Skyline Communications’ DataMiner xOps platform is now available on the Grass Valley AMPP app store. The launch introduces two off-the-shelf packages designed to simplify monitoring, control, and orchestration of software-defined production workflows, while embedding FinOps-driven cost optimisation from day one.
As media organisations transition towards software-defined production environments, managing distributed workloads efficiently, while maintaining operational visibility, cost control, and continuous optimisation, has become a critical challenge. With its integration into the AMPP ecosystem, DataMiner enables users to manage their AMPP environments through a unified, service-aware platform that combines operational control with real-time financial insight.
The first offering, the DataMiner Control Pack, provides a DataMiner-as-a-Service subscription that allows operators to interface directly with their AMPP environment. Through a DataMiner low-code application, users can monitor and manually control AMPP workloads, snapshots, and productions in real time, ensuring full operational visibility and control.
The second offering, the DataMiner Orchestration Pack, extends these capabilities by enabling full lifecycle management of events. This includes advanced planning and scheduling of events, along with the automated selection and deployment of required AMPP workloads.
With the Orchestration Pack, DataMiner automatically deploys, starts, and stops all required workloads, including AMPP nodes and underlying cloud compute instances when needed. The platform continuously monitors the status of all active workloads in real time, ensuring operational reliability and rapid issue detection.
In addition, DataMiner introduces integrated FinOps capabilities, providing event-based cost tracking and detailed insights into resource consumption per production. Based on planned schedules and workload patterns, the platform continuously optimises costs by automatically determining the most efficient commercial model – such as subscription versus pay-as-you-go –ensuring that operational decisions are directly aligned with financial efficiency.
“We are proud to see that our long-standing partnership with Skyline Communications continues to evolve, and that it is now possible to procure DataMiner directly through the AMPP app store,” said Matthew Yates, director strategic alliances at Grass Valley. “This reflects our commitment to collaborating as an industry and to simplifying how customers discover, procure, and deploy integrated solutions. Having platforms like DataMiner available through the AMPP ecosystem enables customers to access both Grass Valley systems and complementary technologies from a single, unified marketplace.”
“DataMiner now being available on the AMPP app store marks an important milestone in the partnership between Skyline Communications and Grass Valley,” said Ben Vandenberghe, CEO, Skyline Communications. “It is becoming increasingly clear that everything depends on the quality of your data and control foundation. We are moving from fragmented tools to platform-driven operations, and now into an agentic era where intelligence and automation amplify what sits on top. DataMiner’s FinOps capabilities, enabling continuous cost optimisation, are a clear example of how our users can already benefit from GenAI today. Across all of this, one thing remains constant: your foundation defines what is possible. And more than ever, time-to-value is critical – our DataMiner packages for AMPP are designed to deploy fast, without friction, and prepare organisations for the next generation of autonomous operations.”
