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Videocall has become a GOLD Partner of Pexip, enabling us to utilise their fully interoperable meeting technology that seamlessly connects to Microsoft Skype for Business, Microsoft Teams and Google Hangouts Meet to name just a few market leading collaboration services.
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A recent article in Forbes came to our attention titled ‘Surprising Reasons To Switch From Video-Conference To The Phone.’ And, whilst this article was interesting to read, it was fairly clear that it had missed some fundamental points of why businesses use video conferencing, and why it is so important to choose your service wisely.
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In the last 18 months to 2 years there has been a rapid change taking place globally in businesses. This change is affecting multiple business functions and is being driven by the desire for employees to be able to communicate and collaborate from anywhere at any time, more easily and reliably.
Where just a few years ago, email, phones and video conferencing were adequate for businesses to conduct their day to day activities, mixed with office-based workers who would hold regular meetings in one of a handful of meeting rooms. Today, persistent chat, file sharing, live annotation, whiteboarding, apps, bots and AI are all seen to play an ever increasingly important role to being able to accomplish daily tasks. What’s more, it is expected that all of these things are found in just a single service or application.
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There is change afoot in the enterprise collaboration space. This change is not however simply about new technology; it is much bigger, and involves the attitudes and desires of both the service owners and users within companies around the globe.
This change is being led by Microsoft and Cisco...
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Any business with multiple offices – globally or just in the UK – knows that the cost of inter-company travel is on the increase. Many are turning to video conferencing as a substitute, and the most successful implementations discover this has a positive impact not only on cost reduction, but on carbon emissions reduction, productivity, speed of decision-making and employee work-life balance.
Here’s how we helped Fujitsu successfully implement a telepresence solution across 21 locations.
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Ongoing technological advances in recent years have enhanced the pervasive nature of video conferencing, meaning that organisations of different shapes and sizes are relying more and more on video collaboration for their business communications. Depending on your company’s structure, the team responsible for video operations may not be the same as the team who owns and manages the virtual environment. This requires further coordination and planning in the design, deployment/installation, maintenance, and troubleshooting for the video applications.
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