Nexus Key Features

Nexus provides a single interface for all your studio orientated information needs with access to a diverse range of information sources and powerful resources from a single screen. Nexus is designed to work with a touch screen or a standard mouse and keyboard and can be configured to suit your individual station's needs.

The Nexus Key Features are:

• Contact Management - Nexus has the P Squared Contacts Directory built in to it which means that it offers access to the dedicated, station wide contacts database that runs through the heart of all current generation P Squared products. Whether you are looking for contact details of people within your station or wider afield, the Contacts tab in Nexus puts all the information at your finger tips.
• Competition / Prize Management - The Competition management system in Nexus allows you to effortlessly control the way your station manages and assigns prizes and competitions. The dedicated Competition database allows you to view and manage the prizes on offer and when someone wins, you can take their details directly within Nexus. And because this integrates with the Contact Management system, Nexus will even cross reference wins with previous competitions to allow you to instantly spot repeat winners.
• Email - It seems a simple thing but the fact is that most stations have to have a separate screen for email (or a screen on a switcher) but in a Nexus equipped studio, the emails appear on screen directly in front of the presenter along with all the other vital Nexus information.
• Scripts - When you are using Nexus in a Myriad equipped studio, the Nexus screen can be used to display scripts directly from the Station Log (in real time) as well as access the pre-defined scripts that you can set up Myriad to use. For longer scripts, Nexus has a built in 'auto prompt' style SmoothScroll system to allow you to read through scripts without having to click buttons.
• SMS Messages - Working with a range of different SMS technologies, Nexus offers something for every station. You no longer have to rely on a phone tapped to the side of the CD players to get those SMS messages read on air, with Nexus, they appear on screen right in front of the presenter.
• Visual Talkback - Talkback is good but in an audio based broadcast medium, visual talkback is even better. You can set up Visual Talkback sessions between Nexus terminals to allow a tech op to communicate silently with the presenter. This technology will also be expanded in to other areas of the P Squared product range as time goes by so Visual Talkback is only going to get more useful in the future.
• Web Browsing - The web is a part of life now but that does not mean that you want presenters browsing the web on your all too important playout PC's. As Nexus is designed to run on a separate PC, it side steps the problem and as the web browser is built directly in to Nexus, the presenter doesn't have to leave the program no matter what information he or she needs.
• Myriad Control - If you use Myriad at your station, you can configure Nexus to actually control the Myriad system using the on-screen controls in Nexus. Why? Well in a talk based show, Nexus will be providing all types important information so why no trigger the advert breaks and beds from the same screen?

Future Developments

Our development team continue to work on Nexus and one of the possibilities being investigated is to incorporate call management in to the system. This would then tie in to the contact management and prize management systems to provide the ultimate information hub, the Nexus of your station.