The various constituents (IT, marketing, operations, finance, etc.) have all bought in and are excited about the new capability. Now you start to think about the implementation and the on-going management and a few questions come quickly to mind:
- How do I get video to and from my remote locations without breaking my network?
- How do I make these capabilities available to a broad and not always technical audience within my company?
- How do I control who has access to what video from what location across our entire company?
- How do I ensure all of the remote equipment is operational all the time?
- How do I avoid locking myself into a technology that will become obsolete in the next 6 months?
The role of Managed Video is to address all of these questions by providing a service –hence the “Managed” part – that handles all of this complexity so that businesses can focus on the benefits they get from video, not on the numerous implementation and management challenges.
There are a variety of video applications that fit within this model, including video surveillance, remote training, digital menu boards and digital signage, among others. We’ll go into each of these applications separately in subsequent posts.