IBM Cloud Video as a secure platform for delivering live content
Overall Satisfaction with IBM Cloud Video
Ustream is used across the organization to connect to entire teams or globally across the company for all hands meetings. The platform provides a consistent place where users can go to easily view recurring meets and events. Over VC platforms, links are not torn down at the ends of meetings, the UI is clear and easy to understand, the encoding of the audio and video can be fine tuned by our team to deliver high-quality content.
Pros
- Integrate well with single sign on solutions.
- Recurring meetings and events are easy to access at the same URL.
- The reliability of the live component is exceptional (up time).
- The QA functionality allows viewers to easily engage with presenters.
Cons
- There is limited CMS functionality for recorded content.
- While Ustream is responsive in communicating, sometimes platform issues require multiple communications to fully resolve.
- There are limited ways that all of the available live programming can be laid out and presented to the company.
Evaluating IBM Cloud Video (including Ustream) and Competitors
The main reasons I would recommend Ustream over other competitors are: SSO integration, how accessible/responsive support is, the ease of use for the viewer, the consumption/seat model is easy to understand, server side encoding to multiple bitrates/qualities, ability to connect with QA functionality, ability to generate a backup stream from an additional encoder.
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