This document discusses the role of WebRTC technology in enhancing collaboration and conferencing applications, particularly in overcoming barriers such as communication tool disparities and productivity loss. It highlights various use cases across healthcare, education, and enterprise collaboration, emphasizing the importance of integrating real-time video capabilities within existing workflows. The author, Soufiane Houri from Weemo, presents the potential of WebRTC to create seamless and contextual communication experiences.

1. WebRTC for Collaboration and
Conferencing Applications
Prepared for WebRTC Conference & Expo
Wednesday, November 20th, 2013
Soufiane Houri
houri@weemo.com
@houri
VP of Product
Weemo, Inc.
@weemo
slideshare.net/weemo

2. What is Collaboration?
col·lab·o·ra·tion
the action of working with someone to
produce or create something.
What are the current barriers of
collaboration?
-
Can they communicate within the same workflow?
Are they using the same communication tools?
Can users easily find and communicate with each other?
What does it cost in $$ and productivity loss?

3. Disparate Disconnected Tools
Switching
Context is
Inevitable

4. What if…
… you could escalate your
conversations directly
from within your business
workflow to contextual
video collaboration
without losing a beat?

5. Device Diversity & Social Explosion
Evolution of Collaboration Apps
Text-based
Collaboration
Only
Pre-social
Integrated RealTime Video
Social Enterprise
Enablement
Standalone
Software
+
Monolithic
Conferencing
Solutions
Cloud Adoption

6. Use Cases
Healthcare
•Consult or instruction
•Discharge follow-up
Education
•Virtual classroom
•Cross language instruction
Enterprise
collaboration
•Enterprise Social Platforms
and Communities
•Email and calendaring
Human Capital
Management
•Recruiting
•Performance evaluation

7. In-App Real-Time Video
 Role of WebRTC technology
 Paving new ways to collaborate in real-time
 No more silos :: Focus on customer experience
Real-Time
Video
Multi-Party
Conferencing