Accordent Technologies

Accordent Technologies was a company that produces software for streaming media creation and management. Its headquarters are located in El Segundo, California and has sales and development offices in Seattle, London, New York, Atlanta, Dallas and Austin.Accordent pioneered solutions for creating presentations that synchronize streaming video with PowerPoint slides.Accordent was listed in Hoovers as a private company with over 50 employees and 2007 revenues reported to be in excess of $11 million. The company says that its products are used by more than 1500 clients worldwide, including 150 of the Fortune 500 corporations- such as VeriSign, Marathon Petroleum, Unisys and JPMorgan Chase- as well as over 450 higher educational and 125 public sector institutions.The Accordent product line included multimedia management software that enable clients to manage, search and secure online multimedia presentations created with Accordent presentation products, as well as archived versions of content from third-party sources, such as archived versions of videoconferences from TANDBERG and other manufacturers, web conferences and standalone videos.Accordent was acquired by Polycom in 2011 for $50 million dollars.