Appscio: About Us
Appscio™, Inc. is the leader in the application of media analytics to government, enterprise and web media management problems. Appscio, a Freedom, CA-based company, was incorporated in 2007, by visionaries who anticipated rapid, widespread deployment of low cost digital video devices. The founders realized the central problem in managing the video from these devices is harvesting metadata from within the media to enable indexing and segmentation.
Media analytics which generate this metadata have been developed with substantial government funding by hundreds of research projects and institutions. However, until today, their work was developed and deployed in proprietary, closed applications. No simple, standard mechanism existed for leveraging the work of others, bridging audio and video domains, or combining analytics. To address this problem, Appscio developed its open source, open architecture media processing framework. The Appscio™ Media Processing Framework (Appscio™ MPF) creates a plug-in architecture for video and audio analytics that allows Appscio, researchers, and customers alike to rapidly develop and deploy applications utilizing best-of-breed media analytics.
Appscio sells applications and services built on the Appscio MPF, and sponsors an open source project to extend its capabilities. Appscio licenses, commercializes, certifies, tests, documents, benchmarks, and resells media analytics developed by others; for example, commercial entities, research organizations, and individuals. Appscio does not develop proprietary media analytics of its own.
The Appscio Name
The Appscio MPF enables the processing of event information from a varety of data sources - audio, video, sensors, as well as humans - and supplies context to power "knowing" applications. The Appscio name (pronounced AP - see - o) emphasizes this value. Appscio is the abbreviation of application combined with the Latin verb scio meaning to know.