Qumu Inc., a provider of rich media streaming video solutions for the enterprise, has announced the release of Qumu Kodiak, a suite of cost-effective, video capture and streaming products that allow global organizations to easily create, manage, distribute and measure video communications without affecting network resources.

Qumu Kodiak is a suite of enterprise video applications that is much advanced compared to the traditional enterprise video creation and deployment. Qumu Kodiak is designed for corporate communication professionals to save on power and cost of enterprise video to communicate with both internal and external audiences and meet the increased need for video creation and distribution.

One of the employees' use of video sharing sites is YouTube (News - Alert), and similar capabilities are required that integrate people and content. IT organizations face the daunting requirement to simplify publishing and distribution for use within authorized parties while minimizing impact on network resources.

Qumu Kodiak makes the process of creating, managing and distributing video within the enterprise easy, secure and reliable via a user-friendly interface, access control parameters and reporting capabilities. The Qumu's new Kodiak Suite of Employee Generated Content (EGC) solutions, allows more effective company-wide training, collaboration and communication, with ease of creation of rich media videos for projects such as videoblogs through the new Qumu Create, and publishing within the enterprise through the new Qumu EGC portal.

The Qumu Kodiak product manages all steps of the enterprise video lifecycle through a single vendor solution.

The new Kodiak product suite comprises of five key components like Qumu Video Control Center 5.0 , which is  Qumu's flagship video management solution that provides central control for all video applications, content and resources involved in the production and delivery of scalable enterprise video and live .The Video Control Center delivers the first Employee Generated Content (EGC) interface for employees to participate in enterprise video with user-friendly social collaboration features through Microsoft (News - Alert) Silverlight.

Another component, Qumu Create, is a low-cost desktop video creation tool with a simple interface that runs on a user's desktop/laptop and generates rich media presentations which synchronize Windows Media video (up to 2 USB cameras).

Qumu Capture Studio 2.0, is a platform for high-quality executive webcasts and presentations for distribution in multiple formats.

Qumu VideoEdge , a video-centric distribution appliance that automates video distribution. Qumu Digital Signage, is a professional and affordable digital signage solution for organizations that want to integrate video deployment with corporate signage.

"Qumu Kodiak is a transformative update to the company's product platform, opening the door to a new range of cost-effective technologies that can be easily implemented to enhance enterprise video communications. Qumu's new realms of EGC and videoconference streaming can engage every employee into the video equation," commented Steve Vonder Haar, research director of Interactive Media Strategies.

"The product update clearly vaults Qumu to the top tier of technology vendors promoting and distributing software (and appliance-based) applications designed to enhance the enterprise video communications process," added Haar.