The cloud-native solution was built around the journalist’s needs when producing and editing video stories. We conveyed all aspects of news story editing in an intuitive format for professional and non-professional editors.

Pyramid Cut is more than a media editing tool, it is an entire collaborative ecosystem for news creators. Besides offering the expected transitions, graphic generation, and voice over recording, it allows journalists access to media, scripts, and assignments — features shared with Dalet Pyramid’s Centralized Planning solution. This fluid exchange of information between Pyramid Cut and Pyramid planner, substantially improves productivity and quality when creating news stories.

One of the most significant features of Pyramid Cut is the ability to work with growing files, allowing the journalist to start editing without having to wait for the live streaming to be over. The journalist or editor can access the video files from the cloud and edit a preview for a digital team or the rundown.

Pyramid Xtend: Native Plug-In for Adobe Premiere Pro

Pyramid Xtend gives journalists seamless integration between Dalet Pyramid, and Adobe Premiere Pro. Pyramid Xtend allows Premiere Pro users to access media, scripts, even edit on the cloud using remote rendering through Adobe Media Encoder. This major improvement enables Adobe Premiere users to fully join the newsroom’s operation.

For newsrooms using Dalet Galaxy, video editors not only access media, scripts, and assignments inside Pyramid Cut or Pyramid Xtend; they also have access to the newsroom content inside Dalet Galaxy. These elements are fully integrated to produce rich and collaborative experiences for journalists and editors when creating stories.

Let’s get into more detail about how the media, scripts and assignments are orchestrated in Dalet Pyramid to enable a true collaborative workflow.

Media Bin

The Media Bin is a bucket where all the digital assets concerning a specific news story are gathered. Those assets could be video and audio files, pictures, graphics, PDFs, social posts, wires, external links, etc. The Media Bin also includes rushes, and the final versions for different angles: TV, Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, etc.

The Media Bin encourages a new level of collaboration. Its content can be accessed by broadcast or digital teams working on the same story. Even a broadcast crew in another facility can access the Media Bin. So, what’s the benefit? It allows Digital and broadcast teams — in any location — to use, not only source materials to craft their own stories, but to repurpose each other’s stories. This collaborative method reduces duplication of work, maximizes productivity and improves publication time.

Script Editor

The Script editor is the section where journalists write the story that will be played from the production control room. The journalist can, in real-time, collaboratively write the script with another journalist. The Script Editor connects to the teleprompter, allowing the newscaster to read directly during the broadcast.

Within Pyramid Cut, the editor also has access to the assignment view — right next to the Media Bin and Script editor. The editor sees the assignments and the track of the story.

With these elements, seamlessly designed in Pyramid Cut, we are giving full visibility and enhancing productivity for news creators.

The Best of Both Worlds

There are certain benefits for newsrooms using both media editors. Pyramid Cut can be the go-to for journalists in the field or in the newsrooms, while Pyramid Xtend, for Adobe Premiere Pro editors, can be used for more advanced editing jobs and long-form content.

Both, Pyramid Cut and Adobe Premier Pro — are fully immersed in the Dalet ecosystem, having access to the Media Bin, Script Editor, assignments, and Dalet Galaxy’s content. The editors can also access the Dalet Pyramid planner, Dalet AmberFin, Dalet Media Cortex, and other tools of the Dalet ecosystem.

Let’s Do it Together!

What once was an unviable idea became a vital solution for millions of broadcasters and companies worldwide to thrive in our new reality. Incorporating Dalet’s remote Editing solutions into your newsroom is not a matter of improving processes but about belonging to a new norm.

Contact us to discover the Dalet Pyramid Remote Editing solution. We will show you how it can extend your news production capabilities to tell and share news stories.

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Looking at the trends

What we saw at NAB was aligned with the trends identified by Caretta Research ahead of the show and what we have seen since the beginning of the year. The first trend we saw is that investment in media technology is now driven by problem solving. While new technology, prototypes, and product reveals still make the headlines, the NAB Show has now clearly taken the trajectory of a business show. Business, editorial, and creative decision makers are looking for solutions to the problems they encounter along the media value chain, especially around remote production and collaboration, scale and automation, as well as digital-native content operations.

A second trend noticeable at the event is the desire for flexible deployments and the demand for modular technologies. Media-rich organizations want to “future-proof” their operations and to enhance the management of components’ lifespan. Open platforms and “operating systems”, seamlessly integrated into the wider ecosystem, are becoming the focal point of media production, management, and distribution workflows, often with marketplace models.

