The Elevate SaaS arrives in Europe, including an option for OTT apps and Android set-top boxes

Espial used IBC to introduce its Elevate SaaS offer to Europe, a multi-tenant hosted cloud platform that covers operations, monitoring, analytics and UEX, among other things, across managed STBs and multiscreen devices. Here, Kirk Edwardson, Head of Marketing at Espial, explains the benefits of the solution, including access to OTT apps, web-speed feature and application updates and a choice of set-top boxes including those based on RDK and now Android TV. The company has also revealed an integration with Alexa for conversational content discovery and navigation.