Posts Tagged ‘Collaboration’

www.ibm.com Schott AG has teams spread from Germany to Japan and they need to be able to speak to each other “face-to-face” via such tools as web conferencing. Mathias Pohl discusses the use of collaboration software in cross-cultural business situations to ensure teams work efficiently and travel costs are kept to a minimum. More and more business units within Schott are asking us for more efficient ways to communicate and collaborate with each other after the initial face-to-face meeting. We took over a larger part of a Japanese company, and we started to work with this Japanese company with a lot of face to face meetings because the German culture is very different to the Japanese culture, but meanwhile, you have a basic set up of the teams and now the teams are asking to work with each other in a much more efficient way than to travel around the world, to travel between from Germany and Japan.

Designed to dramatically improve the effectiveness of video-based meetings, the Magor TeleCollaboration HDWorkPlace family seamlessly integrates advanced data collaboration capabilities into a peer-to-peer, 1080p video conferencing experience. Magor’s advanced collaboration capabilities allow permitted participants to see, control and edit shared files and documents in real time. So, instead of “talk now, do later”, users conduct working visual collaboration sessions that allow them to make decisions, get work done and produce results more quickly. By extending basic video scaling principles with segmentation and adaptation, Magor TeleCollaboration sets the benchmark for Good Network Citizenship for enterprise video conferencing solutions. Able to adapt in real time to varying network conditions and end-user behavior, Magor’s flexible video compression processes protect critical network traffic and applications while delivering 1080p video and collaboration including over best effort IP packet network connections such as the Internet. More information at www.MagorCorp.com

In today’s business world, a working group or team does not always constitute a group of people in the same physical location. For the team to have optimum efficiency, there must be constant collaboration and as much personal communication as possible. Often, a team working on a project consists of members who may be in different departments, different offices, and sometimes different cities. To ensure there is synergy on the team and maximum communication between team members, frequent personal interaction needs to occur and sometimes that can be difficult when team members are dispersed. There are a number of tools that are used for collaboration to substitute for physical proximity. Conference calling has been a longtime collaborative tool for meetings with remote members, and instant messaging is a great tool to keep in touch with specific associates. There are also a myriad of presentation software tools that enable one presenter to project a presentation to audience members anywhere in the world with internet connectivity. Most of these implements are sufficient to carry out most of the tasks required to complete the job but collaboration requires more than completing tasks.

Though all of the above tools are excellent accessories for collaboration, they all lack the personal touch often needed for the ultimate fulfillment of team harmony. More and more companies are moving towards video conferencing to achieve complete collaboration. Next to physically assembling the group in the same room, video conferencing, sometimes called teleconferencing, is the next best thing. This enables all members of the meeting to view each other on a computer screen, often projected on to a large screen. The video conference usually includes both video and audio and the team can interact with each other during the meeting and a more cohesive spirit prevails.

For the video conference to be effective it must have excellent quality, and that means that both the equipment must be sufficient and there must be enough bandwidth so that neither the audio nor the video portion of the video conference breaks up or breaks down. Because a poor quality video conference is more frustrating than not having the meeting at all, it is necessary to purchase the required elements to make this happen. Several vendors offer good video conferencing hardware, and most service providers can have bandwidth reserved for the duration of the video conference.

Bandwidth for video conferencing should be both sufficient and reserved because audio and video require not only low delay but also low jitter which means variance of delay, in other words any delay at all must be consistent. Longer delay for some packets and shorter delay for other packets during transmission will cause choppiness that is similar to a bad cell phone video where movement is not fluid. Bandwidth management companies can provide users with bandwidth management hardware but they must be placed at each location and can be rather expensive for just this application. Requesting bandwidth management through the service provider is a less expensive option.

Altadyn leads the next generation of collaborative solutions by enabling a new type of user experience : the Immersive and interactive 3D experience. 3DXplorer, its cutting edge web3D platform for live collaboration is very accessible to all corporate users as well as associations and governmental organizations. It’s a disruptive technology which enables full 3D immersive spaces with simple browsers on any computer, with no download or installation required.It extends features offered by traditional webcasting solutions into a 3D virtual space with avatars. Compared to these traditional tools, 3DXplorer creates a true sense of presence thanks to visual representation of avatars. It also enables multi-presenter meetings and true collaborative sessions and most importantly it enables product review sessions with 3D objects manipulation during the design process or for sales presentations during product launch or even for training purposes later on.

www.cisco.com Healthcare video conferencing from Cisco Telepresence provides a secure and global way to connect with your patients. Healthcare. Transformed by Cisco. As the field of medicine rapidly expands, areas of specialty increase, and more doctors will need to see more patients in more places. To answer this critical problem, Cisco is testing a real-time, HD video solution that could revolutionize the industry and give doctors the ability to see a patient anywhere in the world. We have to work smarter. We are working in an environment now where resources are becoming increasingly scarce. And if we dont change the process by which we deliver care, we are just not going to be able to treat patients. The Scottish Center for TeleHealth, we are set-up as a Center of expertise to promote the development of TeleHealth. We have used Desktop Video Conferencing from Aberdeen Royal Infirmary to the fifteen Community Hospitals for the past seven years. Nurses call up for a second opinion and it saved an enormous number of patients, uh, roundtrip to Aberdeen. We have been thinking about this for quite some while. We discovered that our Cisco Internet Business Solutions Group were already working on a variant of their, a TelePresence called HealthPresence. Its the first trial of the HealthPresence Pod in the world. We are seeing patients who are coming to the ME Department to get care for their condition on that day. They are seen by a doctor initially using HealthPresence and …

Cisco Delivers Hosted Collaboration Solution for Partners
Service Providers Endorse Cloud-Based Solution That Can Help Customers Reduce Costs and Scale Collaboration Technologies Faster

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Cisco Simplifies Mobile Collaboration With First-of-Its-Kind HD Video-Capable Business Tablet
LAS VEGAS, NV–(Marketwire – 06/29/10) – Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO – News ) today unveiled Cisco Cius , a first-of-its-kind mobile collaboration business tablet that delivers virtual desktop integration with anywhere, anytime access to the full range of Cisco collaboration and communication applications, including HD video. Cisco Cius is an ultra-portable device weighing just 1.15lbs (0.52kg) that …

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Saba launches new collaboration suite
Company taps into growing interest in collaboration software Web collaboration company Saba is looking to tap into the growing interest in collaboration and video by introducing the Sabe Collaboration Suite with the aim of improving real-time communication across enterprises.

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HyperOffice Releases New Version of Cloud-Computing Collaboration Software Suite for SMBs
HyperOffice today made the new version of its award-winning, cloud-computing messaging and collaboration suite widely available to small and medium-sized businesses.

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