Large Telecommunications Company The company has hundreds of sales professionals around the world. With new entry-level personnel joining the company every day, the company has an ongoing need for training. Since a large number of the new employees are also new college graduates, the company needs to provide basic telephony training as well as overall introduction to the company and product-specific training. Training takes an average of eight workdays per new employee. The company had been providing training in centrally located cities. Since the average sales office had a turnover rate of 30%, educating the new hires for two weeks (including travel time and one weekend) was proving to be increasingly expensive and difficult to manage. The company had videotaped their training, which reduced the delivery cost for each class, but the expense of travel and housing was still extremely high.
The company selected the ViewCast� system because it allowed the company to archive the video on a server and allowed the students to access the video on demand, receiving their training when it was convenient to them and their office managers. In addition to the reduction in travel and lodging expense, the company experienced an improvement in productivity, since the new employees can now be trained immediately upon their entry to the company and do not have to wait until the class is offered.
NASA: This large government agency wanted to provide real-time webcasting of launch activities at the Kennedy Space Center. Conventional equipment was able to provide after-the-fact encoding, but the agency felt that it was important to provide real-time video coverage of key events.
The ViewCast� system was selected because it is capable of providing real-time encoding of Internet-ready video streams. NASA was able to provide real-time broadcasts of launches, meeting its goal of improving the level of public awareness of agency activities and satisfying the public demand for information.