The third major trend is about cloud-native architectures and how they enable products that are faster, more reliable, and more affordable. SaaS offerings with a lower cost of entry are being brought to market, thanks to multi-tenanted architectures that enable economies of scale. With the elasticity of the cloud at their fingertips, media organizations can quickly scale resources as required with control over budgets.

We at Dalet are embracing these trends to always bring more value to our customers with transformative products. The launch of Dalet Flex for teams, a SaaS solution that provides professional-grade media logistics tools to smaller crews and organizations, is the perfect reflection of that.

Making time to talk

Communication is important with our customers. We truly believe we work better as a team. Open communication is at our core, and co-innovation is a mantra. We’ve discussed countless number of times with our customers and partners how agility has become so important. The ability to deploy solutions easily and to be extremely fast in launching new initiatives has become paramount. SaaS is a key ally in this endeavor.

Achieving scale through automation and workflow orchestration is still very high on the list for our customers, and our products have been making a difference in that area for many years. In addition, and together with smart, AI-powered tools, media-rich organizations are now putting much more focus on UI and UX, a big shift in our industry. These discussions with customers are becoming more common, as well as more advanced in terms of the strategies they deploy to distribute the right content to the right audiences on the right platforms. Helping customers scale and streamline their operations is a major focus.

Conversations around onboarding, training, user experience, and customer success are also much more common. These are very much valued by all stakeholders. Dalet is a customer-centric company; and we are building the teams and the structure around customer success. We help media-rich organizations maximize ROI and outcomes on their investment and overall satisfaction with a simple philosophy: their success is our success.

So, book a meeting with us sometime. It’s great to talk!

An interview with IABM TV on industry trends, the latest releases from Dalet, and what is coming in the future (Click here to watch the interview)

Showcasing Dalet latest innovations

In the same mindset of remaining customer-centric, Dalet’s leadership team and media workflow specialists were at the event, showcasing our latest innovations in content workflow solutions, cloud-native technology, and user experience.

Attendees stopping by the Dalet booth were able to discover two offerings for the first time, Dalet Flex for teams offered as-a-service for all teams with digital media management and multiplatform delivery requirements, and Dalet Pyramid solutions to enable modern storytelling and news production practices with centralized planning, remote editing, and digital-native production capabilities.

The industry recognition we received for these new offerings was a proud moment for the #DaletTeam. While Dalet Pyramid won NewscastStudio’s Broadcast Production Award for “Best New Product or Service – Production”, Dalet Flex for teams was awarded “Best in Show” from TVTech.

As a key technology partner and their chosen Media Asset Management partner, Dalet was also present at the AWS booth. Both Dalet Flex as-a-service and Dalet Pyramid running on AWS infrastructure were on display and received a warm welcome. Dalet and AWS power some of the most advanced cloud-native and hybrid media workflows.

Dalet Flex for teams was a featured demo at the AWS booth on the 2022 NAB show floor

What comes next? Focus.

The question we find ourselves often asking is “What comes next?”

For us at Dalet, we keep our attention on the value we provide through state-of-the-art media workflows – the life’s blood of any newsroom, sports coverage, content owner, or media production facility. This is what we do, and we focus on it. Today, our customers not only evaluate products but also roadmaps, development priorities, and company culture. They buy from companies they want to work with. We are more than software.

With that in mind, I’ll conclude this article with a quote from Dalet’s co-founder and chief technology officer, Stephane Guez:

“We’re thrilled to reconnect in person with our partners and customers to share our latest innovations for digital media workflows. We’ve been hard at work investing in and developing modern technologies to meet the demands of today’s media rich organizations. To support this, we have expanded the Dalet Team with media, cloud, and security experts whose focus is to enable wider market adoption of Dalet solutions beyond the traditional borders of broadcast. These investments coupled with our intense R&D and project management efforts have enabled us to deliver an NAB showcase that we’re incredibly proud of: budget-friendly pre-configured, convenient, yet secure workflow cloud-based offerings with state-of-the-art UX and UI experiences customers expect.”

We are part of an industry and a world in a state of permanent change. Mature and stable like a large corporation, yet agile and growing like a start-up, we continue to shape the future of media production, management and distribution workflows. Join us!

