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France Ô Streamlines
Graphics Workflows with
Aspera and IVORY

Aspera & IVORY technologies are providing France Ô with new capabilities for rendering content remotely...

F

rance Ô, a French public television
network that is part of the France
Télévisions group, found that its 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 decided on a combination
of technologies from Aspera, an
IBM company and IVORY, a services
company and creator of the AutomateIT platform.
IVORY served as a key technology
supplier to automate and streamline
its graphics workﬂows, while Aspera's
workﬂow automation tool, Aspera
Orchestrator, enables France Ô to
build out efﬁcient and predictable
ﬁle
processing
pipelines,
with
precise control over the Aspera high
performance ﬁle transfer environment.
Together, the two deployments
integrate seamlessly to create a
single system able to ingest, process,
and distribute promotional content
worldwide.
In production, France Ô relies on
IVORY's Automate-IT workstation,
an innovative platform that provides
simple solutions to sophisticated
workﬂows based on Adobe Creative
tools. Automate-IT has the unique
ability to adapt to any technical
workﬂow challenges that limit creative
processes. Editorial decisions can be
easily integrated within Adobe After
Effects CC, using a contextual panel
that offers a real-time preview and
background rendering to automatically

create multiple versions of promos.
Hervé Friquet, Project Manager,
France Télévisions, explains, "We
believed that we could go beyond
simply connecting services, and
reinvent the way we work and
collaborate as a company. We asked
IVORY and Aspera to team up and port
the Automate-IT HTML Panels inside
an Orchestrator window, and make it
available from the desktop."
Four Panels are now displayed
inside an Aspera Orchestrator window
available from a desktop computer,
even where Adobe Creative Cloud is
not running. The service includes a
preview of the promo for the operator,
prior to the actual decision to trigger
the remote generation of the render.
Automate-IT factory also includes
extended dashboarding and activity
monitoring.
France Ô had deployed Aspera
Orchestrator to manage over 30
complex workﬂows between multiple
sites around the world, beneﬁting from
the web application's easy to deﬁne
rules and built-in high-speed transfer
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
integrates
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, providing new capabilities
for rendering content remotely.

France Ô relies on IVORY's Automate-IT
during production

France Ô had deployed Aspera Orchestrator to manage over 30 complex workﬂows
between multiple sites around the world

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, which are able
to optimise promo
creation with AutomateIT, 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."

To meet all of its requirements, France Ô
teamed up with both Aspera and IVORY
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