Video Collaboration Industry Pioneer KZO Innovations Releases Third Generation Platform

RESTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--KZO Innovations today announced the formal release of its v3 KZO Video and Collaboration Platform. With this release KZO is extending their leadership position in the rapidly growing market for easy-to-use, browser-based products offering live and on-demand streaming video combined with live and on-demand collaboration.

“We have enjoyed working closely with our commercial and government enterprise customers as video continues building momentum and becomes mainstream in these environments”

KZO pioneered collaboration and multi-threaded conversations around specific moments in time and x/y screen coordinates or regions in video. This capability enables new approaches driving unsurpassed effectiveness and efficiencies in training and education, enterprise communication, and collaborative analytics applications.

KZO is extending this farther with v3 by unifying synchronous and asynchronous activities, which enables all users -- either in real-time or on a time-shifted basis, to create, communicate and collaborate around both live and on-demand video content.

“We have enjoyed working closely with our commercial and government enterprise customers as video continues building momentum and becomes mainstream in these environments,” said Wes Cruver, Chairman & CEO of KZO Innovations. “Their input has been instrumental in the way we prioritize enhancements and new functionality in new releases of our technology. KZO Platform v3 brings unprecedented industry advancements in many areas, including its modular user interface, flexible content import and creation options, on-line and off-line creation, viewing and collaboration capabilities, as well as integration and interoperability with other components and solutions in the industry-wide video, training and education, and collaboration ecosystem.”

The core technology foundation is KZO’s Video v3, an easy-to-use web-based tool to create, communicate and manage video content -- within a workgroup, across an enterprise, or extended community of interest. KZO Video v3 delivers engaging live and on-demand content in a flexible environment that fuses all sources and formats of streaming video with related content and interactive components.

Distributed users are able to produce video using a simple webcam, as well as full motion desktop capture -- right from their computer. Additionally, video captured or produced via most other video devices, applications and collaboration tools can be easily uploaded into the KZO Platform.

KZO’s open API enables integration and interoperability with Learning Management Systems, Collaboration Tools, Communication Portals and Content Creation Systems – allowing KZO to become an integral part of the enterprise ecosystem.

KZO extends the Video Platform with Collaborate v3, adding the power of live and on-demand collaboration at specific moments-in-time and x/y coordinates around video. Utilizing deep-tagging technology for streaming and accompanying content, KZO’s Platform provides viewers with the ability to annotate and participate in on-going Q&A and threaded micro-blog discussions, as well as to identify and insert links to additional information, documents, video segments and other learning or analytical materials. The content of these tags is actively indexed and fully searchable across the Platform, providing rapid access to this dynamic universe of material for the entire community of users.

This provides the on-going ability to keep content fresh, while dramatically enhancing knowledge exchange required in high quality training, education and collaborative analytic scenarios.

Leading the industry, KZO also engineered v3 to work effectively in hi, low and no bandwidth environments. This unique capability enables content creation, viewing and collaboration to occur anywhere and anytime -- regardless of network access and bandwidth limitations.

About KZO

KZO is an R&D and software development company pioneering and delivering innovative streaming video and collaboration solutions to commercial enterprises, education markets, and the government -- including DoD and the US Intelligence Community.

KZO's fusion of digital video expertise, advanced technology development and business process management enables the company to provide customers with unprecedented innovation and ROI-based effectiveness in the rapidly evolving global market for technology enabled knowledge exchange, training and education, enterprise communication and collaborative analytics.

For more information visit, www.kzoinnovations.com.