Windows Media 9 Series for Business
Today’s businesses need to ensure that employees stay up-to-date and have easy access to the information they need. Incorporating digital media into corporate communications, training, and sales & marketing activities will have immediate benefits with a rapid return on a relatively modest investment.
Windows Media 9 Series is the best end-to-end digital media platform for creating and delivering live and on-demand content for business needs. Here are just a few of the benefits:
- Buffering time is virtually eliminated, and quality is optimized at any connection speed.
- Users can manage their experience by speeding up or slowing down content playback or minimizing the player to "multi-task" while listening to a broadcast.
- Industry leading scalability and lower bandwidth requirements translate to reduced costs.
Plus, with Microsoft Producer, creating rich media content for your company is even easier.
Microsoft Producer makes it easy for information workers and media professionals to create, edit, preview and publish rich digital media presentations anywhere.
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Although used in many scenarios and applications throughout a company, the majority of digital media solutions are used for one of the following three scenarios:
Corporate Communications
From live executive broadcasts to round-the-clock Intranet TV, businesses are investing in a digital media infrastructure to deliver critical, timely and more compelling knowledge and information to the edges of their highly distributed global organization.
Related Case Studies:
- General Mills – Delivering corporate announcements, departmental meetings, and training events to desktop PCs and manufacturing plant kiosks, has improved communication and employee participation, reduced travel time and costs, and reduced employee downtime.
- Marathon-Ashland Petroleum LLC – From the president in Houston to remote employees in Canada, Russia or Gabon, Windows Media has opened up a new world of communications for Marathon Ashland and its employees.
- Roche – Roche Diagnostics Corporation deployed a Windows Media-based streaming media solution to deliver consistent corporate messages and communicate with all employees.
Corporate Training
For years, corporate training departments have used audio and video to supplement instructor-led training, and have event used expensive closed-circuit and satellite-based TV networks to expend the reach of instructor-led to remote locations. But today, companies are taking advantage of extensive networks and sophisticated systems and tools to deliver intranet-based e-learning (online learning) directly to the employee, at their desktop, at their remote location (mobile), or in their work environment (kiosk-based). Windows Media and Microsoft Producer are key components in making training content a richer, more compelling experience, and more memorable. Whether integrated into an application Help file or comprising a complete standalone e-learning module, digital media can help ensure that employees have access to highly effective learning content when and where they need it.
Related Case Studies:
- Meijer – Meijer, a Midwest retail giant, completed its streaming media-based employee training pilot. Find the details regarding Meijer's training pilot and the company's plans for a full Windows Media deployment.
- Mercedes-Benz USA – Streamed information access and e-learning programs are providing enhanced customer satisfaction and substantial cost savings in terms of travel, salaries, and lost technician productivity for Mercedes-Benz USA.
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- Morrison & Foerster LLP – One of the world’s largest law firms selected Windows Media and Microsoft Producer to deliver training and communication content to 2,700 desktops spread across 18 offices worldwide.
Sales, Marketing and Community Outreach
Companies use digital media to meet a wide range of sales, marketing and community outreach requirements. From internal sales force training to extranet-based dealer training and from investor relations to employee recruiting, companies are finding that digital audio and video produces better results through more complete and higher impact messaging for targeted audiences. An end-to-end Windows Media 9 Series platform will enable the best solution for these applications of digital media technology.
For a complete list of all enterprise-focused Windows Media and Microsoft Producer case studies, click here.
Business Focused Demos
- Windows Media Video 9 Screen Capture –This example shows how to perform a task in a Microsoft Word document, which could, for example, be part of an IT Helpdesk or automated FAQ response, or an integral part of a custom application help file (.CHM).
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- Microsoft Producer – Companies of all sizes have been struggling to create and distribute rich-media to satisfy important business communication needs. Producer is ideally suited to deliver on demand communications such as executive broadcasts or corporate training.
Windows XP Professional offers integrated communications functionality for video-based communications, including the rich digital media delivered through the new Windows Media Player, and voice and video communications delivered via Windows Messenger.
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