This survey of over 160 business decision makers found that:
1) Less than half of respondents currently use video conferencing, leaving many organizations missing out on productivity benefits.
2) Of those not using it, 80.8% would consider using video conferencing.
3) 78.8% of current users are satisfied with their systems, though some issues remain for the 21.2% who are not satisfied.
4) 80% of respondents said they would use video conferencing to meet face-to-face without travel.
Steljes Productive Video & Data ConferencingGordon Rimmer
Working with some of the world’s leading technology innovators, Steljes has developed the Business Productivity Suite to help you change the way you work for real and lasting benefit. The Business Productivity Suite comprises of the cream of today’s productivity technology, under one roof, designed to address five focus areas that businesses tell us they need to make more efficient: meetings, video and data conferencing, workspaces and flexible working, training and marketing and communications.
Business Productivity Suite PresentationGordon Rimmer
Working with some of the world’s leading technology innovators, Steljes has developed the Business Productivity Suite to help you change the way you work for real and lasting benefit. The Business Productivity Suite comprises of the cream of today’s productivity technology, under one roof, designed to address five focus areas that businesses tell us they need to make more efficient: meetings, video and data conferencing, workspaces and flexible working, training and marketing and communications.
Yorktel Whitepaper: Save Money, Leverage Time Return on Engagement Using Coll...Melissa Luongo
By Ron Gaboury CEO
We have become a society where information is received multiple ways simultaneously. Media simultaneously has “talking heads,” visual data, social media and graphics at the bottom of the screen; accessible everywhere. Younger generations expect this constant video flow as the norm. Can this backfire? How do we use it to our advantage instead of giving in to ‘information overload’? It is time to develop a strategy to better engage people by effectively using collaboration and visual tools. Here we discuss how to shift the ever-common business meeting into a collaborative session that not only boosts productivity, but nurtures your “soft assets” and promotes a measurement far more important than ROI—your ROE (return on engagement).
Business Productivity Statistics PresentationGordon Rimmer
Working with some of the world’s leading technology innovators, Steljes has developed the Business Productivity Suite to help you change the way you work for real and lasting benefit. The Business Productivity Suite comprises of the cream of today’s productivity technology, under one roof, designed to address five focus areas that businesses tell us they need to make more efficient: meetings, video and data conferencing, workspaces and flexible working, training and marketing and communications.
The Power of Virtual Collaboration in Project ManagementCitrix Online
This new eBook explores how companies can implement virtual collaboration tools throughout the project lifecycle to effectively manage projects from start to finish.
Overcoming the challenges of hardware based video collaborationBlueJeans Network
It’s always better doing business face to face. But this
doesn’t necessarily mean being in the same room. For
several decades, video conferencing technology has been
connecting thinkers and innovators from across the globe
– fuelling growth and driving profitability.
Yet new independent research has highlighted a
disconnect between the perceived usefulness of video
conferencing technology and its rate of take-up by
businesses. Video conferencing is seen as a promising,
but largely untapped, resource.
The study, commissioned by BlueJeans Network,
investigates the expectations and experience of video
conferencing technology among IT and operations
decision makers across the UK. It unearths the critical
challenges businesses face in successfully harnessing
collaboration technology, while also revealing the steps
that can be taken to overcome them.
Instantly Connecting Developers Across The MilesCitrix Online
This new white paper examines the key challenges remote developers and teams face while exploring the advantages of leveraging an online collaboration solution to instantly connect, eliminate travel and expedite projects.
Steljes Productive Video & Data ConferencingGordon Rimmer
Working with some of the world’s leading technology innovators, Steljes has developed the Business Productivity Suite to help you change the way you work for real and lasting benefit. The Business Productivity Suite comprises of the cream of today’s productivity technology, under one roof, designed to address five focus areas that businesses tell us they need to make more efficient: meetings, video and data conferencing, workspaces and flexible working, training and marketing and communications.
Business Productivity Suite PresentationGordon Rimmer
Working with some of the world’s leading technology innovators, Steljes has developed the Business Productivity Suite to help you change the way you work for real and lasting benefit. The Business Productivity Suite comprises of the cream of today’s productivity technology, under one roof, designed to address five focus areas that businesses tell us they need to make more efficient: meetings, video and data conferencing, workspaces and flexible working, training and marketing and communications.
Yorktel Whitepaper: Save Money, Leverage Time Return on Engagement Using Coll...Melissa Luongo
By Ron Gaboury CEO
We have become a society where information is received multiple ways simultaneously. Media simultaneously has “talking heads,” visual data, social media and graphics at the bottom of the screen; accessible everywhere. Younger generations expect this constant video flow as the norm. Can this backfire? How do we use it to our advantage instead of giving in to ‘information overload’? It is time to develop a strategy to better engage people by effectively using collaboration and visual tools. Here we discuss how to shift the ever-common business meeting into a collaborative session that not only boosts productivity, but nurtures your “soft assets” and promotes a measurement far more important than ROI—your ROE (return on engagement).
Business Productivity Statistics PresentationGordon Rimmer
Working with some of the world’s leading technology innovators, Steljes has developed the Business Productivity Suite to help you change the way you work for real and lasting benefit. The Business Productivity Suite comprises of the cream of today’s productivity technology, under one roof, designed to address five focus areas that businesses tell us they need to make more efficient: meetings, video and data conferencing, workspaces and flexible working, training and marketing and communications.
The Power of Virtual Collaboration in Project ManagementCitrix Online
This new eBook explores how companies can implement virtual collaboration tools throughout the project lifecycle to effectively manage projects from start to finish.
Overcoming the challenges of hardware based video collaborationBlueJeans Network
It’s always better doing business face to face. But this
doesn’t necessarily mean being in the same room. For
several decades, video conferencing technology has been
connecting thinkers and innovators from across the globe
– fuelling growth and driving profitability.
Yet new independent research has highlighted a
disconnect between the perceived usefulness of video
conferencing technology and its rate of take-up by
businesses. Video conferencing is seen as a promising,
but largely untapped, resource.
The study, commissioned by BlueJeans Network,
investigates the expectations and experience of video
conferencing technology among IT and operations
decision makers across the UK. It unearths the critical
challenges businesses face in successfully harnessing
collaboration technology, while also revealing the steps
that can be taken to overcome them.
Instantly Connecting Developers Across The MilesCitrix Online
This new white paper examines the key challenges remote developers and teams face while exploring the advantages of leveraging an online collaboration solution to instantly connect, eliminate travel and expedite projects.
