Mpm Main Features V2

Main Features

Manager Pro Media – TV 2.0

Creating future thru agile solutions November, 2009

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What MPM is not…

Manager Pro Media is not just another ‘budgeting tool’.

It is not a software program for the accounting area.

Neither is it a tool conceived for a single department.

It does not substitute or collide with the existing financial ERP.

MPM is not a single-purpose software.

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What is MPM?

Manager Pro Media © (MPM) is a unique family of management solutions

specifically conceived for audiovisual production. MPM helps the organizations

to reach its crucial goals of producing at the time and cost initially planned,

adding competitive value to the product obtained.


Budgets

Forecasts

Controller

validations

Sales ProposalsCalendar

management

Integration with financial ERP

Production, artistic and structure

team management

Users,

profiles &

permissions

Drill-down

Reports

Decision

making

Purchase

orders

Cash

management

Invoices

& payroll

input

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Family members…


Manager Pro Media family has a solution to all kinds of companies in the media

production industry.

TV Production Film Production Animation Production

TV Channels Spot Production Internet content Production

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MPM – TV Main functionalities


The rest of this document is about Manager Pro Media –

Television. MPM – TV is a management solution that shares the

concepts of management tools contained in ERP systems. MPM

functionalities can fit the typical ERP structure (excluding the

accounting module):

BUDGETING

PRODUCTION

CONTROLLING

HR MANAGEMENT

SALES

SUPPLY

MANAGEMENT

PROJECT

MANAGEMENT

PRODUCTION

TEAM ARTISTIC

TEAM STRUCTURE

TEAM

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PROJECT MANAGEMENT


MPM covers all the necessary functions of project management in an

audiovisual production:

Labor calendar

Production calendar

Controller production calendar

Session calendar for artistic staff

Controller production calendar

Producing TV series, when a given day

the team produces scenes of two or

more episodes, the production

controller inputs the percent of effort

dedicated to each episode (by default

mpm distributes it proportionally)

Production team can

easily create the shootiing

production calendar

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SUPPLY MANAGEMENT


MPM contains a database of suppliers operating with all the

necessary details, usually more than the ones stored in the financial

ERP.

Suppliers database

Payment due types

Payment methods

VAT types

Income tax retention types

Suppliers database

In this example, fields are read only because

it is quite common that supplier core data is

maintained in the financial ERP. In that case

any update of this data in the financial ERP

voyages to MPM as well.

Suppliers database can also be maintained

in MPM.

Production team can always

add new contact and

address data to any supplier

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SALES


MPM is the best way to build sales offers to TV channels.

Sales proposal

Sales proposal

These fields in red are

margin increases in

percentage and money units

that apply to the price per

unit

Tool to alter

and recalculate

social security

Tool to alter and

recalculate periods

of production and

preproduction

Lots of other tools to

easily build smart

and witty sales

proposals

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HR MANAGEMENT – PRODUCTION TEAM


MPM manages the allocation of production staff to any audiovisual

project.

Staff global database

Project staff allocation

Managing of my Audiovisual project production staff

Managing of my Audiovisual project artistic staff

Add new professional

Departments database

Job positions database

Allocation of

production, artistic

and structure staff

to a project is easy

– just clicking on the

tick and they are on

your team!

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HR MANAGEMENT – ARTISTIC TEAM (1/2)


MPM manages artistic staff assigned to any audiovisual project by

maintaining general, addresses, and specific artistic data, as well as

contract data.

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HR MANAGEMENT – ARTISTIC TEAM (2/2)


When managing an audiovisual project, artistic staff contract data

history shows contracts belonging only to seasons of the same

format (in the example, all seasons of Doc Martin format).

Price of each session

interval. In the option

‘Session calendar for

artistic staff’ there are

several cost reports

(generated in Excel /

open office) of artistic

staff that calculates all

the costs of artistic

staff involved in each

production, including

agency commissions

and different session

cost intervals

Session contract type

(by episode, by

contract duration, by

month)

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HR MANAGEMENT – STRUCTURE TEAM


Structure team is managed like production team, and other structure

resources can be allocated by default in the accounting plan.

Analytic accounting plan

Social security parameters

MPM’s control parameters with existing financial ERP

Document search (cash ticket, payrolls, invoices)

Transfer report between MPM and the existing financial ERP

Any existing structure resource

(people, technical) can have a by

default cost, set in terms of

opportunity cost, market cost,

depreciation cost , etc.)

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CONTROLLING (1/3)


Having accurate and real-time information of the costs involved in

media production activities is becoming a key competitive advantage.

