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Managed Services

Efficient hosting and remote management solutions

Relieve the stress on your staff and reduce IT costs with fully packaged solution management for customer applications in Imagine environments.

Managed Services protect your investment

Protect your business with automated and validated data backups, and vetted disaster recovery protocols through Imagine’s cloud-based approach to managing your critical technologies. Set your business up for long-term success and reduce your need for support. Concentrate on growing revenue with our best-practice system architecture for technological and process transformation that will give you greater flexibility and faster time to revenue.

Streamline your path to cloud-driven efficiency

Migrating legacy on-prem functionality to the cloud opens a world of possibilities and brings new flexibility to your operations. Imagine is uniquely positioned to facilitate your digital transformation with the products and services you need to take advantage of the cloud’s significant business and operational benefits.

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How Managed Services can help

When you take advantage of our Managed Services platform, Imagine hosts, secures, and maintains your key infrastructure while also providing 24/7 support. Better manage your finances with predictable costs, reduced risk, and overall lower total cost of ownership when compared to on-prem deployment.

The many benefits of Imagine’s cloud-based Managed Service

Cloud-based managed services help you reduce costs and stay ahead of technological advances. With complete visibility to all managed applications and infrastructure, we can react in real time. And make a real difference to your bottom line.

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Reduced costs

Reduced costs and improved TCO.

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99.995% uptime

Focus on your core business activities instead of managing infrastructure.

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Less configuration time

Reduced time spent on making and troubleshooting configuration changes.

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Fewer IT issues

Lower number of reported issues frees up IT staff to focus on other activities and projects.

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Faster upgrades

Innovation via technical upgrades that take less time to implement.

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Fewer incidents

Fewer platform instrastructure incidents means you’re on the air instead of tending to repairs.

Take advantage of Imagine’s Managed Services for the following products

If you’re an Imagine Ad Tech customer using one or more of the following solutions, Managed Services could be the right fit for you.

Traffic

xG Linear™

U.S. MVPDs can increase ad management efficiency for linear TV operations, as well as support streaming, addressable, and on-demand inventory.

Optimization

GamePlan™

Lower opex and increase revenue by automating and optimizing ad placement for linear TV.

Traffic

Landmark™ Sales

Global broadcasters can efficiently manage cross-platform ad campaigns to monetize linear, CTV, on-demand, and digital content.

Traffic

OSI™ Traffic & Billing

North American broadcasters can increase automation and streamline ad workflows, from sales to billing management.

Rights & Scheduling

Landmark™ Rights & Scheduling

Enable rights management and scheduling for premium-quality live, streaming and on-demand channels and content.

Video Ad Server

SureFire™

Achieve higher CPMs for CTV and FAST by direct-selling premium inventory with linear-like control of ad placement.

Ad Sales / OMS

CrossFlight™

Consolidate complex ad sales processes into a single comprehensive, cloud-based platform.

Choose the Managed Services option that best suits your needs

Remote Management (RM) – You purchase a license and support contract separately and host the Imagine instance yourself. The Managed Services team manages and administers your Imagine instance and associated database remotely.


Managed Services (MS) – You’ll still purchase a license and support, but the Managed Services team will host and manage the Imagine instance and associated database.


Subscription – This is an all-inclusive offering, including a single subscription price for software, support, solution hosting, administration, upgrades, updates, etc.

Costs

Software

Infrastructure required to run the Application

SW support & access to upgrades/updates/patches

Overall

Remote Management (RM)

Management of application and database. License, maintenance and support purchased separately

License

Customer’s responsibility

Via CARE/Support – Patches/updates included (Upgrades require additional fee)

Good value, cost only includes management of Imagine application and associated database

Managed Service (MS)

Management of the entire solution stack included (hardware, application, database). License, Maintenance and Support purchased separately.

License

Included

Via CARE/Support – Patches/updates included. (Upgrades require additional license fee.)

Balanced option providing environment and management to run Imagine application. License, maintenance and support contracted separately.

Subscription

Management of the entire solution stack included (hardware, application, database). All-inclusive, single annual subscription price for software, maintenance and support, and managed services.

Included

Included

Included

Projected as the most cost-effective option for Imagine applications (software, infrastructure, maintenance and support, and managed services — all at a single subscription price)

“Consolidating ad sales and fulfillment across multiple platforms will unlock new revenue opportunities, and moving this functionality to the Imagine Managed Service will ensure we can remain focused on our business, not running IT infrastructure.”

Ross Goodall Formerly SVP Business Systems & Operations, Discovery Inc.

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