Arqiva migrates legacy scheduling workflow to DataMiner xOps platform in under three months: “Platform convergence isn’t optional anymore.”
Arqiva has migrated its existing occasional-use event scheduling and resource-management workflow to the DataMiner xOps platform, continuing a broader convergence of its broadcast operations onto one shared operational foundation. Scheduling jobs and managing resources now no longer happens with a separate tool sitting outside the rest of the operations, but is fully integrated with other applications, services, and capabilities, which all run on DataMiner.
Especially notable is the speed of the migration: while moves away from legacy systems can often drag on, Arqiva went from a standalone point tool to a fully integrated solution in less than three months.
“Three things made that possible,” said Thomas Gunkel, Marketing Manager Broadcast at Skyline Communications, the company behind the DataMiner xOps platform. “First, Arqiva wasn’t starting from scratch: the core scheduling and resource management capabilities were already available as standard solutions on our digital marketplace. Second, the cloud-based delivery model meant there was no new infrastructure stack to build and operate. And finally, Arqiva already had more than a decade of DataMiner expertise in-house, allowing its own teams to take a leading role in the migration.”
Over the past decade, Arqiva has continuously expanded the scope of DataMiner rather than introducing a new standalone system for every operational requirement. Each new domain builds on the same underlying platform, operational data, integrations, workflows and expertise. DataMiner now orchestrates connectivity between sites, manages the company’s national and local DAB platform, and will support their most recent playout media services.
“Arqiva’s decade with DataMiner reflects a challenge most broadcast and media operators are facing right now. Infrastructure has become more complex, workflows span more systems, and operators are under growing pressure to bring those systems together instead of adding new ones. With AI and agents entering the operation, that unified foundation becomes even more important,” says Ben Vandenberghe, CEO at Skyline Communications.
Carly Jackson, Senior Engineering Manager Audio & OSS at Arqiva agrees: “Platform convergence isn’t optional anymore; it’s an operational necessity. That’s why we keep expanding our DataMiner xOps portfolio and discontinuing point solutions. Integrating all our operations on the same platform brings us closer to our long-term strategic goals, where AI and agentic operations play an important role. These need a unified intelligence foundation rather than a disconnected patchwork.”