Everything Regarding Video Conferencing Justification | The Communication Blog

Friday, March 2, 2012

Everything Regarding Video Conferencing Justification

By Zakary Coogan


When companies have to buy something, it has to be approved by management. Using the cost of air travel going up, it is simply right to justify the use of video conferencing since it is more affordable to do so eventually.

How do you justify that? Many organisations use numbers as their basis to make a decision so if you look at the expense report and observe that a huge chunk is invested in traveling, they will realize that they are able to cut cost here and make use of the money saved somewhere else.

But doesn't video conferencing equipment cost a lot of money and isn't system very complex? For a while but this has changed. The reason being vendors no longer use ISDN lines and they have now shifted to IP networks. Here is the same system used by the net thus making it easy to integrate along with other systems.

For those who are concerned about just how much it costs, the price of video conferencing equipment has gone down through the years making it less costly for businesses.

A decade ago, a video conferencing system costs $75,000 or higher. Nowadays, you can find one for less than $10,000. Other accessories being a webcam will cost you less than thousand.

As a result, it is no wonder that a consumer report shows that there was a 22% increase in sales with the equipment in 2006 versus 2005. So while you might need a lot so this can be positioned in each office, in the long term this doesn't happen because you already have the system available which is not affected by the price of oil on the planet market.

Another way to justify the requirement of this technology is to do a study by interviewing individuals who have gone on business trips during the past and ask how well it went. Previous reports show that traveling takes a toll on your body due to fatigue and stress. As soon as they get to where they go, their mind is not focused in what needs to be done thus decreasing their productivity.

You can also argue the other benefits of interactive video like the ability to increase the sales and product cycles, improve the quality of communications, better delivery of coaching and coaching to the other offices also an improvement in the quality of the work from a staff meeting.

There have recently been other improvements both in car stereo quality so you get to communicate with the other party in real time. But the best part about such systems is because they are user friendly since most of the systems currently available are menu driven so that you don't need to study a manual back to front and no special expertise should be used.

When management has approved your request, it's about time to go out shopping for the right system. Ideally, you need to get one that has an audio and video channel however the latest is the kind that allows multi-media communications. This allows the user to send and receive data inside a dual stream IP environment.

Must i say more to help you justify the necessity for video conferencing systems? Maybe not so your research and use the system in your potential.




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