Overview:
2021 will be the rise of a hybrid workforce. Leaders will face new set of challenges while managing both the in-office team and remote team. Fairness and inclusivity along with other key methods will be used by the hybrid leaders to balancing between the both.
What to expect?
Tips on managing hybrid workforce
Self-Assessment questions before jumping into hybrid work model
Tools used for managing hybrid teams efficiently and effectively
The document provides an overview and summary of a report on how digital technology impacts and transforms the voluntary sector. The report was independently researched and sponsored by Tata Consultancy Services. It involved a literature review, workshop, mapping over 100 technology projects used by voluntary organizations, and 20 case studies. The report aims to show how technology can help address challenges, identify successful solutions, and barriers/enablers to implementation. It examines issues of adoption, disruption, and achieving technological maturity.
Business Cloud: The State of Play Shifts RapidlyCapgemini
The Cloud has become a set of real practical solutions for organizations today.
From 460 interviews with businesses and IT executives, we explored what the situation is with the users of the Cloud. We outline five key findings and provide recommendations to CIOs to create a successful roadmap to cloud adoption.
Respondents at the highest levels of collaboration maturity are up to five times more likely to gain positive impact on business outcomes than those at lower levels. Organizations that have an optimized approach with fully integrated solutions, training, and processes reported exceeding expectations in reducing expenses, improving quality, reducing risk, and increasing agility. To maximize the value of collaboration, organizations need to consider both collaboration technologies and best practices, as outcomes are positively impacted when these are combined at higher levels of maturity.
The document discusses how mobile testing has progressed through three phases similar to how web testing evolved:
1) Discovery - Early experimentation with simple mobile apps and minimal testing.
2) Support core business - Mobile now supports key business processes but testing is still limited and siloed.
3) Drive new business - Mobile experiences are now engaging, transactional, and integrated with social media. Testing is structured, methodological and uses strong tooling to address complex challenges like platform fragmentation, varied devices, and user experience.
The document discusses CSC's implementation of an enterprise social collaboration platform called C3. Some key points:
- CSC implemented C3 to help employees better connect, communicate and collaborate across the large global organization.
- An adoption best practices approach was taken, focusing on engaging advocates like executives, seeding use cases, and transparency.
- The implementation started as a pilot in 2008 and grew organically, reaching 45,000 registered users by 2010.
Discute as facilidades que uma ferramenta como portal corporativo pode oferecer a uma organização, apresenta os critérios de avaliação, infra-estrutura de tecnologia de informação, e o posicionamento, visão e impacto do portal na corporação.
www.terraforum.com.br
Enterprise Knowledge Workers: Understanding Risks and OpportunitiesFindWhitePapers
This document discusses the rise of knowledge workers and collaboration-intensive work in enterprises. It finds:
1) Knowledge work now defines job descriptions across industries and levels, requiring access to various data sources and collaboration.
2) To be effective, knowledge workers resort to "workarounds" when enterprise IT and processes don't meet their needs, risking inefficiencies.
3) Barriers to information sharing include siloed data, lack of incentives for workers and managers to improve access, and inflexible IT infrastructures not understanding knowledge work needs.
Presentation given by Steve Boese at the Aquire 2011 User Conference on May 23, 2011.
Talk focused on some of the challenges and opportunities that contingent labor, globalization, and demographic changes present to organizations.
Comes with the 100% guaranteed to work 60% of the time promise.
Working with IT_Does it need to be that difficultt?Steve Mitchinson
The document discusses the importance of developing a strong relationship between contact centers and IT departments. It notes that contact centers are increasingly dependent on technology, but relationships between contact centers and IT are often lacking. The document explores reasons for poor relationships from both the contact center and IT perspectives, such as lack of technical understanding, failure to define business needs, and failure to keep skills up to date. It also outlines traits of successful vs unsuccessful CIOs in partnering with contact centers.
Leading Virtual Effectiveness: Four Strategies for Effective CommunicationCitrix Online
This new eBook by Camille Preston of AIM
Leadership reveals 4 steps to mastering effective virtual leadership and communication and provides the tools for managing the shift to the virtual workplace.
This newsletter provides an 8-step approach to developing a strategic roadmap for unified communications (UC). It recommends defining an organizational vision and requirements, evaluating current systems, identifying viable solutions, developing a transformation roadmap, and performing ongoing improvements. The newsletter includes an analysis from Gartner recommending a project-focused rather than technology-focused approach to UC planning to better match requirements with solutions.
Using Social Collaboration in Product Innovation - UpdatedJeanne Bradford
This benchmark studying outlines 10 best practices in applying social technologies to the product innovation process. Case studies come from companies that are ahead of the industry curve in accelerating both time to market and innovation.
This document discusses how small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) can achieve profitable collaboration both internally and externally with clients. It emphasizes that collaboration requires a holistic view focusing on people, processes, and technology. New cloud-based collaboration tools offer affordable options for SMBs and are available across many platforms. The document provides examples of how different SMBs have used collaboration tools to their advantage.
Recruiting Without Boundaries – How Video Can Bridge the Distance Between You...BlueJeans Network
In a job seeker's market, many businesses find they need to look well outside of their local market to recruit the talent they need to succeed. This strategy puts HR teams under pressure to make meaningful connections with all potential hires and employees, near and far, while also keeping costs in check. High-quality videoconferencing is one solution—and this eBook outlines several ways the technology can make HR's job easier.
Today’s IT investments require bottom-line, quantifiable truths and Unified communications (UC) is no exception. This whitepaper covers best practice tips on building a comprehensive business case for UC systems
This report seeks to discover whether
businesses are taking the right decisions in
order to achieve greater productivity and
ultimately competitive advantage. Another
goal of the survey was to find out if
businesses do appear to be moving with the
pace of technology in order to increase their
overall efficiency. Is productivity regarded as
a core strategy to achieve results, and if so,
are businesses using the right technologies
and strategies in order to maximise and fulfil
this strategy to its full potential?
Online Video Collaboration for Manufacturing Industry - Full ReportAbhizar Bootwala
Large companies with project teams spread over several countries and multiple time zones are increasingly turning to videoconferencing to connect geographically dispersed groups. Companies are realizing that flying employees from one location to the next not only chalks up travel costs, but also decreases productivity and leads to team exhaustion.
