ADVISORY/ITworld.com and Microsoft Present Live Webcast: 'Streaming Media in the Enterprise'

Business Wire, April 17, 2001

Business/Technology Editors

ADVISORY...for Wednesday (April 25)

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What:

"Streaming Media in the Enterprise," a live webcast produced by ITworld.com and sponsored by Microsoft, explores the ability of streaming media technologies to create significant business and financial value throughout your corporate enterprise. Viewers will discover how to use on-demand learning and corporate-wide webcasts to communicate more effectively with customers, partners and employees.

Whether this technology is implemented for corporate communications, electronic learning or promotion and advertising, Microsoft's streaming media solutions enable users to maintain frequent communication; significantly reduce travel expenses; improve corporate learning; increase productivity and revenue through knowledge sharing; and enable rapid response communications with customers, partners and employees regarding market conditions.

Who:

"Streaming Media in the Enterprise," features Stacey Quandt, Associate Analyst covering Web server infrastructure and server platforms at Giga Information Group, Gary Schare, Group Product Manager for Enterprise and e-Commerce Marketing in Microsoft's Digital Media Division, and Richard Thomas, Media and Training Manager at Mercedes-Benz USA. Join these three guests as they host an in-depth, interactive discussion on the merits of streaming media and how it is being deployed across corporate intranets worldwide.

When:

1:00 p.m. EST, Wednesday, April 25, 2001

Available on demand beginning Thursday, April 26, 2001

Where:

http://www.itworld.com/itwebcast/microsoft/streaming