omNovia Technologies is a software company, founded by
Shahin (Shawn) Shadfar in 2004 that provides
web conferencing
Web conferencing is used as an umbrella term for various types of online conferencing and collaborative services including webinars (web seminars), webcasts, and web meetings. Sometimes it may be used also in the more narrow sense of the peer-l ...
platform for realtime,
rich-media
Interactive media normally refers to products and services on digital computer-based systems which respond to the user's actions by presenting content such as text, moving image, animation, video and audio. Since its early conception, various fo ...
online meetings, webinars, webcasts and
eLearning
Educational technology (commonly abbreviated as edutech, or edtech) is the combined use of computer hardware, software, and educational theory and practice to facilitate learning. When referred to with its abbreviation, edtech, it often refer ...
sessions with two to 5,000 interactive participants.
The company's headquarters is located in
Houston
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,
Texas
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. According to the company, the name omNovia derives from "omni" and "innovation".
Products
omNovia Technologies provides interactive web conferencing and webinar platform for online collaborative meetings, online trainings, remote learning sessions and live webcasting. The web based platform hosts online meetings with up to 5,000 participants in a virtual meeting room. The interactive features of the platform include integrated full 1080p
High Definition video
High-definition video (HD video) is video of higher resolution and quality than standard-definition. While there is no standardized meaning for ''high-definition'', generally any video image with considerably more than 480 vertical scan lines ( ...
and audio, white board, desktop sharing, polling, movie and YouTube player, Q&A Manager, Cobrowser, world map and Twitter integration.
The company also provides webcasting and remote support technologies. The company's web conferencing platform also offers the ability of multilingual web conferencing platform, allowing companies to host web conferences in a variety of languages simultaneously.
On April 7, 2009, omNovia was selected as the official webcast technology for the 2009 Digital Energy Conference organized by the Society of Petroleum Engineers.
In November 2011, omNovia was selected by the US State Department for its internal webinars.
About.com recognized omNovia as a "Great Alternative to Citrix GotoMeeting.
Awards
In 2008, omNovia Technologies won the 19th place in FastTech 50 awards program.
[{{cite news , url=http://houston.bizjournals.com/houston/stories/2008/11/10/focus5.html?page=3 , accessdate=2009-10-27 , publisher=Houston Business Journal , title=Fast Tech Success Stories , date=2008-11-09] In 2009 the company was nominated to the same award program.
References
Web conferencing
Telecommuting
VoIP software
Software companies based in Texas
Remote administration software
Companies based in Houston
Software companies of the United States