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A good web conferencing solution shows great promise in reducing costs.
Microsoft has announced that merely by using their own Livemeeting service, they estimate a $40 million savings in reduced travel costs.
Even a small company can find itself in the global environment.
Whether by deliberately pursuing a contract that will require this, or discovering the most economic source for some needed product or material is on the other side of the world.
When this happens, it isn’t a surprise to discover a need for conversations, presentations or meetings with participants far away from each other.
A web conferencing internet solution can provide a cheap means for this to take place, rather than flying people to some convenient spot or dealing with scary telephone charges.
While much can be accomplished in text, such as email, there comes a time when you simply need to be able to see and hear someone to gain complete understanding and a meeting of minds.
Adobe Acrobat Connect is a web conferencing solution built around a nested series of options.
The service is open ended and can be a licensed application or a rented product on a dedicated server, and uses both the common Powerpoint file to create presentations and Flash, present on 97% of all computers, to leverage existing utilities.
Adobe has already created a reputation for easy to use products, and points to Acrobat Connect as a logical extension of existing products. There are free seminars, and a free 15-day trial offer. However, the product is not cheap.
The five-user starter pack, with unlimited usage, costs $375/month. The ten user package costs $750/month, and there is pay per use plan, with $.32/minute/user, but this is almost certainly not the option desired.
Any organization needing to use a web conferencing solutions will quickly find paying per minute too expensive as time mounts.
Microsoft Livemeeting is the official internet conferencing solution of Microsoft, and is thus designed to work with the operating system of most computers sold.
Microsoft applications have great power simply due to this market strength. It has some real strengths. It is fully integrated with Office, allows sharing of part of a computer desktop and has VOIP support.
However, it also only has one way VOIP support, doesn’t allow full videoconferencing, and the cheaper versions are also extremely limited. Even the full version, in the five user package that costs $375/month, only allows a maximum of five helpline calls per month.
Wiredred.com’s epop web conferencing solution boasts of its self contained installation, requiring less than five minutes.
The full-featured product has a fixed fee to eliminate confusion. There are two options, an annual license costing from $3000/year for five users to $9600/year for twenty-five users.
If using the hosted service, these prices drop to $350 and $900 respectively. For users with large needs, over 100 participants in conferences, there are pricing plans available by contacting the company.
This is only reasonable for those who already know they will need extensive web conferencing for the foreseeable future. It is quite secure, and thus is also attractive to companies with sensitive, proprietary data.
Related article: What Is A Web Conferencing Center?
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