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As a result, we have developed three solutions, powered by Dalet Pyramid, to expand the power of newsrooms running Dalet Galaxy. They’re all “plug-and-play”, which means that the software is ready to use without reconfiguration, making it easy to pick one, two, or all three solutions. The integration is seamless, bringing to life a combination of robustness and agility, with the power of collaborative, cloud-native, and web-based tools for remote and digital teams.

Let me share more details about these solutions.

Centralized Planning

One of the biggest challenges news organizations face today is visualizing and orchestrating work. This challenge is especially acute for:

• large media organizations with multiple TV stations
• news organizations with distinct teams for broadcast and digital
• newsrooms with remote and field journalists

In some cases, we see a combination of all these.

Dalet Pyramid’s Centralized Planning is a direct response to that challenge. It allows news organizations to visualize, manage, and assign stories at the corporate level using a powerful, yet user-friendly tool for multi-site, multi-team, calendar-based news planning.

Let’s dive in…

The planner solution is intuitive and easy to learn. The assignment desk can see stories across teams, newsrooms and multiple locations worldwide. This helps chief editors assess what stories to choose and prioritize while increasing multisite collaboration and effective decision-making.

Chief editors — whether part of the assignment team or producers — can also appoint stories to field journalists. The assignment desk can share links from Dalet Galaxy or any video-hosting website and communicate with remote journalists using the integrated chat tool. On the other hand, journalists can share their work progress and keep all teams up to date.

Being a cloud-native solution, Dalet Pyramid allows the assignment editor to work remotely. They can access scripts and rundowns stored in the existing Dalet Galaxy platform directly from a browser. This capability brings a new level of agility to teams, removing the constraints of physical locations.

But the Centralized Planning solution not only improves visibility between multisite teams and allows them to work remotely; it actually solves a bigger issue. It gives storytellers the ability to plan and craft stories from a planner rather than from a rundown. Why is that beneficial? Amongst other aspects, because it allows news organizations to simultaneously approach linear (TV and radio) and non-linear (OTT, social media, digital outlets, …) platforms. No need to wait for the TV story to be finalized to repurpose the content for digital platforms. Your digital team can cover an important story as soon as it breaks. This is a significant evolution from how newsrooms traditionally work.

Last but not least, rundown-centric workflows are fully compatible with planning-centric workflows. Newsrooms can evolve at their own pace. You can read more about our centralized planning approach in this article.

Remote Editing

Visualizing is crucial to planning and choosing what stories to cover, produce, and publish. But how can we actually produce content remotely, faster and more collaboratively?

Journalists often don’t have the luxury of time. They need to edit video while in the field, so how to access source materials, edit multimedia content, work with colleagues, and get approvals quickly and securely?

With Dalet Pyramid, we are bringing a state-of-the-art Remote Editing solution to our users. Our web-based editing software — Pyramid Cut — is more than just a tool, it is a fully collaborative ecosystem to produce and distribute content for all media types. In addition, creative teams can use Dalet Xtend to integrate Adobe Premiere© Pro© within the Dalet ecosystem. Video editors, producers, and journalists can simultaneously create and publish stories on digital outlets and/or TV, regardless of their location.

Let’s dive in…

A producer assigns stories to a field journalist — from the newsroom or anywhere else. Using the script editor within Dalet Pyramid, the journalist collaboratively writes scripts and can share video assets with the producer, video editor, or any other user that might be part of the project.

With Dalet Pyramid Cut the field journalist can upload rushes, access source content, edit a video version and collaborate with the team to create other angles or improve the final piece.

Then, the field journalist can get approvals and even publish the content directly on digital media, while different video angles are being edited to be placed in the newscast or published to other platforms. Meanwhile, a video editor can use Dalet Xtend to open the initial cut within Adobe Premiere Pro and enhance or repurpose for additional outlets.

Dalet Pyramid Cut, is a blazing fast, online multimedia editor that has been designed to produce TV, digital and radio news content quickly from anywhere. It is your perfect storytelling companion, from rough cuts to project creation, leveraging the MediaBin for collaborative workflows.

Digital Production

This solution addresses the needs of any news organization with digital production requirements. It combines the power of assignments, production, and distribution in one solution.

The challenge newsrooms face today is finding ways to make their digital teams take the lead for their own stories, working collaboratively with broadcast teams, all within the same newsroom media asset management platform.

