Dais Systems, Inc' Introduction to Quorum

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Dais Systems, Inc.Introduction to Quorum

• One Solution for Web-based Presentations

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Dais Systems

• Four years of experience with enterprise
  Webcasting and Web-based presentations
• Foundation is based upon business application,
  not just technology
• Jerry Potts CEO. 18 years of experience in
  corporate marketing and communications
• Our clients include

Formerly New England Streaming Media
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Our Mission

• To help organizations cost-effectively deliver
  the power of people on the Web by providing
• Quorum Software to empower organizations to
  create and deliver dynamic Web-based
  presentations
• Guidance regarding best practices
• Creation, promotion, and integration of content
• Technology
• Viewer experience
• Streaming services to support large events and/or
  projects

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Current Opportunities for Web-based Presentations

• The need to do more with less
• Reduce cost
• Increase productivity
• Pressure to communicate more quickly and
  effectively due to market and political
  uncertainty
• The human touch
• Globalization
• Internal communicate cost-effectively to
  international offices (time zones and access)
• Externallyconnect with customers around the world

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Overcoming the Barriers
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The Opportunity for a Provider

• One solution that can
• Easily and cost-effectively scale for global
  audience (both viewers and presenters)
• Support multiple areas within an organization
• Marketing--virtual focus groups, product
  launches, customer support, B-to-B
• Saleslive one-to-one or one-to-many
  presentations over the phone (no media)
• Corporate communications--IR, PR, crisis
  communications, updates
• Training and developmentreplace/augment
  classroom content
• Compliance/legal certification, new legislation

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Quorum Overview

• Quorum Conference
• Web-based presentation software to support a
  phone call, conference call, or videoconference
  (no streaming media)
• Quorum On-demand-
• Web-based software to create, manage, and publish
  on-demand rich media presentations (with
  streaming media)
• Quorum Live
• Web-based presentation software to create,
  manage, and deliver live rich media presentations
• Quorum Enterprise
• Conference, On-demand, and Live

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Moving to Adoption

• Exploration
• One project/ event
• One user/ business area
• ASP/service
• Expensive

• Evaluation
• Multiple projects
• One business area, high (and growing) usage
• Improved ROI but
• ASP/hosted locally

• Adoption
• Multiple business areas
• A large number of users
• Realization of ROI potential
• Hosted locally

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Moving to Adoption

• Exploration
• One project/ event
• One user/ business area
• ASP/service
• Expensive

• Evaluation
• Multiple projects
• One business area, high (and growing) usage
• Improved ROI but
• ASP/hosted locally

• Adoption
• Multiple business areas
• A large number of users
• Realization of ROI potential
• Hosted locally

Quorum supports all three phases
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Case Study Moving to Adoption

• Americas oldest mutual fund organization
• Over 250 webcasts created in 2002 using Dais
  technology and services
• 21,000 viewers, up 40 from 2001
• Initial target (1999) external audience, clients
• Today, in addition to external audiences-
• CEO addresses
• Business reviews
• Compliance (NASD requirements)
• HR benefits and policies
• Risk management
• One technology, many uses! A true enterprise
  solution.

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Case Study Cost-effective Global Communication

• 90,000 members around the world
• Looking to provide worldwide membership
  CE/accreditation units
• Delivered 8 webinars in 2002 using Dais
• Between 1,500 to 2,500 participants per webinar
• Average cost to deliver to global audience 1
  per participant
• Success in 2002 led to continuation of series in
  2003

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What Makes Quorum Different?

• One solution for the presenter
• Simplicityno software to download or install
• Accessibility presentations can be created,
  edited, and delivered from any computer connected
  to the Internet
• Flexibilitysupports
• virtually any element including media, slides,
  text, graphics, polling, hyperlinks, or Flash
• live and on-demand presentations
• Extensive reportingdetermine ROI quickly

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What Makes Quorum Different?

• One solution for an organization
• Scaleable and affordable
• True open standards, Web-based solution (Java,
  MySQL, Linux)
• Can support hundreds of presenters and thousands
  of viewers
• Flexible hosting options
• ASP/outsourced
• Local install
• One solution for all Web-based presentations
• Web-based presentations with no media
• Live and on-demand webcasts
• No Active X

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What Makes Quorum Different?

• One solution for the Viewer
• No proprietary plug-ins (does not download an
  applet or application, is pure HTTP)
• Presentations can be accessed
• PC or Mac
• Real Player and Windows Media Player
• IE 4.5 or higher, Netscape 4.7 or higher
• Can reach viewers behind firewalls or with
  bandwidth constraints

Presentations are optimized for IE/PC
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Quorum Features

• Live Webcast Yes
• On-demand Yes
• Live, no media Yes
• Elements Supported     
• Slides (automatic PowerPoint conversion)/graphics
• Text
• Indexing
• Polling
• Moderated Chat
• Flash
• Console
• Manages both live and on- demand presentations
• Viewer authentication
• Yes. Three ways. General password, e-mail
  address, or user defined
• Quizzing Yes
• Surveys Yes
• Viewer notification
• Built in e-mail with URL
• Reporting Integrated

• Custom branding 
• Yes. Uses an organizations style sheet for Web
  Pages and Presentation Templates.
• Supports
• IE and Netscape
• PC and Mac
• Real Player and Windows Media Player
• Hosting   
• ASP model (outsourced/hosted)
• Internal hosting
• Supports media delivered over multiple servers or
  to CDN
• Upgrades Included
• Documentation
• Print and on line help (contextual and general)
• Training On site
• User level restrictions
• Can limit specific functions by User
• Live Support  
• On site and Help desk 

Presentation are optimized for PC and IE
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The Competitive Landscape--ASP
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Cost Comparison for a Webinar PMI
Number of Participants
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Pricing

• ASP model (outsourced)
• Price is based upon product selected, number of
  users, and number of potential viewers
• Quorum Enterprise Edition includes Conference,
  On-demand, and Live
• 10 users/presenters, up to 1,000 concurrent
  viewers 25,000 per year
• Additional streaming fees may apply
• Install includes
• Fully customized templates for web pages and
  presentations
• Integration with leading CDNs (no minimum fees)

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Pricing

• Installed (hosted internally)
• 25,000 per server
• Annual fee for automatic upgrades, support, and
  maintenance 15 of licensing fee
• Number of users and viewers limited only by
  server capacity

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Summary

• The market for cost-effective, one-to-many
  communication is large but immature (exploration,
  evaluation, adoption)
• Collaboration and communication are different
  applications using different protocols and
  technology there is a need for both!
• Quorum provides
• Superior cost/benefit model
• Internal and external hosting options
• Proven, scaleable, open architecture for a large
  number of presenters and viewers
• Extensive integrated reporting
• Integrated webforms (registration, quizzing,
  surveys)

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Thank You!