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July 19, 2011 Newly Renamed Altus365 Unveils Cloud-based Rich Media Repository Rich media has pervaded the enterprise environment. But storing rich media, enabling it to be searchable and reusable, and integrating it with popular business applications and social networking tools, remain challenges for many organizations today. That’s why the company formerly known as Altus Learning Systems has unveiled a cloud-based platform to address all of the above. | |
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July 19, 2011 Altus365's Cloud Based Searchable Rich Media Platform, Take Advantage of your Videos Rich media is becoming an integral component of everything we do. It's used in sales presentations, conference presentations, websites, web conferences, training and more. That these assets are used everywhere is great, but it also causes issues related to searching, aggregation and just plain trying to find the information we need that may be located within it. Altus365 has the platform to help. | |
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July 19, 2011 Altus launches vSearchCloud platform for media content Altus365 , previously known as simply Altus, is introducing vSearchCloud , a cloud-based rich-media search platform for enterprises. Basically, the vSearchCloud platform runs on a hybrid cloud infrastructure for the purpose of building multi-format applications and to be accessible from anywhere, anytime on any device, such as desktops and smart phones. | |
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July 19, 2011 vSearchCloud Virtual Content Application Announced Along with New Name Altus365 Altus365 has launched their new platform vSearchCloud which is an evolution of their solution to utilize the cloud for unlimited scalable storage and delivery of multimedia content with their extremely powerful search capabilities. | |
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June 13, 2011 Seeing is Believing: Video Will Transform Business Intelligence New technology is solving problems by enabling companies to store their rich media content online and then essentially “Google??? it down to the spoken word. Capturing the value of this content can mean millions of dollars in savings and better use of corporate assets due to a more knowledgeable, efficient and effective workforce. | |
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June 11, 2011 Overcoming Information Overload: A Strategy for Managing Enterprise Content Video is becoming an important communications medium, as new technologies have made capturing, editing and sharing video much easier, and younger generations rely more heavily on YouTube or Tivo for information. In 2010, an average of 179 million Americans watched videos online each month, with more than 88.6 million watching online on an average day in late 2010 - up 32% from the year before, according to the comScore Video Metrix. | |
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May 12, 2011 Tapping Into Social-Media Smarts Employees share information in their personal lives. Companies can use those skills to improve workplace collaboration. | |
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April 26, 2011 Why You Should Start to Market Your Event as Soon as it is Over Altus captures content or works with another vendor that is already capturing content at your event , synchronizes the audio or video with slides and creates a transcription of the session that allows users to access specific points in a session timeline as well as find exact words in a presentation. This is an extremely effective capability for the user making the content that much more valuable. | |
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April 20, 2011 Video: The Next Hot Learning App? Training organizations are increasingly looking for ways to leverage existing programs and extend the reach of their training programs beyond the classroom...video is increasingly being looked at to meet training objectives! | |
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February 16, 2011 Virtual Events Won’t ‘Cannibalize’ Face-to-Face The years 2008 to 2010 were about fully engaging social media in the planning, marketing and delivery of meetings, 2011 will be all about transforming face-to-face into “hybrid??? meetings and 2012 and beyond: mobile applications for smartphones and tablet computers. | |
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February 16, 2011 Developing Talent As technological capabilities expand, they will play an increasingly instrumental role in attorney development. The video based on-demand learning platform can be adjusted to the preference of each individual trainee as it includes videos, slides, presenter transcripts, downloads to a portable player, full-text searchability, and even CLE credit. | |
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February 14, 2011 iPads Storm the Business World As global accounts director at Altus, Inc., Michelle Klatt's job is to visit Fortune 500 companies and demonstrate her firm's video management software. When the iPad came out a year ago, she was all over it. | |
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February 14, 2011 iPads Storm the Enterprise Michelle Klatt, global accounts director at Altus, Inc., is at the leading edge of a growing wave of enterprise customers who are adopting the iPad for business use. | |
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February 10, 2011 Altus365 Named as Bersin Learning Leader Winner for Vendor Innovation in Learning and Talent Management: The Vendor Innovation in Learning and Talent Management is a research-driven program designed to recognize innovation and excellence in critical areas of corporate training and talent management. Bersin & Associates announces the fifth annual 2011 Learning Leaders® winners and complimentary research report showcasing lessons from the Best! | |
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January 19, 2011 PRMM Interviews from #VES11 with Altus365 and Social27 Watch Altus365 CEO, Ted Cocheu, interview with Cece Salomon-Lee at the Virtual Edge Summit 2011 and talk about the new products and their high-tech capabilities. | |
