A retail company with stores throughout the UK has 6 Regional Managers who meet at their head office in London for a meeting every quarter.

1 lives close by and walks to the office
1 takes a return flight from Glasgow to London = 0.12 tonnes
1 makes a return train journey from Exeter to London = 0.03 tonnes
1 drives from Southampton to London in a medium sized petrol car = 0.05 tonnes
1 travels by train from Birmingham to London = 0.02 tonnes
1 flies from Manchester to London = 0.05 tonnes

One meeting = 0.27 tonnes of carbon emissions

Repeated 4 times a year, these quarterly meetings alone equate to 1.08 tonnes of carbon emissions

With a simple desktop Video Conferencing solution in each of the Regional Manager’s offices and a meeting room Video Conferencing solution in the London head office, these meetings could all be done by Video Conference, eliminating 2.77 tonnes of carbon emissions.

Take a look at Polycom’s carbon emissions and ROI calculator to see how you can reduce your impact on the environment

Some facts:
People learn twice as much in face-to-face meetings as in voice only conversations.
More than half (about 55%) of the impact of visual communications comes from facial expressions and body language (with only 38% coming from vocal inflection).

So, replace telephone conferences with video meetings to improve the quality of your communications, reduce the quantity of those all important face-to-face meetings, increase your productivity and save on travel costs.

Who wants to be stuck in traffic, sat at the airport, delayed on the train when you can have a quality Video Conference call from your own office for relatively little cost????

The majority of opinion about Video Conferencing is based on old experience.  Video Conferencing technology has improved considerably over the last few years.  Acceptance is also hampered by confusion between proper video tools and hobbyist toys on the Internet; the quality and user experience between these is vast.

When Desktop Video Conferencing costs start from around £100 a user/license, we say give it a try!!!

Download a trial version of Polycom’s M100 Desktop Video Conferencing software.  Find out more about Polycom M100.

Or call us on 01256 891700 to arrange a free trial of our Virtual Meetings Desktop Video Conferencing service.  Find out more about Virtual Meetings Desktop.

With a little planning, a little training, and some expert help – video calls do now get through about 19 times out of every 20.  Many organisations now treat video as a critical application.

Better comments – “I get through on video better than I do by fax or mobile phones, or more often than I get a clear run on the M25, or I don’t have a train/flight delay”.

• Start Skype and try making a second video connection, can’t be done! 
• Try showing your desktop, can’t be done! 
• Try connecting to a standards based hardware room system, can’t be done! 

Radvision’s video infrastructure and endpoints will be integrated with Avaya’s Aura(R) Unified Communications (UC) platform, creating a compelling & differentiated solution designed to accelerate the adoption of video collaboration.

See press releases:

http://www.avaya.com/uk/about-avaya/newsroom/news-releases/2012/pr-150312

http://www.radvision.com/Corporate/PressCenter/2012/15mar2012_avaya_merger_agreement.htm

With the evolution of High Definition technology and Telepresence, Video Conferencing today is approaching the same value as face-to-face meetings.

The difference in quality and user experience between free personal products on the Internet and desktop or meeting room Video Conferencing systems designed for business use is vast.

We say – arrange a demo today! 

We’ve tried Video Conferencing before and no-one used it
Isn’t Video Conferencing expensive?
What equipment do you need for Video Conferencing?
What is Video Conferencing?

Absolutely, I agree, a waste of money!  This is a common experience but so are the hours of queuing, driving, flying, waiting on platforms, in lounges, reception areas.  Just because the idea wasn’t implemented properly, it does not have to follow that it is a bad idea.

After investment in Video Conferencing, the next step is to ensure it is used, used well and delivers on all the promises made to the stakeholders when making that investment.  Your people, the users, need to be confident and competent to use your Video Conferencing equipment to the full.

Companies who use Video Conferencing successfully usually incorporate Video Conferencing into their travel policies, undoubtedly use some form of internal marketing and more importantly train their employees on a regular basis.

Untrained personnel are less likely to use equipment than trained ones – it sounds obvious and it is.

Take a look at RIBA Enterprises, who have integrated Video Conferencing into the way they do business www.audeo.co.uk/work/riba-enterprises/

Our experience of working with clients for over 10 years tells us that the best way to do this is to get your people using Video Conferencing, and using it more often.  Take a look at our step-by-step guide.  We can provide you with all the help and support that you need to produce great results.

We would like to invite you to our digitalsignage.NET webinar on 27th February at 1pm. During the webinar we will show you how digitalsignage.NET works and what it can do for you. Register for your place here, we hope that you can join us.

digitalsignage.NET is a cloud-based digital signage application that allows you to send your message at the right time, to the right place, to the right audience, ensuring an accurate and targeted communication.

The webinar will teach you how to:
Add
Schedule
& Send your files to your screens in just a few minutes.