SIS LIVE to Centralize Resource Scheduling With Quintiq's Outside Broadcast Scheduling Solution

SIS LIVE to Centralize Resource Scheduling With Quintiq's Outside Broadcast Scheduling Solution

'S-HERTOGENBOSCH, The Netherlands, February 10/PRNewswire/ -- Quintiq, a leading provider of Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS)
solutions, today announced that broadcast services supplier SIS LIVE,
Europe's leading supplier of outside broadcast facilities and satellite
uplinks, has chosen the Quintiq solution for its Outside Broadcast (OB)
division. The Quintiq solution will be used to schedule all of SIS LIVE's OB
resources, to achieve process efficiencies and increase productivity by
optimising resource utilisation

SIS LIVE's planners have been scheduling equipment and crew using legacy
systems that did not have the capacity to effectively manage the large number
of resources required. Handling the complex logistics involved in
coordinating the movement of people, vehicles and equipment in line with
multiple production schedules was becoming more of a challenge. Constantly
expanding, SIS LIVE needed to replace the legacy systems with a scheduling
solution that could centralize the planning of all its resources while
providing real-time transparency into resource utilization to improve
efficiency.

"We chose Quintiq because their solution provides a unique combination of
logistical and operational planning that will allow us to maximize the
utilization of our resources within the production budgets and delivery
requirements of our customers," explained Matthew Fell, Project Manager
Change Management Department, at SIS. "The flexibility of the solution will
also provide us with more options in the future. SIS LIVE is a growing
business involved in many different areas of broadcasting and all these areas
involve scheduling. We needed a system that can evolve with us and Quintiq
offers this."

Logistics Expertise: Key to OB Resource Scheduling

The second deciding factor was Quintiq's logistics expertise. SIS LIVE's
OB production units work anywhere in the world, from a football stadium in
Ireland to the Olympic games in China. Getting resources to distant or remote
locations and understanding costs in terms of transportation is extremely
important. Quintiq possesses extensive experience in logistics planning,
something none of the competition could offer. The Quintiq solution will
provide SIS LIVE with the information it needs to ensure all resources reach
their destination in the most cost-effective way. In total, SIS LIVE has over
200 vehicles in its fleet and 500 employees. They also work with over 1500
freelancers as well as many thousands of pieces of equipment.

Resource Visibility: Key to staff planning

SIS LIVE also chose Quintiq for its personnel scheduling features.
Working with many different pools of freelancers located in different
geographical locations, planners will be able to choose from an optimised
list of resources simply by clicking on the map location of the events being
planned. Planners will be capable of generating production schedules within a
few minutes - maximizing quality of planning while always satisfying
technical, legal, operational, social and commercial constraints as well as
reducing costs.

Arjen Heeres, COO at Quintiq, commented: "We are very excited to be
helping SIS LIVE achieve centralized intelligent resource planning. What
makes this project so unique and pioneering is that for the first time we are
combining our expertise in resource scheduling with logistics planning. This
will enable SIS LIVE to intelligently plan all its resources, in any
location, with the best outcome in terms of time and production costs and
delivery."

About SIS

SIS is one of the world's leading companies in the television
broadcasting industry. It is the foremost supplier of television programming
and data services to the UK and Ireland betting industry. The company's
broadcast business, SIS LIVE, is the largest outside broadcast and satellite
uplink supplier in Europe. It offers a complete broadcasting solution from
onsite outside broadcast facilities through to global distribution and IP
provision. The company covers 100,000 hours of live events worldwide each
year, including Formula One, The Wimbledon Championships, UEFA Champions
League football and European Tour Golf, and delivers approximately 80% of
live news feeds across the UK. Please visit http://www.sislive.tv for more
information.

About Quintiq

Quintiq provides advanced planning, scheduling and supply chain
management solutions. The fast-growing software company, established in
1997, offers solutions for planning and optimizing complex business
processes throughout the enterprise. The company's headquarters is located
in the Netherlands and it has subsidiaries in Australia, China, Finland,
Germany, Malaysia, the United Kingdom and the USA, with implementations in
68 countries. For more information: http://www.quintiq.com.

Source: Quintiq Applications B.V.

For more information, please contact:Quintiq, Martijn van Gils, Global Marketing Director, +31(0)73-691-07-39, martijn.van.gils@quintiq.com

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