tomorrow’s innovation today

WE WORK WITH INTERNATIONAL MEDIA GROUPS

tomorrow’s innovation today

tomorrow’s innovation today

Africa’s leading digital distribution platform: The world’s media companies trust Baobab Suite everyday

PROUD TO BE TRUSTED BY LEADING MEDIA ORGANISATIONS

Integrate our solutionswith other existingor

third-party systems includingsubscription management, analytics, advertising and

content management systems

SYSTEMS INTEGRATION

Provide strategic insightregarding digital publishing

strategy and roadmaps

STRATEGIC CONSULTANT

Design, configure and implementdigital publishing and

distribution platforms based on our unique product components

SOLUTION DELIVERY

Develop tailor-made content distribution and mobile solutions based on a framework of tried

and tested productcomponents

CUSTOM DEVELOPMENT

Develop white-labelor custom mobile apps

across all platforms

MOBILE APP DEVELOPMENTProvide high performance,

reliable and scalable hosting of solutions on Google Cloud, AWS

or Microsoft Azure platforms

CLOUD HOSTING

We provide publishing teams and agencies with tools to capture, curate, package, search and reuse multimedia content and facilitate the secure distribution to either apps,web or feed services. Our digital suite of products enable publishers with ability to scale and monetise their digital content cost effectively with very little risk. The added benefit to publishers is although we have a suite of digital products they can all exist independently of each other, however when combined they provide an enterprise digital suite that integrates and synchronises with each other.

INTRODUCTION TO OUR DIGITAL SERVICES

tomorrow’s innovation today

“Our product roadmap and development is driven by our customers needs”

DIGITAL PRODUCTS

Each of these products has a detailed section in this brochure where you can learn more about their value added features / capabilities along with the respective commercials and support structures around them.

MOJO REPORTERTEAM EDITION

Secure mobile journalism app and cloud based web dashboard

BAOBABCORE SUITE

Content Redistributionand Digital First Editorial

BAOBABDAM

Digital Asset Managementand Archive

BAOBABMOBILE APP

SUITE

BAOBAB WORDPRESSWEB SUITE

DAM

MOBILEAPP SUITE

ARCHIVE

MOJOREPORTER

WORDPRESSSUITE

WEB

CAPTURE THE NEWSAS IT HAPPENS.

ANYTIME. ANYWHERE.

Branded team edition platforms

• MOJO Packages are securely stored compilations of any “Digital Senses”• MOJO Media such as video, audio, pictures and GPS locationcan be included at any time• MOJO Library is a secure storage facility within the app that can’t be accessed unless authorised user

NO MORE MESSY NOTES OR CLUTTER

“A ComprehensiveContent Creation Tool

at your Fingertips”

Journalists can send secure MOJO packages containing videos, audio, photos, and GPS locations to multiple destinations for backup, review or further publishing.

TEAM Edition app users can publish to their private closed Team MojoReporter dashboard.

All MOJO packages from the community or team can be followed within the app.

All MOJO users have the option of backing their packages up in Google Drive or MOJO Dashboard.

All videos are transcoded into multiple formats for post production streaming / down-load.

SEND POSTS STRAIGHT TO THE NEWSROOM

MOJOREPORTER FEATURES

Mojo Web Dashboard

AdaptiveBitstream Player

Cloud Hosted

Android & Apple Mobile

Apps

Push Notifications

Multiple Resolution

Video Download

Automatic VideoTranscoding

Multi Device Adaptive Playback

Secure UserManagement

The TEAM EDITION implementation of MojoReporter best suits a media group or publishing house with a team of mobile journalists. We will setup and brand your own closed, secure and brandedMojoReporter TEAM EDITION platform.

The TEAM EDITION implementation of MojoReporter best suits a media group or publishing house with a team of mobile journalists. We will setup and brand your own closed, secure and branded MojoReporter TEAM EDITION platform. It’s a great way to keep all the media captured by your MOJO team in a secure app and web environment for further distribution or retrieval. The TEAM EDITION establishes a private MOJO community feeling for safe and private reporting before being published to the world.

TEAM EDITION

HELPING TO TRANSITION TRADITIONAL PUBLISHERS

INTO THE WORLD OF NEW MEDIA

THE BAOBAB CORE SUITE PROVIDES HIGH FREQUENCY CONTENT AGGREGATION CAPABILITIES,

which is complemented by a Digital First Editorial module that provides powerful publishing capabilities to web, apps, social and syndication channels. When it comes to enterprise publishing environments Baobab Suite provides

capability to scale digital distribution effectively and simply.

Digital content strategy for large publishers may vary and so the entitlement and metering configuration across number of titles needs to be simple and reliable. With Baobab Suite the ability to productise and monetise content is simple to setup and ensure subscription entitlement across all major app and web platforms. Due to the open standard API layer in place 3rd party contributors or development partners are able to easily collaborate within the Baobab Suite enterprise publishing platform.

