In today’s increasingly competitive global marketplace, the ability of corporations to educate and train their workforces in a way that primes team members to thrive in the field is more important than ever before. Simultaneously, with the current economic climate, corporations often face the challenge of providing learning programs that enhance workforce performance and productivity with fewer resources at their disposal than in years past. In many cases, corporate learning and training divisions face travel cutbacks for bringing national and global workforces together for training and product-education conferences.

Enter ShareStream Corporate Learning, a rich media management and delivery platform that allows corporations to educate and train their workforces through multimedia, while safeguarding and controlling access to proprietary, internal media during online delivery with powerful digital right management (DRM) and robust access controls. ShareStream allows corporations to operate as state-of-the-art educational media organizations to achieve the maximum return-on-investment from staff-education and learning programs. ShareStream’s interoperability with learning management systems (LMSs) and sales force automation systems (SFAs) creates a seamless experience for sales forces, bringing corporate learners the full benefit of ShareStream’s multimedia functionality within the familiar context of their most commonly-used corporate applications.

For Corporate Learning Programs, where the desired objective is primarily skill and knowledge attainment that will provide team members with a competitive edge in the field, online multimedia is an extremely powerful and cost-effective educational medium. For individual corporate learners, who are often “students-on-the-go,” carving out study time in between professional and familial responsibilities, ShareStream’s asynchronous, “on-demand” style of learning provides convenience benefits that are an ideal fit for corporate learners’ busy work schedules and lifestyles.

ShareStream’s Rich Media Platform provides corporations with a turnkey solution for the full lifecycle of media. Features and functionality include:

Easy ingest for staff with no rich media expertise that allows authorized users to upload media, which is then automatically transcoded to a file format compatible with your corporation’s streaming server;

Automated Digitization, Batch Migration and Transcoding to multiple file formats, including files for streamed media for all of the predominant end formats, files for downloads and podcasts, as well as files in a variety of resolutions to reach users with wide-ranging levels of Internet connectivity;

Digital Rights Management, Access-control, Copy-protection, and Identity-management functionality that secures your corporation’s proprietary, confidential content during online delivery; verifies that only users with the required credentials and privileges are granted access to media objects; and ensures compliance with the terms of media licenses;

Workflow and Business Process Management for staging the process of clearing media with approvals and edits from multiple departments before publishing media to learners;

Online Video-editing Tool that provides staff who are not media specialists with an easy-to-use solution for time-based editing, overlays, and clip trimming;

Streaming cross-streaming server, format, and player (Flash, Quicktime, Real and others), or integration with your corporations’ current streaming server;

Secure Deep-linking Functionality that provides the capability to post media and thumbnails to multiple locations, including websites, applications, and even e-mails, in a secure, password-protected manner;

Podcasts into iTunes and RSS feeds in both an authenticated and open environment;

Interoperability with Learning Management Systems and Integration with Authentication and Authorization Services and Single Sign-on Solutions, all of which ensures that mission-critical corporate media is available to authorized users securely wherever they go online to learn.

Open API for Independent Third-party Integration that provides corporations and system integrators with the ability to build on top of, customize, and integrate ShareStream into other mission-critical company systems;

Metadata-driven Advanced Search that allows staff to efficiently identify relevant media objects for online learning programs;

Reporting and Analytics Tool that monitors and audits all user accesses to content, allowing corporations to track how content is being utilized by the sales forces, and gauge which media objects members of the sales force are responding most favorably to.

While not replacing corporate training conferences and similar traditional training-oriented events, ShareStream’s secure rich media platform supplements non-digital training and education initiatives, resulting in an empowered workforce that is capable of delivering outstanding performance. Ultimately, adoption of ShareStream’s technology drives down training and education costs by lowering the frequency of staff conferences and training meetings, while at the same time improving workforce retention of mission-critical content. With ShareStream Corporate Learning, you can be sure that your team will take leadership in the field.