Of course, videoconferencing isn’t a complete replacement for face-to-face meetings. Companies that are leading the way in videoconferencing report those periodic in-person visits are still necessary and they caution that videoconferencing is most effective if team members already have an existing relationship. There’s no doubt personal videoconferencing tools can enhance remote employees’ communication and productivity. Video ties together disparate and often isolated workers by letting physical, visual nuances shine through.
Driving Usage & Adoption of Visual CollaborationIVCi, LLC
This presentation covers several key steps an organization must take in order optimize usage and adoption of visual collaboration among their workforce. This includes:
Executive Support & Planning.
Identifying & Integrating the Technology
Designing Processes & Procedures
Disseminating to the People
Overview:
2021 will be the rise of a hybrid workforce. Leaders will face new set of challenges while managing both the in-office team and remote team. Fairness and inclusivity along with other key methods will be used by the hybrid leaders to balancing between the both.
What to expect?
Tips on managing hybrid workforce
Self-Assessment questions before jumping into hybrid work model
Tools used for managing hybrid teams efficiently and effectively
The document provides an overview and summary of a report on how digital technology impacts and transforms the voluntary sector. The report was independently researched and sponsored by Tata Consultancy Services. It involved a literature review, workshop, mapping over 100 technology projects used by voluntary organizations, and 20 case studies. The report aims to show how technology can help address challenges, identify successful solutions, and barriers/enablers to implementation. It examines issues of adoption, disruption, and achieving technological maturity.
Business Cloud: The State of Play Shifts RapidlyCapgemini
The Cloud has become a set of real practical solutions for organizations today.
From 460 interviews with businesses and IT executives, we explored what the situation is with the users of the Cloud. We outline five key findings and provide recommendations to CIOs to create a successful roadmap to cloud adoption.
Respondents at the highest levels of collaboration maturity are up to five times more likely to gain positive impact on business outcomes than those at lower levels. Organizations that have an optimized approach with fully integrated solutions, training, and processes reported exceeding expectations in reducing expenses, improving quality, reducing risk, and increasing agility. To maximize the value of collaboration, organizations need to consider both collaboration technologies and best practices, as outcomes are positively impacted when these are combined at higher levels of maturity.
The document discusses how mobile testing has progressed through three phases similar to how web testing evolved:
1) Discovery - Early experimentation with simple mobile apps and minimal testing.
2) Support core business - Mobile now supports key business processes but testing is still limited and siloed.
3) Drive new business - Mobile experiences are now engaging, transactional, and integrated with social media. Testing is structured, methodological and uses strong tooling to address complex challenges like platform fragmentation, varied devices, and user experience.
The document discusses CSC's implementation of an enterprise social collaboration platform called C3. Some key points:
- CSC implemented C3 to help employees better connect, communicate and collaborate across the large global organization.
- An adoption best practices approach was taken, focusing on engaging advocates like executives, seeding use cases, and transparency.
- The implementation started as a pilot in 2008 and grew organically, reaching 45,000 registered users by 2010.
Discute as facilidades que uma ferramenta como portal corporativo pode oferecer a uma organização, apresenta os critérios de avaliação, infra-estrutura de tecnologia de informação, e o posicionamento, visão e impacto do portal na corporação.
www.terraforum.com.br
Enterprise Knowledge Workers: Understanding Risks and OpportunitiesFindWhitePapers
This document discusses the rise of knowledge workers and collaboration-intensive work in enterprises. It finds:
1) Knowledge work now defines job descriptions across industries and levels, requiring access to various data sources and collaboration.
2) To be effective, knowledge workers resort to "workarounds" when enterprise IT and processes don't meet their needs, risking inefficiencies.
3) Barriers to information sharing include siloed data, lack of incentives for workers and managers to improve access, and inflexible IT infrastructures not understanding knowledge work needs.
Presentation given by Steve Boese at the Aquire 2011 User Conference on May 23, 2011.
Talk focused on some of the challenges and opportunities that contingent labor, globalization, and demographic changes present to organizations.
Comes with the 100% guaranteed to work 60% of the time promise.
Working with IT_Does it need to be that difficultt?Steve Mitchinson
The document discusses the importance of developing a strong relationship between contact centers and IT departments. It notes that contact centers are increasingly dependent on technology, but relationships between contact centers and IT are often lacking. The document explores reasons for poor relationships from both the contact center and IT perspectives, such as lack of technical understanding, failure to define business needs, and failure to keep skills up to date. It also outlines traits of successful vs unsuccessful CIOs in partnering with contact centers.
Leading Virtual Effectiveness: Four Strategies for Effective CommunicationCitrix Online
This new eBook by Camille Preston of AIM
Leadership reveals 4 steps to mastering effective virtual leadership and communication and provides the tools for managing the shift to the virtual workplace.
This newsletter provides an 8-step approach to developing a strategic roadmap for unified communications (UC). It recommends defining an organizational vision and requirements, evaluating current systems, identifying viable solutions, developing a transformation roadmap, and performing ongoing improvements. The newsletter includes an analysis from Gartner recommending a project-focused rather than technology-focused approach to UC planning to better match requirements with solutions.
Using Social Collaboration in Product Innovation - UpdatedJeanne Bradford
This benchmark studying outlines 10 best practices in applying social technologies to the product innovation process. Case studies come from companies that are ahead of the industry curve in accelerating both time to market and innovation.
This document discusses how small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) can achieve profitable collaboration both internally and externally with clients. It emphasizes that collaboration requires a holistic view focusing on people, processes, and technology. New cloud-based collaboration tools offer affordable options for SMBs and are available across many platforms. The document provides examples of how different SMBs have used collaboration tools to their advantage.
Recruiting Without Boundaries – How Video Can Bridge the Distance Between You...BlueJeans Network
In a job seeker's market, many businesses find they need to look well outside of their local market to recruit the talent they need to succeed. This strategy puts HR teams under pressure to make meaningful connections with all potential hires and employees, near and far, while also keeping costs in check. High-quality videoconferencing is one solution—and this eBook outlines several ways the technology can make HR's job easier.
Today’s IT investments require bottom-line, quantifiable truths and Unified communications (UC) is no exception. This whitepaper covers best practice tips on building a comprehensive business case for UC systems
This report seeks to discover whether
businesses are taking the right decisions in
order to achieve greater productivity and
ultimately competitive advantage. Another
goal of the survey was to find out if
businesses do appear to be moving with the
pace of technology in order to increase their
overall efficiency. Is productivity regarded as
a core strategy to achieve results, and if so,
are businesses using the right technologies
and strategies in order to maximise and fulfil
this strategy to its full potential?
