We’ve all had terrible video conferencing experiences. Who hasn’t reached that point of video conference despair, when you give up and reach for an old fashioned phone connection! But if those nightmare experiences put you off video conferencing for a while, you’ll be relieved to know that things are improving, fast. Before long video conferencing is set to be integral to businesses of all types and sizes. Stay with us for an update on recent changes in business video communications.
How Is It Being Used By Businesses?
In the past few years we have seen an upward trend in the video conferencing market, as more businesses are using it as a central element of business communications.
It’s also become a critical employee incentive. Over a third of workers in the US say that they would prefer to choose to work remotely part-time over a pay-rise; previously, business heads will have been reluctant to allow employees this opportunity as key aspects of communication and working amongst a team would be significantly affected. However, with video conferencing enhancing business communication, creating meeting room collaboration can help businesses ensure that those attending a meeting are focused, engaged and taking part in what has been presented to them.
Open video links can quite literally enable remote employees to stay in the room together, in the corner of each others’ computer screen as well, sharing tea breaks and informal asides as well as meetings.
Businesses want video conferencing software to do much more than hold traditional meetings; taking a look into what it can offer is the first step in understanding how it can be utilised and enhance opportunities for you.
What Video Conferencing Tools Are Out There?
As video conferencing has become more popular, a broad array of tools have become available from different companies offering different conferencing capabilities. Companies such as Cisco WebEx, Skype For Business, Google Hangouts, Microsoft Surface Hub and even more have evolved through 2016 to offer tools that can work for businesses at every level of sophistication and budget.
Incorporating any software tool into your business will come at a cost, and there will be one video conferencing software that offers pricing and packaging at the right cost and with the right benefits for you; it’s important to research them thoroughly before making your choice. Key factors to take into account include: the level of security you need, bandwidth requirements, software compatibility with key customers, if you need data and presentation sharing and if you need multi-party video calling.
Video conferencing is a trend that is being slowly but steadily incorporated into more and more business environments, and is something that by 2020 is expected to have taken off exponentially to become an integral part of the way we will all be working.