A Complete Solution for Large-scale Deployments

ContentWise is built for high-volume, high-performance digital media. Its integration-ready architecture and partner ecosystem enable operators to rapidly implement content discovery for millions of users.

ContentWise works with any type of digital TV service such as VOD, Linear TV, Web TV and it delivers recommendations to STBs, Connected TVs, mobile and web applications and any media device. All recommendation, rules management and administration services are exposed through standard APIs and ContentWise can be deployed as a cloud service (SaaS).

Scalability

ContentWise is built to scale up both vertically (scaling hardware performance) and horizontally (scaling node density). Real-time APIs high availability is handled through standard load balancing, batch processes availability is handled using Linux Heartbeat, Database’s availability is handled through standard clustering. ContentWise scales nearly linearly with the addition of new nodes.

Multiple Headend architecture

Designed to support large deployments and operator multi-market management, ContentWise can manage multiple regional headends for both Linear TV and VoD. Different catalogs, overlapped EPGs, multiple timezone can leverage a single instance of ContentWise, serving the right recommendation to the right headend.

API-based integration

All ContentWise recommendation, catalog management, business rules and administrative features are exposed through real-time SOAP WEB Services, EJB and REST APIs. In fact, ContentWise 4.0 own Administrative, Business Rules and Insights user interface is built on the same APIs that are made available to customers to integrate their own applications and interfaces.

Cloud-ready

ContentWise can be deployed as a service. ContentWise SaaS enables small operators to benefit from the same powerful personalization and discovery features used by larger operators without having to invest in new hardware and at lower total solution cost.

SI-free integration

Powered by a flexible ETL engine (Extract, Transform and Load) and a fully-featured set of Web Services API, ContentWise can be integrated with any commercial or home-grown middleware, without a System Integration activity. Put recommendation in the roadmap for your next front-end release, and with our support you can have new features on line in a couple of months.

Off-the-shelf middleware integration

ContentWise integration with major industry technology vendors such as Microsoft Mediaroom and Ericsson enables operators to rapidly test and integrate content discovery and recommendations. ContentWise had developed commercial partnerships with Alcatel Lucent, Ericsson, ADB/Pirelli Broadband Solutions, Nordija and Minerva Networks.