Online Video Collaboration for Manufacturing Industry - Full ReportAbhizar Bootwala
Large companies with project teams spread over several countries and multiple time zones are increasingly turning to videoconferencing to connect geographically dispersed groups. Companies are realizing that flying employees from one location to the next not only chalks up travel costs, but also decreases productivity and leads to team exhaustion.
Of course, videoconferencing isn’t a complete replacement for face-to-face meetings. Companies that are leading the way in videoconferencing report those periodic in-person visits are still necessary and they caution that videoconferencing is most effective if team members already have an existing relationship. There’s no doubt personal videoconferencing tools can enhance remote employees’ communication and productivity. Video ties together disparate and often isolated workers by letting physical, visual nuances shine through.
Driving Usage & Adoption of Visual CollaborationIVCi, LLC
This presentation covers several key steps an organization must take in order optimize usage and adoption of visual collaboration among their workforce. This includes:
Executive Support & Planning.
Identifying & Integrating the Technology
Designing Processes & Procedures
Disseminating to the People
‘Communications & Collaboration Technologies’ as Strategic Imperative for Ent...IJERA Editor
With an aim to increase productivity and satisfaction, CIOs across the globe are scaling up their investments in advanced communications & collaboration technologies. The need to communicate with customers and employees irrespective of time and place is further driving the development of disruptive communications & collaboration technologies. The evolution of new and affordable communications & collaboration solutions such as IP PBX and web conferencing has led to a decline in the adoption of traditional audio and video conferencing solutions. Enterprises are opting for flexible solutions that also offer additional features at lower prices compared to traditional conferencing solutions
Speech recognition technology has advanced significantly with cloud computing resources, making it a viable option for enterprises. While some businesses remain skeptical due to past performance issues with consumer offerings like Siri, dedicated enterprise solutions like Mobiso are customized to meet business needs and guarantee performance. Mobiso's speech recognition improves over time through continuous learning. Additionally, cloud-based deployments reduce costs and complexity compared to on-premise systems, allowing for easy and rapid implementation without large upfront investments. With increased mobility and BYOD trends, speech technology adoption is essential for businesses to gain competitive advantages from improved productivity and customer service.
This document discusses a case study on implementing virtual meetings and video conferencing in organizations. It examines whether business travel will be necessary in the future or become outdated due to virtual options. It also compares telepresence and video conferencing, noting telepresence provides a more "in-person" experience but at a much higher cost. The document evaluates how video conferencing provides value to businesses through improved communication and considers if it constitutes smart management. It also discusses factors a small business should consider when deciding whether to implement video conferencing.
Business is always in a constant state of flux- more so these days, with disruption happening all around. How do you move from your AS IS state to TO BE architecture in your enterprise transformational journey? What mix and match of people, processes and technology will you blend together, and in what proportion, to drive enterprise value to deliver transformational results? TOGAF has a suite of tools that can help architects to chalk out the architectural roadmap for enterprise success. This talk will also focus on how agility is an underlying thread in this framework, and how value is delivered incrementally, making the process robust and
bankable.
Key Takeaways
Exposes the audience to the features of TOGAF which help plug business technology gaps.
How TOGAF has agility at its core to drive transformational results.
Why it is a good skill and knowledge for a seasoned IT professional to have in their kitty.
Without the difficult work of the trailblazers in WebRTC development in the course of the last ten years, the occasions of 2020 would have been significantly harder to make due. WebRTC innovation was urgent in assisting us with adapting to being stuck at home. Video calls between relatives, remote work and training, and virtual gatherings are only a couple of the innovations improved by ongoing correspondence and WebRTC solutions.
Original source: https://www.moontechnolabs.com/blog/webrtc-development-trends-in-2022-that-will-shape-the-market/
Without the difficult work of the trailblazers in WebRTC development in the course of the last ten years, the occasions of 2020 would have been significantly harder to make due. WebRTC innovation was urgent in assisting us with adapting to being stuck at home. Video calls between relatives, remote work and training, and virtual gatherings are only a couple of the innovations improved by ongoing correspondence and WebRTC solutions.
Visit Here for More: https://www.moontechnolabs.com/blog/webrtc-development-trends-in-2022-that-will-shape-the-market/
Videoconferencing is a business advantage that improves productivity, increases the use of subject matter experts, and allows meetings to be held when needed. Learn how to communicate effectively using this technology, including tips for success, how videoconferencing is different than in-person meetings, and tricks to successfully meet at a distance and be home in time for dinner!
The digital transformation is changing the modern workplace in three key ways:
1. The workplace is becoming more mobile and flexible, with employees collaborating from various locations using multiple devices. Effective collaboration is critical for business productivity.
2. While workers want more choice and flexibility, team performance can be challenging with disjointed tools and inconsistent experiences. Expanding collaboration beyond the desktop and enabling easy video calls are important.
3. Transitioning collaboration tools to the cloud provides businesses benefits like lower costs, scalability, and a consistent user experience across devices. It also allows collaboration beyond corporate boundaries while managing security, compliance, and existing investments.
Online Video Collaboration for Manufacturing Industry - Summary ReportAbhizar Bootwala
Large companies with project teams spread over several countries and multiple time zones are increasingly turning to videoconferencing to connect geographically dispersed groups. Companies are realizing that flying employees from one location to the next not only chalks up travel costs, but also decreases productivity and leads to team exhaustion.
Of course, videoconferencing isn’t a complete replacement for face-to-face meetings. Companies that are leading the way in videoconferencing report those periodic in-person visits are still necessary and they caution that videoconferencing is most effective if team members already have an existing relationship. There’s no doubt personal videoconferencing tools can enhance remote employees’ communication and productivity. Video ties together disparate and often isolated workers by letting physical, visual nuances shine through.
The document provides an 8-step guide to understanding the possibilities of video conferencing. It discusses how video conferencing can change the way people communicate by saving costs and improving productivity. It encourages readers to imagine how their organization could use video conferencing across different departments like executives, sales, HR, R&D, and more. The guide also discusses calculating return on investment and outlines the essential video components and elements of an end-to-end video conferencing solution.
O N N -- D D E E M M A A N N D D C C O O N N F F E E R R E E ...Videoguy
On-demand video conferencing allows for ad-hoc collaboration that is easy to use and cost effective. It allows employees to meet without scheduling in advance, enabling collaboration exactly when needed with whoever is needed. This helps organizations lower costs while increasing productivity by supporting remote workers, speeding up decision making, and enabling new business opportunities through faster customer interactions. On-demand conferencing eliminates the need to reserve technology in advance and can be either ad-hoc or scheduled in calendars.
