The Open Media Gateway™ is the foundation upon which all fulfilment and eCommerce services are built, and represents the next generation in digital content management and delivery.

 

Based on decades of asset management experience, numerous content industry guidlines (MI3P, DDEX, CableLabs, Coral, etc.), and a flexible, pipeline architecture, the Open Media Gateway™ is completely standards based; making it highly flexible, modular, scalable and extensible in design. From content ingestion to delivery and reporting, the platform manages assets in-line with industry best practices, and then allows for their commercialisation based on contracts between rights holders and retailers.

Once commercialised, assets are made available for ordering by "publishing" a unique catalogue to a retail or service front end via the Open Media Gateway™ Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). Orders can then be accepted via those API's and products delivered directly to customers using almost any IP enabled device or service.

This unique approach allows retailers of content to quickly and cost-effectively add digital content to their market mix. All they need to do is agree a contract with one of Blueprint's rights holder partners, then tell Blueprint the terms of that contract, and integrate to the Open Media Gateway™ API's. It's that simple.

Based on the latest eCommerce technologies (MS Commerce Server 2007, BizTalk, etc.) the Entertainment Centre™ storefront platform has been developed to quickly and easily enable a retailer to take advantage of the Open Media Gateway™

Designed for retailers that do not wish to develop and operate their own digital media store, yet wish to benefit from incorporating digital media into their product portfolio, the Entertainment Centre™ is quite literally an entertainment 'store in a box'.

This multi-access point platform (web, mobile, application, portable media player, etc.) provides a suite of powerful merchandising, commerce, reporting, tracking and settlement tools and wizards, to help a retailer quickly realise and subsequently manage their chosen digital media experience.

Entertainment Centre™ is an entirely hosted solution, with 'out of the box' functionality for such elements as payment provision, physical inventory management and fulfilment, cross-catalogue bundling, sales tax calculation, geo-filtering, and much more.