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January 19, 2011 New products should improve event marketing online and offline There are two new products on the market for eventers which should improve the engagement levels of users both online and offline. From Altus, the new platforms give brands the ability to instill a rich media experience for online events and offers more interactivity through a mobile app. | |
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January 18, 2011 Altus CEO Ted Cocheu demonstrates Event MyStro at Virtual Edge 2011 Altus Event MyStro is the first truly Hybrid Event solution that extends developer, customer and sales kick-offs from multi-day events to 365 day-a-year experiences, increasing brand awareness and productivity in targeted customer, partner and sales communities. | |
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January 17, 2011 Mobile Comes to Hybrid and Virtual Events Altus highlighted their announcement as an extension of physical to provide a “hybrid??? experience. The mobile application allows conference organizers to put the conference agenda, sponsor information and even presentations on your mobile device. | |
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January 17, 2011 Altus Event Mystro, Makes Conferences Work 24/7/365 Event MyStro enables participants to get quick, easy access to conference schedules, live streaming video, social media and on-demand content from single, unified event interface. This dramatically augments engagement before, during and after the event and considerably improves overall event ROI. | |
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January 12, 2011 Altus Unveils Conference Solution Altus has released a Hybrid Event platform that gives conference attendees a single, unified user interface that enables them to access agendas, live and on-demand video, and social media content. | |
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January 12, 2011 Altus delivers events to mobile devices Altus, a leader in enterprise on-demand rich media solutions for conferences, sales enablement, and knowledge sharing, today released an industry-first Hybrid Event platform that gives conference attendees a single, unified user interface from which to access agendas, live and on-demand video, and social media content. | |
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December 10, 2010 How to Use Video to Make Sales Teams More Effective Sales managers face a difficult dilemma: the need to create more revenue in a difficult economy without hiring more people. One solution to ensuring their sales teams perform at the highest level to meet sales goals? More effective, ongoing sales training. | |
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October 19, 2010 Great Technology Tools: Video and Voice Learning leaders and technologists should not just focus on formal training. If they do, they miss a huge opportunity to improve knowledge transfer that fills any gaps around formal training. | |
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September 14, 2010 Altus Reinforces Its Leadership in Enterprise Video Search with Appointment of New Engineering VP Altus, a leader in enterprise video search solutions for sales enablement and knowledge sharing, has appointed Krishna Menon as CTO and Vice President of Engineering. Menon joins Altus as the company brings its industry-leading vSearch™ solution to new customer segments, capitalizing on the widespread acceptance of vSearch among Fortune 100 firms such as Cisco, Oracle, Brocade, NetApp, IBM, and Salesforce.com. | |
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August 3, 2010 Video Takes Lead in the ‘Time To Knowledge’ Race To be viable, video has to be easy to capture, easy to search across the enterprise, and easy to share – which these days means across various mobility devices including iPhones, iPads, and Blackberry’s. | |
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August 3, 2010 Business video: Make It Searchable Video search technology enables users to find specific videos, or to search within videos for key words and phrases spoken in a presentation, text such as subject titles and subtitles, particular people or topics and other content. | |
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August 3, 2010 VoD Is on a Tear Innovative organizations are turning to media management systems to make rich media accessible to all employees. A leader in this space is Altus Learning Systems, which offers a SaaS-enabled video capture and management platform called Altus vSearch. The company serves a number of Fortune 500 enterprises, including Cisco Systems, NetApp and Oracle | |
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August 1, 2010 Future of Health: Distance Learning Altus Learning Systems recently launched vSearch Mobile, a cloud-based service that allows users to search and access audio and video content from internet connected devices including the ipad, iphone, BlackBerry and Android handsets. | |
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July 29, 2010 Business video: Make mine searchable Corporate America's use of video will only grow, which makes it more important to allow end users to find exactly what they need. | |
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July 28, 2010 NetApp Named a CIO 100 Award Honoree by CIO Magazine IDG's CIO magazine recently announced NetApp as a recipient of the 2010 CIO 100 award for its innovative vSearch sales enablement tool. The 23rd annual award program recognizes organizations around the world that exemplify the highest level of operational and strategic excellence in information technology (IT). | |
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July 28, 2010 NetApp Named a CIO 100 Award Winner IDG's CIO magazine recently announced NetApp (NASDAQ: NTAP) as a recipient of the 2010 CIO 100 award for its innovative vSearch sales enablement tool. The 23rd annual award program recognizes organizations around the world that exemplify the highest level of operational and strategic excellence in information technology (IT). | |
