BLOOMINGTON, Minn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--As travel costs climb and travel hassles worsen, visual communications is becoming critical for organizations to meet their business goals. Twin Cities-based Video Guidance, a leading visual communications company in the Upper Midwest, has introduced vStream™, a new cloud-based service that streams video communications over the Internet.
A secure, hosted visual communication service, vStream offers businesses and organizations an all-in-one, highly reliable webcasting solution, increasing the visual impact of sales presentations, product launches, training programs or business announcements. Attractive for companies of all sizes, vStream allows customers to have live webcasting at a low-cost rate. The service also enables organizations to record the video and play it back on demand, which is effective as an educational and training tool.
vStream’s brandable, easy-to-use portal allows customers to send out invitations to hosted live or on-demand events while having administrator tools to manage event schedules, and attendees’ and participants’ activity.
“We can record your event and send out the invitations, while a business can brand its own portal,” said Mike Werch, president and CEO of Video Guidance. “In addition, no matter what a customer’s infrastructure is, any business can use our cloud services affordably because they can pay as they go…without owning it.”
vStream integrates four essential elements of streaming video communications, including video capture, content management, portal services and rich media delivery. The integration greatly simplifies what it takes to get digital media applications up and running. vStream features:
- Visual Control Panel allows for separate host, presenter and attendees
- Registration web page and reporting
- Secure, permission-based content viewing and tracking
- Support for PowerPoint animation and synchronization
- Archiving to save events for future playback
“From large campuses to rural communities, our customers are very strategic about how they communicate and how they use video,” said Werch, whose customer-focused company differentiates itself by providing “best of breed” technologies and unlimited applications to help its customers to communicate more effectively. “Video conferencing, distance learning and telemedicine are just a few of the creative ways our customers are using visual communications to meet their mission-critical business objectives.”
Founded in 1999, Video Guidance (www.VideoGuidance.com) is privately held and headquartered in Bloomington, Minn. Video Guidance is an independent partner of Cisco, Polycom and LifeSize, and maintains strategic alliances with Conference Plus, On Stream Media Corporation, VQ Communications, VBrick, and Accordent. For five consecutive years, Video Guidance has been named to the "Inc. 5,000" list of the nation's fastest growing private companies, and is one of the top privately held companies in Minnesota and one of the top 150 telecommunications companies in the nation. In addition, Video Guidance has been named by The Business Journal as one of the "50 Fastest Growing Privately Held Companies" in the Twin Cities.