Organizations & Institutions Using Digital Media

Enterprise organizations use Windows Media technologies to efficiently deliver one-to-many broadcast communications, instructional content for training and education, and sales and marketing.

With Microsoft Producer for Microsoft Office PowerPoint, content creators enhance on-demand streaming information and easily capture, synchronize, and publish rich media for presentations, training, and business communications.

To learn how others are using Windows Media and Producer, select an industry:

• Business
• Education
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Broadcast Communications

Training & Education

Sales, Marketing, & Community Outreach

Business

	General Mills General Mills deployed Windows Media 9 Series and Windows Server 2003 as a major enhancement to Champions TV, its popular intranet video streaming tool. Now, more than 20,000 General Mills employees receive high quality rich-media programming more quickly and efficiently.
	IDT Media IDT Media has successfully deployed a product that delivers live licensed television content to the corporate desktop using Windows Media 9 Series. IDT Media provides secure, high-quality content while reducing deployment costs and allowing a revenue stream from commercial advertisements.
	Marathon Ashland Petroleum LLC Marathon Ashland Petroleum LLC switched from providing VHS-based employee training to a streaming media–based solution using Windows Media. Both live and on-demand content is served to more than 12,000 employees using unicast and multicast network connections.
	Meijer Meijer, a private grocery and general merchandise retailer, implemented a pilot program using Windows Media to stream training programs to its 80,000 employees.
	Mercedes-Benz USA Mercedes-Benz USA Technical Training group developed information access and e-learning programs using Windows Media. Rich, streaming media–based programs communicate information efficiently to enhance customer satisfaction and provide substantial cost savings in terms of employee travel, salaries, and lost technician productivity.
	Misys Healthcare Systems Misys has deployed a rich-media solution that uses Windows Media and Microsoft Producer to quickly and easily deliver education and training content to more than 1,200 hospitals. The company has dramatically reduced travel costs, tape duplication fees, and technical support calls since deployment.
	Morrison & Foerster LLP Morrison & Foerster LLP, one of the world's largest law firms, selected Microsoft Producer and Windows Media to deliver training and communication content to 2,700 desktops. The new system cost-effectively trains legal staff and provides efficient access to professional development courses for attorneys in all 18 offices worldwide.
	Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) In order to reduce capital and operational costs and prepare for the move to digital TV, PBS is replacing expensive broadcast equipment with IT building blocks based on the Microsoft .NET Framework and Windows Server system. The project is expected to save PBS up to $100 million U.S. annually in operational costs.
	Pura Vida Coffee Pura Vida used Microsoft Producer to capture the energy and passion of the president's live presentations in a rich-media format that could be sent to prospective investors. This broadened the reach of the company's message, saved time and travel costs, and helped Pura Vida meet investment goals that were critical to accomplishing its mission.
	Roche Diagnostics Corporation RDC has deployed a streaming media solution to replace the logistically challenging and time-consuming off-site meetings. Now, six servers running Windows Media Services deliver both live and on-demand unicast and multicast executive presentations to its main campus and to remote offices and field personnel.
	Rohm and Haas The Rohm and Haas research community deployed a network-efficient way to share live information among more than 1,000 users at multiple locations using Windows Media and Microsoft Producer.
	SyncCast, LLC Learn how SyncCast, LLC is using Windows Media Services 9 Series to maximize the value of its customers' digital-media investments through the development of customized applications.
	Taecan.com Taecan.com provides continuing legal education (CLE) courses online to the legal community in 25 states. Using Microsoft Producer to synchronize rich-media content and Windows Media to encode, edit, and deliver materials, Taecan.com reaches busy attorneys efficiently through intranets, extranets, and the Internet.
	Yahoo!, Inc. Learn how Yahoo!, Inc. has realized significant improvements in throughput with Windows Media Services 9 Series that have more than doubled the number of streams that one server can deliver.

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Education

	California State University, Monterey Bay The Information Services and Network Solutions department at CSUMB deployed Windows Media to deliver relevant, informative, and interactive course materials to its students. Now, a unified content library enables students and faculty to manage, schedule, and view streaming content directly from their desktops.
	The Darden School Using Windows Media, Darden brings the benefits of video-based content directly to MBA student desktops.
	Kansas State University Kansas State University, an innovative user of technology, recently piloted the Tegrity Notes solution in an effort to enhance its students' knowledge retention and note taking skills. Based on the Tablet PC running Microsoft Windows XP Tablet PC Edition, the instructors' annotations, Microsoft Windows Media 9 Series encoded video, and Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2003 slides are automatically synchronized with students' notes and are available for review and selective playback at any time.
	Mineta Transportation Institute–SJSU MTI uses Windows Media and Microsoft Producer to create and deliver transportation policy, regulation, and management education to industry professionals throughout California.
	Peoria Unified School District The Peoria Unified School District uses Windows Media and Microsoft Producer to train its teachers and staff and to enable rich-media content creation for the classroom. The district has saved $250,000 in training costs and improved the way it trains district teachers and staff.
	Seattle Community College District SCCtv is using Windows Media 9 Series and Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition, to deliver an automated broadcast system for supplying broadcast quality distance learning and educational programming. Using the system, broadcasters like SCCtv can save hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars in capital expense and staffing costs.
	University of Alabama in Huntsville The University of Alabama is using Windows Media and Microsoft Producer to deliver classes online, to share knowledge with students and colleagues in Europe, and to assist community-based groups desiring improved communication and training efficiency.
	University of Cincinnati UC's Streaming Media Project is helping the university reinvent the traditional classroom. Using Windows Media, UC reaches students where they live and work at times conducive to their individual learning styles, and delivers a system requiring no more effort from students or faculty than a traditional classroom-based course.
	University of Wisconsin-Madison Engineering professors at the University of Wisconsin-Madison use their eTEACH® rich-media authoring environment and Windows Media to deliver online lectures for the Computer Sciences 310 course.
	The Wharton School Through the Wharton Video Network more than 4,600 undergraduate, evening, MBA, and Executive MBA students have access to on-demand, Windows Media–based course materials and interactive learning applications.
	Wylie Independent School District Using Microsoft Producer, the district's staff and students quickly and easily create training seminars, class projects, and other rich-media presentations. The district also uses Windows Media to stream cable television stations to classrooms—an alternative to broadband cable that saved the district $280,000.

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Government

Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs The ministry deployed a Windows Media–based solution to deliver important news event broadcasts and responses to government officials across the country.

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