NewsGator announced that integration of its NewsGator Social Sites 2010 with Enterprise Video Platform (EVP) from Kontiki, allows organizations to consolidate enterprise content to Microsoft SharePoint as a single collaboration platform, providing new channels and alternatives to technical communications teams tasked with internal delivery of video content.
Kontiki’s EVP allows organizations deliver live video webcasting, video on-demand and community video portals over existing networking infrastructure. NewsGator Social Sites 2010 social computing suite delivers a wide range of social and mobile computing capabilities for Microsoft SharePoint. According to NewsGator, the deep integration with Kontiki’s EVP, “enhances productivity and business performance by significantly streamlining employee information access. Organizations no longer need to spend time and effort navigating to a separate environment to find, share and manage videos.”
“Microsoft SharePoint offers opportunities for organizations to increase productivity, and those opportunities are magnified by Microsoft partners, such as NewsGator, that create solutions to further collaboration,” said Richard Riley, SharePoint product management director at Microsoft Corp.
NewsGator, a Microsoft Gold Certified and Depth Managed Partner, implements Social Sites with social functionality, including, posting, commenting, and sharing Kontiki-delivered video via activity streams, communities, video repositories and internal TV channels.
“Many global organizations are demanding high-quality enterprise video for a growing number of use cases and need to include this important content within their SharePoint environments,” said Kevin Crayton, Kontiki’s Vice President of Products. “NewsGator Social Sites is their fastest path to social video integration with SharePoint and lets companies leverage all the power, efficiency, security, manageability and analytics of our proven video platform. It’s a winning combination which our customers have been looking forward to with huge interest.”
“High-quality enterprise video that can be delivered to every employee across a global company is one of the most personal, engaging and effective ways for a workforce to communicate,” said NewsGator Brian Kellner, VP of Development and Product Management. “To obtain the most value, great content should be easily accessible and in the mainstream of the social business flow. That’s what we’re doing with this integration, and the business results will speak for themselves.”
Kontiki support is part of the Social Sites Video Stream module for Microsoft SharePoint 2010. Read the full release here, or visit the NewsGator website and the Kontiki website.
