VCS Engineering, a wholly owned subsidiary of SciSys plc, is one of Europe's leading manufacturers and providers of radio, television and newsroom production and playout solutions. Based in Bochum, Germany, VCS offers its solutions worldwide. Its customers include the BBC, several major German broadcasters as well as broadcasters in Egypt, Belgium, Iceland and Vietnam.

VCS solutions for integrated workflow, media asset management and enterprise integration are proven over many years and characterised by outstanding reliability and functionality.

At IBC 2011 VCS presents the full range of dira! The dira! product line is a complete suite of production and playout applications supporting the core workflows that any broadcaster needs, covered by a proven digital system: dira! production and playout solutions for radio, TV, newsroom integration und new media.

radio automation
links and networking
recording and storage
playout
studio and production
library management systems including hierarchichal storage management
newsroom content automation systems
playout automation
network monitoring including SNMP