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Five Benefits of Using Video Conferencing for Your Business

Five Benefits of Using Video Conferencing for Your Business

It is widely known fact that an image is worth more than thousands of words. A crisp HD video conferencing powered by VSSi s a pointer to that fact. A lot of businesses, for instance, are interested in presenting a product to their international sales executives or solve a problem with their clients. With video conferencing, businesses have found an audio visual means of revealing their products to their team members as well as solving their client’s problems by audio visually taking them through the steps involved in the problem-solving process. Broadly speaking, there are many benefits associated with using video conferencing for your business but we will discuss some of the benefits below:

Cost Effectiveness

Businesses have two major responsibilities which are to reduce cost and to increase revenue. As far as cost reduction is concerned, the role of video conferencing cannot be overemphasized. Video conferencing has made it possible for businesses to be present in many locations at a point in time without leaving the four walls of the office. When you do an estimation of what you will incur on traveling to these locations, you realize that the traveling cost is far higher than what you will incur on video conferencing.

At VSSi, we offer your business video conferencing solutions that are compliant with existing infrastructure. We possess software that can be downloaded and aid virtual meetings on your smartphone, PC and other devices.

Relationship Enhancement Through Effective Communication

When video conferencing solutions are used, you can visualize the facial expression as well as the body language of your employees and clients. This brings about a collaboration that is quicker and highly effective, thereby enhancing a relationship. Provision of a platform by video conferencing where businesses can have meetings with officers around the world creates a situation through which employees feel they are closer to the head office. From the wholesaler/retailer’s point of view, manufacturers can be spoken to wherever he is and he can be shown through audio-video means the exact prototype he must reproduce in crisp HD quality. This improves the relationship between manufacturers and wholesalers/retailers and in the long run impacts on the level of sales.

It Aids Telecommuting

According to research, over 75% of employees love to embrace a working plan that is more flexible. This more flexible working condition is telecommuting. Video conferencing has so much aided telecommuting to the extent that workers at home can maintain the connection with co-workers and clients. This has aided businesses with the provision of more comfortable work environment which has, in turn, led to retention of company’s top talents.

Better Staff Training Experience

Before the advent of video conferencing, it was very difficult to organize training sessions for employees. Members of staff of business establishments had to travel to training centers, lodge in hotels and travel back after each training session while employers had to book training venues, arrange for hotels and approve traveling bonuses. However, since the advent of video conferencing, staff training has taken another dimension as thousands of employees can be trained simultaneously regardless of their locations. Rather than being crammed inside one venue, employees can be seated in front of their personal computers or other audio visual devices and be part of the training session. Video conferencing has also made it possible for employees to record the whole training session and watch it over and over again.

Improved Recruitment Process

According to a research carried out by Redshift Research, video conferencing ranks third in human resources business communication channels. Through video conferencing, the possibility of consummating job vacancies quicker and leveraging on opportunities to contact prospective employees around the world has increased. Job interviews are now done through video conferencing and it allows the interviewers to communicate better with the applicants wherever they are located.

With a host of video conferencing solutions, VSSi offers a potent way of enabling conferences or video contents to be streamed live or shared across the globe. VSSi has made it possible for customers, partners, employees, business owners and students to use video conferencing to interact with other people anytime, anywhere.

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Boosting Business Productivity with Huddle Spaces

Boosting Business Productivity with Huddle Spaces

We are becoming more informal society- and a tech culture is a big reason why. While some aspects of this are lamentable, it has been an undeniable boon for the world of business: it equates to better productivity.

Perhaps, no concept better illustrates this transformation than the proliferation of huddle spaces. Rather than the age-old concept of employees pitching ideas around a boardroom table in a hierarchal, structured meeting, companies are seeking the benefits in facilitating off-the-cut collaboration-making the most of the moment when inspiration strikes.

