Name: Mediasite
Author: Sonic Foundry

Help Desk

Web and Video Conferencing

Customer Support

Flowchart

Text Editors

Version Control

Development

School Management

Education

Business Intelligence (BI)

Calibration Management

Collaboration

Enterprise Search

Meeting Management

Enterprise

Accounting

Accounting and Tax Services

Anti-Money Laundering (AML)

Cryptocurrency Wallets

Financial Research

Financial Risk Management

Hedge Fund

Tax Compliance

Finance and Accounting

Applicant Tracking

Corporate Learning Management

Employee Monitoring

Employer of Record (EOR)

HR Management

International Payroll

On-Demand Payment

Payroll

Resume Parsing

Talent Intelligence

Talent Management

Workforce Analytics

Workforce Management

Human Resources

Business Process Automation

Cloud Data Warehouse

Cloud Storage

Complex Event Processing

Component Content Management

Data Governance

Density-Optimized Servers

Fraud Detection

Hosted Virtual Desktop

Integrated Development Environment (IDE)

Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)

Metadata Management

Network Performance Monitoring

Network Traffic Analysis (NTA)

Product Implementation Services

Test Management

User Activity Monitoring

Information Technology

A/B Testing

Ad Serving & Retargeting

All-in-One Marketing

Content Management

Customer Loyalty Program

Email Marketing

Location Intelligence

Marketing Automation

Referral Marketing

Search Marketing Intelligence

Social Media Management

Survey & Forms Building

Web Analytics

Marketing

Project Management

Transcription

Professional Services

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Sales

Data Loss Prevention

Data-Centric Audit Protection (DCAP)

Operational Technology (OT) Security

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM)

Security

Awards Management

Car Rental

Construction Accounting

Legal Research

Retail Execution

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Mediasite by Sonic Foundry is a video platform designed to facilitate communication, learning, and knowledge preservation for organizations of all sizes. According to the vendor, this solution is widely used in various industries, including education, healthcare, corporate, government, and associations. Mediasite aims to empower organizations by leveraging the power of video for maximum impact.

## Key Features

**Video Recording & Live Streaming**: Mediasite offers automated video recording capabilities, allowing users to capture videos from various devices, including hardware, software capture, and smartphones. According to the vendor, it also supports one-click recording from any location, facilitating remote teaching, training, and collaboration.

**Video Management**: Mediasite provides a robust video portal for secure management and organization of video content. The platform offers customizable video players and supports captioning and speech-to-text functionality, aiming to enhance accessibility.

**Virtual Meetings**: Mediasite enhances conference calls by enabling interactive engagement features such as annotations, polls, and quizzes. According to the vendor, it also allows users to curate dynamic video hubs automatically and search within spoken and visual content for convenient information retrieval.

**Polls, Quizzing, and Q&A**: Mediasite enables viewers to engage with video content through polls, quizzes, and Q&A features, fostering audience participation and feedback. According to the vendor, real-time polling and quizzing functionalities allow users to gauge audience understanding and knowledge.

**Mediasite Cloud**: The cloud-based deployment option offered by Mediasite aims to provide scalability for video deployment. According to the vendor, it eliminates the need for on-premises infrastructure, reducing maintenance and management efforts while ensuring high availability and reliability.

**Virtual Conferences & Events**: Mediasite's virtual and hybrid event platform enables organizations to host professional and engaging virtual conferences and events. The platform supports live streaming of sessions, interactive engagement features, and on-demand access to recorded content, according to the vendor.

**Real-Time Analytics**: Mediasite provides real-time analytics to offer insights into video usage and engagement. According to the vendor, users can measure the impact and effectiveness of their video content, enabling data-driven decision-making for content and engagement strategies.

**LMS Integrations**: Mediasite seamlessly integrates with Learning Management Systems (LMS), allowing users to create customized video playlists within their LMS. This integration aims to enhance the learning experience for students and learners while providing centralized management of video content, according to the vendor.

**Accessibility & Captioning**: Mediasite ensures accessibility for all viewers by providing captioning and speech-to-text functionality. The platform supports automated captioning and complies with accessibility standards, promoting inclusivity and regulatory compliance, according to the vendor.

Mediasite is an integrated video platform that automates the capture, management, delivery and search of live and on-demand videos, providing users with high-quality, engaging and interactive viewing experiences.

