It seems as though I can argue here until the end of the world on how much benefit people can get from video. As much as I do there will always be some guy who will say that he’s very pleased with his current means of communication, that audio is enough and that he can get all the communication he wants and needs from a plain old telephone (or IP phone in the best case). And while people debate endlessly
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | July 13th, 2010 | Filed under Video Conferencing
Everybody’s talking about telepresence these days. And it doesn’t really matter if this is “true” telepresence or just a marketing term, it seems that everyone wants in on the video conferencing game. And while telepresence is great for big enterprises, Fortune 500 companies, or service providers, there’s a giant market out there that is being mostly ignored by our industry so far – The Small and Medium Businesses (or SMBs). In July 2009, a Wainhouse Research study entitled “Benchmarking the
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | May 26th, 2010 | Filed under Video Conferencing
As part of my sisyphic effort to stay updated with the latest in the video conferencing market, I’m using various tools to aggregate everything and anything that concerns this technology, this industry. The most talked-about topic in the many blogs, PRs and presentations I have been reading ever since I joined this industry is, without a doubt, the benefits of video conferencing. Our industry is preaching video conferencing as a communication means for more than a decade, in an attempt
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | May 12th, 2009 | Filed under Video Conferencing
Alex Lewis from Hyperconnectivity recently wrote a piece on how the economy will drive Telepresence use. Seeing as reduced travel costs and increased productivity are key benefits of video conferencing (and Telepresence is, after all, just a natural evolution of it), it seems reasonable that in times where the economy is struggling, video conferencing can help organizations communicate more cost-effectively than ever before. (CC) One can argue that the ROI model of Telepresence is still not clear enough
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | November 3rd, 2008 | Filed under Telepresence, Video Conferencing
Unified Communication (UC) is one of the hottest buzz words in the IT market, potentially in the whole tech market. Ask a few people what UC is, and you’ll be sure to get various answers. Still, most will agree, it involves uniting existing communication systems and tools (phone system, internet) with more advanced productivity and communication tools (such as instant messaging, video conferencing, and web collaboration) to deliver a complete solution. Bottom line – UC is aimed at creating adaptive
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By Sagee Ben-Zedeff | October 28th, 2008 | Filed under Collaboration, Video Conferencing
