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Complexity, cost and commotion (the disruption of "business as usual" workflows) are significant obstacles for anyone assigned the task of making enterprise video searchable.
Putting a small or comprehensive video-asset logging, searching and management system in place is definitely a project that IT should be involved in. Although IT technicians don't need to learn video production, the products we tested must be hosted on Windows NT or Solaris servers on the enterprise network. Properly configured, these systems will create streaming-ready files that need to be posted to appropriate enterprise video servers or content delivery networks for users to access. Metadata must be published to IT-administered database servers that the proprietary video asset search server can then find and query, and the results returned to the user's browser via an Active Server page.
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Perey is president of Perey Research & Consulting, of Placerville, Calif. She provides market research and business development consulting to companies offering networked multimedia applications, technologies and services to enterprises. She can be reached at cperey@perey.com.
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NetResults
See how the products we tested measured up.
Considering multisite collaboration
In addition to our usability tests, we reviewed each product in light of how they could support such multisite collaboration.
The services alternative
Instead of dealing with the costs and complexity associated with these products, why not consider using a hosted model?
How we did it
Our testing methods explained.
Intel, Excalibur name new company Convera
Intel and Excalibur Technologies Monday announced that they have chosen the name Convera Corp. for their joint venture interactive media services company.
IDG News Service, 09/11/00.
