Congratulations are in order for Panopto, the classroom and mobile recording system that has been the flagship for DukeCapture since 2010. Gartner, one of the most respected American research firms that provides market analysis in the IT space, has just selected Panopto as a “Leader” in the Enterprise Video Content Management Space, the highest of four categories in its Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Video Content Management. Its interesting to see Panopto distinguish itself from Mediasite (Sonic Foundry) here, since Mediasite has long been regarded as the top player in the lecture capture space that gave rise initially to both of these tools. Enterprise video content management is a product category occupied historically by players such as Kaltura and Brightcove, and Warpwire is a newcomer into this space. Historically, content management systems have been thought of as different from lecture capture tools, but both Panopto and Mediasite have taken steps to blur those boundaries, as this Gartner report shows. It will be interesting to see how the two product spaces interact in the coming months, and how players such as Warpwire and Panopto fare. You can be sure we will be monitoring these trends closely and continuing to engage our campus video community to see how these evolving trends could create new opportunities for Duke.
