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Cisco Digital Media System: Video Portal Reports for Cisco Digital Media Manager 5.1

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The Cisco® Digital Media System (DMS) is a comprehensive suite of digital signage, enterprise TV, and desktop video applications that allows companies to use digital media to increase sales, enhance customer experience, and facilitate learning. Support from the broad Cisco partner ecosystem of deployment, solution development, and content-creation partners ensures a successful digital media implementation.

The Cisco Video Portal Reports is a software management module option for the Cisco Digital Media Manager (DMM) for Cisco Desktop Video.

Cisco Video Portal Reports: Metrics on Digital Media Content Usage

The web-based Cisco Video Portal Reports tool allows you to track the access and use of digital media content by end users. With the Cisco Video Portal Reports tool, you can:

• Specify time periods: Run reports based on specific dates.

• Analyze content use: Access unique and repeat traffic metrics for each available video or as an aggregated total.

• Monitor referrals: Track top referring pages and links with the corresponding views they generate.

• Understand visitors: Acquire vital statistics about visitors, including operating system, browser, and media plug-in used.

• Receive viewer usage details: Identify what videos have been played by individual users and videos.

With the Cisco Video Portal Reports, Cisco Digital Media System administrators can access a variety of usage information that can facilitate tracking content effectiveness and required user access as part of a larger training compliancy effort, and help shape future content development based on content trends.

Types of Reports

The Cisco Video Portal Reports tool provides the following types of reports (Figure 1):

• Sitewide traffic: A variety of sitewide traffic, including the number of page views; unique visitors; the total number of video streams; the top 100 videos selected; downloads; and Cisco Video Portal user system information, including browser type, operating system, and plug-ins, is available through selectable date ranges.

• Viewer traffic: The videos played by selected viewers and all of the viewers that played a particular video can be reported through selectable date ranges.

Figure 1. Cisco Video Portal Reports Options

Product Specifications

Table 1 gives client requirements for the Cisco Video Portal Reports tool.

Table 1. Client Requirements for Cisco Video Portal Reports Tool

Component

Requirements

Browser

Windows

• Internet Explorer 6.0 or Firefox 1.5 minimum

Linux

• Firefox 1.5 or later

Apple Macintosh

• Firefox 1.5 or later

Plug-ins

Adobe Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) plug-in: v.3.0 minimum; (required only for Internet Explorer) Renesis SVG Player 1.1 Internet Explorer plug-in available at: http://www.examotion.com/index.php?id=product_player_download

Ordering Information

Table 2 provides ordering information for the Cisco Video Portal Reports tool, which is ordered as an option with the Cisco Video Portal.

Table 2. Cisco Digital Media Manager with Cisco Video Portal Reports

Product Software on Server Appliance

Part Number

Cisco Video Portal 5.1 for Cisco MCS 7825-H3 Unified Communications Manager Appliance (MCS-7825-H3) for up to 500 concurrent viewers
• VP5.1-500-K9
• VPR5.1-K9

* MCS7825H3-VP51K9

Cisco Video Portal 5.1 for Cisco MCS 7835-H2 Unified Communications Manager Appliance (MCS-7835-H2) for up to 1000 concurrent viewers
• VP5.1-1000-K9
• VPR5.1-K9

* MCS7835H2-VP51K9

Software Upgrades

Cisco Video Portal 5.1 Upgrade from Version 5.0 for Cisco MCS 7825-H2 (MCS-7825-H2) for up to 500 concurrent viewers

VP5-1000-U5.1-K9

Cisco Video Portal 5.1 Upgrade from Version 5.0 for Cisco MCS 7835-H1 (MCS-7835-H1) for up to 1000 concurrent viewers

VP5-500-U5.1-K9

The Cisco DMS Version 5.0 to Version 5.1 Upgrade is available to all Cisco customers with a current Software Application Support (SAS) contract at http://www.cisco.com.

Access to the Cisco DMS upgrades is available from this Website by selecting the Support: Download Software: Video and Content Delivery: Cisco Digital Media System Webpages.

Service and Support

Cisco and our partners provide a broad portfolio of end-to-end services and support that can help you improve network total cost of ownership, business agility, and network availability to increase the business value of your network and return on investment. This portfolio is based on the Cisco Lifecycle Services approach, which defines activities needed, by technology and by network complexity, throughout the six phases of the network lifecycle: prepare, plan, design, implement, operate, and optimize. Cisco Services for the Cisco Digital Media System in the prepare, plan, design, and implement phases of the network lifecycle can help you successfully deploy a reliable, high-performance Cisco Digital Media System. Specific activities include:

• User feature and function requirements validation

• Architecture validation

• Network and operations readiness assessment

• Detailed design and implementation schedule development

• System acceptance test-plan development

• Staffing plan development

• Installation, configuration, and integration support

For the Cisco Video Portal, Cisco Services in the operate phase help ensure that Cisco products operate efficiently and benefit from the most up-to-date hardware and software maintenance. Software Application Support (SAS) strengthens application availability, functions, and reliability with 24-hour access to technical support and software updates, and Cisco SMARTnet® and Cisco SMARTnet Onsite support provide registered access to Cisco.com for online technical assistance, access to the Cisco Technical Assistance Center (TAC), Cisco IOS® Software updates and upgrades, and Advance Replacement of failed hardware.
To learn more about Cisco Services for the Cisco Digital Media System, please contact your local Cisco representative. For specific information about SAS and Cisco SMARTnet and Cisco SMARTnet Onsite support, visit:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/svcs/ps3034/ps2827/ps2993/serv_group_home.html and http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/svcs/ps3034/ps2827/ps2978/serv_group_home.html.

For More Information

For more information about the Cisco Digital Media Manager and Cisco Video Portal Reports, please visit: http://www.cisco.com/go/dms or contact your local Cisco account representative.