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France Ô Streamlines Graphics
Workflows With Aspera And IVORY
France Ô turns to Aspera and IVORY to manage and transfer large volumes of data...

F

rance Ô, a French public
television
network
that is part of the France
Télévisions group, found
that their daily workflow
was hampered by the
need to manage and move
large volumes of graphics
produced in Adobe Creative
Cloud, raw video footage,
and other large media files
between
geographically
dispersed locations.
In search of a new solution
for large data transfer and
management, France Ô
Aspera's workflow automation tool,
decided on a combination of
Aspera Orchestrator
technologies from Aspera,
an IBM Company and IVORY, a services background rendering to automatically
Company and creator of the Automate- create multiple versions of promos.
IT platform.
Hervé Friquet, Project Manager,
IVORY served as a key technology France Télévisions, explains: "We
supplier to automate and streamline believed that we could go beyond
their graphics workflows, while simply connecting services and
Aspera's workflow automation tool, reinvent the way we work and
Aspera Orchestrator, enables France collaborate as a company. We asked
Ô to build out efficient and predictable IVORY and Aspera to team up and port
file processing pipelines with precise the Automate-IT HTML Panels inside
control over the Aspera high- an Orchestrator window and make it
performance file transfer environment. available from the desktop."
Together, the two deployments
Four Panels are now displayed
integrate seamlessly to create a inside an Aspera Orchestrator window
single system able to ingest, process available from a desktop computer,
and distribute promotional content even where Adobe Creative Cloud is
worldwide.
not running. The service includes a
In production, France Ô relies on preview of the promo for the operator
IVORY's Automate-IT workstation, prior to the actual decision to trigger
an innovative platform that provides the remote generation of the render.
simple solutions to sophisticated Automate-IT factory also includes
workflows based on Adobe creative extended dashboarding and activity
tools. Automate-IT has the unique monitoring.
ability to adapt to any technical
France Ô had deployed Aspera
workflow challenges that limit creative Orchestrator to manage over 30
processes. Editorial decisions can be complex workflows between multiple
easily integrated within Adobe After sites around the world, benefiting from
Effects CC using a contextual panel the web application's easy-to-define
that offers a real-time preview and rules and built-in high-speed transfer

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capabilities. With Orchestrator, files
and assets are directed, processed
and redirected using existing IT and
Broadcast infrastructure, making sure
each processing phase is accurately
performed.
The
fusion
of
technologies
from Aspera and IVORY integrate
seamlessly with France Ô's workflow,
enabling users to simply upload their
content, which will automatically be
generated into several versions for
distribution to multiple networks
worldwide, and providing new
capabilities for rendering content
remotely.
Erwan Roth, France Télévisions'
Deputy CTO for Overseas Operations,
explains: "We were looking for a
solution that would be simple to
integrate in our complex infrastructure
without
disturbing
our
daily
deliverables; overall it was simple
and cost effective, plus the
integration of Aspera with our
processes made perfect sense."
Julien Gachot, CEO, IVORY
observes that "the creative and
technology teams at France
Télévisions had a common
vision to integrate both
platforms and redefine the
graphics creation process,
both to leverage their IT
resources further, and also
to unleash the creativity of
their creative staff."
The professional services team
at Aspera managed the integration
process of Automate-IT factory, the

server-based service from
IVORY, and integrated the
HTML Panels directly inside
an Orchestrator window.
"The simple yet effective
integration
of
Aspera
Orchestrator with IVORY's
Automate-IT
platform
provides considerable value
to the creative teams at
France Ô, who are able to
optimise promo creation
with Automate-IT, achieve
high-performance transfers
with Aspera FASP, and
monitor
and
manage
complex workflows through
Orchestrator's
intuitive
drag-and-drop,
browser-based
interface," said Andrea Di Muzio,
Director of Professional Services,
Aspera.
Didier Leclerc, Artistic Director and
Head of the Autopromo Department,
France Ô, concludes: "I was looking for
a solution that could range from 100%
manual to 100% automatic entry of
data and variables, have the ability to
control promo generation from a noncreative desktop, create multi-versions
automatically and reduce project time
to completion by providing automated,
high-speed file transfers throughout
the process. The solution from
Automate-IT and Aspera offers all of
the above. The adoption from my team
was instantaneous.".

IVORY's Automate-IT workstation
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