Ignite Your Windows Media Services With Qumu

Microsoft Windows Media is the leading digital media platform, and provides excellent video quality to customers. It’s industrial strength and supports any operating system and any device. Customers who utilize Microsoft technologies for their video infrastructure will benefit from some key capabilities that Qumu provides, which is why Microsoft partnered with Qumu to augment their video offering.

Qumu provides software that integrates and centrally manages the video communications life cycle within the diverse architecture of Microsoft technologies. Qumu manages live webcasting and video on demand with automated distribution over Windows Media servers, creating a reliable, scalable, and secure video infrastructure.

Microsoft uses Qumu internally to complete their own video infrastructure, which is highlighted in the featured video on this page. The Qumu Video Control Center and Qumu MediaNet products provide Microsoft customers with a seamless integrated solution that supports Microsoft products.

The components of the joint solution set offered by Qumu and Microsoft are the following:

• Microsoft Producer Integration
  Qumu Video Control Center manages video presentations created using Microsoft Producer, preserving the integrity of the Producer presentation for viewers.
• Microsoft SQL Server Integration
  Customers have the option to leverage the SQL server database with Qumu Video Control Center for ongoing data storage.
• Microsoft SharePoint integration
  Delivers video to users within an environment they are already familiar with, enhancing ease of use. Publishes content where users can access it anytime according to rules the content owner specifies. 
  Qumu and Microsoft Sharepoint Solution Brief
• Windows Media Server tiered distribution solution
  Creates an automated distribution solution for a tiered network of Windows Media servers with multiple levels of failover. Qumu MediaNet Solution Brief
  
• Microsoft Silverlight Support
  Qumu Video Control Center and Qumu Capture Studio both support Microsoft Silverlight as of Q3 2008. The Silverlight player delivers compelling cross-platform experiences for end users with a lot of flexibility to control the user interface on the fly.
• Microsoft Active Directory
  Qumu allows customers to leverage employee indentifiers that are already setup in Active Directory for user groups and authority levels.

You may also visit our page on Microsoft.com for more information.