Qumu Inc. Unleashes Benefits of Enterprise Video Communications For Global 2000 Companies
Market-Leading EVC Solution Solves Challenges of Presenting Corporate Video, Making It Reliable, Scalable and Easy to Use
BERKELEY, CA, May 16, 2006 - Enterprise Video Communications (EVC) offers companies the most efficient and cost-effective way to reach large audiences and distribute strategic corporate information - but to date, technical roadblocks have stalled adoption of the medium. As video goes mainstream, providing significant value and undisputable ROI to the enterprise, a comprehensive strategic approach to managing and scaling corporate video is required. Media Publisher Inc., the leader in the rapidly growing EVC market, is the first company to remove these roadblocks and allow Global 2000 enterprises to take full advantage of the benefits of corporate video, making it reliable, scalable, and easy to use.
"Most enterprises today recognize that video communications, such as live webcasts and on-demand recordings of meetings, executive presentations, training, and product information help build competitive advantage, maximize efficiency and increase the bottom line," said Sally Windman, industry analyst, Frost & Sullivan. "By using Enterprise Video Communications effectively, companies can greatly increase productivity and deliver a powerful ROI to the enterprise."
Top corporate and public organizations have confirmed the benefits of Enterprise Video Communications, and are partnering with Qumu to create technologies that improve and simplify the delivery of business video in key areas, such as corporate communications, distance learning, HR / benefit administration, and channel enablement.
"IBM is in the business of providing highly scalable enterprise video communications solutions to our customers," said Jim Dean, director, Digital Media Solutions, IBM. "Our partnership with Qumu is an important part of our EVC offering. By leveraging Qumu's application, IBM Global Services delivers innovative solutions, built on the compelling capabilities of IBM's hardware and open standards-based software products."
Qumu offers non-technical users a way to create and manage their own live and on-demand events through a user-friendly interface, and view those video events through a configurable Viewer Portal. In addition, Qumu offers tremendous value to IT by integrating with and managing the existing IT infrastructure via the Video Control Center, making it possible to centrally manage video events across the corporate network.
Qumu leverages other infrastructure components to accomplish central management, such as communicating with multiple remote encoders, syndicating content to multiple CDN distribution systems, and performing streaming server publishing point management. In addition, Qumu provides a fully fault-tolerant, redundant system with multiple levels of failover to ensure customers are able to scale the use of video to many thousands of simultaneous viewers - while ensuring the highest quality of video experience is achieved every time.
"Qumu provides our faculty a user friendly way to include video in their course resources for students," said Kim Allen, director of data, voice, and video networking at Lamar University. "Centralized storage of all video on-demand assets makes it easy for students and faculty publishers to manage and find the appropriate content. Qumu gives us the control we need to launch events whenever we need them, to capture the information to use it later, and to create classes that are as rich as the ones we present in person."
Qumu has innovated a complete Platform, Application, and Solutions product stack tailored to the unique demands of Enterprise Video Communications. The Qumu EVC solution interoperates with and leverages an enterprise's existing IT infrastructure, while delivering significant functionality and benefits to line-of-business users. Qumu offers a complete end-to-end solution, including a Platform and several applications for delivering and managing business video:
- Viewer Portal
- provides a user-friendly program guide, with easy-to-browse video categories and customizable look and feel.
- Live EventPro
- manages live video webcasting, and is scaleable to thousands of simultaneous viewers.
- LiveCaster
- allows presenters to deliver enterprise video webcasts and capture and deliver slides, images, web pages and other documents, without extended assistance from IT.
- VOD Manager
- allows business users to easily publish and manage their own video content, set access rights, and generate reports on viewer activity.
- Digital Signage
- creates RSS files for digital signage technologies and provides central management of content for all video outputs.
"The value of business video increases when companies can bring their messages to hundreds or thousands of viewers, archive the video, and report on its usage," said Rod Bacon, president and CEO of Media Publisher Inc. "Qumu makes it possible to maximize the value of Enterprise Video Communications, without the decrease in quality that often occurs when enterprises need to distribute their messages to wide audiences."
About Qumu, Inc.
Qumu Inc. is the leader in Enterprise Video Communications. Qumu offers a complete suite of video applications, and a Video Control Center that manages a company's existing content infrastructure. Qumu's solution makes it easier for global 2000 companies to leverage business video, allowing them to communicate more efficiently and deliver a consistent message across distributed audiences. Qumu is privately held and based in Berkeley, California. For more information, visit www.qumu.com.