Doing its best to meet the demands of leading-edge companies, TANDBERG has been working closely with Microsoft (News - Alert) in an effort to be able to support Microsoft’s latest releases, and is now supporting Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 users, providing a complete visual communication portfolio that seamlessly integrates into the Microsoft’s application.

 

SharePoint is designed to enhance corporate productivity by traversing traditional boundaries to facilitate more effective information sharing and collaborative processes.

 

It supports multiple enterprise network infrastructures and provides network administrators with the tools they need to ensure interoperability and reliability as they incorporate information sharing features into their Web sites, creating a more collaborative business environment, inherently creating a more effective communications environment.

 

Among the productivity enhancing features of SharePoint is its portal functionality, which aids in the deployment and management of intranet portals and corporate Web sites. By supporting SharePoint, TANDBERG enables its customers to add video capabilities to the collaboration features built into corporate Web sites.

 

Integration of TANDBERG’s products into SharePoint is accomplished easily, through the “Features” menu in Microsoft application. To provide even greater value, TANDBERG says it will also release the source code, which will allow customers to create an even more closely integrated and customized solution.

 

With TANDBERG’s solution added to SharePoint, users have the ability to Schedule video calls by leveraging the power of TMS (TANDBERG Management Suite). They will also be able to conduct video conferences through SharePoint 2007 portal sites using TANDBERG Movi, along with being able to capture visual communication activities within SharePoint portals.

 

For live and on-demand streaming of presentations, users will be able to record and produce video content using the TANDBERG Content Server.

 

“We fully expect our unique product integration with Microsoft to change the industry by making visual communications more readily available and easier to use in existing customer environments,” said Fredrik Halvorsen, TANDBERG’s CEO. “Our portfolio integration with Microsoft SharePoint will bring about new levels of productivity for our customers.”

 

While video communication is an asset at all levels, perhaps the greatest difficulty facing businesses today is a growing need for mobility — which is partly caused by the drive for enhanced productivity, but also by simply having mobile access. So, in continued effort to add video to a growing list of technologies, TANDBERG has also developed the ability to view video presentations anywhere, anytime on Microsoft’s recently released Zune device.

Through its TANDBERG Content Server, the company has enabled the creation of Zune-optimized content, so that any standards-based video conference can be easily recorded and optimized for Microsoft Zune download and playback.

Using a standards-based video system, users can dial into their TANDBERG Content Server to stream and/or record their presentation, turning any video conferencing platform into a content creation studio instantly. Now, in addition to watching movies or listening to music, Zune users can stream or download a multimedia presentation — including CEO presentations or video conferences or training sessions.

 

With the growing rate of adoption of video into corporate communications environments, and the already massive presence of digital media devices in the consumer world — and we already know that business and personal communications needs are tending towards a united front — adding integration with Microsoft’s latest development is, at the very least, a reasonable business decision. More likely, it will be turn out to be a very wise move.