Alpha Cogs LTD

ROH departments formerly relied on a large number of non-integrated systems, posing a productivity and organizational challenge for their schedule. 

The same content could be stored in several components across the system, inaccessible to the user. 

In addition, each platform required trained specialists to perform a lot of basic management tasks. This resulted in an inflexible, sub-optimal, and expensive way of working.

We assisted in the design and implemented a cloud-based media asset management solution, remotely accessible from any device via a web interface.

Simplicity was our priority, therefore, we came up with an intuitive user interface (UI) that enables even non-technical staff to perform their creative work too. 

By adopting a serverless architecture, we eliminated the need for maintaining and managing complex and expensive servers, significantly reducing the cost of maintenance and increasing the scalability of the solution.

As a result of this, ROH has a cost-effective, efficient, and user-friendly media asset management solution that enables ROH to improve its management systems. 

We believe that our approach to cloud-based media asset management, along with our use of serverless architecture and advanced technologies, represents a significant step forward and now ROH can take advantage of:

The cloud technology for remote working, for added collaboration and adaptability. 

The ability to record rehearsals and make them instantly available for playback through a web portal on a mobile device.

Almost a real-time access to the content, enabling users to easily search, browse, and stream their desired video content without any lag or delay.

The entire architecture, in case of a disaster, could be recreated within minutes, thanks to the use of a Serverless Framework that makes it possible to deploy the entire infrastructure on AWS with a simple command, recreating a perfectly functional new system.

Scalable solution that could be easily tailored to the unique requirements of ROH.

Technologies

Serverless framework for AWS
AWS cloud (EC2, S3, API Gateway, lambda, DynamoDB, AWS Firewall
Manager as main services used)
React

Thanks to over a decade of experience in working for the media industry and OTT platforms, we had the honour to work for one of the biggest worldwide brands to develop one of the most advanced prototype systems to ensure media quality delivery to Disney studios. 

Thanos is a near real-time platform to analyze media content information directly on the client machine before the upload of the content itself. The media information is attached to the uploaded file and compared to Disney's internal media management system to ensure the expected video quality. AI is used to analyze video streaming to check in-depth video and content quality in order to have a first verification of the number of black frames and that the content is appropriate (no nudity scenes or alcohol advertisements, for example).

After a first automated check, the media assets status is changed from "in Review" to "Passed" or "Not Passed". Then a report on the analysis is created and a final human approval is requested by the Quality Assurance admin. 

The Architecture design is entirely serverless and fully deployed in Amazon Cloud ensuring the maximum availability, scalability, and cost-saving solution.
The solution features a powerful search engine based on natural text search to retrieve the assets.

Technologies:

Angular
Serverless Framework for AWS
Amazon Rekognition
Amazon Media Elemental
Elastic Search

Alpha Cogs thinks that is due to everybody trying to do their best to contribute to saving and taking care of our Planet and environment.

Our commitment to this is clear and well-documented. It is, for this reason, that we are proud to have worked to build Get Water Fit app that will help people in saving one of the most precious resources we have, the Water.

Never like these days, it is important to be considerate when using resources being electricity, petrol or water.

For these reasons, Alpha Cogs team supported the client not only in developing their application but also by providing consultancy about the best practices and features to include in their application and supporting Get Water Fit during the launch of the new app in the Google and Apple stores.

The feature we proud of the most and that we believe will make the application more enjoyable to its users, is the contextual in-app guide that guides the user at its first app use with a step-by-step easy-to-follow interactive guide.

We Celebrate our client and we went the extra mile building this app as it is so very close to our beliefs.

Technologies:

React Native

Alpha Cogs was selected by Masstech to help them to build their Media Management Asset Platform, thanks to our decennial experience in the media industry and our unique expertise in AWS cloud.

Three of our engineers build the entire platform entirely based and deployed on AWS and thanks also to our efforts Masstech was then acquired by Telestream to offer the Kumulate platform to their clients.

