Rich Media Platform

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Rich Media Platform

• Web-Technologies to rejuvenate and transform
  multimedia into interactive, Rich Media

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Rich Media Platform Map
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Complete Web-based Solutions for Rich Media
Content Authoring
UltraMashup Studio is a unique, web-based,
user-friendly technology that authors to create
interactive multimedia (aka Rich Media) content
to achieve high impact communication
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Complete Web-based Solutions for Rich Media
Content Remixing
Users can combine multiple overlapping videos,
audios, images, text captions and feedback forms
to rejuvenate videos, using UltraMashup Studio.
Media files can be uploaded as well as linked
from any place on the web!
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Complete Web-based Solutions for Rich Media
Content Management
The Content Library provides a searchable, tagged
collection of categorized content and mashups,
with tools such as Infotip that make accessing
desired content easier and faster
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Complete Web-based Solutions for Rich Media
Content Distribution and Delivery
Content caching and multicasting technologies are
used to delivery on-demand and Live content to
Enterprise and Internet audiences worldwide
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Complete Web-based Solutions for Tracking and
Profiling
UltraTracking records minute details of viewer
actions while viewing a Mashup. Viewer profiles
are matched with Content profiles to ensure that
the right audience views the right Mashup
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Complete Web-based Solutions for Feedback and
Reporting
Responses to Feedback Form Quizzes, Polls and
Surveys are recorded and graded. Analytical
reports give deep insight into content
effectiveness and viewer satisfaction as well as
viewer trends and preferences
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About UsSoftech Worldwide LLC. Overview

• Softech Worldwide provides Rich Internet Media
  Applications for
• Organizational Learning
• Enterprise / Social Knowledge Network
• Distance Education
• Interactive Web TV
• Live and On-Demand Content
• Complete Web-based solutions for Rich Media
  Content Authoring, Remixing, Management,
  Profiling, Distribution, Delivery, Tracking and
  Reporting
• We are learning-technology inventors, and
  business process consultants for Learning
• Working on video since 2002
• More than 300k learners benefit from our invented
  solutions
• More than 20 yrs experience with training and
  learning
• Incorporated in Virgina - April 1997
• Pioneers in Microsoft Silverlight based Rich
  Media Solutions for Video-based Applications
• Certified for Quality Management Principles - ISO
  90012000 since 2005
• Microsoft Gold Certified Partner (Competencies
  Advanced Infrastructure Solutions, ISV,
  Information Worker)

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About UsMarket Trends

• Technology Innovations Web 2.0
• Technology adoption in Corporate sector
• Technology adoption in Media companies
• Technology impact on Learning and Training

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About UsPurpose and Vision

• Being innovators ourselves, and with our roots in
  web-based video communications, training and
  learning, and latest web technologies, Softechs
  solutions are geared to play a part in shaping
  the new knowledge society that is enabled by
  technology innovations. To put it in a sentence
• In this Knowledge Age, SoftechWorldWide aims at
  being a premier provider of innovative rich
  internet media technologies that enable
  multi-directional exchange of learning and
  information.

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About UsAchievements and Milestones

• Softech Worldwide forms a new company "eTLS", in
  partnership with Shaheen Foundation. eTLS will
  focus on delivering Training and Learning
  Solutions using Blended Learning approaches,
  including collaborative, live and on-demand
  content over Softech's rich media platform.
• Softech Worldwide partners with Shaheen
  Foundation on a Tutoring project
• Softech Worldwide receives Microsoft Gold
  Certified Partner status
• Softech Worldwide exhibits in Cebit Germany '06
• Softech Worldwide exhibits in Gitex '05
• Softech Worldwide successfully delivers a
  video-based knowledge network system utilizing
  caching technologies and content distribution
  systems for nationwide coverage, for both live
  and on-demand video content.

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About UsExcellence!

• Quality and technical excellence is a given
• Strong emphasis on understanding client needs and
  wants
• Team of highly creative technology experts
• Human Potential
• The Knowledge Worker
• Agility
• End of the day, it is the customer that matters!

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About UsStamp of Quality

• ISO 90012000 Compliance
• Softech Quality Attributes
• Quality People
• Quality Process
• Agility
• Automation
• Flexibility
• Visibility

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About UsTechnical Strength

• Microsoft Gold Certified Partner
• Advanced Infrastructure
• ISV
• Information Worker
• Solution Platforms and Tools
• Windows Server 2003/2008 , SQL Server 2005/2008,
  SSIS, SSRS
• Office SharePoint Server 2007, Visual Studio .NET
  2008 Team Suite
• Exchange Server 2007, CRM 4.0, Office
  Communication Server 2007
• Project Server 2007, Team Foundation Server 2008
• Technologies and Models
• ASP.Net, .NET Framework 3.5
• ADO.Net Extensions, Entity Framework
• Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) - based
  Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
• Software as a Service (SaaS) Web 2.0
• Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
• Microsoft Silverlight 2.0
• Workflow Foundation (WF)

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About UsOfferings

• Rich Internet Media Applications for
• Organizational Learning
• Enterprise / Social Knowledge Network
• Distance Education
• Interactive Web TV
• Live and On-Demand Content
• We offer Technologies, Point-Applications and
  Solutions to industry requirements.

