Your company is growing and multiple offices are being opened across cities, states, and countries. What's more, your employees are demanding flextime, telecommuting, and online meetings. And your IT team is already overburdened. In such a scenario, you don't just need regular video conferencing, you need cloud video conferencing!
Cloud video conferencing can solve many…
Enabling group collaboration is a feature that most employees ask for and it is not restricted to the meeting room. Today, people expect to connect from wherever they are -- the home PC, the office desktop, and the mobile device. At the same time, they want to share documents which they can do via video…
For most enterprise leaders – CEOs, CIOs CXOs – the fact that technology can transform business workflows or improve their organisation's competitiveness is not really news. They’ve all seen what technology can change in the last two decades (almost everything).
Therefore, what they really spend time mulling over is which technology to bet on, at which…
In most organizations, there is an understanding that content is a valuable asset, but the tools available for the content management of meetings are pretty poor.
We’ve talked in the past about the importance of meeting capture systems, which are probably the simplest way to ensure access to video content that is important to your organization.
Training…
In an earlier article (read Part 1 of this series), posted on this blog a few weeks ago, we’ve talked about the benefits that Cloud VC is bringing to organisations, and the challenges that this creates for CXOs and CIOs who are planning their infrastructure for video collaboration.
The decision on which way to go – own…
Video collaboration is here to stay but how we use it continues to evolve. It is moving from room to desk, and from desk to your mobile device, helping solve problems quickly, increase the efficiency of decision making, and much, much more. However, business leaders involved in the adoption of these solutions should keep some…
Flat Panel TVs are becoming more and more popular in offices, and are now frequently featured in our meeting and conference rooms. But even a 65″ LED monitor is not ideal for all types of rooms, and participants in your meetings might regret your choice of display if you get it wrong.
In this…
As businesses continue to expand video collaboration access through the organization, they are looking for ways to integrate Microsoft Lync into their infrastructure to provide wider access while keeping costs in check.
We also believe that this is an excellent idea not just for the individual but also for small meeting and huddle rooms. But the…
The cloud figuratively hovers in the back of every IT manager's mind, in terms of making decisions about moving certain types of enterprise applications to it. It's clear that for several applications the decision is a no-brainer, with clear benefits in costs, management, and real-time performance. For some other applications however, the decision is not…
The Actis Team is proud to share that we recently won a CISCO Award for Best Collaboration Architecture (Category A). We travelled all the way to the 2015 ICC World Cup Final at Melbourne to collect our trophy and certificate.
While we’d have loved to receive the award from MS Dhoni, we have to admit that…
Video conferencing design is reasonably simple to get right, when you have a controlled environment in a specialised Video Conferencing room. But in a more open environment most organisations are faced with a new set of challenges. Highly variable lighting and unpredictable audio “noise” are the primary problems in these environments, and it takes some…
In today's fast-paced world, it’s difficult to meet up with collaborators personally, and video conferencing has become accepted as a powerful tool to make up for this. The ultra-competitive global workplace requires teams to be able to make decisions across distances and without barriers.
But to enable this, organizations need to create productive work environments that…