LONDON and REDMOND, Washington, January 15, 2019 /PRNewswire/ --
Forbidden Technologies plc (AIM: FBT), the developer and seller
of Blackbird, the video workstation experience in the cloud, has
reached Microsoft Co-Sell Ready status.
Being a Co-Sell Microsoft partner facilitates a closer working
relationship between Blackbird and Microsoft. The company's sales
teams are working together, directly engaging new and existing
customers and extolling Blackbird's unique benefits: using the
power of the cloud to enable easy and rapid clipping and publishing
of live and non-live video content.
Deltatre, a leading supplier of digital and broadcast services
in the sports sector, is an extensive user of Blackbird through
Microsoft Azure. Deltatre uses Blackbird to accelerate delivery of
live and on-demand video highlights to premium OTT subscribers.
Deltatre already uses this Blackbird and Azure combination in
American football, athletics, golf, rugby and cycling.
Barbri, the world's largest law examinations preparation
company, uses Blackbird to seamlessly edit and add graphics to its
video repository in Azure. The videos are delivered back to
Barbri's Learning Management System for access by students.
Ian McDonough, Forbidden's CEO
said: "Increasing speed from live action to screen is becoming ever
more vital to consumers and therefore to our media customers.
Faster highlight turnaround results in higher ROI for content and
an enhanced experience for viewers. Blackbird has proven,
lightning-quick cloud-native solutions in place for clipping,
editing and publishing of live sport and news highlights to premium
digital services and social media platforms.
We are delighted to be one of a group of vendors working with
the Microsoft sales teams to drive cloud adoption through a truly
differentiated solution that uses Azure. We are excited by the
opportunities ahead as the media industry moves video workflows to
the cloud."
About Forbidden Technologies plc
Forbidden Technologies plc (AIM: FBT, www.forbidden.co.uk)
floated in February 2000.
Forbidden develops, markets and licenses a powerful cloud video
platform using its patented Blackbird technology. The technology
underpins multiple applications, which are used by rights holders,
broadcasters, sports and news video specialists, eSports live
events and content owners, post-production houses, other mass
market digital video channels and corporations.
The Blackbird technology allows full visibility on
multi-location digital content, improves time to market for live
content such as video clips and highlights for social media
distribution, and results in much more effective monetization.
Blackbird® is a registered trademark of Forbidden
Technologies plc.