With increasing camera pixels, 4k recording capability, declining storage cost and increasing bandwidth video is going to be the popular form of content. Corporates will be seen embracing this new form of content in coming time.
Organizations are always on the lookout of new path breaking ideas. Product teams want to give right picture about what they are developing so that they get correct feedback. CEOs want to engage with teams emotionally and want to be in touch with global stakeholders. Training content developers want their content to be easily understood for effective learning. With diminishing attention span of humans video could be a savior as it boasts audio visual capability that helps while communicating.
Office 365 Video provides a platform for video content. Organizations can upload video which is then consumed across the world. Teams can create various channels which could be a specific interest groups within organization. It is a streaming video service which forms the core of Sharepoint Online and Video platform where users can consume video. The videos and channels can be granularly managed with different roles for adding, editing and publishing video content. Once a user publishes the video, it can easily embedded in to a Sharepoint Online site or any other website. User can even choose to share video or publish it on Yammer.
With newer version few advances features are available such as
- Better upload experience
- Statistics of views
- Choosing thumbnail
- More meta data for better search or discoverability
Few things to know before you decide about including in your enterprise IT ecosystem
- It is available in select plans
- It can play wide variety of formats. The supported list of formats is accessible at https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Video-formats-that-work-in-Office-365-Video-dd1af01c-fd8e-4640-b17b-93ee02b9b817
- This feature is available in online version only as of now. We will have to wait to see how can we implement hybrid architecture to consume in prevailing on-premise environment
Office 365 Video is much beyond a simple video library. It is a video content management solution that offers feature to add, restrict view rights, search with keyword over the connected platform.
