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MediaWen International Launches cognitive linguistic solutions with IBM Cloud and IBM Watson technologies

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Technology Category	Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing
Applicable Industries	Education Healthcare & Hospitals
Applicable Functions	Business Operation Sales & Marketing
Use Cases	Machine Translation Speech Recognition
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services Data Science Services
Challenge	MediaWen International, a B2B and SaaS provider, wanted to launch online linguistic solutions for customers worldwide. The company needed to partner with a global provider that could offer high-performance cloud infrastructure and cognitive computing technologies. The solutions were aimed at providing cognitive subtitling, translation, and dubbing functionality for customers in various sectors including media and entertainment, e-learning, finance, government, and healthcare. Read More
About Customer	MediaWen International is a business-to-business (B2B) company and a software as a service (SaaS) provider. The company offers cognitive online solutions for video content, including Federal Communications Commission (FCC)-closed captioning, multilingual subtitling, and automatic dubbing. The company's services are aimed at customers in various sectors including media and entertainment, e-learning, finance, government, and healthcare. Read More
Solution	After evaluating solutions from Amazon, Microsoft, and IBM, MediaWen chose IBM's offerings. The company utilized SoftLayer bare metal server hosting infrastructure, the IBM Bluemix development platform, and IBM Watson language application programming interfaces (APIs) to deliver best-in-class linguistic capabilities. The IBM solutions provided the necessary high-performance cloud infrastructure and cognitive computing technologies that MediaWen needed to launch its online linguistic solutions. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - API Integration & Management

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Cloud Computing

Applicable Industries

Education

Healthcare & Hospitals

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Sales & Marketing

Use Cases

Machine Translation

Speech Recognition

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

Data Science Services

Challenge

MediaWen International, a B2B and SaaS provider, wanted to launch online linguistic solutions for customers worldwide. The company needed to partner with a global provider that could offer high-performance cloud infrastructure and cognitive computing technologies. The solutions were aimed at providing cognitive subtitling, translation, and dubbing functionality for customers in various sectors including media and entertainment, e-learning, finance, government, and healthcare.

About Customer

MediaWen International is a business-to-business (B2B) company and a software as a service (SaaS) provider. The company offers cognitive online solutions for video content, including Federal Communications Commission (FCC)-closed captioning, multilingual subtitling, and automatic dubbing. The company's services are aimed at customers in various sectors including media and entertainment, e-learning, finance, government, and healthcare.

Solution

After evaluating solutions from Amazon, Microsoft, and IBM, MediaWen chose IBM's offerings. The company utilized SoftLayer bare metal server hosting infrastructure, the IBM Bluemix development platform, and IBM Watson language application programming interfaces (APIs) to deliver best-in-class linguistic capabilities. The IBM solutions provided the necessary high-performance cloud infrastructure and cognitive computing technologies that MediaWen needed to launch its online linguistic solutions.

Impact #1	MediaWen was able to create a scalable, security-rich offering.
Impact #2	The company can now provide customers with cognitive subtitling, translation, and dubbing functionality.
Impact #3	MediaWen's services support accessibility for illiterate, hearing impaired, and visually impaired customers in countries around the globe.

Impact #1

MediaWen was able to create a scalable, security-rich offering.

Impact #2

The company can now provide customers with cognitive subtitling, translation, and dubbing functionality.

Impact #3

MediaWen's services support accessibility for illiterate, hearing impaired, and visually impaired customers in countries around the globe.

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MediaWen International Launches cognitive linguistic solutions with IBM Cloud and IBM Watson technologies

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