News

New Version 5 at IBC

Amsterdam, Netherlands, 09/2011

At IBC (September 9-13th) CEITON will officially introduce the final Version 5 of the Workflow and Scheduling system 'Web Workflow PPS'. Numerous new features make the system simpler, faster, more scalable and more powerful overall. Several existing clients have already placed pre-orders so that they can be the first to profit from the expanded capabilities and therefore secure for themselves additional competitive advantages. Read the newsletter here.

More Workflows in New York City

New York, USA, 07/2011

Three customers in Manhattan have decided to implement additional workflows on their existing CEITON platforms: a former division of Sony Music (now Sony DADC), additional departments of A&E International, and the post production house Nice Shoes. Existing CEITON systems can always be utilized in this way for new ancillary tasks and incrementally to optimize ever more processes in the enterprise and in the external supply chain.

Clients Expand System Usage

Leipzig, Germany, 04/2011

A number of clients, including RedBull and A&E, have ordered additional licenses to expand their existing installations. The list also includes MDR (ARD - First German Television), which has been using the CEITON workflow system for several years as the most highly integrated solution for production scheduling in the Broadcasting industry.

Tradeshow: NAB 2011

Las Vegas, USA, 04/2011

From April 11th to 14th CEITON will be giving previews of the new Version 5 of the Workflow System for the first time at NAB. Visit us in South Lower hall at stand 8924 and see how you can efficiently control workflows and schedule your personnel as well. Read the newsletter here.

Nice Shoes decided on CEITON

New York, USA, 01/2011

The post-production house Nice Shoes in Manhattan has decided on the CEITON Workflow System as a project management and scheduling system, replacing their old system.

Messages 2010

Tradeshow: IBC 2010

Amsterdam, Netherlands, 09/2010

CEITON will be presenting the latest developments of Version 4.6 of its system for Workflow Optimization and Resource Scheduling at the International Broadcasting Convention from 10-14 September. As in previous years, you can see the Workflow solutions live in Hall 3 Stand A60. Read the newsletter here.

BASISberlin buys a CEITON solution

Berlin, Germany, 08/2010

The BASISberlin Postproductions, a youthful modern studio in Berlin, has decided on the CEITON solution. Employee and equipment scheduling, along with offers, can now be created efficiently from just about anywhere using entirely web-based technologies. In addition, invoices are based precisely on the values which the individual operators enter upon completion of their tasks.

CEITON wins Red Bull

Salzburg, Austria, 04/2010

In December, Red Bull decided on CEITON as the scheduling solution for its Media House and television channel ServusTV. Red Bull’s global, rather than just local processes will in future be guided by CEITON Workflows.

Tradeshow: NAB 2010

Las Vegas, USA, 04/2010

See CEITONs solutions live at NAB! Stand 7625 South Lower Hall. Read the newsletter here.

Workflow Lecture

Bregenz, Austria, 03/2010

CEITON will introduce the latest developments in the topic "Workflows in HD Production" at Symposium 2010 in Bregenz. CEITON’s Workflow System can be seen in action at a small stand over the course of the 2 day event (March 16/17).

Hollywood Post Alliance

Rancho Las Palmas, USA, 02/2010

The HPA Tech Retreat Committee has selected CEITON for participation in a SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) panel moderated by John Footen (NTC — National TeleConsultants). The panel will be on Thursday, February 18. CEITON will also moderate breakfast roundtables on Wednesday and Thursday covering the topic 'Human Workflows + Service Orchestration: Get the Whole Picture'.

Brickbox

Prag, Czech Republic, 01/2010

Brickbox Digital Media, one of the largest authoring studios for DVDs and Blu-rays in Eastern Europe has decided on the CEITON Workflow system in order to support the future growth of the company. The roll-out will be implemented by CI-Systems in Brno.

CEITON Celebrates 10th Birthday

Leipzig, Germany, 01/2010

CEITON celebrates its birthday and thanks all customers, employees and partners for the success story of the past decade. We are looking forward to the coming years and the exciting possibilities which lie ahead.