White Paper: 8 Ways A Video Platform Can Help Your Video Conferencing Tools D...Panopto
The rising popularity of user-generated online video has given your employees a new skill set.
Where once AV expertise was required for professional video production, now getting more value of your existing video conferencing technologies may be as easy as pairing them up with a enterprise video cms platform your employees can use.
An enterprise video platform helps organizations use video more productively — helping to scale training programs, enhance sales enablement, extend executive communications, support social learning, and dozens of other use cases.
Don’t Miss Out!
In our new free white paper we explore how organizations can leverage a video platform to make the most of their investments in video — and spotlight 8 valuable ways that businesses can use video conferencing and video platform tools together to drive real bottom line returns.
This document outlines a proposed social media strategy for Citrix's GoToMeeting product. It begins with an analysis of strengths, such as cost savings and productivity gains, and weaknesses, like high costs and lack of social engagement. It then discusses opportunities to leverage customer support forums and cultivate product management engagement. The proposed strategy has two main programs - a Support Program to address customer issues across social networks and a Product Program to engage users in new product development. Key goals are to increase support resolution while decreasing costs and gain feedback to implement new features. The strategy is measured through network growth and positive sentiment.
This document discusses critical factors to consider when selecting video communications management software. It emphasizes the importance of managing growing networks to improve productivity and experience. Key criteria explored include using open platforms, prioritizing security, enabling multi-vendor compatibility, and providing capabilities for real-time management, scheduling, reporting and software upgrades. The document analyzes these factors and provides an example of LifeSize Control software.
3 Crucial Application Modernization Strategies for Enterprises.pptxArpitGautam20
Here are 3 effective application modernization strategies, challenges that most companies face & other crucial information for organizations. https://natifi.ai/3-crucial-application-modernization-strategies-for-enterprises/
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Working with some of the world’s leading technology innovators, Steljes has developed the Business Productivity Suite to help you change the way you work for real and lasting benefit. The Business Productivity Suite comprises of the cream of today’s productivity technology, under one roof, designed to address five focus areas that businesses tell us they need to make more efficient: meetings, video and data conferencing, workspaces and flexible working, training and marketing and communications.
Working with some of the world’s leading technology innovators, Steljes has developed the Business Productivity Suite to help you change the way you work for real and lasting benefit. The Business Productivity Suite comprises of the cream of today’s productivity technology, under one roof, designed to address five focus areas that businesses tell us they need to make more efficient: meetings, video and data conferencing, workspaces and flexible working, training and marketing and communications.
Working with some of the world’s leading technology innovators, Steljes has developed the Business Productivity Suite to help you change the way you work for real and lasting benefit. The Business Productivity Suite comprises of the cream of today’s productivity technology, under one roof, designed to address five focus areas that businesses tell us they need to make more efficient: meetings, video and data conferencing, workspaces and flexible working, training and marketing and communications.
This document discusses improving business productivity through more effective employee training. It notes that while training is important, budgets are tight and current training methods are often ineffective. It promotes the idea that training needs to be more engaging, interactive, and flexible to fit employees' schedules in order to better connect with trainees and improve knowledge retention. The document introduces Productive Training technology solutions that can deliver high-quality instructor-led training remotely or in-person, making training more accessible and reducing costs.
Steljes Business Productivity Suite BrochureGordon Rimmer
The document discusses improving business productivity through more efficient meetings, video and data conferencing, workspaces and flexible working, training, and marketing and communications.
It argues that the traditional ways of working are outdated and inefficient, wasting valuable time and resources. A new approach is needed that embraces technology solutions to enable more productive collaboration anywhere and anytime.
The "Business Productivity Suite" is introduced as an integrated set of productivity technologies that address key areas to transform how businesses work and drive tangible returns through increased efficiency, engagement and reduced costs.
The very nature of work, the way we work and where we work is changing. Businesses are reducing real estate, maximising the use of the space they have, increasing work from home and expecting their employees to adopt new practices from hot desking to unified communications. The need to collaborate with colleagues has never been greater, the pace of business has never been faster, and the pressures to be more productive are ever increasing. This white paper explores the drivers, need for change and case studies behind the technology solutions that are being deployed today to deliver collaborative solutions that fundamentally and permanently change the way we work.
Driving Business Innovation: Latest Generative AI Advancements & Success StorySafe Software
Are you ready to revolutionize how you handle data? Join us for a webinar where we’ll bring you up to speed with the latest advancements in Generative AI technology and discover how leveraging FME with tools from giants like Google Gemini, Amazon, and Microsoft OpenAI can supercharge your workflow efficiency.
During the hour, we’ll take you through:
Guest Speaker Segment with Hannah Barrington: Dive into the world of dynamic real estate marketing with Hannah, the Marketing Manager at Workspace Group. Hear firsthand how their team generates engaging descriptions for thousands of office units by integrating diverse data sources—from PDF floorplans to web pages—using FME transformers, like OpenAIVisionConnector and AnthropicVisionConnector. This use case will show you how GenAI can streamline content creation for marketing across the board.
Ollama Use Case: Learn how Scenario Specialist Dmitri Bagh has utilized Ollama within FME to input data, create custom models, and enhance security protocols. This segment will include demos to illustrate the full capabilities of FME in AI-driven processes.
