Empower Business with Microsoft Stream

One of the most important components of a modern intranet is video. Connection — particularly when administered by way of video — is more engaging and effective than its voice - or text. Starting from conferencing to live streaming events, creation of employee engagement, and training videos, this medium offers massive potential for strengthening internal messaging, and—thanks to today’s technology—there are many more ways to integrate it into the workplace.

Microsoft Stream is an Enterprise Video service wherein people within an organization can upload, view, and share videos securely. Anyone can share recordings of classes, meetings, presentations, training sessions, or other videos that aid your team’s collaboration. It is built for people who want to connect, collaborate, learn, and still have fun while working. 

Key Features of Microsoft Stream:

Channels

Similar to YouTube, people can organize videos by channels. For example, you can have a Training Channel, Onboarding Channel, a channel for Safety & Compliance, etc.

Integration with M-365

In the past, people would likely have videos all over the place. If someone has a marketing site, or a product site, or a company events site and everyone would have their own videos, but now with Stream, users can centralize all of their videos, and therefore the other Microsoft 365 products have ways to point out that video content. For example, Teams features a Stream tab that allows displaying a series of videos for an M365 Group or individual videos, and SharePoint has the Stream web part which lets you do the same.

Integration with SharePoint

The best part about Microsoft Stream is that it integrates with SharePoint Online. So you can host videos on a Microsoft Stream platform and then embed them on a page in SharePoint. 

To elaborate, you can load all of your onboarding videos in MS Stream Channel, then embed it on a SharePoint Human Resources page so new employees can view the videos right on the HR SharePoint page while browsing the location.

Live Events

Stream provides the ability to broadcast live videos. If anyone has got a staff meeting, with the assistance of a streaming application, Stream can broadcast that recording to the remainder of your organization. Additionally, that live broadcast will get processed and it'll also allow you to use facial detection, closed captioning, and text search capabilities. 

Text Analysis

In addition to facial detection, the audio is transcribed and displayed for people on the location. People can perform a text search on the transcript. So if you recognize that somebody mentioned “cybersecurity” within the video, type it in and therefore the transcript will show you all instances of that phrase. With just one click on that text, you can go directly to that video. This is a huge time saver.