Messages 2009

A&E Vendor Workflows

New York, USA, 12/2009

Two Workflows for Vendor Management at A&E International were implemented in December within a short lead time. Assignment, tracking and billing of media production orders will be significantly easier as a result.

SMPTE lecture

Hollywood, USA, 10/2009

At the Annual Tech Conference & Expo of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) CEITON will hold a lecture under the title "Automation of Coordination — Business Process Management for Media Companies" on 27th of October.

ARD.ZDF media academy

Nürnberg, Germany, 10/2009

On October 15th, CEITON held a 3 hour seminar on the subject of "Workflow Management in File-based Television Production" for representatives of ARD and ZDF.

Tradeshow: IBC 2009

Amsterdam, Netherlands, 09/2009

CEITON is looking forward to the International Broadcasting Convention from September 11-15th. Like last year the Workflow solutions can be seen live in hall 3 stand A60. Read the newsletter here.

WDR Second Order

Cologne, Germany, 08/2009

After the conclusion of the successful implementation of CEITON's Web Workflow PPS for its 11 regional studios, WDR (West German Broadcasting) has now ordered an enterprise license for its television headquarters. With this, all employees will be able to validate their actual working times before the data is passed to SAP for clearing.

Second Order from Warner Bros.

Los Angeles, USA, 06/2009

CEITON was selected by Global Digital Media Xchange (GDMX), a Warner Bros. subsidiary in L.A., to manage and optimize their media production processes in various phases.

New Orders from Sony DADC

Salzburg/Los Angeles, Austria/USA, 05/2009

SDADC, one of our company’s long-standing customers, is integrating their worldwide Blu-ray production on four different continents and for this reason is upgrading to the new Release V4. Also completely new Sony sectors, such as Content Service in the U.S., are introducing the PPS Workflow System in order to be able to carry out production in high quality and under great time pressure, despite massive growth.

Order from Yoostar

New York, USA, 04/2009

CEITON was selected to implement the production control system for an exciting new entertainment project. Yoostar has developed an innovative set of methods, which are now to be utilized on a large scale and will be coordinated transparently and efficiently between L.A. and NYC by the Web Workflow PPS System. CEITON has already organized the Workflows for AIX, a Yoostar post-production service provider, which will be extended and remodeled for Yoostar.

CTWS V4 @NAB 2009

Las Vegas, USA, 04/2009

CEITON is exhibiting its workflow management system at the world's largest media industry show for the second year running. There the brand new version 4 with many new features will be released. The booth number is 13304 in the South Upper Hall. Read the newsletter here.

CABSAT 2009

Dubai, VAE, 03/2009

For the first time, CEITON displays its solutions for the M&E Industry in the Arabic world. Together with our partner Tevido, we will be demonstrating at CABSAT in Dubai how media enterprises not only easily schedule resources, but also manage these efficiently in comprehensively coherent Workflows. You will find us at the Tevido-Stand ZM-33 in the Zabeel Hall in the Dubai WTC. Read the newsletter here.

Warner Bros.

Los Angeles, USA, 02/2009

Warner TechOps counts as another customer win for the CEITON branch in L.A. The Workflow System integrates their employees, departments and systems into a continuous process to eliminate complex coordination tasks.

SAB

Dresden, Germany, 01/2009

The Development Bank of Saxony decided to use the Workflow engine's Form server to provide complex banking and funding applications. Using the CEITON platform as a base, applications and forms can be implemented and changed faster and are available worldwide via the Internet.

Messages 2008

Live Studio Production 3.0

Ilmenau, Germany, 10/2008

On October 7, in a workshop hosted by the Technical University Ilmenau under the title "Workflow-based Metadata Processing", CEITON will demonstrate how so-called "Service Orchestration Workflows" can easily be constructed with the Web Workflow PPS in order to uniformly integrate not just personnel, but also software systems and machines, into business processes.

TaurusMedia

Munich, Germany, 09/2008

The TaurusMedia Licence Service enterprise decided on the CEITON system after just a few months of its connected group company BMS working with it. Both companies work closely together in a supply chain and Web Workflow PPS actively supports this process of collaboration.