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Steljes video and data conferencing survey report
1. productive
video and data
conferencing
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The benefiTs of video and daTa conferencing sysTems To reduce cosTs,
save Time and minimise business TraveL
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2. 2 ProducTive video and daTa conferencing survey rePorT
3. executive
SummarY
In Summer 2011, Steljes Limited conducted Strengthened by, and with greater insight of collaboration research and development to
research into the use and benefits of video offered from, the previous surveys, this third a broad range of easy-to-use, integrated
and data conferencing systems to reduce survey indicates that there is an overall solutions that free people from their desks
travel, save time, cut the costs currently spent interest in using video and data conferencing and computer screens, so collaborating with
by organisations and in turn offer the systems. There is also an understanding of digital resources is more natural.
advantages such as increased efficiency, the benefits that the systems can offer, yet a
greater productivity and overall profit gain for discrepancy is suggested between the Software from SMART Technologies such as
many businesses. perceived initial expense and long-term cost SMART Bridgit™ and SMART Meeting Pro™
savings and productivity gains. Concerns Premium software lets you easily connect
Over 160 business decision makers at small about technological blips and functional SMART Board™ interactive whiteboards or
to medium sized companies completed a issues are stressed; an area that needs to be displays to each other or to remote
twelve question survey on this topic - this addressed further by the video conferencing computers, whether they’re in the same
survey report is based on the findings. industry in order to tackle any issues. room or around the world. Teams can write
and share digital notes, review and edit
Aiming to explore and examine the current Steljes is the leading distributor for innovative documents, and interact directly with other
use of video conferencing technology, the technologies that improve the way we live, meeting participants using connected
report searches for what are considered to be learn and work and provides a range of laptops or SMART Board interactive
the technology’s key benefits from the solutions that can drive through greater whiteboards. Not only can you and other
opinions of organisations who are and aren’t productivity and cost efficiency in a range of participants share a desktop, but you can all
already using it. The survey endeavours to business areas. Steljes is an authorised write over the same documents and
uncover the barriers preventing organisations distributor for Aver Information and SMART applications simultaneously.
from harnessing such useful and cost Technologies.
efficient tools, in order to squeeze out any We would like to thank everyone that has
preconceived beliefs or perceptions. AVer Information Inc. is a major global participated and we hope that by using this
provider of presentation solutions, including survey report you can now benchmark your
Seeking to reveal fundamental issues in this the AVerComm HD video conferencing own use of video and data conferencing
area, the full findings look at the opinions system. AVer prides itself on developing technologies and consider adopting new
held in association with using video cutting-edge products that provide innovative technologies to improve
conferencing technology; from scepticism innovative, efficient and easy-to-use solutions productivity and efficiency across your
regarding behaviour change – indicative of that incorporate the latest technologies and organisation.
business as usual and a fear of adoption exceed the basic needs, requirements and
being at the forefront of minds here, to expectations of their customers. MeThodology
whether organisations are receiving enough This survey is published by Steljes Limited.
information on the benefits of new video and AVerComm video conferencing offers There were more than 160 respondents to
data conferencing technology. point-to-point and multi-point systems that the survey, which took the form of an online
are cost-effective, user friendly and questionnaire. Information about the
inTroducTion interoperable with industry standard questionnaire, including the link, was
This is the third survey that has been telephony and video conferencing systems. emailed to a list of pre-targeted senior
conducted by Steljes this year, with the With features including content sharing, dual business decision makers at small to medium
previous two demonstrating the path that screen mode, recording and snapshot* the sized companies with up to 500 employees
many businesses are on when considering solution is suitable for your every day and across multiple industry verticals. The
productivity, cost savings, time efficiency and advanced video conferencing needs. incentive for taking part was access to a
new communication strategies in relation to complimentary copy of this report and the
harnessing collaborative technological As the global leader in interactive opportunity to be entered into a free prize
advancements. whiteboards, and touch devices SMART draw.
Technologies brings more than two decades
* Dependent on model purchased ProducTive video and daTa conferencing survey rePorT 3
4. analYSiS
1. Do you have video conferencing in your organisation?
Don’t know
1%
No Yes
57% 42%
Figure 1
With less than half the survey respondents currently owning video conferencing within their organisation, this leaves almost 60% who either
do not, or don’t know whether they have this type of system within their organisation for use. This demonstrates that there are currently a
significant number of organisations that are potentially missing out on a form of progressive communication tools that could provide solutions
to some of their most frequent cost and efficiency scenarios.
2. If no, would you consider using video conferencing in your organisation?
90
80.8
80
70
60
50
40
30
19.2
20
10
0
Yes
No
Figure 2
A substantial number, 80.8%, of those who do not have access to a video conferencing system, would use video conferencing if it was available
within their organisation. This indicates that there is a strong demand for this type of technology and demonstrates a gap in the market for the
industry to acknowledge and address further.
4 ProducTive video and daTa conferencing survey rePorT
5. 3. If you already use video conferencing, are you satisfied with your current system?
No
21.20%
Yes
78.80%
0.00%
10.00%
20.00%
30.00%
40.00%
50.00%
60.00%
70.00%
80.00%
90.00%
Figure 3
The fact that nearly 80% of respondents who use video conferencing are satisfied with their current system signifies the overarching benefits
that it can bring. For the fifth of respondents who aren’t satisfied with their current video conferencing system, this suggests that perhaps more
information or training could be given on how to make the most of the advantages their system has to offer or that the type of system they are
currently using does not suit them completely.
4. Would you use video conferencing as a way to meet face-to-face without the need to travel?
No
20%
Yes
80%
Figure 4
With face-to-face meetings upheld as an ideal way to communicate in order to build social rapport and develop business relationships – as
highlighted in our previous surveys, nearly 90% of respondents believe using a video conferencing system would allow them to effectively meet
as if they are face-to-face without needing to travel. This in turn avoids the complications and cost of travel, meanwhile providing more
opportunity to restore or strengthen enduring business relationships in as natural a way as possible. It can be argued that a certain flow and
rapport is facilitated through a face-to-face video conference, providing a more genuine social interaction environment without the cost
output, which other remote conferencing technologies struggle to offer.
Combining a video conferencing system with data conferencing can further enhance collaborative work sessions with local or remote
colleagues by allowing them to visually collaborate on digital media, not only seeing each other but also sharing screens, annotating and
interacting with each other’s documents – regardless of location. This technology moves users from the more traditional passive and broadcast
conferencing to interactive and collaborative video and data conferencing sessions that provide a rich experience and more natural way of
working for the user.
ProducTive video and daTa conferencing survey rePorT 5
6. 5. Would you use video conferencing in the following scenarios?
45%
39.40%
40%
35%
31.60%
29%
30%
25%
20%
15%
10%
5%
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with
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with
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Nearly 40% of respondents would use video conferencing to allow them to meet with external suppliers, partners and customers. This was
closely followed by using video conferencing to both facilitate meetings that bring people together across multiple locations and supporting
meetings with internal colleagues regardless of location. This builds upon the notion that the face-to-face communication enabled by video
conferencing provides greater opportunity for strengthening external relationships, in particular with customers and clients where a stronger
social bond can also result in a more profitable business relationship. It also demonstrates the need for a conferencing solution that is simple,
intuitive and easy for third parties to adopt with minimal training and allows them to interact in a natural way. Where third parties may have
other systems and solutions interoperability and ease of use are significant issues to resolve when using the technology in this way. It also shows
that video conferencing is seen as a means of improving external relationships as well as improving internal communications.
