Enhance your collaboration by experiencing TelePresence tool !

Within a globalised context, companies use more and more virtual meetings, defined by Wikipedia as live meetings or presentations conducted over the internet. Indeed, those virtual meetings enable companies to drive the costs down by avoiding catering or AV fees and travel hassles. They are environmentally friendly, easily recordable and available 24/7 and globally reachable.

According to Tandberg, when a meeting demands to see the reaction and the body language in order to build good relationship, one virtual meeting is really useful: telepresence !

More than video conferencing, telepresence tool enable corporations to meet at distance and thanks to a high definition video that follow your eyes while speaking; they build strong relationship like they are face-to-face.  

Here, we would like to provide you a SWOT analysis of this tool

Strenghts	Weaknesses
-          Help companies to gain productivity       -          High technology : high video quality,  give the  impression to the attendees to be all in the same room       -          Simple to use without training       -          Highly valuable product considering the influence and evolution of teleworkers.       -          Secured tool       -          Reduce travel costs       -          Environmentally friendly	-          Technology Cost : really expensive product       -          Only for 6-12 persons in small rooms       -          Still a niche market
Opportunities	Threats
-          Spread and use different channels to reduce the costs: possibility to rent rooms       -          Offer a certification : Get more trust in the product by the consumers       -          Find global carrier that could provide everything at the same time.	-          High Competition in the market : always need to be innovative and reactive       -          Government regulations       -          Security requirements change rapidly       -        Rapid changes in technology

This Telepresence tool is highly appreciated when used and enable companies to gain competitiveness and enhance their profitability. Indeed, Virtela, global managed network, security and cloud Services Company, estimates “that a company that typically spends $23 million on travel annually can recover roughly 385,000 hours of productivity and save up to $7 million in travel costs by using telepresence solutions to handle some of its meetings”.

So do not wait, invest in telepresence !

Sébastien Haag & Anne-Lucie Talarmin

Article Telepresence

Sources : http://www.cisco.com/web/FR/telepresence/customer-transformations.html

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