omNovia Technologies | |
Type: | Private Company |
Foundation: | 2004 |
Location: | Houston, Texas (United States) |
Industry: | Software |
Products: | Web conferencing, webinar and webcasting |
Homepage: | www.omNovia.com |
omNovia Technologies is a software company, founded by Shahin (Shawn) Shadfar in 2004 that provides web conferencing platform for realtime, rich-media online meetings, webinars, webcasts and eLearning sessions with two to 5,000 interactive participants.[1] The company's headquarters is located in Houston, Texas. According to the company, the name omNovia derives from "omni" and "innovation".[2]
omNovia Technologies provides interactive web conferencing and webinar platform for online collaborative meetings, online trainings, remote learning sessions and live webcasting.[3] 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[4] and audio, white board, desktop sharing, polling, movie and YouTube player, Q&A Manager, Cobrowser, world map and Twitter integration.[5] 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.[6]
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.[7]
In November 2011, omNovia was selected by the US State Department for its internal webinars.[8]
About.com recognized omNovia as a "Great Alternative to Citrix GotoMeeting.[9]
In 2008, omNovia Technologies won the 19th place in FastTech 50 awards program.[10] In 2009 the company was nominated to the same award program.