Monday, February 25, 2008

Turbomeeting 1000 –Holistic Web conferencing Solutions for Enterprises


The need to harness the collaborative strength of an enterprise has lead to an increased spending on Informational technologies that allow teams to interact across distances and divisions. Web conferencing without doubt is the bed rock around which such collaboration is visualized.

Among the technological tools that enable enterprise wide web conferencing; Turbomeeting 1000 stands out as a versatile solution which encompasses key facets of secure collaboration along with a reliable connectivity. With a maximum capacity of supporting 200 meeting rooms along with up to 2000 concurrent users, this on premise appliance can serve web conferencing needs of most small and medium size organizations. Its extensive capability is well suited for web seminars and communicating developments to large teams. It has support for 10/100/1000MB Ethernet networks and can be installed with effortless ease.

With Turbomeeting-1000 different teams across areas can interact in a holistic manner with no constraints of downloads or other technical glitches coming in way thus enabling faster cycle times.

Web conferencing gaining currency amongst enterprises


The world may have become a smaller place, but the distances continue to remain the same. Corporations that need live communication between its employees are finding it difficult to manage their relations due travel and time constrictions. This has lead to acute focus on web conferencing which forms an essential part of the evolving theme of Unified Communications.

More and more enterprises are taking up web conferencing as the prime means of communication between its overseas divisions, permitting them to reduce costs on travel and allowing them more flexibility in communication. However, the percentage of small scale enterprises taking up this tool is lesser in comparison to the large scale organizations. Nevertheless, in the year 2007, users of web conferencing have used more than one Web Conferencing tool to initiate communication with their clients and employees. The numbers of web conferencing tool users have also gone up. The web conferencing software vendors have also experience a boom, with the major web conferencing software vendors clocking more than 10 million deployed clients.

With a slow economy in the future, the prospects of web conferencing is also getting better; as the diminution of traveling charges and the promptness in communication allows for smoother working of the whole organization.

How to engage in an effective Virtual Meeting.


As virtual meetings become a norm rather than a novelty, organizations are trying to visualize situations whereby management can form effective mechanisms for fruitful online conference. A close look at successful meeting has thrown light on the primary importance of the initiator in getting the semantics right for web meetings.

To begin with the initiator of the meeting should diligently communicate the purpose of meeting in the beginning and also his identity. Once the meeting commences the initiator must allow the others to give their opinions and should also encourage them to speak up. The task of noting down the key points in the meeting should be handled by someone other than the initiator of the net meeting. Full attention must be paid at the time of the meeting, cell phones should be switched off and multitasking should be avoided. It is necessary that the initiator and participants speak clearly and to the point to avoid miscommunication.

The past shortcomings of web meetings, like cross platform issues, budget issues on tools and processes, etc have reduced. With on the availability of on premise appliances like Turbomeeting-200 removing the need of downloads, net meetings are becoming increasing more productive.

Turbomeeting 200 – Leveraging the power of undisrupted meetings

Imagine a situation where you need to get your team spread across cities to quickly acclimatize with a new development. You quickly get your secretary to dispatch invites for an online meeting and then prepare to start within minutes. When you do start, you may find many of your team members failing to reach the server while others did not have the client software on their system.

If you are looking for a solution which can redeem you from such situations then you need to give a serious thought towards setting up an on premise web conferencing appliance. In this class of tools the Turbomeeting 200 comes across as possibly the best solution delivering a range of convenience which is unparalleled when compared to web hosted services. To begin with it eliminates the need of any download tool with your browser being the only necessary entity needed to start. This apart there is hardly any chance of any firewall or security software blocking users. It also allows for desktop sharing with effortless ease thus enhancing the level of collaboration.

Best part about the tool is the fact that it can be configured to work both from inside a firewall for internal meetings and through a DMZ zone when outside access is required. The fact that users can access can attend the meeting via a mobile device. Combine the benefit of a no downtime conferencing utility with assured security that this device provides, you can be sure of laying your hands on a winner.