1. Steering Committee Agenda 22-1-14
Overall Program Status
Status By Track
Phasing Slide
Schedule
High level schedule
Channel migration schedule
Rollout schedule
January/February releases
Headcount Discussion
Recent Accomplishments
Local Build Highlights
Aspera Highlights
Network Highlight
MCM Design Highlights
Next Steps
Appendix
Financial summary
Contract status

2. High Level Program Schedule
Sept-May 2014 – Phase 1: Initial Build
Initial Build & Launch
Initial AWS Build with MAM & Initial screens
MCS Tools
Initial Integrations including GPMS to UK Vision
Network Project Complete
Local build complete
Aspera Project Complete
VOD workflows
First Channel live
April-June 2014 – Phase 2: Channel Rollout
Rollout Channels
Rollout channels on MediaCentre (All UK Channels live)
Stabilize & Tune system
Additional Integration services live
BCM Integration
Continued development and testing
July-Sept 2014 – Phase 3: Additional Automation
First Wave of Automations
New automated workflows
Additional screens and enhancements
Additional integration services
Cloud NLE prototype
Madrid Requirements
October 2014 – December Phase 4: BMS enhancements
Second Wave of Automation & BMS Enhancements
Additional workflow automation
BMS enhancements
Additional Integration
Screen enhancements
Madrid Development
Dec - April 2015 – Phase 5: Madrid & Budapest Archive
Expand to Madrid & CE (Archive)
Launch Madrid Channels
Vision CE integrated
MediaCentre Services available
CE Archive available

3. Overall Program Status
Contracting: Completed 9 of 16 contracts/production licenses
Finance: On track and reconciled weekly
Staffing: Giant Source more heavily leveraged
Project Setup
Go Live moved to 4/29 with the channel migrations ending 6/27
Revised schedule enables channel migration activities to be supported early in the process based on planned rollout of functionality
MAM P0 release completed 3 weeks later than planned
Schedule
Original Scope OK
High level Madrid scope determined
Scope
Project financials are on track and have been submitted as part of the January forecast. Detailed reviews with individual project managers to update forecasts.
Preliminary budget discussions have taken place regarding Madrid. Planned green light meeting in April
Project Budget
Deployment risks mitigated based on new phased rollout
Still working on AWS contract
Resource availability through Q4
Vision 4.06 dependency
Issues & Risks

4. The MediaCentre’s Projects
MADRID…
Plan developed
Investigating Broadcast Master 8 2
INTEGRATION
ODS
BMS Systems
GPMS 3
On track
ODIN UI development completed
UAT starts next week
Prod. Planned for 2/24
Schedule Ingest from Vision in progress
Vision data migration in progress
Metadata Update
On track
Vision upgrade scheduled for 2/17
Provys migration (March – May)
Vision integration almost complete (working on scheduling data)
Vision
JBOSS ESB & Rules
BCM
120 ESB 1
MAM in Cloud
Development behind initial plan schedule by 4-6 weeks for P1, assessing overall impact on P2-3
Project Structure changes to address schedule
All screens to support P0 – P3 functionality have been completed and approved
P0 UAT Completed and signed off with minor bugs/defects identified for P1 fix
Vidispine configured, deployed and demonstrated in HA configuration
MCS integration activities focusing on authentication and Vidispine
ESB
MAM
Aspera
Aspera
UI Screens
MCS
??? 4
Network 5
Local 7 6
MASTER
On track
Both primary/back-up 10G connections are up and running
Encompass Upgrades Underway
On track
Training complete
Workstations upgraded and connected to new SAN
Adobe Premier in use
On track
Training complete
London and Budapest using Aspera
Hypercare begins this week
On track
Two major SOWs submitted for COFA
Financials on track
Training partner selected and plan being finalized this week

