Accordent Media Management System

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Accordent describes this Media Management system as a:

''platform for managing, securing and measuring the effectiveness of rich media communications on an organizational scale.
... the Accordent Media Management System uniquely delivers a centralized online communications management infrastructure for ingesting, organizing, searching, publishing and securing multi-level access to Accordent presentations and other multimedia communications - including archived web- and video-conferences.''

What this means is that whether your organization is relatively small, or comprised of thousands of individuals, Accordent Media Management will scale to create a server-based infrastructure for your rich media content and communications.

Whatever the size of your organization, Accordent Media Management is nothing if not customizable - with the overall appearance, user registration and sign-in, and level of access to features fully tailored to your specific needs and in-house branding. This is the other end of the scale to off-the-peg and out-of-the-box solutions, which force your organization to do things their way.

The fundamental functions of Accordent Media Management are three-fold:

The creation of a customized, branded content portal from which your end users can easily locate, search and access the media content you have created with the Accordent - or third party - content creation tools
Authentication and tracking of users, creating a secure environment and the ability to closely monitor both attendance to live events and user uptake of on-demand media
In-depth audience interaction reporting that helps you to understand how and for what periods of time your users are accessing content, whether they participated in interactive elements, average session lengths and peak viewing times

In addition to providing you with an effective means of tracking the progress of your end-users, as they progress through a training course this in-depth reporting also gives you important pointers as to how you can improve aspects of your content delivery.

If nobody chooses to make use of a particular piece of interactive content, for instance, such reporting facility may allow you to easily spot it and replace it. Equally, if certain live sessions are ill-attended, while others are packed out with attendees, you may come to important realizations about content design, live online facilitators you are using, or even about the influence that time zones, or different times of the day play on the learning abilities of your participants.

In short, then, Accordent Media Management is not just a way of gathering your content in an accessible, branded, searchable environment, but also a way to gather key data about participation, progress and the changes that you may need to affect to get the best out of your content. As such, it may prove to be a valuable addition to the Accordent content creation tools.

Conclusions

Accordent has managed to bring together an impressive range of products and services that could well be of benefit to enterprise organizations looking to broadcast internally (or even to the outside world) their rich media communications.

One of the key strengths of the Accordent presentation, management and delivery system is not just in providing features to quickly and easily create live or on-demand rich-media presentations, but also in providing the tools to build and customize a delivery platform that matches your very specific needs.

For those looking to broadcast great-looking presentations made up of video, data input, audio and presentation slides Accordent Capture Station offers an easy to deploy hardware / software solution.

PresenterPLUS adds to this the ability to edit and synchronize streaming and other rich media content to produce more polished presentations. In addition PresenterPLUS offers the ability to work with an impressive array of file formats, and can altogether replace the use of the Capture Station.

PresenterPRO provides a best of both worlds solution for those looking to use advanced streaming and presentation authoring tools. PresenterPRO combines the best elements of the Capture Station and of PresenterPLUS, while adding rich interactivity and audience feedback.

The Accordent content-creation tools make it very straightforward to create synchronized video, audio and graphical presentations in both live and after-the-event versions. The fact that the content created can then be easily integrated into a scaleable, company-branded, fully-customized content management system, provides indeed a useful benefit many an organization could benefit from.

Accordent Media Manager goes beyond the straightforward management of content delivery, adding to the mix an excellent audience tracking functionality. Whether you want to track attendance to live webinars, gauge peak viewing times for on-demand content or measure which of your content items proves to be most effective, Accordent Media Manager gives you the tools to do so within your own infrastructure.

If your organization is looking to upgrade its existing rich-media content creation, delivery and management infrastructure, it may well be worth checking Accordent presentation suite as well as the range of product demonstrations that Accordent has made available on its site.

Additional resources

If you would like to learn more about Accordent and their suite of rich media communication solutions, you might want to take a look at the following links:

The Accordent website
Accordent Solutions explained in detail
Accordent service partners, from which you can make contact with your nearest reseller to discuss your organizational needs
The latest Accordent news

The Accordent Media Management System is at the cutting edge of organizational rich media communications. This powerful platform delivers unparalleled value to organizations by tracking not only what assets are available, but how audiences interact with those assets over time.

Accordent Media Management Application Modulesï¿½

Accordent Media Management Application Modules enable organizations to seamlessly add application-specific functionality - such as certification and automated event scheduling - to their Accordent rich media communications system.

The Accordent Media Management Systemï¿½

The Accordent Media Management Systemï¿½ is the industry's first platform for managing, securing and measuring the effectiveness of rich media communications on an organizational scale. Adopted by corporations, government and educational institutions, the Accordent Media Management System uniquely delivers a centralized online communications management infrastructure for ingesting, organizing, searching, publishing and securing multi-level access to Accordent presentations and other multimedia communications - including archived web- and video-conferences.

Enterprise-Class Scalability: Unlike standalone products, the system's standards-based design enables seamless integration and optimization of existing large-scale corporate and content delivery networks ï¿½ enabling rich media communications with thousands of viewers worldwide.

Best-of-Breed Workflow Automation: Proven in the world's most advanced streaming environments, the system delivers field-proven workflow automation throughout the creation-to-publishing content lifecycle.

Unparalleled Flexibility: Open system design gives users exceptional control over the appearance, access and management of Accordent- and non-Accordent online communications assets. Industry's most versatile user interface lets organizations custom-brand rich media content and sculpt the viewer experience by hiding or exposing playback features.

System Features

Content Management Portal An enterprise-class, custom-branded portal for rich media asset categorization and management that includes an intuitive search menu for quickly and easily locating assets.
User Authentication and Tracking Organizations can secure content from unauthorized viewers and monitor user and content performance using this system feature. Once a viewer has been authenticated, the system can provide real-time information about exactly which viewers are online during live events track on-demand media consumption over time.
Audience Interaction Reporting The system collects and reports information about viewer behavior, such as how long viewers watched a particular segment, their activity during viewing, if they interacted with rich media elements, the average session length and peak viewer times and dates.

Enterprise System Features

Event Scheduling and Notification For clients with multiple, dispersed Accordent Capture Station units, this feature provides the ability to centrally schedule and activate event capture and publishing, reserve units in specific locations and notify users via email of upcoming events.
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