Teleconferencing
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Introduction

As a business expands, it can take on a new expense in the form of business travel which may offset rising revenues. Your sales staff and managers may need to visit new and existing customers more often. The constant flights, driver rental, taxi reimbursements and hotel stays can add up. When you expand your business into other cities, the cost of traveling for meetings can also add up. How can you reduce the cost of expansion while continuing to effectively manage your business, keep contact with current customers and attempt to court new ones?

Solution

A PC video conferencing system can alleviate the need for many business trips and the planning that goes into implementing them. PC videoconferencing technology has been in existence for about 6 years and is rapidly improving. The newest technology offers excellent video quality as well as sound capabilities. You can even run applications at the same time, while discussing what is being viewed by all parties. All of this can be provided for much less than what is offered by companies that specialize in teleconferencing equipment.

SANDIY can build a PC videoconferencing system around your current PCs without costly DDN (T1) lines and with the added security of a VPN connection. Distance is not an issue, as long as the physical connection is adequate to handle the high-speed internet connection that is needed.

Benefits

Aside being able to make long-distance sales presentations and hold instant company meetings when time and budget may not allow, there are other benefits to installing a videoconferencing system. 

IT support - Whether your IT staff or a contracted IT service company provides your IT maintenance, no one needs to be present to provide face-to-face, real time IT support. 

Security - From any office with a PC camera, a designated staff member or security person can monitor your office after hours to watch for unauthorized entries. 

Promotion - By far one of the most popular applications for web cameras in a business environment is promoting new business. With web cams popping up everywhere, most travelers are interested in seeing their destination and buyers are delighted to see the products they are interested in.

Construction - Using web cameras for monitoring construction sites is becoming increasingly popular and beneficial if you're interested in allowing your corporate offices, investors, potential tenants, and others in showing your progress. A web camera is the ideal device for doing time lapse photography of a job site.