5. ODIN Local Build Network Aspera 01/22/2014 March 2014 (TBD)
UAT Complete Dates
01/22/2014
March 2014 (TBD)
April 2014 (TBD)
May 2014 (TBD)
P0 (App)
Landing Page
Simple Login
Authentication
User Management
Users/Roles
Sony IDM Integration
Search (Vidispine)
Title/Alpha hierarchy traversal
ODS Title/Alpha integration
ODS Metadata
Platform Ops Support
P1 (DAM/IMS)
Profile Management:
Provider
Monitoring Inbound (ingest):
Provider Receiving
Proxy Generation
Aspera Integration
Workflow Tasks:
Matching
Workflow Management:
Ingest
Transcoding
Bulk Ingest Migrations
Priority Ranking System Rank by Admin Flag
Upload
Inventory Detail
MCS Tools Integration
Preview
Annotation
P2 (Delivery)
Channel & Recipient
Qcloud (monitoring UI)
Qcloud metadata & integration to Vidispine
Ingest Order Management
Manual QC
Alpha Creation
Alpha creation via ODS service
P3 (Scheduling)
Scheduling
ODS schedule integration (Vision)
Monitoring Outbound:
Deliveries (Aspera Transfers)
Vidispine Jobs
Dashboard:
Business Intelligence
Usage Activity
Logging
Alerts
Failures/Rejections
Reports
Delivery Management
Compliance
Priority ranking
Rank by TX
File management rules
Localization
VOD/Catchup
Enhanced XML transform capability to support VOD catchup servicing
Additional VOD specific transcode profiles
ODIN
Local Build
Network
Aspera

6. UK Channel Launch Schedule Update
Go Live
Review
Sony Max Africa
29/04/14
13/05/14
SET Africa
SET Russia
SET Baltics
Sony Turbo Russia
Sony Turbo Baltics
Movies4Men
06/05/14
19/05/14
More Than Movies
SET UK
SMC UK
AXN Sci-Fi Italy
02/06/14
AXN Italy
AXN Germany
13/06/14
AXN Sci-Fi Russia
Animax Germany
16/06/14
27/06/14
SET Germany
Ongoing parallel work for migration:
Distributor on-boarding migration and standard operating procedure.
Aspera in place
Schedule has been validated in meetings with core teams
Confirm training plan based on schedule and confirm annual leave of core user group 

7. Staff efficiencies in MediaCentre - Greenlight

8. Switch 3 QC to channels; 3 tech to MC

9. Current QC staffing to QC staffing w/ MC

10. Current QC staffing to QC staffing w/ MC

11. Go-Live Recap January 10G connectivity to AWS (primary and backup)
Internet equipment upgrades in place
Aspera software installed
Encompass Aspera planned Jan 28
Tape ingest and Aspera training next week
Upgraded workstations are connected to the new SAN storage
Adobe Premier software rolled out with training completed
ODIN UAT/training sessions this week
February
ODIN live with Vision (autopublish in March)
Vision upgraded to 4.06
Arqiva and Encompass upgrades

12. Highlights – Local Build
Before
After
Consolidated
Streamlined

13. Highlights – Network/Aspera
Key Accomplishments
Direct Connections in place
Encompass Aspera go-live planned Jan 28

14. Highlights – Media Centre Manager
Inbound
Search
Matching
Manual QC

15. Next Steps Upcoming Focus MAM Buildout for P1 ODIN UAT
Tape Ingest and Aspera Training
Change management
Channel onboarding
Production licenses
Continue Vision upgrade & Provys migrations work

16. Appendix
Media Centre Project Financials
Contract Summary Status

17. Media Centre Project Financials
CPR VARIANCE
Project
Project #
Prior FY Actuals
YTD Actuals
FY14 Remaining Forecast
FY15 Forecast
Current Forecast
CPR Total
Variance
Master
I01803
70,800
215,625
301,194
566,980
$1,154,599
$1,116,140
($38,459)
ASPERA
I02005
269,784
30,216
$300,000
($0)
BMS
I02006
325,000
$325,000 $0
Integration
I02007
213,431
480,416
572,296
$1,266,143
$1,392,205
$126,062
Local
I02008
19,456
284,374
$303,830
$502,444
$198,614
MAM-AWS
I02009
141,774
1,119,900
606,500
$1,868,174
$1,929,700
$61,526
Network
I02010
105,171
447,598
$552,769
$550,000
($2,769)
Total
965,241
2,663,698
2,070,776
$5,770,515
$6,115,489
$344,974
Summary includes actual activity through December, 2013 and estimates to complete the project

18. Contract Summary Status
AWS (MSA): part of overall Sony Corporation negotiation
DSB SOW Phases 0 – 3: Fully executed
MCS SOW: submitted for COFA approval
DSB Support SOW: (includes reselling AWS services): initial reviews by UK team with changes communicated back to DSB
Tektronix/Qcloud MSA/Production License: working with them to design a new agreement that meets SPE’s standards
Aspera Production License: locking down pricing reductions for Media Centre implementation
MCS Production License: pricing agreed upon and working on finalizing SLAs