1. Video In Higher Education A look into SUNY’s Online Video Platform Strategy
Ryan presents: Welcome to today’s Wowza Webinar: Video in Higher Education: A Look into SUNY's Online Video Platform Strategy.
Colleges and universities are using video to accelerate learning, increase prospective student engagement, improve knowledge sharing, and reduce the cost of doing business. In this session, we will examine how the State University of New York (SUNY) Information Technology Exchange Center uses Ensemble Video and Wowza Media Systems to provide cost-effective video streaming infrastructure as a service to the SUNY network. Additionally, you will learn how Buffalo State College has deployed Ensemble Video and Wowza to deliver a scalable and easy to use platform to manage their ever-increasing flow of digital media content.

2. Agenda Introductions SUNY Buffalo State College Ensemble Video
Wowza Media Systems
Video Workflow
LCMS
Demo
Organizational Structure
Delivery and Scalability
Summary
Q&A
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3. Presenters Melaine C. Kenyon Director for Instructional Technology
Michael Notarius CIO, SUNY ITEC
Scott Nadzan Vice President of Marketing and Sales
Ryan Jespersen Training Manager
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Melaine Kenyon serves as director of instructional technology for Buffalo State College, the largest comprehensive college in the State University of New York (SUNY) system. She holds a bachelor of arts degree in history and a master of library science degree from the University at Buffalo. As IT director, Kenyon provides overall leadership in operations and coordinates the activities of all units in the Instructional Resources Department: classroom technology support, instructional design, the college's learning management system, video production, photography, graphic design, and television engineering services. She provides strategic leadership for the development and integration of instructional technology into classrooms and other learning spaces, and she is directly involved in the planning and design of classroom media technologies for academic environments under renovation. She also serves as the primary contact for instructional technology media purchases and consultation.
Mike Notarius is the Chief Information Officer (CIO) in SUNY for a University-wide program called the Information Technology Exchange Center (ITEC) consisting of approximately 52 highly technical colleagues housed at Buffalo State College. He has been involved with this organization for more than 20 years of his 34+ years in Information Technology (IT). Mike is an extremely driven individual  and does what ever is necessary to ensure success of the students, SUNY and ITEC. Of course he does this for his family as well, his amazing wife years, his 24 year old son and 25 year old daughter.
Joining us from Ensemble Video is Scott Nadzan, Vice President of Marketing & Sales. Today Scott is in charge of marketing and sales strategies that will generate positive awareness and revenue for Ensemble Video. Before focusing on marketing and sales, Scott was involved in inventing the initial version of Ensemble Video. This includes the creation of the Ensemble Video brand concept, the Ensemble Video logo and core product functionality. Prior to joining Ensemble Video, Scott was the Director of Technology Services at the Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University, and was also responsible for managing Syracuse University's rich media infrastructure. Scott has been a frequent panelist at Streaming Media East/West, and in addition to his audio/video expertise, Scott has significant expertise in Web design, Internet Marketing, e-commerce, social media and new media. Scott also enjoys teaching, he has spent time teaching in K-12, higher-education and corporate institutions.
My name is Ryan Jespersen and I am the Training Manager here at Wowza.

4. Buffalo State College Founded in 1871
125-acre campus in the heart of Buffalo:
10,500 undergraduates
1,300 graduate students
171 undergraduate programs with
11 honors options
11 post baccalaureate teacher programs
61 graduate programs

5. SUNY ITEC Special purpose organization
Supports multi-campus, computer- related, group activities
Targeted at improving the quality, quantity and cost- effectiveness of campus-based and University-wide computer services.
The Information Technology Exchange Center (ITEC), located on the Buffalo State campus, is a special-purpose, self funded organization established by participating SUNY institutions to support multi-campus, computer-related group activities targeted at improving the quality, quantity and cost-effectiveness of campus-based and University-wide information technology services. ITEC supports 49 member campuses of the 64 campuses and University-wide programs that make up the State University of New York (SUNY), however provides services to all 64 campuses in one way or another.

6. Ensemble Video
Ensemble Video is a secure, easy to use, easy to deploy online video platform.
Ensemble Video enables hundreds of organizations across the globe to enhance teaching, learning and communication.
Ensemble Video offers self-hosted, cloud-hosted, and multi-tenant deployments, and works in concert with a wide range of complementary video and web technologies to streamline video management and publishing.

7. Ensemble in the SUNY System
Map of NY State With SUNYs
Blue Dots: ITEC Hosted Black: Self-Hosted

8. Wowza Media Systems
Simplifying the complexities of video and audio streaming
In business since 2005
Customers in 150+ countries
Wowza Streaming Engine: award-winning software
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2011, 2012, 2013

9. Wowza Streaming Engine™
Robust, customizable, and scalable server software that powers reliable streaming of high-quality audio and video to any device anywhere.
Scale across OSs and architectures.
From start-up websites to mission critical applications.
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10. VIDEO WORKFLOW

11. Buffalo State Need to Have Features
Video Assignment Dropbox
Annotations
Closed Captions
Video Management for Faculty
Video Streaming to Mobile
Transitioning from old Media Solution
Melaine

12. SUNY ITEC 33 campuses LMS hosting and administration
11 campuses using Ensemble Video Platform
Cost Effective Solution
Significant savings with centralized deployment
Advantage of administrative console
Open SUNY
Integrate Ensemble into course delivery
Consistent Adoption and Support

13. Video Workflow
Scott

14. How Ensemble Video Works
Scott

15. Streaming Workflow
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16. Learning Content Management Systems
Scott with Melaine & Mike

17. Organizational Structure

18. Organizational Structure
Scott & Melaine

19. Flexible Organizational Structure
Scott & Mike

20. On-Premise Delivery

21. Cloud Delivery Model

22. Hybrid Delivery Model

23. Multi-Tenant / Consortium Model

24. Summary

25. Results SUNY ITEC Buffalo State
Campuses are HAPPY with cost-effective video platform
Reduced duplicate services, efforts and investments
Close to 500,000 Total Views in less than 18 months
11 New SUNY's in less than 18 months
Empowered faculty to manage their own content
Integrated with campus LMS for streamlined service
Students can watch videos on many devices
Eliminated time-consuming complicated manual workflows
Ensemble’s captioning integration helps BSC meet accessibility goals.

26. Summary
Ensemble Video and Wowza® software is deployed globally across thousands of universities and K-12 organizations.
Stream lectures, scientific discoveries, sports, events and more.
Our platform lets students, faculty, alumni, and supporters engage with your content wherever they are.
The software is tailor-made to deliver cost effective on-line learning programs to audiences anywhere on any device.

27. Next Steps To setup a free trial and demo visit EnsembleVideo.com
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Or by phone at

28. Questions?
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