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Rich Media TechnologiesRich Media Platform Map
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Rich Media TechnologiesUltraMashup Studio

• Unique Rich Internet Application (RIA) technology
  to enable users to combine various media types to
  create a rich media output, and to combine with
  it, the technology to obtain feedback and
  behavior data from the viewers side

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Rich Media TechnologiesUltraMashup Studio
Features

• Completely browser based functionality
• Very user friendly, yet rich in features
• Combine any number of videos, audio, images,
  captions and feedback forms (such as quizzes
  and surveys)
• Source media from existing file-sharing sites,
  your own content libraries, or upload new files
• Create new captions with various styles and fonts
  to embed it in the Mashup
• Overlay media on top of each other, resize,
  place at different positions in the canvas
• Specify transparency attributes, volume level,
  etc.
• Select a portion (Slice) of the actual media
  file to include in the Mashup
• Select time in Mashup to display and hide each
  content type
• Custom design question-and-answer forms for
  multiple-choice quizzes, feedback forms, surveys,
  opinion polls
• Specify type of form forward only, time-limited,
  mandatory/optional
• Obtain viewership tracking data who played the
  Mashup, for how long did they play it, did they
  rewind or forward, did they stop or see the
  entire video
• Obtain quiz/survey/feedback results, with scored
  Multiple-Choice answers
• Obtain analytical reports and statistics on
  viewership data and aggregated information
• The Mashup creation DOES NOT ALTER any of the
  original media files.

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Rich Media TechnologiesUltraMashup Player

• Plays Rich Media Mashups created using
  UltraMashup Studio.
• Consists of
• Player
• Viewer Comments
• Ratings
• Favorites
• Report as Abuse
• Refer to a Friend

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Rich Media TechnologiesUltraFeedback

• Technology to embed Feedback Forms into
  Mashups.
• Common uses
• Level 1 and Level 2 evaluations (eLearning)
• Quizzes
• Polls
• Surveys
• Satisfaction Feedback
• Gathering data and comments

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Rich Media TechnologiesUltraTracking

• Unique, in-depth approach to recording a viewer's
  Mashup-viewing behavior
• Integrated with UltraMashup Player to track each
  event on the Player
• Common uses
• Gauge viewer's attention span
• Effectiveness of the Mashup
• Content Popularity
• Combine with qualitative comments, ratings and
  satisfaction feedback

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Rich Media TechnologiesContent Library

• Media Repository component that houses
• Raw media files that are used for Mashups
• References to External Content
• Draft and Published Mashups
• Features to easily and rapidly access contained
  items via searches, tags, categories and filters
• Info-Tip

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Rich Media TechnologiesContent Caching and
Distribution

• Content is distributed to cache servers located
  at the edge of the Internet close to clients
• Content is pre-fetched to optimize bandwidth
  usage
• Custom and proprietary Content-Distribution
  Networks (Cisco, Akamai)

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Rich Media TechnologiesSubnet Management

• Subnet addresses mapped to branch locations or
  units
• Identify a viewer's location within a large
  network
• Find out which location of their company is most
  active in terms of using the video-based
  communication and learning system, etc.

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Rich Media TechnologiesUser Management

• Manages user-related information, including
• Roles, Profiles, Tracking information
• Integrated with other technology components, such
  as UltraMashup Player, UltraMashup Studio, etc.
• Authentication and Authorization
• Sign-up and Forms-based Authentication
• Directory Services Integration

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Rich Media TechnologiesSingle Sign-On

• Directory Services Integration
• Integrate with organization's Identity Management
  and Authorization systems
• Examples Active Directory, LDAP

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Rich Media Applications Consistent Communication
via Corporate TV

• Leaders, role models, CEOs and Presidents
  regularly pass on their valuable insights to
  their team
• Bring change and evolution into their business by
  working on people
• UltraMashup powered Corporate TV enables Live
  Broadcasts to keep your team aligned by
  communicating your vision regularly
• UltraTracking and UltraFeedback provide
  additional value on top of the live
  communication, to track who is watching and to
  see if they are getting the message!

