SIMPLY PERFECT PRESENTATIONS. WebCaster is the industry’s most feature-complete, scalable, and reliable webcasting solution.
WebCaster enables you to produce, manage, distribute and monitor live and on- demand webcasts for simple, professional quality production with powerful distribution of webcasts featuring streaming video, PowerPoint slides, Flash® animation, audio, surveys, polls and screen demos.
Feature Highlights
Playlist: Create and add live and/or on-demand content. Auto repeat in various ways
Auto-Archive: Auto-archiving of Flash video with instantaneous availability for live events
Content Conversion to Flash: Uploading of existing video content to convert to Flash
Video Preview: Previewing of all live feeds before pushing them live
LiveEditor Integration: Complete integration with LiveEditor to coordinate with a central management screen
Chat: Sending of messages by remote presenters to the director
Hand Raising: Remote sources may alert director of webcast for chance to speak
Redundancy: Highly reliable live webcasts with 100% redundancy and no single point of failure
Reporting: Insight into attendee usage and behavior through comprehensive reporting features
Deployment flexibility: On-site install or Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) while securely managing content
Multiple Remote Presenters
Flash-based webcasting of live video or audio streams, live screen demoing from remote sources, and pre-recorded video or audio.
For example, this allows a live webcast originating in New York to include presenters from all over the world. The director can switch seamlessly between presenters or play a pre-recorded video from their custom library; the remote presenters screen indicates whether they are in broadcast or standby mode – when in broadcast mode, they simply look at the screen and start speaking into the microphone. Presenters can broadcast themselves with video and/or audio or easily show their computer screen to the audience, and have the ability to chat directly with the director via text-based messaging anytime during the event.
Advanced Technical Architecture for Enterprise Integration
WebCaster has been designed for simple integration with other applications using Web services and the principle of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) which facilitates the development, expansion and interoperability of webcasting in your enterprise.
WebCaster’s Operating System independence allows hosting on whatever OS your IT department prefers. The centrally-managed architecture enables you to monitor, protect and maintain critical control of the network and related resources, such as enterprise CDNs, webservers, streaming servers, and so on.
WebCaster enables programmatic integration of video creation, management and measurement abilities into most existing corporate systems, such as portals, CRM, or enterprise content management (ECM) solutions.
Massive Scalability
WebCaster easily and securely scales from 100s to 100,000+ live viewers, allowing multiple simultaneous live events, and multiple remote presenters.
SaaS or On-premises Installation
WebCaster is the only software package for enterprise video webcast creation and management available in SaaS and a behind-the-firewall, on-site installation model.
Built for Teamwork
WebCaster enables team creation, scheduling, measurement, asset management and project management in one comprehensive product for a secure webcasting process.
WebCaster provides a single, centralized browser-based interface for completing each step in the webcasting process from invitations to login and beyond. WebCaster manages the whole process and thus optimizes typical workflows and controls IT investments.
Complete Feature Set Simplifies Webcasting While Setting Up for Growth WebCaster utilizes basic features such as auto synching with PowerPoint slides, polling, and Q&A through to advanced features such as live screen demoing, multiple simultaneous webcasts, multiple live remote presenters and multiple administrators during a live event, as well as customized templates for different groups of webcasts.
Complete Feature Set Simplifies Webcasting While Setting Up for Growth
WebCaster utilizes basic features such as auto synching with PowerPoint slides, polling, and Q&A through to advanced features such as live screen demoing, multiple simultaneous webcasts, multiple live remote presenters and multiple administrators during a live event, as well as customized templates for different groups of webcasts.
In-Depth Reporting and Automatic Certification
WebCaster provides detailed and customized reports about the audience, ranging from the basic “who watched and what, for how long, and geographic maps of audience members, to viewer profiles showing technical profiles and opinions from polling and Q&A. Reports let you determine the ROI for a webcast.
Security and Role-Based Permissions
WebCaster is a highly secure, password or IP address protected webcasting environment. System content can be maintained behind the firewall or on 3rd party Content Distribution Networks (CDNs) – a specific webcast can be distributed to a controlled list of users or to everyone in the company.
Designed for Enterprise-Wide Deployment, Scalability, and Redundancy
WebCaster is suited for stand-alone and large-scale webcasting supporting multiple simultaneous live webcasts. Multiple administrators can operate simultaneously one or more webcasts. Authors can access the system from anywhere. MediaPlatform architecture provides uninterrupted and reliable service with 100% redundancy. All files added can automatically be analyzed for metadata to enhance their searchability and usability.
Technical requirements:
WebCaster Director requires Flash Player 9, and if the director is also presenting, a video camera/webcam or microphone;
WebCaster Presenters require Flash Player 9 and video camera/webcam or microphone.
See complete system technical requirements. (PDF)
WebCaster Datasheet