Sonic Foundry, Inc. (NASDAQ: SOFO), the trusted market leader for video
management and academic, enterprise and event webcasting,
today announced a major milestone with the introduction of Mediasite
Enterprise Video Platform.
This evolution of Mediasite delivers an integrated approach to any
campus or enterprise strategy for creating, managing and distributing
all video-based content – whether it was generated by Mediasite or
another tool – and solidly establishes Mediasite as a recognized
solution for comprehensive video content management.
The most notable enhancement is Mediasite Enterprise Video Platform’s
ability to import any video including Adobe Flash, QuickTime, AVI,
Windows Media, MPEG4 and others, and transform them into rich video
files that are indexed, searched, secured and played back on nearly any
device from desktops and tablets to smart phones.
Many long-term Mediasite customers are already undergoing the process of
importing thousands of hours of video-based technical documentation,
training and research from archives into Mediasite Enterprise Video
Platform.
“Sandia needs to keep content for up to 75 years and meet National
Archives and Records Administration standards. Using Mediasite as a
video content management platform is a big deal for us. We need to know
where the information is and how to get it back,” said Rogulja Wolf,
digital streaming operations and content manager, Sandia National
Laboratories.
Mediasite Enterprise Video Platform builds upon the momentum of the
Mediasite 6.1 family of innovations, including My Mediasite, a
streamlined, user-friendly dashboard from which users create, upload,
manage and share their own video content. Collaboration and approval
workflows provide a layer of control for enterprises with multiple
content producers and knowledge-creation environments, allowing the
growth, management and scalability of online knowledge libraries.
“The user generated content capabilities in My Mediasite will give us
the ability to be more flexible with video creation. We’re moving to a
YouTube type situation, but everything still has to be approved and
controlled,” said Wolf. “We already have basic review and approval
guidelines for classification and external release of material but we
are reworking those and developing polices more appropriate for My
Mediasite on our internal network. My Mediasite will allow us to take in
more content and make more content available.”
“We’ve architected the most sophisticated capture technology on the
market, delivering smart, secure and searchable video with powerful
analytics. As our customers’ video initiatives continue to grow at an
astronomical pace, so does their need for greater flexibility and more
sophisticated management of the content,” said Gary Weis, chief
executive officer of Sonic Foundry. “They have placed their trust in
Mediasite to deliver a workflow that not only extracts the knowledge
from their many technology-enhanced rooms, but also to serve as a
destination for video that’s created from every imaginable source.
Mediasite Enterprise Video Platform promises to accelerate, simplify and
streamline content creation and management to ultimately unleash the
value of video in the enterprise.”
Trusted by more than 2,600 customers worldwide in education, business
and government, the Mediasite webcasting and video content management
system quickly and cost-effectively automates the capture, management,
delivery and search of live and on-demand streaming videos and rich
media presentations.
About Sonic Foundry®, Inc.
Sonic Foundry (NASDAQ: SOFO) is the trusted market leader for enterprise
webcasting solutions, providing video
content management and distribution for education, business and
government. Powered by the patented Mediasite
webcasting platform and webcast
services of Mediasite Events, the company empowers people to advance
how they share knowledge online, using video webcasts to bridge time and
distance, enhance learning outcomes and improve performance.
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that are not historical facts may be forward-looking statements. Because
such forward-looking statements include risks and uncertainties, actual
results may differ materially from those expressed in or implied by such
forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause actual results to
differ materially include, but are not limited to, uncertainties
pertaining to continued market acceptance for Sonic Foundry's products,
its ability to succeed in capturing significant revenues from media
services and/or systems, the effect of new competitors in its market,
integration of acquired business and other risk factors identified from
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