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July 18, 2010 TMC group editor Rich Tehrani interview on Video in the Enterprise As video proliferates the need to transcribe and index this new source of content has increased. Tim Hughan of Altus Learning explains how his company transcribes such content and further turns simple PowerPoints into presentations complete with transcribed notes. | |
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July 16, 2010 How to Deliver Rich Media Access to All Employees Business video is seeing a rise, too. Business video conferencing will grow 10-fold over the forecast period, a rate that is almost three times faster than overall business traffic. A comScore study found that, from December 2008 to December 2009, Smartphone ownership increased from 11% to 17%, while 3G phone ownership increased from 32% to 43%. | |
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July 15, 2010 Media, Innovation and Productivity Video as an information source has taken off, with 300 million worldwide web visitors downloading 5 billion video streams monthly and 15 hours of new video content uploaded every second. Consumer adoption of media is driving corporations to create video datasheets and product demos to quickly educate their employees, customers and partners. | |
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July 12, 2010 Mobile video Training in the Cloud With video from mobile devices expected to grow, a market for enterprise video applications such as training and instructional sales videos is emerging, analysts say. Adding to the market’s momentum are mobile devices with better video shooting and video calling features, such as Apple’s new iPhone 4 and the latest Android devices, such as Sprint’s HTC EVO 4G | |
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June 21, 2010 Altus Mobilizes Video Search Altus Learning Systems, which offers a pretty nifty enterprise video search product, has just released a mobile version of its vSearch, so employees outside the office can search rich media applications on their iPad, iPhone or BlackBerry device. | |
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June 16, 2010 Enterprise 2.0 Goes Mainstream As Collaboration Tools Mature Altus Inc., which Wednesday rolled out video search technology optimized for mobile devices, has gone from $1.5 million in revenue five years ago to just under $10 million now and hopes to double that in a year and half, said Chief Operating Officer Sebastian Grady. The profitable company, which is talking to venture and strategic investors, is ramping up its sales force with five to 10 new hires planned this year, Grady said. Altus sells its media aggregation technology to companies such as Cisco, Oracle and General Motors Corp. | |
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June 16, 2010 Mobile video training reaches the cloud Altus Learning Systems today launched vSearch Mobile, a cloud-based service that allows users to search content such as Web conferences, audio and video presentations and telepresence meetings from devices including the iPad, iPhone, BlackBerry or Android handsets. | |
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June 16, 2010 Altus Learning Systems Brings Enterprise Video Search to Mobile Devices Altus, a developer of enterprise video search solutions, announced the release of vSearch Mobile, a SaaS video solution that lets users store, and create searchable rich media from virtually any source. | |
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June 16, 2010 Altus Helps Enterprises Make the Most of Video for Mobile Users Are you getting the biggest bang for your buck from your video assets? Today, Altus Learning Systems (www.altuscorp.com) launched an enterprise video search tool that's optimized for mobile devices including the Blackberry, Android-based devices, iPhone, and iPad. vSearch Mobile strikes me as a useful tool for its target audience: sales teams and enterprises that want to improve their knowledge sharing. | |
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June 16, 2010 Mobile Video Reaches the Cloud Altus Learning Systems today launched vSearch Mobile, a cloud-based service that allows users to search content such as Web conferences, audio and video presentations and telepresence meetings from devices including the iPad, iPhone, BlackBerry, or Android handsets. | |
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June 15, 2010 Enterprise Video Search Down To The Spoken Word The concept of video in the enterprise is not new. But the inherent problem has always been about its usefulness more than anything else. | |
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June 8, 2010 Calypso Technology Adopts Altus vSearch Platform for Employee Training and Education To go with their corporate strategy to develop and deliver high-quality training content to its base of geographically dispersed employees, cut costs of classroom training, and increase employee productivity, Calypso Technology, a global application software provider of an integrated trading, risk and processing platform to financial institutions and corporate treasuries, has moved into the second phase of adoption of Altus vSearch. | |
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June 4, 2010 Full text search for rich media content improves productivity The other day I was talking with a training manager who was lamenting that her company has such great Web-based training available for employees and channel partners, but much of the training doesn't get used. Why? Because the people it's intended for can't find precisely what they want, when they want it. | |
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May 17, 2010 Virtual global sales event nets savings To reduce the costs of hosting an annual three-day sales event that drew thousands of sales and marketing personnel and partners from around the world, Oracle wanted to find a new format for the meeting. The company decided to stage an on-demand event that could be rolled out at the same time, but didn’t require everyone in its geographically dispersed sales team to be online at the same moment. | |
