On the year 2011, Frost & Sullivan has recognized Polycom India as the Video Conferencing Equipment Vendor of the Year award. Polycom Inc., the worldwide provider in open standards, based Unified Communications (UC), has won this award for the two consecutive years. The company formerly won the Frost & Sullivan award as the Market Share Leadership in Video Conferencing Infrastructure and Endpoints in 2008 and 2009.

The collaboration of technologies to improve business processes is standing as a key role in developing the mindset of industries enterprises to embrace rich communication options. The necessity and demand for video conferencing mobility-based systems is progressively increasing. With a growth rate of 38.7% and total revenues of USD 83.1 million, the Video Conferencing market of Indian grew at a stable pace in 2011.

Polycom as Video Conferencing Equipment Vendor

Managing Director of India & SAARC, Mr. Neeraj Gill, upon receiving the award said that they are proud to be the recipient of the said award for two consecutive years. It honors the continuous efforts of the company in focusing on customers’ needs. Polycom is dedicated to deliver the best-in-class and most innovative and advanced video collaboration solutions that thoroughly focus on interoperability, henceforth protecting the customers’ prevailing investments. 2011 was a good year for the company’s growth in the region, and they continue to be confident on the Indian market.

Polycom is continuously investing in its R&D units to provide bandwidth-effective video systems. It has focused on delivering Polycom RealPresence Experience (RPX) on mobile platforms to cater small-to-medium business segments with its cloud-based video service. This is in addition to collaboration with unified-communication (UC) vendors to improve the incorporation of its video with telecom service providers and with other UC applications.

Frost & Sullivan: Growth Partnership Company

The Growth Partnership Company, Frost & Sullivan, operates in association with clients to empower visionary innovation that deliberates the global challenges as well as related growth possibilities that will create or break today’s market contributors. The “Growth Partnership” of the company supports the clients by considering these opportunities and integrating the two key elements motivating visionary innovation: The Integrated Value Proposition and The Partnership Infrastructure.

- The Integrated Value Proposition delivers support to the clients throughout all stages of their journey to visionary innovation including analysis, research, strategy, innovation, vision, and implementation.

- The Partnership Infrastructure is completely unique as it builds the foundation upon which visionary innovation becomes possible. This includes 360-degree research, career best practices, comprehensive industry coverage, and the global footprint of about 40 offices.

For about 50 years, the company has been creating growth strategies for the global 1000 emerging businesses, the investment community, and the public sector.

Polycom: Telepresence Provider

Polycom is the global provider in open standards-based unified communications solutions for telepresence, voice, and video, powered by the Polycom RealPresence platform. The RealPresence platform interoperates with the widest range of business, social and mobile devices and applications. Around 400,000 organizations believe Polycom solutions to integrate, collaborate and meet face-to-face from any location for more effective and productive engagement with partners, colleagues, prospects, and customers. Polycom, along with its broad partner ecosystem, offers customers with the best and finest total cost of ownership, scalability, security, and interoperability on hosted, premises, or cloud-delivered.

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http://www.conferencingnews.com/news/43469

http://www.polycom.asia

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Way back years ago, according to an executive whose company was greatly invested in video conferencing, it is a lot of hype and everybody hates it. He said that the only way to solve it is to make technology invisible that actually having a window to another place. His involvement pointed to the approach his organization utilized video conferencing. To leave wherever you may be and go to a dedicated telepresence facility for a conference is getting less from the technology.

However, at the present, high-definition (HD) video conferencing can be incorporated to every employee’s laptop, desktop, smartphone and tablet. Users can leave or add participants conveniently, shared work files easily, with all on less bandwidth than it takes to download an MP3.

The real benefits of video conferencing become more obvious when immersing yourself in what you are doing with the technology, and it influence around you. A full-fledged high-definition (HD) video conference does exactly that.

Important Considerations in Selecting Video Conferencing System

Transparency. Some business executives pointed out that the quality of video conferencing experience has to be good-quality enough to make technology disappears. If employees have to significantly change day-to-day way of working, it is not likely getting the best from the technology. Hence, video conferencing works best when it is a window to another place.

Simplicity. In several ways, this is an extension of the first concern. Several business executives consider video conferencing as a complex tool best assumed by the superior echelons of IT specialists. In order to be transparent and useful, everyone must understand it even non-technical employees. They do not need to know the process in traversing a firewall; however they should be able to exploit it as a day-to-day tool, if they’re to be as beneficial as possible. At present time, many are offering solutions with a combination of simplicity and sophistication.

Put it through its paces. Look for an opportunity to “test drive” a part of technology to understand precisely how it works and how it can enhance real tangible benefit to business operations.

Affordably scalable. Evidently, the cloud is turning out to be a critical part of creating video conferencing truly helpful for business. Numerous advanced video conferencing solutions are space consuming and expensive, frequently requiring purpose-built “telepresence” centers. Consequently, the cloud provides businesses of any size to create immediate exploit of the technology, with no having to finance in more than they require at the present.

Compatibility in variety of platforms. Video conferencing technology is truly transparent in an instance that it is accessible on a type of different platforms such as computer, laptop, smartphone or tablet PC.

Affordably feature-rich. Advance technology experience requires good quality specs. According to Arthur C. Clarke, if the quality of experience is ruin, it is no longer transparent or magical. With video conferencing, to break the magic spell with poor quality audio, you are done. Consider for the widest feasible range of features at a value that makes sense.

To stop thinking about video conferencing solution as a purpose-built “telepresence” facility and more as the productivity tool, to balance benefits and features is possible against affordability and simplicity in a that assists employees get a real window on their world.

References:

http://www.conferencingnews.com/news/43467

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telepresence

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