Harris Broadcast Enhances NetGain Toolset

Harris Broadcast will introduce new analytic tools and other enhancements to its NetGain business intelligence and analytics software at the 2013 NAB Show (April 8-11, Las Vegas Convention Center, Booth N2503). The company will demonstrate new visual analytics, mobile dashboards, interfaces to social media data and access to embedded and third-party data mining capabilities as part of its new NetGain v2.4.2 release.

Through the new visual analytics capability, NetGain gives broadcasters and media organizations the ability to pull data from many sources and quickly compare and analyze that data through an “intuitive visual interface.” Users can quickly publish the generated dashboards and reports to mobile devices, via e-mail or portal.

Meanwhile, new “visual foresight” tools use predictive analytics to help customers develop forward-looking metrics, from anticipated earnings to potential media buys for advertisements.

NetGain v2.4.2 also incorporates the following new tools and benefits:

• Access to Wisdom Professional for performing advanced analytics on Facebook user data. This provides media companies with advanced capability to analyze viewing audiences and enhance advertising placement.

• More than 300 predefined data mining and predictive analytics functions.
• Integration with the open-source “R” analytics library, unleashing limitless access to analytics and statistics for business modeling.

“Broadcasters today need to optimize their inventories beyond over-the-air channels and across the web, mobile and other digital media opportunities,” said Harris Morris, CEO, Harris Broadcast. “They also need to visualize the total trend versus looking separately at television spots versus digital. NetGain ensures that broadcasters, cable networks and other media groups can achieve a complete view of their businesses as opposed to a ‘siloed’ approach,” while enabling visibility into future results based on multiple scenarios.”

Harris Broadcast now integrates NetGain with its various traffic, billing, sales and scheduling platforms (OSi, Novar, Landmark and Vision) as well as third-party data sources to maximize data sourcing and flexibility. NetGain users can also now directly import data from Salesforce to better track and measure advertising campaigns across multiple channels.

Additionally, the enhanced mobile capability provides a sales-enablement tool for account executives on the go. This lets sales managers arm their teams with interactive dashboards on tablets and other mobile devices, simplifying customer presentations and detailing business performance.