The Dalet Pyramid-powered Digital Production solution allows news organizations to address these challenges. Your digital team, including remote staff and contributors, can access Dalet Galaxy’s content library and use existing assets to produce stories in each digital and social platform’s native format. This allows your organization to address the multiple expectations of your different audience segments.

Let’s dive in…

The user-friendly, Kanban-like planning interface helps digital teams to keep track of their work and have visibility across all projects. The progress of the story and the planning of each stage of the production process is also mapped out. The whole digital team is aware of what stories are being produced and which are in the queue.

Dalet Pyramid Cut provides a robust, web-based video editing tool designed for digital-first and remote content production. You can write your script, edit content, manipulate captions, record your narration, adjust aspect ratios, add digital graphics and publish your story, all without leaving the production environment!

Your digital team will also be able to pre-configure the solution to publish to different social and digital media outlets. They can also templatize graphics for different video requirements based on the platform, and even render the footage in Dalet Galaxy on-premises while editing from anywhere — using Dalet Pyramid Cut in the cloud.

This is just the beginning!

We have designed these next-gen news workflow solutions, powered by Dalet Pyramid, to provide a natural progression for newsrooms running Dalet Galaxy, expanding their workflow with new, value-added capabilities.

Available as subscription, these solutions will bring you smooth, regular updates as well as top-notch security, world-class support, and full scalability for you to meet the needs of tomorrow’s news operations, today.

Protecting your investment, preserving your flexibility, and investing in your future! What is not to like?

We cannot wait to start collaborating! Contact us to know more about how Dalet Pyramid solutions can help you to take your Dalet Galaxy newsroom to the next level.

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While the rundown approach has reigned supreme for decades in news broadcasting, it does not always meet today’s digital-first, multi-outlet, and Storytelling 360 requirements in terms of work organization and planning. And that’s exactly what we are helping our customers solve with the Dalet Pyramid solution for centralized planning – a modern approach to news planning that is also compatible with a rundown-centric workflow, so newsrooms can evolve at their own pace.

Remembering Your Roots:
The Rundown’s Reign

When Newsroom Computer Systems (NRCS) emerged, workflows were centered around the “rundown”, also called running order in some newsrooms. With digital distribution (i.e. non-linear distribution) taking increased importance that requires an efficient news planning solution, the newscast is no longer the key and final product – we don’t see entire newscasts published on the Internet. Impactful stories are now the final products, and they need to be published on multiple, varied platforms to maximize audience potential.

For this reason, the notion of “story-centric” was introduced in the early 2000s. The idea was to manage stories individually within the NRCS, and to be able to redeploy stories across multiple platforms. In reality this has remained mostly a theoretical concept because most newsrooms are still organized around the rundown. Stories are, still, TV stories first, later repurposed on different platforms.

There are many limitations to this workflow: with such approach digital-first news storytelling is hard to attain. Digital teams mostly inherit a TV story edit, specifically created for television – and difficult to transform into a richer and more interactive digital format.

Hello Brave New World!
Bringing your news organization the Centralized Planning Superpower

Changing directions and strategies with familiar workflows can be a touch unsettling. This is why at Dalet we are offering integrated news planning solutions as a bridge between long-standing newsroom workflows and a gradual digital transformation to storytelling.

We have translated the idea of a story-centric approach into action through the concept of news planning-centric workflows powered by Dalet Pyramid. This concept allows our users to simultaneously approach linear (TV and radio) and non-linear (OTT, social media, digital outlets, ..) platforms. No need to wait for the TV story to be finalized to repurpose the content for digital platforms. Your digital team can also cover an important story as soon as it breaks.

Let’s take a look at the benefits of news planning-based workflows:

• Facilitate digital workflows. The planning-centric workflow becomes the primary organizational tool for digital production teams. They can assign stories, set deadlines, add tasks, and share editorial status while increasing visibility, collaboration, and maximizing outcomes. The news planning solution tool becomes the main organizational device for story creation; it facilitates the entire digital production workflow, making it more collaborative and visible than ever before, through assignments, deadlines, tasks, and editorial status.

• Go digital-first. As we mentioned before, there is no need to wait for the TV story to be broadcast to repurpose the content for digital platforms. The digital team can take the lead and cover the story before it is broadcast on TV.

• Address multiple platforms for any given story. The notion of the story is radically transformed in a planning-centric workflow. The same story now hosts all its different versions for other platforms with their specific needs. For instance, the script and the VO are different on a TV story than on YouTube, TikTok, and Twitter.

