ABOUT NIS4

Evoxe has been successfully delivering NIS newsroom computer systems to professional broadcasters for over a decade. NIS4 is their fourth generation solution that builds on all the experience and input from their growing customer base, providing new levels of reliability and ease-of-use for the pressures of the newsroom environment.

BUSINESS OBJECTIVES
NIS4 aims to be the highest value newsroom computer system on the market, supporting newsrooms in their objective to bring high quality news to air in the shortest time within a realistic budget. NIS4 operates a one-off license cost model, rather a an annual fee charging model, which can result in a system price up to 75% lower than some of the major competitors over a 3-year period. On-going operational costs are also minimised through the implementation of a highly reliable technical architecture and user-friendly workflows that maximises efficiency and productivity. And as NIS4 uses open protocols and is highly scalable, it represents a future-proof investment for any newsroom.

OPERATIONAL OBJECTIVES
NIS4 has been designed to help a newsroom achieve operation process excellence, with a philosophy of making the technology work for the operator, not making the operator work the technology. This is achieved by focussing on the operational needs of each of the roles in the modern newsroom and how they need to work collaboratively with other newsroom roles. By ensuring that NIS4 is easy to navigate, simple to operate, highly reliable and doesn’t clutter the screen with unwanted functionality, the individual’s productivity increases. By also ensuring that the workflow between roles is fully supported within NIS4, the overall operational performance of the newsroom is optimised.

TECHNICAL OBJECTIVES
The NIS4 system design provides a balance between proven and well established operational technologies, and the pragmatic adoption of the latest technological advances in the IT and broadcast industries. An approach of integrating NIS4 with industry leading third party devices and systems has been taken—sometimes referred to as the “best of breed” approach—to provide the newsroom with the optimum technological solution. The NIS4 architecture also maximises system reliability through the use of redundant or self-healing central servers and maximises efficiency by implementing a highly efficient news text database with advanced and fast search tools.

Please read more in this section of our web site to better understand the NIS4 product family, and then contact us to learn how we could design and deliver a solution that will meet or exceed your newsroom objectives.