User:AltusCorp/Altus Corporation

Company Overview
Altus was founded in 1998 by Ted Cocheu as a company specializing in recording corporate events. The privately held, Campbell, California-based company currently supports sales enablement and collaborative knowledge sharing within enterprises, across a range of document, media and device types, and makes content from both live and on-demand events available and searchable down to the spoken word. The company’s customers are generally Fortune Global 500 companies in search of new methods for sales enablement, training, or overall communication among large and often geographically diverse audiences, including their own personnel, partners and customers.

The company actively works with event organizers to make content from internal and industry-facing events available and searchable down to the spoken word. An example of this knowledge sharing is Altus' work with software leader Oracle, for its yearly OpenWorld event.

Company Funding and Profitability
A February, 2009 article in the San Jose/Silicon Valley Business Times notes that the company was initially self-funded by Cocheu in 1998. A news article in the New York Times in October, 2009 quotes a company executive as saying that Altus has been profitable for more than 10 years.

Main Product
Altus vSearch

Using Altus vSearch, companies capture and share knowledge throughout today’s distributed enterprise, particularly with regard to a global sales force. The platform combines digitally recorded video with synchronized PowerPoint slides and scrolling transcripts, so users can both see and hear the content being presented. Every word spoken and every word in the slides and notes becomes searchable data. Users can find and access the exact portion of content they need, and time otherwise spent looking for content is avoided.

Industry Acknowledgement
• 28th fastest-growing privately held company in the Silicon Valley, according to the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal • 28th on list of Top Companies in the Silicon Valley, according to Inc. Magazine

• 492nd on list of Fastest-Growing Technology Companies in North America, according to Deloitte, LLP

Publicly Announced Customers
Applied Materials, BEA Systems, Brocade Communications Systems, Chevron Corporation, Cisco Systems, Foreign Policy Association, George P. Johnson, IBM, Intel Corporation, National Semiconductor, NetApp, Oracle OpenWorld, Oronite , Raytheon Professional Services , Santa Clara University, SAP AG, Symantec, VMware, World Affairs Council of Northern California, Xilinx