• Personalize content for multiple audiences. The centralized news planning solution allows you to always keep the source media and related projects under the same umbrella. It is therefore easy to reuse existing media and projects to further develop a story in a longer format for digital media. With the latter approach, audiences can consume news on different media and have different story versions: shorter or longer, and with the right amount of graphic engagement.

• Foster collaboration. Our solution offers a fantastic collaboration toolset that enables teams to be organized around important stories for actual collaborative production.

• Streamline production workflows. Enable real visibility on who does what, deadlines, why and by when the delivery must be done, what is the next assignment, and with whom you will collaborate. This is a solution designed for communication and intuitive interaction between team members.

But there’s more… Dalet Pyramid’s centralized planning enables newsrooms running Dalet Galaxy to visualize, manage, and assign stories at the corporate level, using multi-platform and multi-site intuitive news planning. Having a centralized planning solution running on a Dalet Galaxy system will give visibility on all of the other Dalet Galaxy systems a broadcaster owns globally. No matter where the “news” is, you will be able to assign tasks in real-time and communicate with your journalists in and out of the field in a wholly intertwined user experience.

Adopting change: How Broadcasting Workflows Evolve

Many of our users come to us with the question: are rundown-centric workflows compatible with planning-centric workflows? The answer is yes!

We designed Dalet Pyramid’s centralized news planning solution to start a story from anywhere: rundown, planning or digital. A story is created in the rundown for the newscast while it’s already on air. Meanwhile, your digital team can create a digital version of that same story, all managed through Dalet Pyramid’s centralized planning.

The goal is to make it quick and easy for news storytellers get their news to audiences everywhere and anywhere, anytime!

Dalet Pyramid’s centralized planning also provides a natural progression for newsrooms running Dalet Galaxy, expanding their workflow with next-gen capabilities. Available as subscription, the “plug and play” solution meets the needs of multi-platform and multi-site news operations.

Dalet has been in the news industry for more than two decades. We have understood and created tools to solve difficult newsroom problems and to keep your audiences informed. With Dalet Pyramid we aim to help our users thrive on their news storytelling journey. The centralized planning solution is just the tip of the iceberg of what Dalet-powered newsrooms can accomplish.

To learn more and understand how Dalet’s news planning solution can benefit your operation, book a demo or contact us.

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With the onset of COVID-19, moving towards a virtual newsroom was no longer regarded as an ambitious step, but a step for survival. Journalists and film crews found themselves adapting to a remote model, a completely cloud-based newsroom with its own unique set of workflows.

The Virtual Newsroom: Create Anywhere, Together

Now is the perfect time for the adoption of the cloud-based newsroom as we have more ways to cover news. As a result, more events can be included, especially as events happen faster, instantly delivered social media like Twitter and 24-hour news coverage itself.

The traditional news operation strategy — creating stories using a linear approach to programming — grows increasingly less relevant to today’s news consumption. Instead, news organizations take a “story-centric” approach where all resources are focused on creating a story. By following a story-centric approach, the story itself is at the top and everything else is subordinate to it. Tasks like ingest, scripting, audio and video editing, as well as digital versioning and graphics, are all centered around the story.

The Storytelling 360 approach becomes the foundation for the cloud-based newsroom, especially when you look at the ways that news is distributed today. By having all sources, assets and tools clustered around a “story” it is easier to produce multiple, platform-optimized versions because everything is to hand. Without this approach, producing multiple versions would be more expensive and far less efficient. This approach will be at the center of all virtual newsroom operations, a story-centric approach understood and adopted by a majority of newsrooms and technology providers.

Reaping the Benefits of a Virtual Newsroom

What is truly amazing, if not a bit reassuring, about the transition to the virtual newsroom is that it starts with all the resources of a traditional newsroom:

• Newsroom Computer Systems (NRCS)
• News Production System (NPS)

Another benefit, by design, of the virtual newsroom is its ability to be mobile. Your browser essentially works as a standardized portal across individual computing platforms. Pairing mobile apps with browser-based platforms allow news professionals to work on any suitable computing device, wherever they are, at short notice.