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April 5, 2010 Symphony to enhance Altus' software testing team Symphony has signed Altus Learning Systems for sales enablement and knowledge sharing, to its growing roster of independent software vendor (ISV) clients. Altus, whose flagship vSearch Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform makes video content searchable down to the spoken word, selected Symphony Services to augment the company's software testing and development teams, speeding time to market. | |
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April 1, 2010 Symphony ties up with Altus Learning Systems Symphony Service Corp., a provider of product engineering services, today announced it has entered into a partnership with Altus Learning Systems, a provider of enterprise video search solutions for sales enablement and knowledge sharing, to its growing roster of independent software vendor (ISV) clients. | |
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February 5, 2010 Altus Making Conference Videos Searchable, Web-Available Following a professional conference, most of us return loaded down with things like: a) yet another cheapo backpack, b) a pile of company brochures, c) a stack of new business cards, and d) schwaggy items, like T-shirts and light-up yo-yo's. Unless you've videoed all the events you attended, you'll have to rely on your notes and perhaps some PowerPoint or PDF docs in order to remember the important professional information you absorbed. Not any more, however. Now, for a growing number of conferences, attendees can simply go online and review the keynote or seminar they attended, to make sure they didn't miss anything -- or to simply to keep the presentation for reference. | |
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February 1, 2010 Tech Talk with Craig Peterson Interview COO Sebastian Grady ClearChannel Radio Craig Peterson interviews Sebastian Grady on what is going on with searchable video. | |
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December 8, 2009 How Searchable Video Will Supercharge Your Sales Force Businesses everywhere are struggling through the economic downturn. Unfortunately, in difficult times many companies cut back—sometimes way back—on training and development, a discipline often thought of as expendable. | |
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November 6, 2009 NetApp Uses Altus vSearch to Conduct Virtual Sales Training Event NetApp, Inc., a Sunnyvale, Cali. provider of storage and data management solutions, has reportedly leveraged the enterprise video search software from Altus to stage a formerly live sales training event "virtually." | |
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November 4, 2009 The virtues of “virtual??? training Enterprise video search software is said to have saved a large storage and data management solutions provider $1.5 million in the course of a three-day sales event. NetApp used a solution from Altus to stage the formally live sales training event “virtually.??? | |
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November 3, 2009 NetApp Leverages Altus to Energize Its Direct Sales Force and Channel Partners Enterprise Sales Enablement Solution From Altus Saves NetApp $1.5 Million Over Three-Day Event CNN Money | |
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October 20, 2009 Altus’ Mark Pollard interviewed for SalesRoundup.com Podcast: Burn the Altus’ Mark Pollard interviewed for SalesRoundup.com Podcast: Burn the Ships Are you seeing a decline in your prospecting results? Maybe its because you’re not keeping up with the times. The SalesRoundup Podcast | |
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October 20, 2009 Altus Recognized by Deloitte as One of North America’s Fastest-Growing Companies Company Garners Its Third Award for Sales Growth in Just Two Months Altus | |
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October 14, 2009 Using Video to Redefine Knowledge Transfer Capturing knowledge and managing it has always proved elusive inside any organization. And never is that more apparent than during a company meeting where one person gets up and explains in detail how a process works or a market is changing. | |
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October 13, 2009 Altus Named One of the 50 Fastest-Growing Private Companies in Silicon Valley Honor Marks Enterprise Video Search Leader's Second Consecutive Fast 50 Ranking by the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal Altus | |
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October 6, 2009 Altus Launches Youtube-Like Search for Videos Inside Companies Remember exactly what happened in your last business meeting? Probably not. A Campbell, Calif.-based company called Altus says it can change that with a video search engine called vSearch that it’s launching today for enterprises. | |
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October 6, 2009 Tech Broiler – Altus vSearch Frugal Networker Ken Hess and I talk with Ted Cocheu, CEO of Altus, which provides planning, recording, post-production and SAAS deployment of video content for trade shows and large enterprises. | |
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October 6, 2009 Altus Updates vSearch Enterprise-Class Video Training Solution The company, which is headquartered in Silicon Valley, currently works with a number of large enterprise clients, including Cisco, General Motors, Chevron, and IBM. In these companies, Altus' solution is being used by over 75,000 sales people. | |
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October 6, 2009 Altus Updates vSearch Enterprise-Class Video Training Solutions Altus can work with any video, no matter whether its a teleconference, WebEx meeting, internal meeting, or a video of a corporate event. | |
