Qumu Video Control Center
The Enterprise Video Communications Challenge
Most large organizations today are increasing their use of video to communicate, teach, market and to be more competitive. Companies are spending a tremendous amount of time and money on expensive production equipment with the goal of providing high quality, reliable video presentations that scale to large international audiences. However, these efforts and investments often do not meet their return goals because there is no underlying system to manage the events, content and resources to simplify the production and to reliably search, access, secure and distribute over the company’s existing infrastructure.
The Solution: Qumu Video Control Center
Large enterprises that have experienced these challenges have found that installing a platform system for all video applications, content and resources provides a high value, high return approach to handling the complexity and the scalability in use cases and audience size. These companies have found that a single system that can support the current best of breed components in the video infrastructure, including encoders, editing tools, streaming servers, CDNs, storage devices, rights control/DRM, portals, etc., provides the flexibility, cost control and risk mitigation they are looking for.
The Qumu Video Control Center components are:
- Video Network Management
- Providing a "central nervous system" for all components of the video infrastructure on the network, including advanced media delivery services for the enterprise with MediaNet.
- Media Access Services
- Making it easy for all levels of users to find and view programs through an intuitive business video portal. Includes comprehensive monitoring and reporting on usage.
- Video Asset Management
- Enabling the management and categorization of assets, including videos, documents, images and other files, and standards for securely publishing presentations.
- Integration Bus
- Interoperability with enterprise class infrastructure including content delivery networks (CDN's), encoders, and storage systems.
Benefits
Qumu's Video Control Center (VCC) is the first and only software platform to address all of these issues by connecting the pieces of the video infrastructure together in a way that provides centralized control and virtually unlimited scalability, while exposing predefined capabilities to end users for ongoing publishing tasks they can perform themselves. Qumu's VCC interoperates with and leverages an enterprise's existing IT infrastructure to extend the solution and increase adoption throughout a distributed enterprise to achieve maximum return on investment.
- Manage thousands of video assets and easily categorize and store them for use and searchability
- Scale live video and video-on-demand to an enterprise audience across global corporate networks
- Centrally manage and dynamically publish to any number of third party portals or web properties for audience viewing
- Connect video infrastructure components on the network for central management and control
- Make video easy to use for an internationally distributed audience with any level of video experience
