Veodia - Free Trial of the Veodia Widget

Last night Veodia released a new version of its video platform for business.
In addition to 'enterprise' features, such as SSO, security, reports and integration to leading collaboration, sales, training and other systems, Veodia also offers a free trial of it 'Veodia Widget'.
Now you can register to the Veodia service and start uploading and recording high quality videos directly into the 'cloud'.

We've added demos to the Veodia site, showing video usage in business context, for example:
Sales, eLearning and collaboration.



In addition. Now you can register and try the Widget for free.
We added the ability to share the video by direct link or by an embed code.
I started using it to add video to my Twitter messages.

Link to video page

This is very exciting and I am very proud of the Veodia team.

Give it a try, use video for your business and send me your feedback.

E.T.

Veodia - New Video Platforms Safely Bring YouTube Benefits To The Enterprise

In the latest report by Ted Schadler (Forrester's Vice President and Principal Analyst), Ted covers several companies and video solutions for the Enterprise.

"...Information workers have been posting confidential videos to YouTube because they've had few alternatives. Fortunately, in the past few months, three vendors - Google, Microsoft, and Veodia - have introduced services or products for securely hosting videos with enterprise access controls.

These services give information and knowledge management professionals a way to harness the power of corporate and employee-generated video to teach, inspire, and capture knowledge.

This report introduces the business scenarios, platform checklist, and vendors for employee-generated video..."

Great validation for Veodia's vision and amazing execution capabilities!

E.T.

SAP’s Leo Apotheker on Enterprise (2.0) Software

Interesting discussion with SAP’s Leo Apotheker on Oliver Marks column today.



As Leo mentioned, if the Enterprise software is not built well, it may take down many businesses with it...

Great point that emphasizes one of the main differentiators of Enterprise software.
For those who develop Enterprise 2.0 software/solutions, please keep this in mind. The transition from Web 2.0 to E2.0 is not trivial.

-- Update --
Interesting comments from Bill McDermott:

"...Bill McDermott, SAP (NYSE: SAP)'s CEO and president of global field operations, has a prediction on when software-as-a-service will become a popular platform on which large business will run their core business operations.

"Never," McDermott said, in an InformationWeek interview on Tuesday.."

information week


E.T.

Web 2.0 vs. Enterprise 2.0 - The Short Answer(s)

So what are the differences between Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0?
So many opinions and Blogs about is, so, let me share my short answers, based on who is asking...

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The kids version

Web 2.0 is where daddy plays, Enterprise 2.0 is where daddy works.





Another example: Office 2.0 Blog

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The car fan version

Web 2.0 is as if your car was shown on 'pimp my ride'.
It is fully customized to your taste, so it is cool, noisy and unique.


Enterprise 2.0 is like as if you car was shown on 'Top Gear'.
It is in mass-production, cost a lot and performs as good as it looks.

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The philosophical version

Web 2.0 is a 21st century culture looking for a business (model), Enterprise 2.0 is a business looking for a 21st century culture.


photo credits

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The IT version

Web 2.0: "What is IT?"
Enterprise 2.0: "What is Web 2.0"

(Well, some of them do get it...)

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The Mash-Up version

Web 2.0 is where you can mash-up anything you want. Just drag-n-drop, copy some embed codes, updated your blog and sync your twitter updates.
Enterprise 2.0 is where you expect to log-in to one system and have everything integrated and aligned with your business process.

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The Cloud Computing version

Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 companies use cloud computing. While Web 2.0 companies are looking for low costs and scalability, Enterprise 2.0 companies are looking also for security, redundancy/recovery capabilities and good PR...

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The shirt version

Web 2.0 summit 2008 (I think...Cannot remember, so many of them)

SAP TechEd 2004... (from my private collection)

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Feel free to use them if you like.
Comments are welcome.

E.T.

Chatting with Jay Cross on informal learning and the un-book

Today I had the pleasure of meeting Jay Cross in person, after noticing him in SUN Learning Exchange the other day.

We shared some stories and had some laughs.

We shares some notes with a Veodia team by creating a short video note on our internal wiki.



We talked about the upcoming Corporate Learning Trends and Innovations 2008 event.



