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SOUTHWORKS at HPA Tech Retreat

SOUTHWORKS AI Demos at HPA Tech Retreat '24
Microsoft and SOUTHWORKS join forces to showcase the limitless potential of generative AI for media and entertainment technology customers at HPA Tech Retreat 2024.

The three demo scenarios in the showcase cover a wide range of AI capabilities, from speech-to-text and conversational AI to copilot technology. Microsoft and SOUTHWORKS have worked together to address challenges and enhance solutions with next-gen AI capabilities in the media and entertainment sector. 
Demo scenario 01

Video CMS, Creative Intelligence with Microsoft Azure AI

SOUTHWORKS' state-of-the-art VCMS, seamlessly integrated with Azure AI. Just upload your MP4 video and watch as Microsoft's AI technologies, including Video Indexer, Azure OpenAI, and Computer Vision, automatically generate comprehensive metadata, ensuring precise and dense captioning, and Azure Content Safety to provide a description of the content rating.A chatbot copilot also enables real-time interaction and semantic searches across specific video insights, or the entire library. This intuitive experience invites users to delve deeper into content, tailor it, and harness the power of the latest Generative AI capabilities for unmatched enrichment.

Demo scenario 01 shown at IBC 2023 in partnership with Microsoft
Demo scenario 02

Video Highlights Extraction with Microsoft Azure AI

In this demo, AI automatically extracts relevant events and highlights from a video source. These events and highlights are displayed in a user-friendly timeline as soon as they are detected. Viewers can engage in a conversational AI experience, enhancing their interaction with video content, and highlight clips are seamlessly shown in a picture-in-picture mode.

Demo scenario 02 shown at IBC 2023 in partnership with Microsoft
Demo scenario 02 shown at IBC 2023 in partnership with Microsoft
Demo scenario 02

Video Highlights Extraction with Microsoft Azure AI

In this demo, AI automatically extracts relevant events and highlights from a video source. These events and highlights are displayed in a user-friendly timeline as soon as they are detected. Viewers can engage in a conversational AI experience, enhancing their interaction with video content, and highlight clips are seamlessly shown in a picture-in-picture mode.

Demo scenario 03

Self-help Productivity with Microsoft Azure AI

Demonstrating the power of semantic search over documents, this demo drives enhanced self-help assistance on documentation from different formats and sources through a conversational copilot experience.  

Demo scenario 03 shown at IBC 2023 in partnership with Microsoft
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Development on Demand

We believe there’s a better way to do outsourced software development. We call it Development on Demand. It’s based on three core promises: transparent pricing, short-term flexible contracts, and time zone affinity.

Transparent pricing

$18KUSD Per Fireteam / week

One, transparent, predictable price.

  • No hidden costs
  • No oversized, over-scoped projects
  • One affordable, predictable pricing model

Flexible contracting

Short-term, scalable

World-class engineering talent delivered in short-burst one week sprints.

  • No long-term contracts
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Time zone affinity

Nearshore world-class engineering talent

SOUTHWORKS nearshore developers in US, LATAM and EU keep you always in the know.

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SOUTHWORKS is the software development partner that people turn to for their most complex, high-profile projects.
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SOUTHWORKS Expertise

Software development and systems integration across 4 key practice areas

Cloud video engineering

Level up end-user experience:​ Speed time to market, deliver scale, enhance viewership experience and build innovative services.​

Capabilities: ​Video on demand (VOD), ​Live Streaming​, Live to VOD/ VOD to Live, ​Media Pipelines​, Cloud encoding/ transcoding/packaging​, Content Protection (DRM),​Ad Insertion (SSAI/DAI),​Video CMS, ​Video Player Integrations, ​Player Analytics, ​Audio/Video Analysis​

Cloud & App innovation

Future-proof software ​from legacy to cutting-edge: ​We optimize your applications for enhanced performance, scalability, and security. We seamlessly integrate development and IT operations, streamlining software delivery process for faster, error-free deployments and quick responses to market changes. ​​

Capabilities:​ App Modernization, ​DevOps/GitOps, ​Infrastructure as Code (IaC), ​Cloud Adoption and Migration, ​Microservices and APIs, ​Data Modernization ​

Data & ML

Harness the power of data:  ​We believe in transforming business capabilities through data-driven insights and decision-making. ​​

Capabilities:​ Data Acquisition & Governance, ​Data Warehousing, ​ETL Processes and DAGs ​Machine Learning, ​Workloads Migration, ​Unified DevOps and MLOps approach ​

Artificial Intelligence

Unleash the power of AI: We deliver unique and tailored AI experiences through close collaboration with Microsoft. ​

Capabilities:​ Bots, ​Decision, ​Search​, Speech, ​Language​, Translator, ​Vision​, Video Indexer​, Document Intelligence, ​Language Understanding​, Semantic Search, ​GPT Plug-ins and API Functions, ​Conversation Grounding, ​Prompt Engineering, ​Copilots​

Cloud video engineering

From cloud-native streaming platforms, OTT applications and product extensions, SOUTHWORKS has a wealth of expertise delivering world-class video engineering services. SOUTHWORKS helps clients speed time to market, deliver scale, build cloud-first video platforms and applications that are fast, secure, enhance viewership experience, and build innovative services that delight customers.

Cloud & App innovation

From lift and shift to refactoring, microservices, and containerization, SOUTHWORKS designs, builds and migrates modernized platforms and applications that accelerate clients engineering organizations. Through cloud-native development and innovation SOUTHWORKS helps clients build competitive, future ready businesses.

Data & AI

SOUTHWORKS constructs and streams data pipelines, builds intelligent workflows, delivers enhanced analytics in addition to using AI and cognitive distributed technologies, to help clients harness the power of their data to enable better decision-making, increase profitability and revolutionize core product.

Emerging technologies

SOUTHWORKS enables rapid experimentation to test new capabilities that help clients to excite, inspire and stay on the bleeding edge. SOUTHWORKS maximizes the impact of technology in clients’ businesses from ideation to launch.

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