Google gets a little more enterprisey
by Jevon MacDonald
Google is announcing a new enterprise product today. Google Video for Business. The product is available to Google Apps premier subscribers, which costs about $50/user/year. Each Google Apps Premier Edition domain gets 3GB of Video storage per user account, with a file limit of 300 MB per video.
The tool is essentially YouTube for your organization. You can upload videos, comment on them, add bookmarks and share the videos around.
This is interesting for a lot of obvious reasons. Video in the enterprise is relatively untested, and there are a lot of problems with it. Not the least of which is search quality and general information findability. Video is a great place to send information to die.
That said, video can bring life to existing information and it is extremely effective in relaying news. Video also demands a certain level of attention once the person is watching.
I am not convinced that there are a lot of use cases for video are beyond announcements and How-To’s.
What do you think, what would you use video for inside your organization?
