NETIA extends business development efforts with new appointments
NETIA announced a significant organizational change with the appointment of two industry professionals to key managerial roles and the recruitment of new sales representatives. Mustapha Rezzoug will take responsibility for international business development and strengthening NETIA’s global distributor network. Daniel Dedisse, who has led NETIA’s R&D department for the last 15 years, will take up the position of Product Director.
These new appointments reflect NETIA’s strategic plan to extend the company’s business development efforts and enhance its customer support at a worldwide level.
NETIA has also announced two new appointments to its sales force. Marc Bawol joins in a key role as junior sales manager for the Middle East and Africa, while Daria Globus has been named area sales representative for Eastern Europe, Russia, and CIS countries. Daria has more than 15 years’ experience with broadcast and IT organizations in this region.
The company’s newly released Radio-Assist 8.1 range of digital audio automation software will make its European debut at IBC2012. This version of NETIA’s industry-leading software suite builds on an already robust array of tools for streamlined end-to-end multimedia production, broadcast, and publication workflows with the addition of two key features. Radio-Assist 8.1 boasts a new integrated music-scheduling application and video-editing capabilities, all available from within a single user interface.
“We continue to refine our Radio-Assist software suite and its functionality in response to feedback from our partners, as well as the changing dynamics of the media consumption marketplace,” said Daniel Dedisse, product director at NETIA. “With Radio-Assist 8.1 we bring valuable editing and scheduling tools into the user interface, effectively making those capabilities a seamless element within the overall workflow. With convenient access to Radio-Assist’s more robust toolset, users gain even greater flexibility in delivering quality audio and video to their audiences.”
NETIA’s Radio-Assist family of digital audio software programs covers each part of the production and broadcast workflow, allowing users to record, edit, or prepare a playlist. In addition to the new browse and publishing tools for full multimedia functionality, the software features tools for acquisition, sound-file editing, commercial and music production, newsroom systems, scheduling, multicasting, and administration.
Radio-Assist 8.1 builds on these capabilities by allowing users to leverage built-in music-scheduling functionality. With music management tools integrated into Radio-Assist 8.1’s FederAll playlist preparation module, users can automate playlist generation according to preset criteria, business policies, and a wide range of intelligent options for sequencing music.
The video editing tool now available within the Radio-Assist 8.1 interface complements the software’s Snippet and Snippet+ audio editing tools. Offering a convenient editing solution, this enhancement addresses the growing demand for radio broadcasters to provide video via their online portals. This simple and easy-to-use editing tool is available through the same GUI as the Snippet tool, providing a familiar utility that allows staff to produce video clips with very little training.