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Rich Media ApplicationsGovernance, Risk
Management, Compliance

• Reflects a new way organizations focus on and
  manage an integrated approach to these three
  areas
• Corporate governance, IT governance,
• Financial risk management, strategic risk
  management, operational risk management, IT risk
  management,
• Corporate compliance, Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX)
  compliance, employment/labor compliance, privacy
  compliance, Section 508c Compliance
• Interactive video-based communication, learning
  and tracking consolidates GRC initiatives in an
  unprecedented manner.

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Rich Media ApplicationsA Two-way Experience

• Multimedia, especially video, is traditionally a
  one-way communication medium
• Complementary technologies and services are
  required to enable audiences to provide their
  feedback, ask questions, etc.
• Desirable in situations such as learning,
  knowledge, information and entertainment
  scenarios, to gather viewer response for
• Surveys, opinion polls, comments on parts of a
  video, gathering viewer data such as gender and
  age, gathering viewer likes and dislikes about a
  video or a portion of it, etc.
• UltraMashup Studio and Player technologies make
  it ultra easy to add interactivity to existing
  video content without the need for technical
  expertise.

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Rich Media ApplicationsCreate, Rejuvenate,
Deliver, Track

• Rejuvenate v. make young again revitalize make
  new again revive, renew
• Mashing combining multiple internet content
• Technology needed that allows adding images,
  audio, and text captions to videos, on the fly
  and over the web
• Especially useful in training and learning, to
  reuse and rejuvenate to make a point effectively.
  
• UltraMashup Studio and Player offer this
  technology
• Content can be uploaded by a User or linked to
  other contents over the web, residing on a media
  sharing site.

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Rich Media ApplicationsThe New Learner

• Today's learner requires on-demand learning from
  connected knowledge networks
• Traditional teaching model, where students come
  to a classroom and a sage on stage shares his
  knowledge, is being challenged
• Emergence of the connected web, search-ability,
  social networks and internet operating systems,
  are making knowledge accessible and shareable to
  everyone
• UltraMashup technologies are geared to play an
  important role in this paradigm shift. With
  video-based knowledge exchange, UltraMashup makes
  it ultra easy to author ultra effective learning
  material and share it with others.

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Rich Media SolutionsUltraLearn

• Enable and accelerate adoption of video-based
  training and learning
• Create a highly effective training and learning
  experience by
• Richly blending multimedia content
• Combining efficacy-measurement technologies
• Powered by Rich Media Platform Technologies to
  provide web-based content authoring, remixing,
  content management, distribution and delivery,
  tracking and profiling, feedback and reporting.

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Rich Media SolutionsUltraLearn Enterprise

• Rich Media based eTraining and Learning solution
  that integrates within an organization to
  maximize its ROI on Training programs
• Hosted within an organization's network
  infrastructure (LAN or WAN)
• Highly integrate-able with the organization's
  existing systems, such as LMS, KMS, HR, Training,
  Authorization, Business Scorecard, etc.
• Can feed off directly from an organization's
  internal content repository of videos, audio or
  images
• Can integrate with content-delivery networks such
  as Cisco ACNS
• Can be highly customized to suit an
  organization's training and learning needs
• Integrates with organization's learning plans to
  drive each individual's learning path
• Integrates with Identity and Authorization
  servers to achieve "Single Sign On
• Integrates with Business Scorecard systems to
  export KPI statistics based on feedback and
  tracking data
• Integrates with HR systems to integrate
  individuals' learning and skill profiles

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Rich Media SolutionsUltraLearn.com

• Software as a Service application delivered over
  the Internet
• Businesses, academic institutions and training
  provider companies can register their
  organizations quickly and easily
• Although hosted on the Internet, each
  organization gets its own private Training and
  Learning environment
• All data is secure and not sharable among the
  various "tenants" of UltraLearn.com
• Despite being on the Internet, integrate-able
  with the organization's existing systems, such as
  LMS, KMS, HR, Training, Authorization, Business
  Scorecard, etc.... although to a lesser extent
  than UltraLearn Enterprise
• Organizations can upload their training content
  into UltraLearn.com Content Library, and can
  access many "public" content explicitly made
  available by other tenants
• Training delivery infrastructure comprises high
  end storage, servers and bandwidth, guaranteeing
  security and high availability
• No-hassle quick start video-based eLearning
  program
• Globally accessible without the client needing to
  invest in any infrastructure
• "Mobile Learning Profiles" allow individual
  learners to associate their learning history to
  whichever organization they join
• Complete web-based management, content creation
  and delivery
• Ability to customize and configure the system
  according to requirements
• Ability for organizations to register their own
  viewers, content authors and administrators

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Contact Information

• http//www.softechww.com/
• Address 47378, Westood Pl, Sterling., Virginia
  20165.
• Phone [phone]
• Fax [phone]