“Since the launch of Bookrepublic, we have grown rapidly both in numbers of titles and customers,” said Bookrepublic CEO Marco Ferrario. “To provide a better service to our readers and to increase the volume of sales through our online store, we chose ContentWise for its superior technology, which creates a much closer match to the reader’s tastes and interests.”

ContentWise is built for high-volume, scalable content recommendation of digital media and online store applications. By producing personalized recommendations that increase content demand and consumption, ContentWise empowers operators to better engage their customers and maximize the return on their catalogs of movies, TV programs, music, ringtones, eBooks, and games available from the Web, mobile devices, tablets, and connected TVs.

Recommendation engines have become a fundamental feature of online stores, suggesting additional choices to purchasers based on their profiles, social network data, and previous buying behavior.

“Any kind of online retailing or media service can benefit from recommendation technologies,” said Paolo Bozzola, CEO of ContentWise. “Book and eBook readers are a perfect target, as the rich set of reading and purchasing information available can be leveraged to understand their tastes and provide meaningful and effective recommendations. Furthermore, Bookrepublic is a perfect partner for us, given its innovative approach to the online business and its growth strategy.”

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About Bookrepublic
Co-founded by Marco Ferrario and Marco Ghezzi, Bookrepublic (www.bookrepublic.it) is a distribution platform for small and medium-sized quality publishers. It is also an online eBookstore, covering several topics and already having 8,000 Italian-language eBooks in stock. The company, established in Milan, was founded by the owners of DigitPUB, a company focusing on digital publishing and technology implementation in the publishing sector.

About ContentWise
ContentWise (www.contentwise.tv) is a division of Moviri that develops and markets a real-time recommendation engine for high-volume digital media and IPTV applications. The ContentWise recommendation engine enhances the quality of digital TV services (IPTV, OTT, or Web) by enabling viewers to find the content they like easily, lifting revenue and reducing subscriber churn. Moviri (www.moviri.com) has offices in Milan, London, and San Francisco and a track record of more than 10 years’ success in IT optimization, software, and consulting services. Moviri major references include key U.S. and European players in the Media, Telco, IPTV, and electronic industries.

Content discovery and engagement in version 4.0 is enhanced with a new cold-start feature guiding first-time users through a process that gathers their rating feedback and establishes an immediate preference profile. Version 4.0 also adds the capability to display to users the reason why a certain recommended item is being presented.

Version 4.0’s revenue growth and customer retention enhancements include an entirely new analytics data warehouse and Web-based dashboards that equip marketing managers with new statistics sets, presented through an interactive graphical interface. The new tool includes metrics such as content engagement (measuring the most popular content items and users’ reaction to recommendations), audience analysis (an analysis of users’ demographic and behavioral characteristics), and content velocity (speed and elapsed time of user response to recommendations).

Administration, performance, and scalability improvements include a new Web interface for setup and configuration, now unified with the ContentWise business rules and reporting software module. Access control can be restricted to appropriate levels using customizable access profiles. ContentWise 4.0 also supports multiple tenancy, one of the key requirements of large operators such as cable providers delivering services to multiple markets, regions, and countries. The overall platform performance has been improved by enhancing parallel processing and database tuning.

“The new developments being introduced at IBC offer a significant enhancement of the ContentWise system, making it the most powerful recommendation engine yet,” said Paolo Bozzola, CEO of Moviri. “With version 4.0 of ContentWise, users can optimize the discovery, viewing, listening, and purchase experience, maximize subscriber base value and marketing ROI, and scale up easily to deliver recommendations to millions of viewers.”

ContentWise is built for high-volume, scalable content recommendation in digital media, OTT, and IPTV applications. Producing personalized recommendations that increase content consumption and demand of movies, music, ringtones, TV channels, live-TV programs, and other digital media content, ContentWise empowers operators to use recommendations to maximize the return on their content catalogs.

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About ContentWise
ContentWise (www.contentwise.tv) is a division of Moviri that develops and markets a real-time recommendation engine for high-volume digital media and IPTV applications. The ContentWise recommendation engine enhances the quality of digital TV services (IPTV, OTT, or Web) by enabling viewers to find the content they like easily, lifting revenue and reducing subscriber churn. Moviri (www.moviri.com) has offices in Milan, London, and San Francisco and a track record of more than 10 years’ success in IT optimization, software, and consulting services. Moviri major references include key U.S. and European players in the Media, Telco, IPTV, and electronic industries.

