Mediasite Enterprise Video Platform

Mediasite Enterprise
Video Platform
Mediasite Enterprise Video Platform is the trusted cornerstone to your video management strategy. It’s a powerful and flexible
system to deliver rich interactive video – live and on-demand – to any user on any screen. More importantly, it provides all the
tools you need to catalog, index, customize, secure and analyze your important video assets. We understand the incredible
value in being able to quickly publish, easily retrieve and ultimately measure the impact of your video content. Mediasite makes
it possible.
Rich Video Library
Video content can be created anywhere – training rooms, classrooms,
videoconferences, user desktops, studios and live events. Regardless
of the source, Mediasite Enterprise Video Platform ensures all your
content has a secure, central home. It excels at streamlining the most
time-consuming steps of creating and growing your video library.
• Auto-publish rich video captured by Mediasite Recorders
• Upload user-generated content captured with Enterprise
Video Platform
• Upload video created with any other device or application
• Transform any “flat” video upload into interactive, searchable
content with automatic metadata creation and
thumbnail navigation
Publishing
With Mediasite you’re capturing important information
and valuable knowledge. Deliver your live and on-demand
content where and when users need it most, with a variety
of flexible publishing options.
• Auto-publish, organize and index content in branded,
customizable catalogs
• Embed players and catalogs in any LMS/CMS, training portal or content
management system
• Securely publish to Blackboard®, Canvas, Desire2Learn®, Drupal™, Moodle™, SharePoint® and more
• Publish to USB, DVD, CD or folder for users to watch anywhere without Internet access
• Expand viewership and improve search results with SEO-friendly content
webcasting and video content management
Delivery
Mediasite Enterprise Video Platform is respected for the
highest quality streaming to any device.
• Stream HD video and slides live and on-demand
• Deliver to Mac®, PC, iPad®, iPhone®, iPod®, Android™,
Surface™, BlackBerry® and Linux®
• Leverage adaptive bitrate streaming for the
smoothest playback based on each user’s device and
available bandwidth
Players
With a built-in library of player templates, Mediasite Enterprise Video Platform makes it easy to customize viewing experiences to suit
your different audiences and content.
• Highlight your brand with customizable banners
and images
• Provide flexible, user-controlled layouts and
navigation options
• Engage viewers with interactive polls, ask a question,
presentation bookmarking and sharing, and links to
additional resources
• Make content accessible to learners of all abilities
with closed captioning and screen reader support
• Use the Mediasite Player API to create unique players
Search
Nothing is more valuable than pinpointing the exact information you
need in just seconds. Mediasite Enterprise Video Platform indexes
everything – making entire video libraries searchable and saving users
immeasurable time.
• Auto-scan all video, slides, closed captions, free-form tags and
metadata to create powerful search indexes
• Leverage Mediasite’s powerful Voice Search Service* which pairs
phonetic search with custom word lists for peak search result accuracy
• Find keywords anywhere – in single presentations, Mediasite catalogs
or an entire Mediasite library
• Put the power of video search on any web page with Mediasite’s
embeddable search widget
* Additional licensing required
Analytics
Measuring the impact and value of your webcasting or lecture capture initiatives is
critical to their ongoing success. Mediasite Enterprise Video Platform’s advanced
analytics show exactly who is watching what, when.
• Get a real-time snapshot of viewing activity with the “Who’s Watching
Now” dashboards
• Track viewing activity for every presentation, user, presenter, catalog and server
• Identify hot spots of activity in any presentation with Viewing Trends heat maps
• Monitor server utilization, peak activity and viewership by browser or
operating system
• Embed Mediasite Analytics widgets in any web page for convenient visibility
to key metrics
• Export data for deeper analysis with other tools
Editing
It’s easy to touch up, repurpose or create entirely new content from your recorded
videos and presentations with Mediasite’s web-based Editor.
• Crop video, incorporate transitions and add chapters
• Add, delete and update slides
• Create review/edit/approve workflows to ensure quality content before publishing
Security
Not every video is meant for every viewer, so Mediasite Enterprise Video Platform
guarantees only authorized users have access.
• Secure access to Mediasite Management Portal, My Mediasite, Mediasite Editor,
players, catalogs, templates, schedules, analytics and streaming profiles
• Integrate with Microsoft® Active Directory and LDAP
• Support single sign-on (SSO) for content access through other applications including any
LMS/CMS that supports the open Basic Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) standard
Scalability
• Exchange authentication and authorization between security domains with
Security Assertion markup Language (SAML) 2.0 and Shibboleth®
• Choose from flexible deployment options – on-premises, SaaS, turnkey event or any combination to suit your needs
• Stream via CDNs and caching systems from Akamai®, Blue Coat®, Cisco®, Limelight Networks® and others
• Ensure high availability and redundancy with load balancing
• Develop custom integrations with Mediasite APIs – Player API, Recorder API,
External Data Access Services (EDAS) API
• Streamline large-scale, room-based capture with automated start/stop
recording schedules
• Monitor and manage room-based recording from anywhere with Mediasite Recorder
Control Center
• Save time and always ensure Mediasite Recorders are up-to-date with centralized recorder updates
Recommended system
Mediasite Enterprise Video Platform Application Server
• Intel® Xeon® Quad Core 2GHz with 4GB RAM or more
• Microsoft® Windows Server® 2008 or 2008 R2
• Microsoft Internet Information Services 7.0
• Microsoft Active Directory or LDAP-compatible directory
* Server 2008 or Server 2008 R2 is strongly recommended to take full advantage of all Mediasite features.
Media Server
Depending on the streaming options you want to make available to your viewers (live and/or on-demand; desktop and/or mobile),
one or more media servers is needed.
• Microsoft Windows Streaming Media Services 2008
• IIS Media Services 4.0
• IIS Progressive Download 7.0 or 7.5
• Intel Xeon Quad Core 2GHz with 4GB RAM or more
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 or 2008 R2
Mediasite Database Server
• Intel Xeon Quad Core 2GHz with 4GB RAM or more
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 or 2008 R2
• Microsoft SQL Server® 2012, 2008 or 2005; or SQL Express Server 2012, 2008 or 2005
Mediasite Transcode Server
• Intel Xeon Quad Core 2GHz with 4GB RAM or more
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 or Microsoft Windows 7
• Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0
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