18. Audio Conferencing - Avaya IP Office 8.1 Product Description

18. Audio Conferencing

A problem familiar to any organization is that of communicating effectively. As more and more people work
from home or from dispersed locations, how do you ensure that employees are planning and working together
effectively, and regularly keeping in touch when separated by time and distance? In addition, many companies
choose to sub-contract some services such as payroll, logistics or manufacturing to third-party suppliers. How
do you ensure that you can act as one virtual enterprise? Audio conferencing provides a simple and effective
solution.
Audio conferencing makes it easy to include key people in decision making wherever they are with minimum
interruption from their work. It responds to business needs that every company faces:
More meetings but less time available.
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Increasing pressure to be at two locations at once.
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Travel restrictions.
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Environmental pressures ("green" initiatives).
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As a result of using conferencing, the benefits gained are:
Reduction in travel, leading to lower costs, less wasted time and lower carbon emissions.
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Increased worker productivity and personal security.
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More effective working practices, leading to shorter project times, and supporting dispersed
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organizations and complex supply chains.
Furthermore, the Return On Investment (ROI) is very short as Meet Me conferencing is a built-in feature of IP
Office Preferred Edition. The typical ROI of just 4 to 6 months compared to Service Provider conferencing
services based upon 2 hourly conferences with 5 participants per week.
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