The cloud-based newsroom offers incredible agility:

• Smoother operations
  • Regular and transparent upgrades with new features
  • Less to maintain because this is part of the overall service
• React to new business needs
  • Elasticity of the platform means that you can scale up and down according to demand
  • Continuous development
  • Faster deployment of new systems

All of this culminates in a unified user interface, with the potential of AI used to filter or “curate” incoming feeds and assets, watching for relevant material and offers it as a suggestion for inclusion in the story. It is important to understand that Dalet Pyramid is not a software you put in a newsroom, but it is the newsroom itself, where planning, news production, asset and resource management, playout and multiplatform distribution have been combined into a unified system, capable of conventional news production as well as more mainstream formats like current affairs shows.

Welcome to a World without Borders, a Newsroom that Exists where the Story Happens

Newsrooms are under pressure to produce more and higher quality content. This means more work with smaller budgets available. When this is combined with an unprecedented demand for news (because of unprecedented events) it is clear that a new paradigm is not just “nice to have” but necessary. 

The virtual newsroom is that new paradigm. It is completely native to the cloud and inherits the cloud’s beneficial characteristics. In addition the virtual newsroom brings a unified interface, tightly integrated collaboration and new models for newsroom production like digital-first, story-centric workflows and Storytelling 360.

Cloud-based newsrooms represent as big a change as the transition to file-based workflows twenty years ago. But one thing is constant: newsrooms are for telling compelling stories that inform audiences and stir their emotions. That requires human talent and creativity, and that works best in a collaborative environment; and with the cloud-based newsroom, collaboration is the foundation for successful journalism and engaging storytelling.

Now begins the challenge of taking those first steps. What is the obstacle that you need to clear in transitioning to the cloud? Let us offer you options in making this transition effortless. We invite you to take a closer look at cloud-based newsrooms in our white paper, with a look at new technologies dedicated to cloud-first operations and editing suites, to innovative models redefining the news business and operations.

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So how can Dalet Galaxy five newsrooms looking to renew their news production platform plan their journey to Dalet Pyramid?

To answer this, we have to first look at what kind of platform Dalet Pyramid is. After this, we’ll see how there is a natural and progressive approach to manage migration onto the new platform, without disruption to everyday workflows.

Dalet Pyramid offers configurable workspaces

Embracing change

Considering what’s been happening in the last few years, not many would be brave enough to bet against similar rates of change in the future. Disruptive change is here to stay and it makes sense to plan for it, be ready for it, and embrace it.

Fortunately, technology has changed too, and is in exactly the position it needs to be to facilitate the change that’s needed. Much of this has been driven by the diversity in sources of news, but also in the way it is delivered. There has never been a time when news reaches its audience in so many ways.

Viewers’ expectations have changed too, with timeliness and appropriateness for a given digital medium foremost in maximizing audience engagement and satisfaction – and hence loyalty.

Dalet Pyramid is the nexus where all these threads of change converge. As all the trends point towards the cloud, Dalet Pyramid is there to meet them.

It makes financial sense

Investing in the future actually saves money. Our estimate is that you’ll save on average 30% on your infrastructure costs over five years. In addition to the immediate benefits to the balance sheet, Dalet Pyramid comes with a massive increase in business agility. With Dalet Pyramid’s approach to news production, it’s very easy to incorporate new aspects to your business. New digital outlets, sponsors, and the ability to add hundreds of new users almost instantly.

Overall, you can expect as much as a 50% productivity boost from Dalet Pyramid. That’s because from its multi-platform web-based interface, you’ll have instant access to all the source material you need to make optimized content for every digital platform at a marginal additional cost.

Agility, mobility, flexibility

Dalet Pyramid’s resilient software-defined infrastructure is a powerful enabler for workflows and applications like Adobe Premiere Pro^Ⓡ that removes the constraints imposed by a physical infrastructure and geographical location, enabling advanced remote workflows from anywhere and the elasticity to scale on the fly.

Just like all other Dalet offerings, Dalet Pyramid is a cloud-agnostic solution that works with a range of cloud providers, such as Amazon Web Services. It can also run on virtualized environments, bringing in the flexibility needed to adapt to multiple existing infrastructure scenarios.

Dalet Pyramid mobile application helps news storytellers to work anywhere

Bringing in the digital teams

Dalet Galaxy five customers are already familiar with Dalet’s core philosophy: that managing digital content is the key to successful production. Dalet Pyramid adds to this by managing stories and their associated digital files with the same level of accomplishment. With the story at the center of a production, it becomes much easier to create multiple versions of news content fully optimized for the increasingly divergent ways to view it.

To help with the change, we are introducing a number of functional packages that allow for a progressive transition, where it is possible to run the two systems in parallel until everyone is confident to make the switch. These packages bring in new functionality for Planning, Digital Production, Remote editing, Remote Contribution and Artificial Intelligence.