Some of Kumulate's key features are:

• Works on any Cloud or Object Storage
• High Availability for MAMs and PAMs
• AI-generated Rich Metadata
• Migrate & Modernize - Take advantage of pain-free migrations between storage tiers
• Solutions for All Environments - Seamless integration of storage management and file processing into all major editing systems and tools
• Prevent Expensive Outages- Cost-effective peace of mind – Kumulate provides automated content, and processes systems replication in your choice of storage tiers for disaster recovery and business continuity.

Technologies

AWS cloud
Java 8 
Spring
PostgreSQL 
Angular

Thanks to our decennial experience in the media industry and our unique expertise in AWS cloud, Masstech selected us to help them build their Media Management Asset Platform. 

Three of our engineers built the whole platform entirely based and deployed on AWS.

As a result of our successful project implementation, Masstech was later acquired by Telestream to offer the Kumulate platform to their own clients.

Kumulate Gallery offers access to all media content and makes it easily available and manageable with the following features:

Make More Content Available: Share content directly from Kumulate: each customer sees all the assets you want them to.

Leisurely Browsing: Customers can log in any time, search, browse and preview content before they hit the ‘buy’ button.

Rights Controlled: Select and define which assets you share with which customers, so rights management and control are maintained.

Everyday Simplicity: Customers check out using the familiar e-commerce tools and payment systems (Stripe / Paypal) that they use every day.

Secure Transactions: Secure email link delivers content immediately after purchase, with optional approval, reducing manual resources.

Sell Your Brand with Confidence: Instil customer confidence. Make your storefront yours with customized colors, logos, and brand elements.

Technologies:

AWS cloud
Java 8 
Spring
PostgreSQL
Angular

We helped Wandoora to develop a cashless payment system for travelers.

Our skillful technical team implemented a full cashless system (backend and App) allowing tourists to enjoy events, services and their holidays without worrying about carrying cash. 

WandoOs are travel coins for cashless use. Customers will be issued with a wristband or by using the wcashless Digital wallet while in attendance to one of many events they support. 

Wcacheless allows to top up wandoOs in the app and users can pay simply tapping wristband on the devices to pay. 

This goes a long way to promote tourism in Tulum and Mexico as there is an increasing number of bars, restaurants, small businesses and events that are using Wandoora’s wcashless in their establishments.

Technologies:

AWS Cloud
React Native

Overcast was about to launch a marketing campaign to support their MAM product and was in need of a modern and attractive design for their website.

Alpha Cogs was selected thanks to our high engineering expertise in the media industry, our highly creative Design team, and our no TEMPLATE policy.

Our approach can be summarised as follow:

1. Initial meeting with Overcast to understand their needs, goals and direct competitors.
2. Extensive market research based on the information gained.
3. Creation and presentation of our Design vision draft with detailed technical explanation (entirely free of charge).
4. After approval of our artistic direction, we have proceeded with a full redesign of all pages and sections including the production of marketing images for the entire site.
5. Overcast was constantly kept up to date thanks to weekly meetings between our and theirs teams.
6. After this phase our designer closely followed Overcast's development team to give instructions on the design implementation.

Our team produced high definition deigns for every single device format supported: Desktop, Tablet and Mobile, producing over 80 pages plus special components such as Menu, Carousels and sliders.

On top of all this, even if the implementation has been completely done by the client's development team, we proposed a full animation choreography for every element, detailing what effect to use on different sections, technical solutions to implement and optimize the performances  according the different devices, and possible technologies to be used in order to achieve the best possible result in engineering terms.

The project seeks to achieve the highest levels of community collaboration and to seed the best ideas with development funding via a community-moderated process.

Every few months, a new fund begins with a set amount of ada budgeted. Millions of ada is available as grants to allocate to projects and as ecosystem rewards. 

At the start of each funding round, the Cardano community proposes ideas that solve challenges within the blockchain ecosystem and the wider world. 

The community then evaluates and votes on which technical, business, creative, and community projects will receive funding.

Our team of 4 engineers developed the registration and delegation system using the Cardano blockchain and supporting wallet integration.

Technologies

Cardano blockchain
Wallet integration
Strapi v4
React
Storybook