It’s 11am Pacific time. Ten thousand employees gather to watch a live video webcast of their CEO delivering Q1 results. Ten thousand employees in a variety of locations, using a variety of computers, mobile devices, and server setups. But these employees are not thinking about technology. They’re focused on their CEO’s message. At noon, they go back to work. And the whole enterprise is ready for Q2.

Whether it's a one-time video webcasting event, how to embed video in SharePoint, an enterprise digital signage initiative or an all-out effort to make video a standard part of your corporate communications infrastructure, Qumu has the products and solutions you need.

Whether it’s YouTube, Hulu or Ustream, business users today are asking, “Why can’t I have these video capabilities at work?” Find out what technical and business challenges must be addressed to make live and on-demand video secure and scalable across the private corporate network.

As video becomes more ubiquitous in the enterprise, and as the workforce becomes more geographically dispersed, employees are increasingly relying on their mobile devices to perform mission critical tasks, including video communications.

A video conferencing system, on it’s own, gives you typical point-to-point video meetings. A few people in New York exchange information with a few people in San Francisco. As a result, a few things get done. But when that same video conference system can be used for streaming video to an unlimited number of people, you get a communication revolution.

SharePoint provides employees with the right kind of access to the right collaboration resources. That’s what makes it right for video, too. By bringing video into SharePoint, you create one efficient, centralized location for sharing all enterprise content.

Together, Qumu and WebSphere Portal provide seamless integraion of video enabled communications without requiring the user to leave his or her portal experience. Viewers can easily  find and view live broadcasts or on-demand videos, as well as other related materials directly from their WebSphere Portal.

It is an ongoing challenge for many organizations to maximize the expertise of scarce subject matter experts. With recent increases in outsourcing, this challenge becomes even more significant.

Higher Education institutions are quickly becoming leading adopters of video communications. Whether intended for a student video portal, distance learning, or for collaboration across multiple campuses, video usage has become an integral part of their communications.