6 ProducTive video and daTa conferencing survey rePorT
7. 6. What are your perceptions of current video conferencing system offerings? What are the issues?
Dissa0s1ed
with
managed
service
contract
0.50%
Incompatability
between
different
vides
conferencing
systems
10.50%
Bandwith
issues
11.30%
Doesn't
support
data
collabora0on
3.90%
Expensive
running
costs
9.50%
Expensive
to
buy
19.00%
Don’t
know
who
I
can
video
conference
with
10.30%
Can't
change
peoples
behaviour
to
encourage
them
to
use
it
13.60%
Poor
support
services
and
set
up
1.30%
Poor
quality
video
and
audio
12.10%
Too
complicated
/
difficult
to
use
8.00%
0.00%
5.00%
10.00%
15.00%
20.00%
Figure 6a
When all survey respondents were asked to consider the issues they perceive to be associated with video conferencing systems their main
concern was initial expense. This may reflect perceptions or experience of purchasing more traditional video conferencing systems. While cost
is an understandable and important consideration, the benefits of a video conferencing system e.g. reduced travel costs, increased
communication efficiency and overall business productivity can later over-ride the initial expense - this is highlighted further in other responses
in this survey, as well as in our previous surveys. Other key issues highlighted include behaviour change – whereby people become stuck in old
and familiar ways that they’re comfortable with and they can’t be encouraged to use the new technology. This suggests that adoption is likely
to be correlated closely to the ease of use and solutions that provide a natural way of working. It also highlights the importance of training as
part of any new technology adoption. The worry of poor quality video and audio was another concern – perhaps a memory of some past
technologies that caused frustration; and bandwidth issues. Grainy video and poor quality audio reduces the user experience and prohibits
wider adoption.
Interoperability between systems remains a key issue. In order to adopt technology you need to be able to use it every time you need it,
particularly with third party organisations using different systems and potentially different networks. This is being addressed by the industry and
with further consolidation of standards and networks should improve the ability to use the technology, reduce current frustrations and improve
adoption for organisations.
ProducTive video and daTa conferencing survey rePorT 7
8. 7. Those who responded to Yes to Q1 i.e. they have video conferencing in their organisation.
What are your perceptions of current video conferencing system offerings? What are the issues?
Dissa0s1ed
with
managed
service
contract
0.00%
Incompatability
between
different
vides
conferencing
systems
15.80%
Bandwith
issues
14.30%
Doesn't
support
data
collabora0on
6.80%
Expensive
running
costs
8.20%
Expensive
to
buy
12.80%
Don’t
know
who
I
can
video
conference
with
10.50%
Can't
change
peoples
behaviour
to
encourage
them
to
use
it
11.30%
Poor
support
services
and
set
up
3.00%
Poor
quality
video
and
audio
11.30%
Too
complicated
/
difficult
to
use
6.00%
0.00%
2.00%
4.00%
6.00%
8.00%
10.00%
12.00%
14.00%
16.00%
18.00%
Figure 6b
Of those who currently possess a video conferencing system in their organisation, incompatibility between different video conferencing systems
presents itself as the main perceived problem, followed closely by bandwidth issues. Such issues and perceptions can be dealt with, yet this is
reliant upon initial clear information and instruction by the industry providing these tools and systems, as well as a constant support service.
The AVerComm HD Video Conferencing system addresses these issues offering compatibility with industry standard telephony and video
conferencing systems. More often what is required to gain a better experience and connectivity is a refresh of the technology to more modern
systems that offer this functionality.
8. Those who responded to No to Q1 i.e. they do not have video conferencing in their organisation (57%)
or don’t know if they have video conferencing (1%).
What are your perceptions of current video conferencing system offerings? What are the issues?
Dissa2s3ed
with
managed
service
contract
0.70%
Incompatability
between
different
vides
conferencing
systems
8.80%
Bandwith
issues
10.20%
Doesn't
support
data
collabora2on
1.80%
Expensive
running
costs
10.60%
Expensive
to
buy
24.10%
Don’t
know
who
I
can
video
conference
with
10.90%
Can't
change
peoples
behaviour
to
encourage
them
to
use
it
11.30%
Poor
support
services
and
set
up
1.10%
Poor
quality
video
and
audio
11.70%
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complicated
/
difficult
to
use
8.80%
0.00%
5.00%
10.00%
15.00%
20.00%
25.00%
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8 ProducTive video and daTa conferencing survey rePorT
9. Those respondents who don’t own a video conferencing system in their organisation, perceive the initial purchase expense as a main issue of
concern. While this is an understandable and important consideration, it may be more from a perception of the historical costs of such systems
and telepresence rooms. Equally, the consumerisation of desktop video conferencing through low cost solutions like Skype leads to a
perception that video conferencing systems should be inexpensive. We must remember that these types of solution deliver relatively poor
quality experiences which are only suitable for one-to-one desktop video rather than video on large format screens in meeting rooms. The
newer video conferencing systems are much lower in cost, easier to use and deliver a high quality experience for meeting room solutions. The
industry needs to work harder at helping to educate people currently without video conferencing in their organisation on the value, benefits
and return on investment offered by the new wave of systems available on the market today.
The benefits of such systems e.g. reduced travel costs, increased communication efficiency and overall business productivity can easily over-ride
the initial expense - this is highlighted further in other responses in this survey, as well as in our previous surveys.
ProducTive video and daTa conferencing survey rePorT 9
10. 9. If you have a video conferencing system would you be interested in trading in for a better solution?
Don't
No
know
43.80%
40.60%
Yes
15.60%
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Over half of those respondents surveyed who currently own a video conferencing system in their organisation would potentially consider trading
it in for a better solution – in turn, these respondents could address some of the issues that were highlighted earlier in the survey, such as poor
quality audio and video and incompatibility between different video and audio conferencing systems.
10 ProducTive video and daTa conferencing survey rePorT
11. 10. Are there circumstances when you would want to record your video conference sessions?
Yes
43%
No
57%
Figure 8
Almost half of those surveyed stated that there are circumstances when they would like to record their video conference sessions. A reduction
in rushed note-taking is one clear advantage of making use of this system; real-time note-taking can disrupt a natural flow, impact
concentration and affect the ability to keep up with all the information being communicated if a meeting is progressing at a pace. Certain
points, ideas and key information that are so frequently missed can all be captured and revisited with a recording of a video conference session.
