Ignite Announces Enhanced Support for Content Delivery to Mobile Devices & Enterprise Streaming

New Release v7.0 Provides Features to Enhance Global Enterprise Content Distribution

Ignite Technologies, Inc., the leader in providing secure and scalable Enterprise Content Delivery Solutions enabling customers to efficiently publish, deliver and manage digital assets, today announced version 7.0 for the Ignite Content Delivery Solution™. The key features of the release further extend the Ignite Solution to deliver rich media within the enterprise and include support for enhanced capabilities for delivery for content to mobile devices.

“As our research shows, organizations are increasing their focus on delivering content — including rich media — to mobile users, on a wide variety of devices,” said Melissa Webster, program VP at IDC for Content and Digital Media Technologies. “They also want to support a broad range of delivery options, including live streaming, on-demand delivery, and push technology — to maximize the impact and retention of important information, ensure that content is seen, and track usage. The most cost-effective approach is a solution that combines all of these capabilities and provides a common user interface.”

Support for Mobile Devices

Ignite v7.0 provides the ability for the enterprise to target, deliver, track, and report on content or notifications to mobile devices. Through the Ignite Delivery Manager, content administrators within an enterprise can manage content delivery to all registered devices such as Windows® Mobile enabled devices, iPods®, iPhone® and iPod Touch®. Employees within an enterprise can individually select, for any media type, the preferred device and method on which they would like to view their content.

In addition, high priority notifications, such as all employee alerts, can be quickly published by the content administrator and targeted to mobile devices for immediate delivery. As companies and employees increasingly rely on mobile devices for their communications needs, Ignite’s mobile support enhancement enables enterprises to deliver important and timely communications.

Enterprise Live Streaming

Ignite v7.0 supports high quality enterprise streaming of live events, with real-time and historical reporting of audience participation. Ignite differentiates its enterprise streaming solution by greatly minimizing the bandwidth used within the enterprise by leveraging its secure, managed peer-to-peer technology (P2P), which is network-friendly and more efficient than traditional streaming models where each participating user’s computer receives their “own” copy of the live stream directly from the source server or a caching appliance. This P2P delivery efficiency enables customers to provide their audience with high quality streams without adversely impacting the network and enables employees in lower bandwidth locations to participate in live streaming events.

Ignite also features proactive notifications and extensive reporting capabilities. Through Ignite, the content administrator can schedule an Ignite delivery alert which proactively notifies the viewer the event is about to begin, eliminating the need to send emails notifying or reminding the audience of the event. To view the stream, the recipient clicks on the alert and immediately connects to the live stream. Ignite provides valuable statistical data relating to the streaming event, and the unique ability to report throughout the streaming event, the average audience attendance by direct connection to the content server and average audience by peer connection. Ignite also provides peak audience, average audience and unique audience statistics.

“Enterprise content delivery demands distinctive capabilities and feature sets compared to a content delivery solution targeted primarily to consumers,” said Fabian Gordon, chief technology officer at Ignite. “Security, reporting and the ability to distribute many combinations of rich media are paramount to the enterprise. At Ignite, we continually enhance our solution to meet the rich media demands of our customers to offer an enterprise-wide, comprehensive content delivery solution.”

Ignite Content Delivery Solution

Ignite is the preferred solution among Global 2000 enterprises. The company’s solid base of customers utilizes the Ignite Content Delivery technology to reach millions of end-points daily with terabytes of data around the globe.

Ignite’s Content Delivery Solution is a suite of software solutions and networking technology that enables the management of the entire lifecycle of content publishing and distribution. The Ignite solution provides the tools needed to publish, protect, target, deliver, track, and measure any type of digital content—from high-definition video and media-rich PDFs to software executables and patches. Ignite’s patented Content Delivery Solution overcomes network and connectivity constraints that have limited the ability to reach online audiences with the highest quality, secure rich media.

Ignite Solution is comprised of the following components:

Delivery Center – The Ignite Delivery Center provides personal or corporate branding control over the distributed content viewing experience. The Delivery Center provides a superior full-screen viewing experience across all types of content, devices, and media players and supports online, offline, and on-demand interaction with content.

Delivery Platform – The Ignite Content Delivery Solution is built on a single unified publishing, packaging, and delivery platform. The Platform provides a web-based application that supports your workflow and lifecycle of publishing and delivering content. In addition, administration of user and system level roles, security parameters, and delivery options are managed through this centralized application.

Delivery Integrator – Ignite’s Delivery Platform is built on open standards and XML–based design features that provide a highly extensible platform for integration with existing enterprise applications and data sources.

More information about the Ignite Content Solution is available at our website at www.ignitetech.com.

About Ignite Technologies, Inc.

Ignite Technologies, privately-held and headquartered in Frisco, Texas, provides the industry’s most secure and scalable Content Delivery Solution enabling customers to efficiently publish, deliver and manage digital assets—from rich media content for communications and training to software patches and virus updates—to anyone, anywhere, at any time. Ignite’s patented Content Delivery Solution overcomes network and connectivity constraints that have limited the ability to reach online audiences with the highest quality, secure rich media. Ignite’s Solution has been deployed across hundreds of thousands of users around the globe at companies like Accenture, BearingPoint, Sabre, and Huntington Bank.

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Contacts

Ignite Technologies, Inc.
Kimberlee Lueders, 972-348-6447
Vice President, Marketing Communications
kimberlee.lueders {at} ignitetech(.)com