EVS in a Nutshell

Tue, 2011-09-27 15:15 — admin

Our strategy

  • Consolidation of our leadership in the niche market of outside broadcast (OB) vans.
  • Acceleration of our penetration in the studio market, real growth engine, by developing new added value solutions for the actors of that market.
  • Development of a service centre for the big sporting events and the new customer demands (archiving, etc.).
  • Development of unique solutions: hardware (structured around the XT/XS series servers), applications (LSM and IPDirector as reference applications) and service (from consultancy to training and support).
  • Strong business culture promoting technological innovation.

Consolidate the leadership in live sport production

EVS is the leader in live outside broadcast digital video production systems. Its products are intelligent recorders combined with highly reactive applications, such as the slow motion system, that has now become a standard worldwide. The XT3 production server, associated with dedicated applications such as the famous LSM, enables the creation, editing and exchange of video files.

Around 7,000 operators on all continents use our group’s applications on a daily basis. EVS has developed substantial expertise in compressed video and audio data processing. The company intends to remain an innovator in the migration from analogue to digital in television networks, and from standard definition to high definition. In addition, EVS will continue diversifying its offering, such as the graphic analytical tools for live productions.

Expand in multi-camera studio production

Based on its experience in the OB vans, EVS has been penetrating since a few years the studio segment. The company first attacks the applications for which the speed is a key success factor, but also develops solutions for the production of other programs, such as TV series or news channels. The “Speed to Air” strategy is based on the XT/XS series servers, the software suites IPDirector and Insio, and also Xedio that is mainly used by journalists. EVS gains market shares every year in this segment, and also benefits from the gradual replacement of tapes by digital solutions and from the increasing use of high definition. This studio market is an important growth engine for EVS. It is considered as 10 times bigger than the outside broadcast market, worth USD 800 million annually, with a current market share of around 7% for EVS.