San Jose, Calif. — November 17, 2009 —Kontiki, the leading provider of enterprise video solutions,
debuted today the Kontiki VideoCenter enterprise employee video portal, defining a new class of
employee video community that allows companies to align their organization around a corporate
vision using communication that connects and inspires every employee. The new product is being
demonstrated this week at the Streaming Media West 2009 conference, San Jose McEnery
Convention Center, booth #619.
Kontiki VideoCenter delivers on the promise of YouTube for the Enterprise by engaging all employees with social media and userâ€generated content – while overcoming the challenges of securing and controlling this powerful communication tool in a way that is consistent with company
o Engaging consumer style video community for sharing ideas and knowledge: familiar and rich
social media capabilities such as easy upload of user generated content; simple content
discovery via search and channels as well as syndication, ratings and rankings, comments,
and tagging; dynamic channel building that fosters communities; also supports live video,
on demand video, video conferencing, video webcasting and video podcasts to create a
o Enterprise class security, control and reporting: flip the switch on and off for as little or as
many social media elements a company is comfortable with; secure role based access
controls for publishing and viewing to govern who can see what and who can share what
on an individual, group, business unit or company wide basis; robust reporting
o Reaches all employees, in all locations, on any device: overcomes network bandwidth
limitations and last mile branch office problem leveraging Kontiki's fully integrated
Enterprise Content Delivery Network (ECDN) with no impact on existing network business
traffic and no costly hardware upgrades
Enterprises are Looking to Harness Consumer Style Video Communities
YouTube has made video into a social media phenomenon and a culture that employees have come
to expect. With the rise of low cost, easy to use video cameras and authoring tools, employees are
beginning to post confidential business videos on YouTube as a way to communicate to hundreds or
even thousands of coworkers because they have few alternatives.
At the same time, enterprises are turning to video †whether it is live video, video onâ€demand, video
conferencing, video webcasting, video podcasts or telepresence for competitive advantage to
increase the effectiveness of executive communication, team collaboration and training and to
reduce travel costs. Add to this fact that many companies have invested significant resources into
creating video content that they want to make searchable and accessible, and it becomes clear that
companies are beginning to require a single destination site for their business video communication.
The Kontiki VideoCenter enterprise employee video portal is uniquely positioned to evolve into a
company’s single destination for all enterprise video and rich media. Many Kontiki customers have
already started to build their video culture with Kontiki. Kontiki has successfully delivered hundreds
of millions of highâ€quality videos to desktops around the world for some of the world's largest
companies in the financial services, retail, technology, telecommunications and manufacturing
market sectors such as Charles Schwab, Coca Cola, Sephora, Verizon and more.
Customer, Analyst and Executive Quotes
Patty Perkins, vice president of Wachovia Video OnDemand: Enterprise employee communication
portals make information relevant and useful to employees, and video proves itself over and over in
driving employee engagement. Adding the video portal capability to the Kontiki product suite is a
smart move and is transforming the way video is used in business communication.
Ira Weinstein, senior analyst and partner at Wainhouse Research: "Kontiki's Video Center portal
combines the impact of rich media content and the interactivity of social networking under a single
user interface. The addition of YouTube style capabilities to Kontiki's efficient and scalable content
distribution platform makes this offering worthy of serious consideration by any enterprise seeking
wide scale, rich media content creation, management, and distribution."
Joe Ghazal, vice president of engineering for Kontiki: "If you could get all people in your organization
to row in the same direction you can dominate any industry, in any market, against any competition.
To do this, you need to reach everyone with a consistent message and get them personally engaged
in the conversation. This is the promise of YouTube for the Enterprise and Kontiki Video Center is
the only offering that combines unlimited reach with maximum engagement in one single solution.
And with the market adoption of cloud computing for delivering business services, organizations of
any size can get started with video easily and quickly."
With Kontiki's Software as a Service offering in the cloud, the costs for getting started with video
are more accessible than ever – in some cases less than the cost of an audio conference and
deployment can be achieved in days or weeks.
The Kontiki VideoCenter enterprise employee video portal is available immediately for beta testing
with general availability in February 2010.
Other Important Features of the Kontiki VideoCenter
o Automatically transcodes uploaded user generated video between all popular formats and
players such as Flash, QuickTime, Windows Media, H2.64
o Customized corporate branding and messaging
o LDAP and Active Directory integration for convenient single signâ€on as well as consistent
enforcement of permissions
o Corporate governance to meet security, management and compliance policies
o Detailed network usage reporting and feedback
o APIs for integration with existing content management systems
Links, URLS and Embedded Video
About Kontiki, Inc.
Founded in 2000, Kontiki offers an Endâ€toâ€End Enterprise Video Platform, delivering all of the
capabilities you need for a complete Video Communications solution, while ensuring absolute
security and control over your network and content. From Live Video Webcasting and Video Onâ€
Demand to an Employee Video Portal with Social Media capabilities, Kontiki gives you the ability to
build a video culture and align your organization, in the most engaging and effective way possible.
Offered as a Softwareâ€asâ€aâ€Service or Software License solution, Kontiki’s technology is unique
in the market in that our customers can securely deliver highâ€quality video to all employees
globally, without deploying any networking or caching hardware. Learn more about us at
