There have been a lot of things going on around here as you can tell from our new website. We decided it was about time to give it a fresh look and to push the site live to correspond to our new product launch, Podium.
We hope you find the website more useful, attractive and informative. It is all still there just maybe in a slightly different spot or location; kind of like a new release of that desktop product you have used for years where the menus and options have changed or the keyboard equivalents have been re-assigned. Well I don’t think we made such deep changes just a better and more functional site.
Podium. Where to begin. I suppose it all started when we had folks from across industries approach us about wanting massively large web events or broadcasts that went well beyond web conferencing or traditional web seminar models and capacities. The questions were “Can we have a large event in the tens-of-thousands of attendee range and still keep the attendee engaged and involved, at a level and in a manner that the attendee chooses, or with only the select features we as the broadcasters might want utilized?” Well many meeting, customer consultations, developer arguments, usability testing sessions and social networking and other feature discussions later we have a hit product up and running.
The tag line says it all: Reach a global audience with your message through highly engaging, highly scalable webcasts. High Def quality audio and video with a global reach across Mac, Windows and UNIX in an environment that is FISMA compliant (that means the Federal Information Security Management Act for the implementation of and compliance with secure data management – it a government thing) that basically means really, really secure. We put many hours of development, testing and Q&A into Podium to date with more to come as the product evolves and that word evolves really speaks to our development philosophy. Our team members have backgrounds with various software and hardware companies and we made a committed decision to have Podium evolve with new features as we can implement, test and deploy them and not get stuck in the product release cycle that so often bogs down software companies. We are also not going to keep the product in beta forever it’s out there now and ready to use. So many thanks to our initial “guinea pigs”, partners and testers that helped us get to this point.
While not a new product it’s a new name and go-to-market attitude with Managed Services for Adobe Flash Collaboration Service; what we formerly referred to as FlashGrid. Why the change? All around allot of people reaching out to us thought that perhaps we had a different flavor or technology as it relates to the Adobe Flash Collaboration Services and we don’t’ – We just let you deploy your AFCS applications in a much bigger way. So to clarify that issue and reinforce that if you have an application that needs to scale in a really big way (that means global), across your enterprise (that means deliver to tens-of-thousands) and do so on a global basis (that really means a global basis like worldwide) in a safe secure, environment that has years of deploying such applications and frameworks than our Managed Services for Adobe Flash Collaboration Service are for you. We still recommend that you start with Adobe for developing your application and testing it during the proof-of-concept stages but when you are ready to deploy and GO BIG and make some serious dollars and generate lots of traffic give us a call.
New People! This may be the best part of being part of the connectsolutions team, you work with highly energetic and creative people and we are always looking for a few good people to join us. If you think you might fit in on our team check out our careers page and see what opening we have and send us your information. We have a growing business and our recent hires are great new additions to team that have a fanatical commitment to customer service and success.
New customers too! Well I cannot and do not name drop but if you look at our solutions portal you can see a partial list of our ever-growing customers in both government and enterprises markets; my favorite part of the word enterprises is that it means tens of thousands of people are using a solution that makes their day-to-day work and collaboration easier. That tells me that not only are there lots of new things going on around here at connectsolutions but also with our global customers too. Glad to see that we are all so busy in these challenging times and using our resources so effectively it is a great new day!