Content discovery and engagement in version 4.0 is enhanced with a new cold-start feature that guides first-time users through a process to gather their rating feedback and establish an immediate preference profile. Version 4.0 also adds the capability to display to users the reason why a certain recommended item is being presented.

In regards to revenue growth and customer retention, version 4.0 provides an entirely new analytics data warehouse and Web-based dashboards that equip marketing managers with new statistics sets presented through an interactive graphical interface. The new tool includes metrics such as content engagement (measuring the most popular content items and users’ reaction to recommendations), audience analysis (an analysis of users’ demographic and behavioral characteristics), and content velocity (speed and elapsed time of user response to recommendations).

Administration, performance, and scalability improvements include a new setup and configuration Web interface, now unified with ContentWise business rules and reporting software module. Access control can be restricted to appropriate levels thanks to customizable access profiles. ContentWise 4.0 also supports multiple tenancy, one of the key requirements of large operators such as cable providers delivering services to multiple markets, regions, and countries. The overall platform performance has been improved by enhancing parallel processing and database tuning.

ContentWise is built for high-volume, scalable content recommendation in digital media, OTT, and IPTV applications. By producing personalized recommendations that increase content consumption and demand of movies, music, ringtones, TV channels, live TV programs, and other digital media content, ContentWise empowers operators to use recommendations to maximize the return on their content catalogs.

Visit us at booth #1.03 and discover all job opportunities we are offering in our Milan and San Francisco offices.

For further details visit the official event website: Career Day at Politecnico di Milano

Now in its 7th year, the IPTV World Forum is the leading event on Hybrid, IP & Connected TV. This year, the event will bring a greater emphasis on TV business strategies, with a new track focusing on content acquisition, management and advertising.

ContentWise will showcase its Digital Media, OTT and IPTV content recommendation engine built for high-volume and scalability. Come to booth #223 to get a closer look at ContentWise features and implementations.

ContentWise is the Digital Media content recommendation engine that easily integrates into IPTV, Web TV, Media portals and Connected TVs. ContentWise is a business of Moviri, leading provider of optimization solutions for Digital Media and TV operators. Moviri customers include Fastweb, On Telecoms, Pirelli Broadband Solutions, Telecom, Tele2 and Vodafone.

Location

Olympia National Hall
London, United Kingdom

Date

March 22-24, 2011

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Milan, Italy, 5^th October 2010 – Neptuny (www.neptuny.com) today announced that it has sold its Caplan technology, the flagship capacity management product, to BMC Software, Inc. [NYSE: BMC]. As part of the deal, Neptuny will rebrand to Moviri (www.moviri.com) which will represent the main provider of consultancy services for Caplan.

Paolo Bozzola, CEO for Moviri comments “This transaction represents for us an historical growth opportunity; the stronger financial position resulting from the deal will enable a radical change of speed in all our business plan and especially in the Digital Media market. This will allow us to strengthen our international presence and establish our distinctive offering to a much wider audience worldwide.”

Moviri will refocus its business on the Digital Media market where it operates under the “Contentwise” brand (www.contentwise.tv). Contentwise is a content recommendation engine specifically designed for Digital Media and IPTV providers. Contentwise allows operators to exploit the full potential of content offering and both increase revenues and improve customer retention.

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About Moviri (www.moviri.com)

Moviri is a leading provider of Digital Media and IT Performance Optimization solutions based on best-in-class consulting services. Established in 2000, Moviri major references include top companies in different market segments such as mainly Telco, Banking, Insurance, Energy, Retail and Travel, in Europe and the US. Moviri is a member of itSMF (IT Service Management Forum), UK CMG (UK Computer Measurement Group), CMG Italia (Computer Measurement Group).  Visit www.moviri.com for more information.

The IPTV World Forum is a world leading event on IPTV, and a must-attend conference and exhibition that gathers key Telco, TV and content Executives. This year, the event features over 180 speakers, all of whom are leading international experts from telecoms, cable, satellite and mobile operators and leading content owners. The conference will address key strategic issues for Telcos deploying IPTV, and will also focus on the challenges facing satellite and internet broadcasters. In the exhibition space, Neptuny presents its offering for the Digital Media and IPTV market. In particular presents the latest release of ContentWise, the real-time recommendation engine specifically designed for Digital Media content.

