Official partners: ARD.ZDF medienakademie and S4M

Akademie becomes authorized training partner for S4M Systems in German-speaking regions

ARD.ZDF medienakademie receives the exclusive rights for training courses on three software systems designed by systems and consulting company S4M – Solutions for Media. The official cooperation was announced during the 2nd VPMS User Meeting in Cologne, 29th and 30th January.

With this step an already long standing cooperation is further broadened and at the same time turned into an official partnership: ARD.ZDF medienakademie receives exclusive status as an authorized S4M training partner for Germany, Austria and Switzerland. „We are happy to have in the akademie a highly professional partner in the field of training, whose expertise in the media is widely known in German-speaking regions“, says Andreas Jung, Head of Business Development at S4M.

As yet, the akademie has already carried out training on VPMS, S4M’s Video Production Management System. VPMS supports the professional management of digital video assets – from acquisition through versatile production schemes to playout, distribution or archive.
In addition to those VPMS trainings, the ARD.ZDF medienakademie will also offer trainings on the S4M production planning system S4Production and on EasyMedia PRO, a solution providing analysis of TV ratings information.

“Actually, it’s the customer who benefits most of this cooperation”, says Karlheinz Weber, one of two managing directors at ARD.ZDF medienakademie. “In bringing together and bundling the core competencies and experiences of the two partners, we are able to offer a comprehensive tailor-made training for our target groups – a training that not only covers the respective product but also illuminates the corresponding professional environment and workflows in the media production process.”

ARD.ZDF medienakademie
Wallensteinstraße 121
Nürnberg, 90431
Germany

Karlheinz Weber
Tel.: +49 911 9619-100
Jens Telschow
Tel.: +49 911 9619-265


S4M - Solutions for Media GmbH
Am Coloneum 3
50829 Köln
Germany
www.s4m.de

Marcus Metzner / Sabine Dzuck
E-Mail: presse@s4m.de
Tel.: +49-221-28555-0
Fax: +49-221-28555-210

ARD.ZDF medienakademie
The ARD.ZDF medienakademie is the leading training institute in the field of audio-visual media. Amongst its customers are all German public service radio broadcasters and also the large private radio and TV broadcasters. The akademie follows a process-oriented approach and offers hands-on trainings and services in human resource development. In 2007 the medienakademie has carried out more than 2.500 seminars and could welcome about 20.000 participants.

S4M - Solutions for Media
The Cologne based company S4M - Solutions for Media, a subsidiary of arvato systems and RTL Television, develops and distributes software solutions specialized on the broadcast- and newmedia industry. Today, S4M systems are used in 30 countries around the world. Whether commercial air time sales or video content management; whether program planning, rights licensing, ratings evaluation or production planning: S4M has got the solution. Furthermore, the S4M portfolio includes professional consulting services to pass along combined knowledge of media and IT to customers.

This release was published on openPR.