Videconferencing for the Masses
Overview
Like most companies you most likely have a very expensive video conferencing system in place today – or thought about implementing one and shied away due to cost and complexity. And, like most traditional video conferencing systems, the equipment is costly, hard to maintain and proprietary. Most systems are also only deployed in a limited number of conference rooms and rarely get used – employees either don’t know how to use the technology or don’t use those particular board/conference rooms very often.
While some traditional video conferencing systems do offer high quality video, what value are they adding if no one uses them? What if you could put devices for a fraction of the cost in not only every single conference room but also every single desktop and, more importantly, make it easy for people to use? This is the technical and business value proposition of Microsoft Office Communication Server (OCS): to provide your organization a cost-effective, user friendly, and ubiquitous video conferencing solution to help connect your employees no matter where they are located.
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Matt McGillen is a professional services manager for PointBridge. He has over 10 years of IT consulting experience, focusing mainly on the government, legal, financial and health care sectors. He is currently focused on designing and developing unified messaging and unified communications solutions for complex business environments. Prior to PointBridge, Matt managed the professional services division of a regional Microsoft and Cisco consulting firm.