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VC: Now More than Ever

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PCQ Bureau
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From Mobile video conferencing to Telepresence, all kinds of video

conferencing solutions have been in demand in the last six months or so, thanks

to the global recession. Well no surprises here, slowdown has given an

opportunity to all VC vendors, and they are doing everything to cash in on this

opportunity. And why not, Video Conferencing helps enterprises significantly cut

down their costs.

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True blue advantages



When it comes to cost cutting, one of the first places where any enterprise

looks at is travel. With technologies like High-Def Video Conferencing and

Telepresence providing 'face to face' experience, an enterprise can think of

saving traveling and associated costs. This also saves a lot of time from

waiting on airports, traffic jams, driving, etc. With all this time saved,

executives can focus on other important issues instantly and make quick

decisions. A lot of people will tell a video conferencing call in the morning is

so much better than taking an early morning flight and going for a meeting. With

a video conferencing solution in place, enterprises can train their employees at

a remote location about a new deployment or process. Earlier if a new solution

was rolled out, few employees across locations would travel to head office,

where they would be provided training, and in turn go back and teach other

employees. Such an approach would result in extra costs and add to confusion.

But with a VC solution in place, employees responsible for training or roll out

of solutions, can directly train employees at remote locations and ensure

solutions to their queries as well as understand a solution completely.

Video Conferencing helps in reducing carbon footprint and so is part of the

bogie called Green IT. Less traveling means less CO2 and other hazardous gases

being emitted to atmosphere. There are many vertical specific advantages that

video conferencing provides:health care (remote treatment), education (providing

remote trainings) etc.

Cheaper options



It's well known that initial investments in technologies like Telepresence or
high-def video conferencing are a bit high. For those who have already deployed

such solutions, find that having one solution isn't enough and it needs to be

expanded by adding personal video conferencing solutions or web conferencing

solutions. Also many organizations looking to deploy video conferencing, but not

interested in making huge investments during slowdown can simply use free

video-conferencing solutions like Skype or even GTalk video. These solutions

work with a decent webcam and don't require much bandwidth either. See the box

for other free video conferencing solutions.

Free and Simple

Video Conferencing Solutions
Oovoo — provides video

conferencing, video mail, recoding of video conferencing etc.



http://www.oovoo.com

TokBox
Simple Video Conferencing/video mails.



http://www.tokbox.com

DimDim — Popular Web conferencing solution. Also supports video

conferencing, whiteboards, recording of meetings, etc.



www.dimdim.com

Voxox — Supports multi-party video conferencing, file sharing,

social network integration, etc.



http://www.voxox.com

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