Monday, April 26, 2010

Video meetings are taking off

TECHNOLOGY VENDORS will give a long list of reasons why you should invest in conferencing solutions but until this week volcanoes were not among them. BT alone reports a 27-36 per cent rise in the usage of its audio and video conferencing products by customers while Citrix claimed “a dramatic increase in demand” for GoToMeeting, its online video conferencing software.

Such tools offered an impromptu solution for stranded business travellers, highlighted at an Ibec conference in Dublin where two speakers stuck in Brussels were still able to give their presentations to 200 delegates using Microsoft Live Meeting.

Now that the volcanic dust has settled, organisations might be more inclined to put technology in place to avoid repeating a week of missed meetings and costly delays. Uptake in these products has been steady for a number of years. Organisations looking to cut costs have found an easy way to reduce travel with desk-based solutions that keep employees in the office. At the same time, lowering the carbon footprint has ticked a useful box around corporate and social responsibility. Read More

Courtesy: Irish Times

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