Microsoft Stream
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Enterprise Video is a huge content niche. I've used YouTube in the past for business videos, but it was awkward. I wanted greater privacy, which YouTube does not really offer, because these videos discussed pre-launch ideas. We already used Office 365, so Microsoft Stream would have been a no-brainer.
I would love to perform research with the MS Stream platform, too. By focusing on the niche of business, Stream is creating interesting audience dynamics that will be quite different from the "grazing" model of recreational video watching. This is relevant to my interests.
There's going to be a whole ecosystem around more internal video production, webinars and training sessions going forwards. Going to be a really nice niche.
Its slightly odd that a product called Stream doesn't actually 'stream' - though I understand that they are using th eterm in a different way here.
For the moment, I'll stick with Youtube Live.
A lot of enterprises are setup with a Spoke-Hub topology where all network data passes through the hub. Sometimes this is done for auditing purposes, and other times it's for security. Sometimes remote offices do not have internet access despite an internet connection. Their edge routers just use a VPN tunnel or MPLS network back into the hub.
In the end it's no distribution that kills but bandwidth. That why peer-to-peer video and multicasting are still around. Because in a lot of cases you can have one person browsing Youtube or watching a webcast from his desk and it will completely saturate the office data line.
Enterprise video is always, always made for the benefit of the broadcaster (i.e. management), never for actual workers. Which is why no-one (except management) cares about enterprise video, it's possibly the worst tool for internal training or knowledge sharing.
This would be a good use case: sharing video about company-private materials.
If somebody from team A (on campus 1) can watch a video from team C (on campus 3) without needing their team leaders to coordinate a meeting, this will be extremely valuable to businesses.
But why would team A ever find out about team C? That's where this discovery feature comes in. See what's trending within-company.
Hopefully your recommendation is on MSFT's roadmap.
If there are any Stream folks reading this my one request is an easy way to attach a slide deck to the videos. The video description is an okay place, but it would be even better if there was deeper integration. Like slides on one side of the screen.
I wouldn't be surprised if this is a simple whitelabeling of Lynda (or perhaps adaptation to a slightly tweaked use case -- this doesn't seem focused specifically on organizational eLearning) since Lynda hasn't been discontinued as a service, but that's just off of my quick 30 second glance. Stream and Lynda look like they both do pretty much the same thing, so Microsoft might be capitalizing on its own brand recognition to sell the underlying service to Microsoft shops.
I'm purely speculating, though. Is there anyone on the Stream team who can comment?
Stream allows companies to produce their own videos, for HR, training, and motivational purposes, and host it. Think of it as an internal YouTube.
[1] https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/media-services/
Now, let's say you want your junior programmers to be more familiar with MySQL basics. What if you could buy a Lynda MySQL training video from Microsoft, and have it added to your company Stream? Perhaps you add the video to a category on Stream so it can only be viewed by your junior programmers. Then, the license could charge you for each unique junior programmer that watches the video. If you hire a new junior programmer, you add them to that Stream category, they watch the MySQL training video, you get billed.
OT: Let's see how they fare with the SP5. I hope they upgrade the Surface 3 this time.
Best bet for us till now used to be Vimeo.
I guess my issue is that i don't understand how this would scale.
There is not going to be a massive amount of customers for a specialized enterprise video platform, and there's already video support in Sharepoint?
That would make pricing tricky, since this is essentially a single feature?
They're announcing a small, separate product to validate if there is demand. Then they'll get early users and burn money while they figure out how to make it into a profitable business.
Stream is basically providing an internal Youtube, a place where you can upload videos, control who access to them, and let Stream take care of routing, etc.
Video content is 'difficult' for smaller to medium companies to manage and deliver. Some things are best taught through video.
You may be thinking in just a sense of an office, but this could be useful for Factories or other slightly skilled labour.
Add in basic messageboard/etc from a trusted brand, who most people already subscribe to with their OS and Software.
However the 'anyone' can upload, seems like an HR disaster waiting. And I suspect will quickly be turned off to a limited few to the few that use this service.
I am in the PM owner for both Stream and Office 365 Video
See here for more details - https://stream.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/microsoft-stream-and...
Yeah, Microsoft clearly is the way to go.
Windows botnet is somethijg completely seperate. They don't care about entreprises there, they only want data.
Do not conflate these two.
Google is 100% data, Microsoft is maybe 50.