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Hive Streaming case study

Hive Streaming and Azure enable seamless corporate video communication

Rising demand for video solutions that drive employee engagement

The COVID-19 pandemic has created a digital transformation, increasing the demand for video solutions that drive engagement across a hybrid workforce at enterprise scale.

Hive Streaming delivers optimized corporate video communication

The Hive Video Experience Platform integrates with Microsoft Teams to deliver high-quality corporate communications and actionable insights across the enterprise.

Maintain company culture and improve employee satisfaction

Hive Streaming facilitates video communication to distributed workforces, helping enterprises fulfill organizational priorities and bolster guiding principles.

Hive Streaming, a Microsoft partner delivering secure, efficient ways to work with corporate video

Headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden, Hive Streaming helps organizations drive employee engagement by enabling them to easily deliver high-quality video to global workforces and helping them understand the impact of video across the enterprise. The company’s core values – innovation, empowerment, and customer centricity – are also the key drivers behind its mission: to help enterprises maximize their video experience to achieve engagement and alignment in an ever-changing world.

Hive Streaming is a Microsoft partner offering a plug-in solution for companies wishing to utilize Microsoft Teams for large-scale video use and obtain actionable insights on usage and employee engagement. With a strong team of technology experts and more than 100 patents, Hive is consistently recognized as a video innovation leader, and its customers includes nearly 150 global companies, representing some of the world’s most admired brands.

“As a trusted advisor to some of the world’s most innovative companies, our goal is to create smooth, secure, and more efficient ways of working with and through corporate video for our clients and partners,” said Ati Serpoushan, VP Alliances & Strategic Partnerships, Hive Streaming.

Driving reach and engagement in corporate communication with the Hive Video Experience Platform

Integrated with Microsoft Teams and available in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, the Hive Video Experience Platform includes three core products – Analytics, Operations, and Optimization – that work together to create full-scope video experiences from planning to execution and analysis.

The Hive Video Experience Platform is built on Microsoft Azure and uses Azure Machine Learning and AI services to enable granular viewer and stream analytics and allow IT teams to pinpoint streaming issues and troubleshoot as needed, ensuring all employees benefit from a high-quality viewing experience. Hive is also integrated with Microsoft Stream, enabling employees who faces issues with streaming high volumes of video to view on-demand videos from a VOD library.

One of Hive's recent customers maintained an excellent 87 percent quality of experience for its largest events, minimizing buffering across the board. In China, the customer facilitated the highest quality of video streaming, engaging more employees from an even broader geographical spectrum and helping maintain strategic company culture, continuity, and performance. The customer achieved some impressive outcomes with Hive’s Video Experience Platform, including holding 279 events throughout the year, reaching more than 4,000 participants in its largest event, and racking up over 120,000 in total viewership.

“Partnering with Microsoft allows us to assist customers accelerating their video adoption journey, fast-tracking customer ROI. The Hive Video Platform unlocks the full potential of Teams, allowing customers to drive engagement in corporate communication and events.”

— Johan Ljungberg, CEO, Hive Streaming

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