1. Skype Meeting Broadcast Enables Streaming Technology to Deliver Sweco CEO's Webcast
“Leveraging the integration between Hive and Skype Meeting Broadcast and the power of the Azure Media Services cloud, Sweco Sweden delivered a high-profile webcast to its widely dispersed management base with no impact to its network.” – Johan Ljungberg, CEO, Hive Streaming AB
SITUATION
With a CEO webcast only weeks away, Sweco Sweden, a part of a $2 billion global company with more than 14,000 employees, needed to move fast to pull it all together. Sweco needed a platform that could handle a large-scale webcast, so it sought streaming technology that could deliver a successful event. Sweco also needed a webcasting solution that wouldn’t overload its corporate network.
OFFICE 365 ISV:
Hive Streaming
WEB SITE:
LOCATION: Stockholm, Sweden
ORG SIZE: 50 employees
OFFICE 365 ISV PROFILE:
Hive Streaming is an enabling technology for live and VOD streaming within enterprise networks and over the Internet. Currently integrated with Skype Meeting Broadcast and soon to be integrated with Office video, Hive ensures viewers can watch high quality video without congesting the network and without adding any new hardware.
SOLUTION
Sweco’s Microsoft account team knew about Hive Streaming, and together with Sweco they developed an accelerated test plan. Hive Streaming works in conjunction with Skype Meeting Broadcast, a component of Office 365’s Skype for Business in all E1, E3 and E5 SKUs, to allow organizations to deliver webcasts. Hive and Sweco ran silent tests and confirmed that Sweco could run a large-scale webcast using Skype Meeting Broadcast and Hive with minimal impact to its network, thus providing a solution to delivering high-quality webcasts to employees.
BENEFITS
Hive and Skype Meeting Broadcast provide a webcasting solution using only the cloud and software.
Combining Hive with a readily available feature in Office 365 E SKUs, Sweco can now deliver high quality video without investing in hardware.