Come to Neptuny booth #131 to get a demonstration of how ContentWise enables Digital Media providers to exploit the full potential of their content offering and thus to both increase revenues and improve customer retention.

ContentWise is the Digital Media content recommendation engine that easily integrates into IPTV, Web TV, Media portals and Connected TVs. ContentWise is a business of Neptuny, leading provider of optimization solutions for Digital Media and TV operators. Neptuny customers include Fastweb, On Telecoms, Pirelli Broadband Solutions, Telecom, Tele2 and Vodafone.

Location

Olympia
London, United Kingdom

Date

25th-27th March 2010

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For more information about Neptuny and our participation, please contact:
Darshna Kamani
Eskenzi PR Ltd
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E: darshna@eskenzipr.com, info@neptuny.com

Neptuny presented ContentWise, the Recommendation Engine specifically designed for Digital Media content.

Among the several improvements, which will be introduced later this month, for ContentWise 3.0, the most important feature is a user-friendly web interface to define and apply business rules to better control the list of content to be recommended to target users according to specific marketing criteria. For example, business rules can be defined to assign higher relevance to specific content, i.e. push content from specific studio producers that generates higher revenues or create marketing campaign based on users tastes and profiles. This allows operators to easily leverage the content recommendation capabilities provided by ContentWise recommendation engine.

ContentWise user interface for managing business rules is based on portal technology and has been designed and implemented so as to be easily customized in order to match specific needs and thus to allow operators to further exploit ContentWise recommendation engine capabilities.

ContentWise user interface also provides an easy access to standard and custom reports generated by ContentWise embedded reporting platform. These reports give insight on the business and help the operator to evaluate how the recommendations are affecting users’ choice.

Stefano Moscetti, Neptuny Business Development Leader for ContentWise, comments “Recommendation engines are now recognized as an essential component for successful IPTV/OTT video services. ContentWise has already demonstrated its ability to effectively support operators in providing a personalized TV experience and improve revenues. ContentWise 3.0 will constitute a step further, because it makes possible to analyze users’ behaviour while keeping into account operators’ needs (i.e. applying business rules and marketing campaigns)”.

Darshna Kamani
Eskenzi PR Ltd
Tel: +44 (0)20 7183 2834
E-mail: darshna@eskenzipr.com

In the exhibition area Neptuny will present its product Contentwise, the real-time Content Recommendation engine for Digital Media that delivers media content recommendations according to individual preferences and TV’ viewers tastes.

Find us in the IPTV zone at booth #403 to get a demo and learn how Contentwise can unlock your IPTV potential.

Location

Amsterdam RAI Exhibition and Congress Centre
NL-1078 GZ Amsterdam
The Netherlands

Date

Conference: 10th-14th September
Exhibition: 11th-15th September

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For more information about Neptuny and our participation, please contact:

Margherita Nicò, Marketing & Alliance Coordinator
Tel.: +39 340 4996919
E-mail: margherita.nico@neptuny.com

“This membership is strategically aimed at developing an integration between our product ContentWise and the Microsoft Mediaroom platform and will allow us to be able to offer personalized recommendations for IPTV to major European operators” said Stefano Moscetti, Neptuny Digital Media Business Development.

ContentWise will be integrated with the Microsoft Mediaroom platform in order to analyze user preferences based on both explicit (ratings) and implicit (purchases, views) information, thus recommending content that matches user taste. The combination of Microsoft Mediaroom and ContentWise recommendation engine will enable operators to drive new source of revenues, exploiting upselling opportunities by means of business rules to implement specific marketing criteria.

Consumers using a TV service powered by Mediaroom stand to ultimately benefit from a more personalized TV experience, being able to quickly find the content they are looking for, with a likely significant increase in spontaneous purchases.

For further information or to arrange an interview with Stefano Moscetti (Digital Media Business Development), please contact:
Darshna Kamani
Eskenzi PR Ltd
T: +44 (0)20 7183 2834
E: darshna@eskenzipr.com or marketing@neptuny.com