Huddle Spaces make a big difference in today’s business environment. Any available space is in a high demand in the vast majority of businesses: it can be a time-consuming experience. Huddle spaces are a great solution for many companies: people walk in and out of the room without booking the room, and with their own laptops, phones, and tablets. They demand an immediate and responsive interface, starting with whatever is on their device, whether that’s FaceTime, Skype, ClickShare or any other application.

There are great solutions for huddle spaces designed by Barco, Vaddio, Yamaha, and Crestron:

  • For immediacy purposes BARCO for instance, designed a Clickshare interface for people to simply connect to a display and begin sharing. Because huddle spaces can be conducted on the fly, the decision making can be much speedier, and workplace environment is more productive.  It definitely eases the method of working together between multiple people and teams.
  • Yamaha CS-700 video sound collaboration system is an outstanding AV solution for huddle spaces, designed as an all-in-one unit to equip huddle rooms with best in class audio, video, and screen sharing capability.
  • Vaddio offers ConferenceSHOT FX. The extra-wide field of view on this fixed video conferencing camera allows everyone around the table to be clearly visible. It plugs into a USB port and works with major UCC soft clients.
  • All-in-one Crestron Mercury Tabletop Conferencing System. It supports any collaboration application: Spark, Cisco, GoToMeeting, WebEx, Microsoft Teams, Google Hangouts, Zoom and etc. Just plug USB to your laptop and get full room experience. Mercury allows people to collaborate regardless of their location and conference application.

VSSi provides individually customized Huddle Space Audio visual solutions offering innovative technologies. We value great performance and simplicity. Contact us today to learn more about Huddle Space AV Solutions for your business.

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Education in Action: Collaborative Classrooms

Education in Action: Collaborative Classrooms

We are passing those days when we were sitting in classroom rows with a teacher sitting behind a desk glued to a laptop screen. What does the future classroom look like? – Movable furniture, document cameras, multiple monitors, and interactive projectors. All these new innovations belong to “active learning” introduced as a collaborative learning space promoting both creativity and critical thinking, with an aim to provide equal visual and auditory accessibility for students, regardless of where they are sitting in the classroom. As the need for collaboration continues to flourish and expand in capabilities, technology becomes more crucial. Nowadays thanks to wireless device connectivity, students and teacher are able to use tablet devices in the classroom. For instance, with Epson education presentation displays, students can project content from their devices onto entire walls and surfaces and annotate on the wall in real time using their fingers with BrightLink devices. Also, it enables teachers to see and display up to four devices simultaneously from a maximum of fifty connected student devices, or easily compare students’ work side-by-side for an engaging, collaborative learning experience. Primitive digital whiteboards, which were used primarily to display the content from the web, were replaced by capacitive touchscreens. Instead of offering little opportunity for interaction with students, with new touchscreens teachers are capable of having students collaborate on their work, create diagrams, and perform other work on a touchscreen and interact with rich content such as videos and games.

As AV technology growth continues, teachers will be able to incorporate more interactive elements into their lessons. In addition to touchscreens, video conferencing technologies play a significant role in today’s education as well. Distance learning continues to grow; hence, educational facilities adopt video conferencing as an important tool for their programs. This innovation allows teacher and students to interact the way they would in a true classroom. It is not a standard for distance learning at this moment, but this face-to-face learning environment will be enhanced pretty soon…  

Great Lecture Capture Products for Classrooms: Vaddio AV Bridge MATRIX PRO ( *This AV Bridge makes it simple to encode, capture, and stream AV content through a variety of PC apps or directly to the network.) Panasonic AW-UE70 4K Pan/Tilt/ Zoom Camera  Marshall Electronics CV612HT-4K Pan-Tilt-Zoom Camera Revolabs Executive Elite 2-Channel Wireless Microphone System (*Great solution for auditoriums and lecture halls where the voice of a presenter has to be easily heard and understood by students from small to large.)  1 Beyond Collaborate AVS (*Great conferencing solution for large and small rooms with various layouts. System detects speaker and switches camera slots.)

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