CORE (Content Redistribution) module listing:• CORE (Content Redistribution)• Content Syndication and Aggregation • Editorial “Digital First” Module (Web, App, Social, Feed and Print System)• Digital Rights Management (Entitlement permissions)• Content Metering • Cloudsearch API services• Content Product Catalogue• App Store Integration (Subscription and Payment)• Private Payment Gateway Service Layer• Authentication of Customers (Facebook, G+, LinkedIn, Twitter)• Digital Customer Profile• Voucher Redemption• Video transcoding• Customizable Adaptive Video Streaming - with built in DFP pre-roll advertising• Custom Media Player API services

• Content integration via modular plugin API framework• Baobab Wordpress API and Plugin set• Global newswire and photo stream API (Reuters, Bloomberg, AP,

DPA, Xinhua, Sputnik, ANA)• Encryption and subscription based feed services• JSON feed services• Media Player compliance JWPlayer and Bitmovin• Social publishing API (Facebook, Twitter)

Cloudbasedenterprise“digitalfirst”editorialmodulethatcancurate360multimediacontentpackages.All content packages can be cloned, reused, tagged and processed through an editorial permission based workflow process. Content packages can be marked as premium for commercialisation. All content can be previewed prior to being published across number of web, app and social channels.

DIGITAL FIRST EDITORIAL CMS:

Cloud based enterprise grade syndication and aggregation services. This CORE platform can import and export content packages effective in the newswire services and also private secure syndication environment. Bulk import and upload of posts, multimedia files in association with content is processed effectively for future search, retrieval and distribution in a secure and sustainable manner. Video processing and transcoding capabilities complemented by a media player engine.

CONTENT SYNDICATION AND VIDEO STREAMING

• Multimedia editorial module (galleries, video transcoding & streaming)• Content types: posts, blogs, articles, business listings (incl. digital tags and GPS coordinates)• Unlimited users (Admin, Editor, Journalist, Sub-Editor, Photographer)• Digital titles with unlimited categories/sub categories, editions• App, web and social channel publishing• Content encryption entitlement

• Bulk media archive upload and index facility• Elastic search algorithms• Standalone or integrated with existing editorial process• Metadata search and update capability• Integrates with CMS of choice (WP editorial plugin)• Multi-titled digital asset capability• Reuse digital assets across titles or groups• Video transcoding and download capabilities

The Baobab DAM is a powerful cloud search media library that allows for the centralised storage, control and management of digital assets. It provides a facility to reuse, reference and clone articles. Digital assets can be referenced from multiple websites or apps and maintain a single instance of storage.

The Baobab DAM can be tightly integrated into a CMS platform of choice, similar to how it has been used with Baobab Editorial and Wordpress Dash-boards for related articles and clone article capability.

CLOUD BASED DIGITAL ASSET MANAGEMENT

THE BAOBAB DAM

DAM FEATURES

Afrozaar have been building custom mobile apps (iOS and Android) and content web sites for leading publishing groupssince2010:TheTelegraphMediaGroup,Media24,Sunday Business Post, Independent Media Group, African News Agency and Conde Nast.

OUR TEAM HAVE BUILT SINGLE-TITLE, MULTI-TITLE, CONTINUOUS & EDITION BASED NEWS & MAGAZINE APPS ANDWEBSITES THAT HAVE COMPETED GLOBALLY.

We’ve learned a lot from building number of custom apps for the large and medium sized media groups, and feel we have a solid product offering that is sustainable for ourproduct customers.

BAOBAB MOBILE APP

Enterprise grade WordPress CMS platform, that leverages the powerful plugin and layout engine available. “By implementing the Baobab Wordpress plugin set, you will convert basic websites or blog post sites into enterprise grade publishing platforms. We enable centralised editorial, content encryption, content metering capabilities, advert embedding, branded video players,and payment transactions around the content packages curated within Baobab CORE Suite.”

THEME SELECTION• Cloud hosted service• User OAuthentication (Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+, Twitter)• Content ordering and decryption• Cloud search enablement• Wordpress plugin and security management• Video streaming with custom branded player• Google Analytics• Galleries• Payment gateway• Social sharing• Comments• Tagging• DFP advert embed

AND WORDPRESS WEB SUITE

“Enterprisation of Wordpress Sites”

Includes customisation and branding of a Baobab WordPress Template / ThemeBaobab WP plugin-set and integration with Baobab CORE Suite

This is a basic content feed oriented mobile app. As long as there is a openly available or accessible content feed that can meet the required format then Basic Mobile App can integrate accordingly.

BASIC APP FEATURES• Multimedia enriched (images and videos)• Offlineviewing• Bookmarking• Article sharing (Facebook, Twitter etc)• User customisable layout• Contact and About information• App Store promotional media • App Store account management• Wordpress API• Google Analytics integration• Smooth page swipe transitions and preloading quality experience

BASIC VERSION

ENTERPRISE APP FEATURES• Incorporates all of the BASIC app features• Customer registration (Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn, Twitter)• eCommerce content monetisation via subscription model (iTunes, Play Store)• Content metering (per section or at article level)• Corporate voucher enablement• DFP advert integration (swipe integration)• User Generated Content (UGC) module integrated

This is a basic content feed oriented mobile app. As long as there is a openly available or accessible content feed that can meet the required format then Basic Mobile App can integrate accordingly.

ENTERPRISE VERSION

Email: info@afrozaar.com | www.afrozaar.com

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