Business Situation
MediaCorp had relied on its legacy broadcast management system to manage its television businesses for over a decade. The patchwork legacy system was increasingly difficult to maintain and supported a slew of inefficient business processes that had evolved organically over the years to accommodate system limitations.

MediaCorp wanted to replace its legacy system with one that is more current and flexible. The new system would address the issues of:

• Inefficient processes around limits of legacy system
• Lack of critical functionality resulting in too many manual workarounds
• Patchwork maintenance on the legacy system which has reached its limits

 

Solution
Avanade collaborated with Accenture and Microsoft to design and implement the solution using the Avanade Connected Architectures for .NET (ACA.NET), a framework for successful and quick implementation on the Microsoft platform. The service-oriented architecture also employs the Microsoft Smart Client framework for rich, user-friendly experiences, providing a complete solution for MediaCorp, including new key capabilities in Programming, Airtime(Ad) Sales and Finance.

 

Results
The new solution transformed most of MediaCorp’s business processes into one unified platform, helping the broadcaster to efficiently share information, work together more effectively by minimizing manual business processes and react more quickly to the changing needs of the business.