With this incremental approach, the new Dalet Pyramid functionality brings in additional value to your Dalet newsroom solution, while protecting your existing investment. Transitioning this way ensures that the only difference audiences will notice is more timely news production that is more specific to their mode of consumption.

It’s an easy choice financially too. When you choose Dalet Pyramid, the subscription includes the costs of migration, and all the necessary licenses are included. Start with a basic implementation and move as fast as you want to evolve the architecture of the platform while you’re in full production.

As you implement Dalet Pyramid, you’ll be able to consolidate teams and departments to form a fully coherent, cohesive news operation that’s able to breathe like a living organism. And if you do need to add users quickly, it’s simple to spin off a sandboxed training environment to give the full Dalet Pyramid experience to newcomers without risking your main production workflow.

Dalet Pyramid brings in additional planning capabilities to your Dalet Galaxy five newsroom

Upgrade to the “new normal”

We’ve made it as easy as possible for Dalet Galaxy five users to migrate to Dalet Pyramid. Our Customer Success team will be with you on every step of the journey, and with your Dalet Pyramid subscription you can opt to outsource your infrastructure to us. That means it’s always ready, always working and there for you when the story of the year breaks.

With lower operating costs, more productivity, and a managed, smooth transition into the new platform, there’s a lot to like. Talk to us about how to get started.

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In all markets, your success is strongly influenced by the strength of the relationships you create. Relationships with customers are key, for sure. But so are the relationships with other companies and organisations that will help establish your reputation in that market.

Danmon Asia 

At Broadcast Asia, we will hit the ground running by announcing a marketing agreement covering Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Myanmar with Danmon Asia. The specialist reseller will introduce broadcasters in these territories to AmberFin and its software-based products, focusing on those that are already working in a file-based environment and looking to develop better QC capabilities within their workflows.

For these markets we need the right channel partner to help establish ourselves. Danmon Asia is the right company for us because it has an outstanding track record in the design and commissioning of customer focussed file-based workflows. Thanks to our successful partnership in Scandinavia, Danmon already understands our company, our products and our customer driven ethos. 

Could DPP help Asian broadcasters?

At Broadcast Asia, we will showcase a number of AmberFin products and solutions that are designed to increase media quality and operator efficiency in file-based workflows across the widest range of enterprise operations.

We will demonstrate new competitively priced file-based media ingest, transcode and playback products that enable the digitization and transformation of new and archived media content. These new product introductions reflect AmberFin’s strategic marketing initiative aimed at addressing the broadest range of media organizations with enterprise level solutions that are designed to meet their specific business needs.

One increasingly successful initiative in the UK is the Digital Production Partnership where numerous broadcasters and facilities have come together to create a number of common standards in file-based technology to help the transfer of material between organizations. It will be interesting to discuss this initiative with visitors to Broadcast Asia and see whether a similar approach in their region would be beneficial to our industry.

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We were optimistic that this would prove to be a valuable communications medium but little were we to know just how successful it has become. Less than a year after its launch, this is the blog’s 100th entry: it will be read by hundreds of subscribers around the world, via email updates and RSS feeds.

So, 100 not out – rather than waving my bat in the air, kissing the wicket or any other exuberant celebrations, let’s look back at a couple of the key industry topics that you have enjoyed reading about the most.

Digital Production Partnership (DPP) 

The MXF specification runs throughout AmberFin’s DNA, and as a company we have an obvious interest in this UK initiative. The DPP specification is the first set of MXF Application Specifications to receive national scale adoption, however it certainly won’t be the last. DPP provides a framework that enables the UK industry to come together and share best practice in digital production and help producers and broadcasters maximize the potential of the digital revolution. Also, it leads the standardization of technical and metadata requirements within the UK, helping to ensure digital video content can be easily and cost-effectively distributed to audiences via multiple platforms.

Unified Quality Control (UQC) 

Broadcasters moving to file-based production facilities have to consider how to use automated Quality Control (QC) systems. Manual quality control is simply not adequate anymore and it does not scale – this is the opinion of the EBU, which recognized QC as a key topic for the media industry back in 2010.

The following year it started an EBU Strategic Programme on Quality Control, with the aim to collect requirements, experiences and to create recommendations for broadcasters implementing file-based QC in their facilities. Adopting the resulting EBU guidelines enables content owners to take a media file and pass it through numerous third-party QC standards and then to collate the results in a meaningful way.

