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Products > MQSubscribe > Solutions > AFM > Overview
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Video content providers are at the top of the pay TV industry value chain and their business model involves distributing content through affiliates spread across multiple countries. Managing the distribution contracts/agreements the content providers have with affiliates is the key to this model of business. Each of these agreements can be unique and can include parameters from distribution exclusivity, minimum guarantee, type of subscribers, and region to number of subscribers, which are used to arrive at the price.
At MagnaQuest, having closely worked with several leading Content providers, we have acquired specialized knowledge in this domain. Based on this experience, we have listed down some of the critical business objectives for a content provider:
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Manage distribution and operations in multiple countries |
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Manage detailed contact information of cable operators and distributions / MSOs. |
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Automate monthly invoicing and billing |
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Manage inventory and track decoder and smart cards distributed and their status at any given time. |
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Transfer stock based on material requests. |
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Allow role based access to users |
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Hierarchy based information access to affiliates |
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Integrate with external financial accounting systems to facilitate flow of information from MQSubscribe |
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Integration with conditional access systems for provisioning of authorization and de-authorization of services |
To achieve such critical objectives, it becomes important for content providers to deploy a flexible, scalable and reliable Affiliate Management Systems. Such a system should primarily handle the complexity of their contracts, inventory and monthly billing and interface with conditional access system.
Built on Microsoft technologies, MQSubscribe is a web based solution supporting various business models across different networks and offers features such as flexible packaging, agreement management, pricing schemes to accommodate various parameters, promotions, multicurrency, business entity management, periodic billing in batches, inventory tracking, accurate billing, commissions and role based access control.
MQSubscribe has been deployed at a number of customer sites, worldwide and is delivering benefits such as:
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Scalability to meet future needs of new channels |
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High availability/reliability |
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Pre-integrated with leading conditional access systems |
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Co-exists with legacy systems |
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