Jay also shared some ideas about the un-book and other project he is working on.

The unbook

View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: books book)

Jay's un-book preview:

I like Jay's ability to articulate the future in a pragmatic way.

For additional info about Jay, go to his Internet Time Blog.

View the video:




E.T.

Veodia won the Enterprise 2.0 launch pad!

We had a great time at the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston.

This year, most of the energy was focused on 'how to' enable companies with 2.0 methodologies and capabilities and not just 'what is E2.0?'.

Many great vendors and a lot of the big players were presenting applications and services.

We were happy to have the opportunity to present as part of the launch pad, together with GroupSwim, NewsGator, Project SocialSite (SUN) and Spaceo.us.

The demo went very well. We streamed live video from the session as well as demoed or plug-in for Jive Clearspace.

Many thanks to the Veodia team in San Mateo for their support !! and to Tom and Guillaume for a great team work!!


Thanks to the audience - we received 39% of the votes and won!


(Photo by Alex Dunne)

View the demo, the votes and an interview with Sam Lawrence, Jive's CMO.



Some nice links and quotes:

Veodia Wins At Enterprise 2.0 Launchpad

The people have voted, and Veodia won at the Enterprise 2.0 Launchpad an hour ago. Congratulations to them, and best wishes to them and the other four finalists.

The finalists:

Veodia -- 'live streaming video that puts your work in motion'
Project Socialsite -- 'delivering social networking functionality by adding social networking platform support based on the OpenSocial standard to any community site.'
Groupswim -- 'On-demand Social Collaboration and Community for Your Business'
Spaceo.us -- 'Bringing the REAL Enterprise 2.0 to your business' (they need a better tagline, I think).
Newsgator -- ' Deliver social computing business value with NewsGator Social Sites for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007'

The process worked pretty well, although I think next year we might start with a Twitpitch as the first round.

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Veodia Blog

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ondemandbeat
"...So, this was a contest, consisting of brief (three minute) elevator stories presenting their products by five of this week's vendors. The winner was to be voted on by the audience ("crowdware") using cell phone texting. The first four presenters did high-speed runthroughs of their highlight PowerPoint presentations. The last one, Veodia, a provider of high definition video as a service, featured live video of the event and the audience, very high definition. By far the coolest, and the audience agreed, voting them the winner with 39% of the overall vote, a 2:1 margin over the next highest score. An exhilarating way to end the morning..."

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Wins Launch Pad Competition at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference.

Large crowd nominates Veodia via live voting

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Enterprise 2.0 conference ‘Launch pad’ contest winners

"...Veodia were the victors in the Boston Enterprise 2.0 conference ‘Launch Pad’ contest for up and coming technologies, beating a strong field. Here’s Etay Gafni of Veodia, who recently left SAP to join this promising start up, demonstrating their winning technology with his opinion of why their enterprise video service won…"

It was a great show case for our capability to contribute and to provide video capabilities to vendors and customers.

Thx,

E.T.

Veodia at Enterprise 2.0 + New Website + New Product

So, we finally made it to the Enterprise 2.0 Conference in Boston.

It was a long week+weekend but we have a lot to show, so all is good.

Some updates:

We updated www.veodia.com.





We also partnered with Jive Software and released the Veodia Plug-in for Jive Clearspace.


(demo, press release).

Tomorrow we will present in the launchpad.
We plan a live demo and some will share additional information about Veodia's services, products and directions.

Thx,

E.T.

Veodia @ the Enterprise 2.0 conference Launchpad

Thank you for all your support.
Veodia was selected to present in the Enterprise 2.0 conference launchpad.



If you are in Boston - please come and see Veodia at booth 207



Thank you,

E.T.

Veodia - 'Business Ready' at Enterprise 2.0

Enterprise 2.0 conference is few weeks away and Veodia is getting ready.

We are going to announce some exciting news and to show you how to bring video to your business processes and daily activities.


+ I got a new suite...


But first...

We need your help. Please vote for Veodia to be part of the launchpad.
(We already won the first round...)

Please vote here:
http://launchpad.enterprise2conf.com/node/38

Thank you,

E.T.