Kaltura Positioned in the "Leaders" Quadrant
New York, NY (USA), November 2014 - Kaltura Inc., a provider of a leading video-technology platform, has announced that it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the "Leaders" quadrant of the "Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Video Content Management", with the furthest positioning on the "Completeness of Vision" axis.
"We are extremely honored to receive recognition in the Leaders quadrant for the second consecutive year," said Kaltura Chairman and CEO, Ron Yekutiel. "We pride ourselves on the company’s over-arching vision to power any video experience and are honored to be recognized in this report. Kaltura’s market-leading enterprise video platform addresses the widest range of internal and external video use-cases. Our technology is enterprise grade to ensure the utmost level of security and control, and at the same time we deliver consumer-grade experiences that ensure ease of use and the highest level of adoption and engagement across the enterprise."
Kaltura sets itself apart from other video-technology enablers by undertaking the audacious goal of providing integrated video capabilities and workflows for any company to support any business goal. In order to achieve this goal, Kaltura launched an open and flexible video platform as a service based on hundreds of APIs for video ingestion, transcoding, metadata management, distribution, publishing, engagement, monetization, and analytics.
This multi-tenant platform, which can reside on any cloud or on premises, enables Kaltura to easily customize products for customers, to build new stand-alone video products, or to "videofy" other products and services with tightly integrated and highly customized video features and workflows. All of Kaltura's products have been built based on these APIs and have been deployed globally in thousands of organizations and engage hundreds of millions of viewers at work, in school, and at home.
Kaltura's unique horizontal approach has enabled it to address the largest target market: Kaltura offers enterprises video solutions that improve internal and external communications, training, and collaboration, as well as boost marketing and sales. Kaltura enables educational institutions with disruptive online-video solutions that improve teaching and learning and increase engagement across campuses and beyond. Kaltura provides media companies with advanced video management, publishing, and monetization tools that increase reach and monetization and also simplify production and publishing workflows.
Kaltura enables cable, satellite, and mobile operators to launch OTT TV services for mass consumers. Lastly, Kaltura enables cloud vendors to launch a Kaltura-powered multi-tenant “video cloud” on their infrastructure. Kaltura’s Video Cloud Platform includes Kaltura’s Video-Platform-as-a-Service and a wide array of out-of-the-box Kaltura Video Software-as-a-Service offerings, which together enable cloud vendors to provide comprehensive cutting-edge video services for any company and to increase the consumption of their cloud resources.
Kaltura’s enterprise video solutions, including the Kaltura CorporateTube™ social-video portal, full media-management tools, and robust API; video extensions for social business platforms such as Microsoft SharePoint, Jive, and IBM Connections; as well as out-of-the-box video integration packages to marketing automation systems like Eloqua and Marketo, in addition to webcasting and eCDN solutions, are in use by thousands of businesses worldwide, including some of the world’s largest corporations, among them Philips, SAP, Intel, Oracle, AstraZeneca, Danone, and many more.