MPM achieves this gain because it includes accurate information of

the work in progress not yet invoiced, through a truthful, easy to use

purchase order management. MPM has been created to optimize

production activity and its key benefits are:

Cutting production costs by:

Reducing headcount.

Taking awareness of cost deviations before it is too late to

take the right decisions.

Automating much of the administrative production

processes.

Provide a greater level of transparency in co-productions, giving

consistent information to all the investors.

MPM’s delivery of real time, precise information of the production

status allows taking the right decision in the right time. Every

aggregated piece of information can be broken down at the highest

level of detail.

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CONTROLLING (2/3)


MPM supplies a comprehensive and accurate production status when

needed, dramatically simplifying the economic monitoring and

control of any audiovisual project.

Economic control status of my production

Create a new control

status is very easy –

just name it!

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CONTROLLING (3/3)


After creating a control status, a new set of reports is available.

Alert management

Management reports

Of an episode

Of the whole project

Of an episode interval

Forecasting report

Production team reports

Of an episode

Of the whole project

Of an episode interval

Alert management allows to show

condition-meeting rows in a defined color.

Any cell of real cost or

work in progress not yet

invoiced can be drilled-

down to mine for the

data which is causing a

cost deviation. Even the

single payroll, invoice,

cash ticket or purchase

order can be directly

retrieved.

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PRODUCTION


MPM gives the production team all the necessary tools to easily

manage all the economic facets of the production on a day-to-day

basis: products and services orders, cash desk, budget extension,

calendar updates, artistic HR session control, …

Budget addendum

Budget addendum proposal

Budget addendum validation

Purchase orders

Management of purchase orders and services deliveries

Purchase order validation

Cash management

Cashboxes (income, advances, tickets)

Cashbox status management

Cashbox closing managementPurchase Order Cashbox

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BUDGETING


MPM provides all necessary support to the process of budgeting

thanks to its three-level-budget structure.

Budgeting with MPM saves time and gain accuracy and consistency.

MPM allows using knowledge acquired in an audiovisual production

for coming seasons.

Research & development budget

-

Internal budget (management level)

Internal budget (execution level)

Lots of tools to

easily build budgets

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Technical Requirements


• SERVER: Intel® Core 2 Duo with 2 Ghz, 4GB

RAM, 3 HD SATA with 100 GB, (RAID 5), DAT

unit, 100 Mbps network card, Firewall

• CLIENTS: Intel® Pentium IV 512 MB RAM, 40

GB HD, network card 100 Mbps

HARDWARE

MÍNIMUM REQUIREMENTS

• SERVER: Intel® Xeon Dual Core, 8GB RAM, 3

HD SATA with 100 GB (RAID 5), DAT unit, 100

Mbps network card, Firewall

• CLIENTS: Intel® Core 2 Duo 1 GB RAM, 80

GB HD, network card 100 Mbps

RECOMMENDED REQUIREMENTS

SOFTWARE

COMMUNICATIONS

• SERVER: MS Windows 2000 Server, .Net

Framework 2.0, Antivirus, Firewall

• CLIENTS: MS Windows XP Professional, .Net

Framework 2.0, MS Excel or Open Office,

AdobeReader, screen resolution 1024x768

• SERVER: MS Windows 2003 Server, MS SQL

Server 2005, .Net Framework 2.0, Antivirus,

Firewall

• CLIENTS: MS WinXP Professional, .Net

Framework 2.0, MS Excel or Open Office,

AdobeReader , screen resolution 1280x1024

• HEADQUARTERS: Symmetrical Internet

access 2Mbps

• PRODUCTION STUDIOS: ADSL 2/4 Mbps

• HEADQUARTERS: Symmetrical Internet

access 2Mbps, or private network

• PRODUCTION STUDIOS: ADSL 2+, or private

network

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We are a young, independent company of professional services, founded by

expert professionals, with a strong specialization in the media & entertainment,

tourism, and building sectors. We collaborate with our clients in helping them

become high-performance, Zinetic organizations.

We assume as own the challenges that defy the present and future of our clients,

and we create agile, fresh solutions to face them: Zinetic solutions.

Business consulting: strategy, business and viability plans, market analysis,

definition of products and services, commercial tools, operations diagnosis,

processes and organization design, and training.

Implementation of software solutions: audiovisual production management,

organization of corporate information, media relations management,

automatic press clipping, commercial management for small & medium size

tv channels, and others.

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About Zinetic

Zinetic Ways, S.L.

Juan Novo

C/Ramiro II, 1, 6º

28003 Madrid

Telf.: +34 915 348 365

Fax: +34 915 352 319

e-mail: [email protected]

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