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October 6, 2009 Altus launches a YouTube-like search for videos inside companies By Kim-Mai Cutler VentureBeat | |
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October 6, 2009 Altus Helps Companies Maximize Sales Force Productivity Altus Learning Systems, a leader in enterprise video solutions for sales enablement and corporate knowledge sharing, today announced version 6.0 of Altus vSearch(TM). | |
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October 6, 2009 Altus Helps Companies Maximize Sales Force Productivity with Major Upgrade to Industry-Leading Video Search and Management Platform Altus vSearch with VirtualEvent provides a single platform to capture and leverage enterprise knowledge, decrease time-to-sale, and increase revenue Altus | |
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October 5, 2009 Altus vSearch Enables Turnaround at NetApp U CLO magazine Sundar Nagarathnam has carved out a niche for himself as something of a turnaround artist. Since joining NetApp in 2008, Nagarathnam has steered the company’s education arm, NetApp University, from an organizational afterthought into a strategic asset that business leaders have learned to value. | |
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September 14, 2009 NetApp Leverages Altus, Energizes Its Direct Sales Force and Channel Partners Enterprise Video Search for Sales Enablement Solution from Altus Saves NetApp $1.5 Million Over Three-Day Event Altus | |
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August 18, 2009 Inc. Magazine Ranks Altus Among Fastest Growing Private Companies Honor Marks Altus's Second Consecutive Inc. 5000 Ranking, Testifying to the Strength of the Company's Leading Searchable-Video Management Software Altu | |
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June 25, 2009 Oracle Virtual Partner Event Takes Off Rewind to June 16. That’s when Channel Chief Judson Althoff promised Oracle would get serious about social networks for partners. Now fast forward to July 7, when Althoff and Oracle President Charles Phillips will attempt to prove the social media point — during the Oracle Virtual Partner Kickoff event. Here’s the scoop. | |
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May 15, 2009 Just-in-Time Training: On-Demand Learning Platform Drives Firm's Success In these difficult economic times, law firms need to help their attorneys and staff to perform well and to provide maximum value to clients. Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati - headquartered in California's Silicon Valley and employing more than 1,300 attorneys and staff in eight offices in the United States and China - deployed an online training platform to do just that. | |
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May 14, 2009 Social Media and Knowledge Management Knowledge management owners need to know that workers are getting information in fundamentally different ways than a few years ago. | |
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April 25, 2009 Cisco on video The big knock against knowledge management (KM) initiatives is ROI. On the face of it, what executive would argue against implementing systems and processes to improve knowledge sharing and learning? | |
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April 11, 2009 Generate $5.1 Million in Cost Savings and Revenue Gains for 264% ROI with Altus Cut Costs and Sell More Productively in the 2009 Economy Altus Newsletter | |
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March 27, 2009 Altus makes knowledge searchable Altus is a software-as-a-service and video-as-a-service company that captures content and uses automation tools to make it playable, like on YouTube.com, but with every word, or the transcript of the video, fully searchable. | |
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January 21, 2009 Altus Learning Introduces Altus Live™ Business Webcasting Live Video and Audio Webcasting Offers On-Demand Access Searchable Down to the Spoken Word Altus | |
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December 2, 2008 Switching on to video-powered Switching on to video-powered KM Ted Cocheu, CEO of Altus, looks at how video-powered KM is overcoming the limitations of traditional capture and retrieval methods. KnowledgeBoard | |
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October 10, 2008 Altus Named One of the Top 50 Silicon Valley Fastest-Growing Private Companies Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal Recognizes Altus’ Growth Due to Saving Global Companies Millions in Travel Costs and Accelerating Revenue by Increasing Sales Force Productivity Altus | |
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September 19, 2008 Oracle OpenWorld Unconference to feature 'Harness your Collective Intelligence with Searchable on Demand Video' by Seb Grady COO, Altus Learning on September 22 at 2pm (PDT) The human ability to retain information is limited and without a systematic way to capture, share and find information the value of an in-person event is limited. | |
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August 20, 2008 Altus Named to Inc. 5000 List Of Fastest-Growing Private Companies Leads all other Video-On-Demand Software Vendors with 218 Percent Revenue Increase Growth Due to Helping Global Enterprises Save Millions in Travel Costs and Revenue Acceleration through Increased Sales force Productivity Altus | |
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April 1, 2008 Can't Find the Information You Need? Try This Several organizations have turned to Altus' Sales Xcellerator, a Web 2.0 application that captures sales-critical knowledge wherever it is being shared, including sales presentations, conference calls, Webinars, and conferences. The information is transcribed verbatim and synchronized with video and slides. It is then searchable down to the spoken word. In other words, say a sales rep wanted to find out what cost savings their product or service had provided to certain types of customers. SellingPower Sales Management Newsletter | |