Tradeshow: IBC 2008

Amsterdam, Netherlands, 09/2008

CEITON will exhibit for the third time at IBC (hall 3 stand A60).

Graal

Athens, Greece, 05/2008

The postproduction house Graal installs Web Workflow PPS, initially for administrative processes and later intends to roll it out for production also.

Tradeshow: NAB 2008

Las Vegas, USA, 04/2008

At the convention of the National Association of Broadcasters CEITON displays how entire processes in the media enterprise can be transformed and integrated. The booth is number 11511 in the South Upper Hall.

AIX Media Group

Los Angeles/New York, USA, 03/2008

CEITON supports the distributed production process of a new consumer entertainment venture with its Workflow-solution.

WDR

Cologne/Düsseldorf, Germany, 01/2008

The west-German broadcaster decides, after an extensive tendering and testing process, for the Workflow-System from CEITON for the transformation of the scheduling process in television and radio.

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Tradeshow: IBC 2007

Amsterdam, Netherlands, 09/2007

At the International Broadcast Convention, CEITON introduces the Workflow-Management-System at Stand 7.940B, with new applications for the broadcast environment.

RBB

Berlin/Potsdam, Germany, 07/2007

The broadcaster Berlin-Brandenburg chooses CEITON Web Workflow PPS System for scheduling.

U.S. Subsidiary

Los Angeles, USA, 06/2007

At the International Broadcast Convention, CEITON introduces the Workflow-Management-System at Stand 7.940B, with new applications for the broadcast environment.

Splendid Synchron

Cologne, Germany, 06/2007

The synchronization studio of Splendid Medien AG implements the Workflow PPS system to support their production process.

BMS

Munich, Germany, 02/2007

The broadcast media service BMS decides to install CEITON Workflow-Management-Systems.

CSTB Conference 2007

Moscow, Russia, 10/2006

Under the title "Media on the Move", CEITON will hold a lecture on February 6th 2007 at the Exhibition Centre "Crocus Expo", Pavilion No. 1, Conference Hall 2.

Messages 2006

Tradeshow: IBC 2006

Amsterdam, Netherlands, 08/2006

At the International Broadcasting Convention (IBC), Europe's leading trade fair for the media industry, from September 8th to 12th, the CEITON workflow management system "Web Workflow PPS" will be showcased to the international public on a larger scale for the first time. As a partner of BFE (a subsidiary of SIEMENS), CEITON can be found at the BFE booth 10.431.

MDR JUMP and SPUTNIK

Halle/Saale, Germany, 07/2006

The public broadcasting station Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (MDR) is using the CEITON Web Workflow PPS system for its personnel planning for the two radio stations JUMP and SPUTNIK since July 1st.

Enteractive Entertainment

Hamburg, Germany, 06/2006

The authoring studio Enteractive, which belongs to Splendid Media AG, decides to use the CEITON Workflow System. The corporation is part of the global Warner Brothers network and produces DVDs for this and other studios.

HFF InsightOut 2006

Potsdam Babelsberg, Germany, 03/2006

On March 28th, 2006 CEITON gives two lectures under the heading of "Workflow Management for Postproduction, Premastering and Broadcasting" at the international conference "InsightOut" at the Film & Television Academy "HFF Konrad Wolf".

Messages 2005

Sony UMD and Blu-ray

Salzburg, Austria, 12/2005

The Sony DVD Center Europe in Salzburg, London and Paris extends its production workflows on the basis of the CEITON Web Workflow PPS for premastering of Playstation Portable Universal Media Discs (UMD) this year. Preparations are now underway for the production of SONY's new Blu-ray-Disc – a successor of the DVD format.

Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk

Leipzig, Germany, 10/2005

The public TV broadcasting station MDR (Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk), which belongs to ARD, the consortium of German public service broadcasting corporations, decides to use the CEITON Web Workflow PPS as its new production planning and controlling system. This solution will coordinate complex television planning and accounting processes and will provide its production data to a set of SAP R/3 modules through the new CEITON interface module.

