Video conferencing offers clear benefits to business users, including better collaboration, faster decision-making, lower times to market and cost-effective, face-to-face meetings. But many managers have a hard time getting employees to warm up to video technology at the office. Although many employees are familiar with video in their personal lives—making ready use of video recording
“Video is the new voice.” So goes the thinking in many organizations today, where employees are increasingly working remotely from home offices, satellite offices, client sites and the road. But even as companies grow increasingly virtual—and increasingly global—they continue to see budget cuts that limit travel and demand a clear return on investment from any
According to research by Infotrends, around one billion camera-equipped smartphones, as well as hundreds of millions of camera-equipped laptops and tablets, will be sold this year. While mobile video calling using Skype or Apple’s Facetime is already commonplace and predicted to steadily increase among consumers, it has yet to achieve widespread adoption amongst business or
In today’s global business environment, organizations are increasing their investment in advanced communications technologies to improve collaboration and efficiency. Yet after spending heavily on communications technologies and infrastructure, organizations continue to have high traveling expenses and hard costs, while employees’ efficiency and productivity stagnate. Organizations are not able to realize the value of their investment,
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Historians of communications technologies will likely refer to the era from 1997 to 2007 as the Decade of Infrastructure Readiness. Beginning with a select group of global enterprises who sought to decrease operating costs by merging their telephony and data infrastructures, the migration into the 21st century has seen companies of all sizes and types