VIDIZMO for Sharepoint – a quick glance!

Sharepoint is like a Swiss knife in Web App/Portal world. You can mold it to almost anything, be it back office automation, rich and graphical reporting system or a highly complex workflow system or simply document management and collaboration! However Rich Media or Video delivery is still not Sharepoint’s edge, because of the architecture limitations and the peculiar requirements of delivering rich media, you need specialized systems to do the job, which is where VIDIZMO comes in handy.

But having separate systems just adds up to cost and maintenance. Wouldn’t it be just great if somehow VIDIZMO could utilize the same portal environment that people already are using for so many things and users don’t have to go to a separate VIDIZMO portal to watch videos!?! Well, now that is possible with VIDIZMO for Sharepoint, an add-on to VIDIZMO that conveniently integrates with Sharepoint (2007 and 2010).

In a nut shell, this is what you get from VIDIZMO for Sharepoint

1. SSO (Single Sign On), which essentially means use same user id/password to access Rich Media on VIDIZMO that users use to access Sharepoint. This leaves administrators from managing separate login ids and for user a blessing, cause they don’t need to remember a separate login id

2. Central User Administration, again a blessing for administrators. Now they don’t have to enable or create new accounts on VIDIZMO separately, instead the account created on AD (which integrates with Sharepoint) are automatically created as user visits Sharepoint setup with VIDIZMO for Sharepoint

3. Central Search – yes! Now users searching for content on Sharepoint would get Rich Media search results in real time from their Channel at VIDIZMO

4. Familiar sharepoint user interface, since you never have to leave Sharepoint to watch Rich media content now. it just serves within!

5. Customize your portal with Sharepoint webparts. Since its all residing inside Sharepoint, you can add more web parts, like document management, comments & feedback etc. to give users a richer experience

Here’s a sneak peak of how VIDIZMO for Sharepoint looks like (snapshots from MOSS 2007)…

Home page on Sharepoint site created by VIDIZMO for Sharepoint

Federated Search bringing results in real time from Channel at VIDIZMO

My Viewing Plan inside Sharepoint

On Demand Playback on Sharepoint

Presentation Detail Page on Sharepoint 

Neat! Isn’t it?