As previously reported on this blog, the EBU has created a ‘Periodic Table’ of QC tests, which is a visual representation of the different tests that users might wish to implement. Just as users need a visual representation of the tests, they also need a visual representation of the test results, which is exactly what AmberFin’s UQC platform provides.

To enable complete coverage of the EBU Periodic Table of QC tests a user will need more than one QC tool since some specialise in certain areas, but no one QC tool provides every test. AmberFin UQC enables users to select from a broad range of ‘best of breed’ QC systems that provide very specific capabilities and integrate them on a single platform. The results of all the tools are displayed on a single user interface and timeline.

QC is a critical issue which broadcasters and facilities must identify and develop a forward-looking strategy. We hope that you have enjoyed our first century of blog posts. Just like great batsmen, such as Brian Lara and Sachin Tendulkar, AmberFin is set well for an extremely big score – keep watching this space!

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Believe it or not, next year marks 10 years since SMPTE launched the MXF standard. Back then, no-one spotted that the end users had refocused their attention at the time of publication and the first batch of product was launched by the vendor community using the MXF toolbox in a way that favored that particular vendor.

No-one is to blame for this – it is a natural consequence of trying to do something difficult in an open forum. Over the next few years, the MXF standard started to lose some of its appeal as interoperability problems prevented complex systems from “just working”.

DPP becomes a nationally recognized MXF application specification 

The solution has been to create a range of application specifications: the application might be for direct-server playout, or versioning or interchange of mezzanines or exchange of advert metadata. These were (and still are) business problems with a technical solution called MXF. Not unsurprisingly, these business problems were the same ones that were first put forward a decade ago when MXF was being designed.

The Digital Production Partnership (DPP) is the first of these Application Specifications to receive national scale adoption. It certainly won’t be the last. DPP provides a framework that enables the UK industry to come together and share best practice in digital production and help producers and broadcasters maximize the potential of the digital revolution. Also, it leads the standardization of technical and metadata requirements within the UK, helping to ensure digital video content can be easily and cost-effectively distributed to audiences via multiple platforms.

DPP galvanizes the UK broadcast industry 

As one of the ‘founding fathers’ of MXF, it has been gratifying to see the way that DPP is galvanizing our industry. On one side of the equation, I attend DPP Vendor Days where there are not two or three, but instead 15 or 20 different companies working together to create a truly open and practical solution to the challenges that file-based workflows present.

Yes, we are competitors, but it is gratifying to see that we style retain the capacity to come together and develop common standards that benefit everybody – especially the end users, our customers.

And the last 12 months have seen significant advances in the ways that broadcasters, facilities and content owners are integrating the DPP specifications and recommendations at the heart of their enterprise operations.

BT Sport adopts DPP specifications 

For AmberFin, one of the most important DPP landmarks in 2013 was the news that UK-based broadcast facility provider, Timeline Television, has integrated the AmberFin iCR software platform within a bespoke production centre to support BT Sport, the new UK sports broadcaster. As part of the system delivery, Timeline TV is utilizing AmberFin’s Digital Production Partnership (DPP) compliant file format support for content delivery to UK broadcasters.

BT Sport is one of many UK broadcasters and facilities that are basing their enterprise operations on the DPP specifications. However, the DPP’s self-imposed deadline where file-based content delivery becomes the preferred exchange format for almost all major UK broadcasters is less than a year away and still most facilities and production companies are a long way from finalizing their DPP adoption strategies.

Will you meet the DPP deadline? 

The agreement of the DPP’s file-based Technical Standards (released Jan 2012) was not intended to signal an immediate move to file-based delivery. Instead, the DPP has provided clarity around which file format, structure and wrapper will become the expected standard for file-based delivery as it is phased in. In 2012 BBC, ITV and Channel 4 began to take delivery of programmes on file on a selective basis. The aim is for file based delivery to be the preferred delivery format for these broadcasters from 1st Oct 2014.

An enormous amount of work is being done by a great many clever people within various organizations and these operations will be the big winners when D-Day arrives. Other organizations might have fallen into the trap of believing that DPP is an ‘off the shelf solution’ – it is not. If you want to be a part of the DPP revolution you need to start preparing now.

Let’s hope that 2014 is another outstanding year for all those people and organizations that the DPP standard aims to help.

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