Panopto is a video management platform for businesses and universities from the company of the same name in Seattle, supporting the recording, sharing, live streaming, and (after recording) sharing via LMS or internal video site, video search, and virtual classroom.

Vidyard is an enterprise video platform built to turn viewers into customers with in-depth insights and robust integrations with different customer relationship management (CRM) and marketing automation platforms.

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Video Marketing

Features related to using video marketing content, as well as marketing videos themselves.

Lead generation

Tools such as contact forms and embedded calls to action, for converting viewers into leads.

Video personalization

Videos can be personalized based on unique details about the viewer, such as their name, company, photo, etc.

Audience for distribution

The platform includes an audience or community for distributing videos.

eCommerce

The platform supports paid viewing, with a mechanism to receive payments in exchange for a media license.

Support for advertisements

Supports video advertising by integrating with ad servers or networks and allowing users to request ads and manage ad settings on their videos/players.

Video SEO

Includes features to optimize video content so that it is discoverable by search engines.

Integration to Marketing Automation

Integrates to the user's marketing automation system, so that videos can be distributed via marketing channels and/or data collected around videos can be used to feed lead scores and campaign logic within the MA system.

Video Platform Integrations

Integrations between the enterprise video platform and other business applications.

Integration to Salesforce.com

The video platform integrates to the user's Salesforce CRM system.

Integration to Marketo

The video platform integrates with Marketo marketing automation software.

Integration to HubSpot

The video platform integrations with HubSpot marketing automation software.

Integration to Eloqua

The video platform integrates with Eloqua marketing automation software.

Integration to LMS

The video platform integrates with the user's learning management system.

Video Security

Features related to the security of an organization's content stored on an enterprise video platform.

Video access controls

Admins can set permissions and restrictions to control who has access to video content, from where videos can be accessed, etc.

User management

Recognizes different types of users, such as internal viewers (employees), external viewers (customers or prospects), administrators, content creators/editors, etc. and allows for variable access based on the type of user.

SSO support

The video platform supports single sign on (SSO).

Password protection

The video platform allows certain content to be password protected.

Video link sharing

Allows users to generate hyperlinks for sharing individual videos or players.

Embed restrictions

The video platform allows users to configure player availability by domain, and restrict copying and pasting of the player to other sites.

Internal video

Supports an internal use case, e.g. hosting and distributing videos to employees for training purposes or corporate communications.

External video

Supports using video for external use cases, e.g. broadcasting to a general audience, customer communications, advertising to prospective customers, etc.

Video Player

Features that support playing and watching video content that is hosted on the enterprise video platform.

Player customization

The video player can be customized according to the organization's desired look & feel.

Embedded videos

Video players can be embedded into HTML pages using embed codes.

Video quality / Bandwidth controls

Streaming is high quality, and users can set default bandwidth for optimal viewing.

Mobile compatibility

The video player allows viewers to watch videos from mobile devices.

Video Analytics

Features related to collecting and analyzing data around video streaming quality, viewer behavior, etc.

A/B testing

Includes tools for A/B testing different video content, player setups, personalization, lead forms, etc.

Streaming quality reports

Quality control reports are available to monitor fluctuations in video streaming quality.

Per viewer tracking

Tracks behavior of individual viewers as they engage with videos.

Per video tracking

Tracks engagement trends across all viewers of a particular video.

Video analytics dashboard

Includes a dashboard view of video performance metrics.

Video Hosting, Management & Storage

Features related to hosting, managing, and storing video content.

On-Demand video

The platform allows users to store and play pre-recorded videos on demand.

Live streaming

The platform allows users to broadcast/stream live video feeds.

Impact of streaming on network

Video streaming does not overly impact the organization's network performance (for internal use cases).

Video upload & format support

The platform allows users to upload video files and supports a range of video formats.

Video library / File management

Videos can be organized in a searchable repository with a sensical file structure.

Video portal

Users can create a portal to showcase or highlight certain videos, either by selecting a specific video or videos and placing it in a marquee position or using data-based criteria like viewer ratings to determine video placement.

Video downloads

Video files can be downloaded from the platform, depending on the user's permissions.

Video editing

Users can edit videos within the platform.

High definition support

The platform supports streaming of videos in HD.

Closed captioning / Transcription

The platform supports automatic speech to text transcription, which may be used for closed captioning or for a transcript of a live event.

Video Engagement

Features to engage viewers around video content, particularly for live streams.

Mediasite

Overview

What is Mediasite?