To support its ongoing transition to a SaaS-based business model, Dalet signs agreement to acquire Ooyala Flex Media Platform and staff.

Alison Diana, Editor, Broadband World News

July 15, 2019

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Dalet Buys Ooyala Media Platform & People

Dalet, which offers solutions and services to content professionals and broadcasters, is tightening its embrace of subscription-based services by signing a definitive agreement to acquire Ooyala's Flex Media Platform business and personnel.

Flex Media Platform, a SaaS solution generally sold via subscription, allows customers to manage the content supply chain from pre-production to distribution. Featuring workflow management, shared metadata infrastructure and APIs, it enables operators, broadcasters and media companies to import, manage, deliver and earn revenue from content. Ooyala developed Flex Media Platform for OTT and digital media distribution workflows, the vendor said.

By buying Flex Media Platform, Dalet believes it can expand into more vertical markets and tiers. Right now, Dalet primarily focuses on TV news and production workflows. The company said the addition of Ooyala's business and sales, marketing, engineering, professional services and support staff would enable it to work with new clients like cable operators, other communication service providers (CSPs), satellite radio players, OTT providers and the world's largest entertainment companies.

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"By acquiring Ooyala, Dalet significantly widens the markets it can address in terms of verticals and their respective tiers of complexity. A perfect complement to our existing Dalet Galaxy Five offering in our traditional markets, the Ooyala Flex Media Platform also opens opportunities for new customers such as corporate brands, telcos, leagues and sports teams, who are looking to simply manage their media assets," said Dalet CEO David Lasry in a statement.

Features like metadata management and orchestration will allow operators and other businesses to lower their total cost of ownership, become more agile and cut time-to-market, he added.

Ooyala's customer base includes Audi, Fox Sports Australia, HBO Asia, Media Prima, National Rugby League, Turner Asia, TV2, Zomin.TV, The Picture Production Company, Sky Sports and Smoke and Mirrors. Companies using Dalet's solutions and services include broadcasters and operators like the BBC, CBC, France TV and SBS Australia, as well as Orange, Charter Spectrum, Warner Bros. and Sirius XM Radio.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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— Alison Diana, Editor, Broadband World News. Follow us on Twitter or @alisoncdiana.

About the Author(s)

Alison Diana

Editor, Broadband World News

Alison Diana always dreamed of being a veterinarian – until she saw a documentary of a vet removing an alligator's eye. With a love of English but no desire to be a teacher, Alison had no idea what she would do with her love of writing until she earned a four-year, full-tuition journalism scholarship to the School of Visual Arts and discovered feature writing.

An internship at Rolling Stone encouraged Alison to mix her enjoyment of music and writing until she answered an ad for a position at a B2B channel publication. And so her 25-year career covering solution and service providers, enterprises and small businesses using technologies from HPC and UC&C to cloud and security began.

Alison spent 10 years at CRN, before launching a successful freelance career writing for publications including InformationWeek, Bloomberg, Redmond Channel Partner, numerous TechTarget sites, and Florida Today. She later rejoined UBM as part of the DeusM team before heading InformationWeek's health IT section. Alison – who lives on Florida's Space Coast with her husband, teen daughter, and two spoiled cats – became part of the Light Reading team in 2016. As editor of UBB2020, she looks forward to working with the ultra-broadband community to provide year-round coverage of a market that meets at the annual Broadband World Forum, and to further cement ties among the individuals and organizations that create this thriving industry. 

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