IQ Innovation Award Leipzig

Leipzig, Germany, 05/2005

For the product "Web Workflow PPS", CEITON wins the award in the category "Outstanding Innovation in the Information Technology Sector", donated by SIEMENS.

3. Thuringia Media Seminar of the FKTG

Erfurt, Germany, 05/2005

During the broadcasting conference with the title "All Content on Each Display — Technical Aspects of the Multiple Utilization of Digital Contents", CEITON will hold a lecture on June 9, 2005 about "Uniform Production Planning and Control through Dynamic Workflow Management".

Web Workflow PPS 3.0

Leipzig, Germany, 04/2005

Through the complete integration of WinLIKE into the new version of CEITON Web Workflow PPS, the whole application can now be used platform-independently. The first customer of this functionality is msm-studios in Munich, who use the Workflow System on Apple's Unix-based OSX with a Firefox (Mozilla) browser.

Messages 2004

New Scheduling function "Tariffs"

Leipzig, Germany, 11/2004

In order to support the human resources planning and payroll accounting of organizations bound to collective agreements more comprehensively, the scheduling module of the Workflow system now offers the possibility to store the tariffs. As the first customer, Bavaria Studios in Munich use this new option.

FXFACTORY

Berlin, Germany, 10/2004

The innovative post production company FXFACTORY chooses the scheduling and order administration solution by CEITON, replacing its Filemaker and Faktura applications. The operational sequences of their productions for the broadcast and advertising industry are thereby to become more transparent, simpler and faster.

AIESEC CaseOn 2004

Leipzig, Germany, 09/2004

For the second time the CaseOn meeting took place, this time with students from Germany and France. The central components of the Internet shop of Amazon.com were analyzed and a new WinLIKE case study was compiled.

World Market Leader Universal

Hanover, Germany, 04/2004

The Emil Berliner Studios Deutsche Grammophon GmbH (Universal Music) uses the Workflow System of CEITON for business process optimization. Emil Berliner had invented the gramophone and the record in 1898 and subsequently developed a whole industry.

Sony optimizes DVD production

Salzburg, Austria, 02/2004

Sony DVD Center Europe (SONY Pictures) uses the CEITON workflow management system for complete production control. After the introduction of the system in the past year, extensive workflows now optimize quality, turn-around time and resource usage.

Messages 2003

Publication of WinLIKE

Leipzig, Germany, 09/2003

The third version of WinLIKE, completely redesigned, is now presented. After nearly three years of development, enormous hurdles have been overcome and new first-time users have been won.

Messages 2002

Lecture on the d-motion 2002

Halle/Saale, Germany, 12/2002

In co-operation with our customer digital images, the run of a workflow-supported production process was presented on the event.

AIESEC CaseOn 2002

Leipzig, Germany, 10/2002

With students from Egypt, Greece and Germany, a workshop about the potential use of WinLIKE was conducted over several days. The main objectives were to test WinLIKE with non-professional IT users and to develop case studies from the user perspective.

Exhibition MediaVision 2002

Cologne, Germany, 06/2002

First presentation of the Web Workflow PPS. As an exhibitor covering the topics workflow, scheduling and archiving, CEITON made valuable contacts with potential customers (most of which are current, active customers) and partners.

Messages 2001

digital images

Halle/Saale, Germany, 12/2001

As a first customer, digital images, a subsidiary of Kinowelt Home Entertainment uses the new software system of CEITON, "Web Workflow PPS", to completely control its production processes. The system supports premastering for DVD productions.

Publishing House Madsack

Hanover, Germany, 12/2001

Development of an online editorial front-end, with which content contributors can write their stories directly into the content management system of the publishing house over the Internet.

Hanseorga

Hamburg, Germany, 07/2001

Development of a treasury collection workflow, with which global enterprises can record and directly import accounting vouchers into a central SAP system.

Messages 2000

BIR

Manila, Philippines, 09/2000

For the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR), the highest fiscal authority of the Philippines, manpower requirements methods were implemented in co-operation with the Society for Technical Co-operation of Germany (GTZ) of the German government.

Formation

Leipzig, Germany, 01/2000