Body language, facial expression and voice tone can also be considered in more detail, allowing a potential analysis that could provide further
insight into the dynamics of the meeting and state of business relationship. This could be of particular importance when using the
communication tool for sales meetings. In certain professions, the need for an audit trail and compliance policies means that the recording
option is increasingly seen as a requirement of a video conferencing system.
In addition, when combined with data conferencing where you can capture the written and visual notes on digital media alongside the sound
and video means you can have a complete record simply and easily in digital format that can be reviewed again and again after the event.
11. In what situations do / would you use video conferencing?
Sales
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11.10%
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demos
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training
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Cost reduction is a clear benefit of using video conferencing, with survey respondents identifiying this as their top reason for making use of this
type of system. As well as helping to limit expenses, respondents also felt that the use of a video conferencing system would improve efficiency
by reducing wasted time spent travelling, which in itself can also incur great costs to an organisation. Sales meetings, building relationships and
internal communications were also selected by many of those surveyed as situations where video conferencing would prove beneficial. Again,
the face-to-face, real-time and efficiency element of the technology adds a different dimension to distance communication.
In order for organisations to build on these uses, video conferencing needs to come out of high end telepresence rooms and be more pervasive
in standard rooms so that employees can access the technology when they need to. New lower cost devices with improved compatbility allow
this to become an achievable reality.
ProducTive video and daTa conferencing survey rePorT 11
12. 12. How much would you be prepared to pay for a video conference system?
60.00%
54.60%
50.00%
40.00%
30.00%
22.40%
20.00%
10.90%
10.00%
6.10%
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Nearly 80% of all respondents would expect to pay £2,000 - £7,000 for a video conference system, indicating an overall understanding of the
value of this technology.
Over half of respondents would expect to pay £2,000 - £3,000 for a video conferencing system. This is significantly less than the cost of a
traditional room-based video conferencing system, especially when installation, warranty and other services are included.
There are now siginificant systems of high quality, such as the AverComm HD video conferencing system, that provide an entry point at half of
the cost the majority of our survey respondents would be prepared to pay for such systems. It is evident that the discrepancy in perception of an
acceptable cost for a video conferencing system and what constitutes expensive is comparing true video conferencing for use in meeting rooms
with desktop video conferencing through systems like Skype.
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13. 13. What do you consider to be the benefits of video conferencing? (Rank in order of priority with 1 being
the biggest benefit and 6 being of least benefit)
50.00%
46.06%
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40.00%
35.00%
33.33%
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27.27%
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Fig.11a – Benefits ranked as number 1 (with 1 being the biggest benefit and 6 being of least benefit)
Reducing travel, saving time and lowering costs came out top as key business benefits of video conferencing according to those surveyed. With
food, energy and fuel prices soaring, increased efficiency, budgeting and a consideration of overall business yield are more important than ever
to organisations, as also expressed in our previous survey results – video conferencing can address and provide a solution to all of these issues.
Almost a fifth of those surveyed also felt that video conferencing improved collaboration, allowing for stronger relationships to be built in a
more natural manner due to the face-to-face factor. Sharing that joke at the end of call is always going to be much better if you can see the
other people smiling.
Even greater value can be achieved when video conferencing is combined with collaborative data conferencing using solutions like SMART
Bridgit conferencing software and SMART Board interactive whiteboards or displays. Combining the two technologies provides a powerful and
rich collaboration experience.
60.00%
54.55%
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0.00%
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Fig.11b – Benefits ranked as number 6 (with 1 being the biggest benefit and 6 being of least benefit)
Although over half of respondents chose recording and archiving as their least beneficial consideration in association with using video
conferencing, this aspect of the technology does offer an opportunity to increase efficiency by extracting all that is communicated during what
can be fast-paced and jam-packed meetings. Recorded evidence can also potentially reduce any possible disputes over what was
communicated during a conference due to different interpretations of comments, struggles over decisions or perceived semantics.
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14. 14. Would you be interested in finding out more about video and data conferencing solutions from Steljes?
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50.00%
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Figure 12
A high proportion of respondents requested a follow up meeting with Steljes, demonstrating a clear interest in incorporating video and data
conferencing systems into their communication/meeting strategies.
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15. concluSion
The survey findings show a keen interest in such as the fear that video conferencing Video and data conferencing offers the
video conferencing technology, with 80.8% could result in visual and audio problems or opportunity to transcend time and space
of those who do not have access to a video difficulties in fixing any difficulties that might barriers, to reap competitive advantage over
conferencing system stating that they would surface. This is where training and clear, other organisations that are still filling their
use this technology if it was available within concise information and support provided expenses forms with pricey hotels and rising
their organisation. Certainly the Skype / from the industry should be paramount, so transport fares. With the kind of winter
FaceTime generation will demand video as to dispel any preconceived concerns and weather the UK was presented with over the
communications in their organisations in allay any worries that prevent the moving last 2 years, important meetings need not be
the future. forward of productive business, through cancelled if a carpet of snow or volcanic ash
harnessing creative and progressive cloud grinds the transport system to a halt
Unsurprisingly, a key concern highlighted in communication solutions. again. This ever-more essential technology
the survey is behaviour change, with the issue presents innovative ways of working and
that it would be difficult to encourage people With the main benefits of video conferencing communicating in uncertain times,
to use a new communication tool. However, stated in this survey as heightened meanwhile maintaining and building
the overwhelmingly positive response productivity and efficiency, reduction in cost upon the old and trusted benefits of a
highlighted above suggests that if the and time wasted on travel, as well as face-to-face conversation.
technology is there people are willing to give improved collaboration, the issue of initial
it a try, especially if it is simple, easy to use purchase expense only serves as a reminder As with our previous surveys, the results
and interoperable with other video that people are aware of spending, but also strongly demonstrate the need and desire for
conferencing systems that external partners, keen on saving in the long-term. It also organisations to harness new technologies
customers and suppliers may be using. perhaps highlights that the consumerisation that allow a form of communication that is as
of video conferencing is changing peoples natural and flowing as possible, is reliable
Another issue that came out of this survey perceptions in terms of what these solutions and convenient, pushes the boundaries of
was the technological worries that are still should actually cost and there is a greater efficiency and productivity, meanwhile
faced perhaps owing to past experiences need to educate people in the differences keeping the bank account happy.
with dated and unreliable technologies; between solutions.
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