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kPoint, the technology solution that facilitates easy creation and consumption of learning content, has won Gold in the Best Advance in Unique Learning Technology category at the prestigious Brandon Hall Group Excellence in Technology Awards 2015.

The kPoint platform is a comprehensive technology solution for the creation of learning videos, their secure distribution and social sharing, versatile viewing options for learners, and analytics for learning program managers.

The Brandon Hall Group Awards are the definitive set of awards for the learning industry worldwide. A panel of senior industry experts and Brandon Hall Group senior analysts and executives evaluated the entries based upon value proposition, product innovation, unique differentiators and measurable results. kPoint’s win in the Best Advance in Unique Learning Technology category places it amongst the most visionary and innovative developers of learning technology solutions that move organizations forward in scaling the impact of learning.

Following the win, Shridhar Shukla, Managing Director of kPoint Technologies, said, “This is a great achievement for kPoint and an endorsement of how we have simplified the adoption of video for learning. However, the most satisfying aspect of the award, is that it gives due recognition to our effort in making an impact on learning in large organizations through the efficient reuse and re-purposing of learning content. We are proud to provide such an effective solution for organizations of all sizes to easily create and consume learning content on a massive scale.”

About Brandon Hall Group

Brandon Hall Group is a HCM research and advisory services firm that provides insights around key performance areas, including Learning and Development, Talent Management, Leadership Development, Talent Acquisition, and Workforce Management.

With more than 10,000 clients globally and 20 years of delivering world-class research and advisory services, Brandon Hall Group is focused on developing research that drives performance in emerging and large organizations, and provides strategic insights for executives and practitioners responsible for growth and business results.

(www.brandonhall.com) 

About kPoint

kPoint is a technology company focused on enabling and enhancing the use of video in business. Video is a value-multiplier for business processes that are communication or collaboration dependent. kPoint is being deployed successfully to improve programmatic and collaborative learning in over 50 medium to large sized corporations. More than 300,000 kPoint users have watched kPoint videos over 2 million times and consume over 15,000 hours of learning video every month.

Enterprise communication the world over is seeing a tipping point, with organizations changing the way they interact internally and externally. The ‘Digital Evolution’ is creating disruptive opportunities for enterprises to enhance interactions among customers, suppliers, stakeholders, and employees. And video has become the enabler which is bringing about this change. With the enterprise video space getting more and more innovative and crucial to the communication space, it was time kPoint took the lead in expounding how enterprise video will drive future business.

A conference for discussing “Enterprise Video: A Future Business Driver” was organized by kPoint at The Leela Ambience, Gurgaon on the 18th of September, 2015. The objective of the event was to demonstrate how kPoint’s enterprise video platform is helping organizations capture attention, create interest and deliver a consistent message to a global audience.

The Evangelists of best Enterprise Video Management

kPoint Co-Founder and Managing Director, Shridhar Shukla talked briefly about kPoint’s values and mission as an organization. He also discussed how organizations have applied kPoint video to their communication outreach and derived amazing results.

Manoj Chugh, President, Enterprise Business, Tech Mahindra, delivered the Keynote discussing ‘digital disruptions’ in the enterprise software space.

Sudhanshu Padhi, Learning and Development Manager, Hero MotoCorp highlighted the benefits of easy of video content creation and distribution through kPoint.

Vikrant Bhatnagar, Director – Capability Management, Tata Communications showcased a kPoint video explaining the ease of video content creation using kPoint.

Sunil Godse, Chief Customer Officer at kPoint Technologies discussed kPoint’s multiple use cases inside customer organizations and benefits derived such as rapid content roll-out and cost savings.

The event generated considerable buzz among the participants. Participating organizations are now judiciously evaluating how they can use kPoint to augment their communication practices.

PowerPoint is an innovative and easy-to-use program that can help you create impressive presentations. But despite its inherent strengths, a successful presentation is also greatly driven by the skills of the presenter. So imagine what it would be like if you could convert your presentations to video with a nice voice taking the viewer through the slides as they play out. And what if you had the option to choose from various voiceover artists of different accents, age group and gender?

This is the challenge that kPoint Voiceover addresses – converting your old presentations to video and giving them a new voice, a new life. kPoint Voiceover is kPoint’s text-to-speech feature that converts written script to speech effortlessly, thereby making your script come alive. kPoint Voiceover can also be used to add voice to silent video captures such as screen captures of software demos.

The one worry that organizations face while creating video content for global markets is the availability and cost of suitable voiceover talent. But with kPoint Voiceover, the voice talent is available readily. You only need to give us a presentation along with a voiceover script and we’ll convert it to video with a voiceover accent of your choice.

In case you need to make changes within your slides or script, go ahead and do it as many times as you want – kPoint will reconvert your script to speech just as easily. You can edit as much as you want or customize your scripts as per your changing requirements. Just send them to kPoint and we’ll take care of the rest.

kPoint Voiceover provides you the most human quality of voice possible. We can do voiceovers in multiple European and Asian languages apart from English. So you can publish your content for global markets quicker, while enjoying the flexibility of last minute changes. The days of looking around for multilingual voice talent are over.

Avijit Senmazumder
Chief Product Architect, kPoint Technologies, has architect-ed the media backbone for rapid video creation and delivery at kPoint. Avijit has a B. Tech. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from NIT Warangal and M. S. in Computer Science from UC, Santa Barbara.

Hats off to Google for launching YouTube Offline – the new feature that allows users to download a YouTube video and watch it when not connected to the Internet. This feature is available in select countries, India being one of them. We just love the YouTube ad announcing this feature with its goofy exaggeration of viewer’s heads spinning because of the frustration of buffer time. You can watch this cool ad here.



The problem of low or no Internet connectivity is common in certain geographies and where we work we’re no strangers to occasional Internet deprivation. So guess what? We’ve also built in offline viewing capabilities into our mobile app. But being an enterprise product, kPoint had to do a lot more than just download a video that would normally stream to one’s device.

Device lock: The video only plays on the device on which it was downloaded. So data cannot travel from device to device.

Limited shelf life: Offline videos on personal devices are even more vulnerable to theft or misuse. Making these videos available for a specified period of time minimizes the risk of data misuse while also ensuring that the data does not clog mobile device memory.

Offline analytics preserved: Viewership data for offline videos are not lost but captured once the device connects back to the kPoint application.

Offline video viewing that addresses the issues of personal device data security and analytics is the challenge that we address in our mobile app. Heads may not spin but they’ll certainly turn.

Avijit Senmazumder
Chief Product Architect, kPoint Technologies, has architect-ed the media backbone for rapid video creation and delivery at kPoint. Avijit has a B. Tech. degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from NIT Warangal and M. S. in Computer Science from UC, Santa Barbara.
 
 

It was about 6 months ago that the kPoint team realized that we had accumulated a heap of commendations. The commendations being the innumerable customer compliments that we would receive in the form of feedback, thank you emails, Facebook and Twitter shout outs and phone calls. And then it hit us one fine day. The idea that these words of encouragement were manifestations of a message more profound: the power of kPoint to alter the face of video communication. And for a team that is crazy about video, what would be the best way to present this message? Through a video testimonial… what else?

Today, we have our first video case study that showcases how kPoint has brought about a significant change to the sales enablement process at Logix Infosecurity. Watch Prashant Mudbidri, Founder Director and Anumita Mukherjee, Marketing Manager, describe how Logix increased their sales conversions by over 30% simply by using kPoint.

Here’s how we can make this happen in your enterprise too: