Audio and Web Conferencing
Communications and collaboration with customers, remote colleagues, and business partners is critical to business success today. The ever-increasing cost of business travel and the need for real time – now – communications, combined with the efficiency of audio and video technologies have moved conferencing from a “nice to have” tool to a mandatory tool for conducting business.
Our conferencing experts at the OBJ Group can help your business set up conferencing services that are ready whenever and wherever you have a need for a meeting, seminar or event. And while these services used to require high monthly fees and expensive per minute charges – those drawbacks are a thing of the past. Today conferencing is a tool that is available when you need it, that you pay for only when you use it, and costs have dropped dramatically. Absolutely one of the easiest tools to increase staff efficiency, conferencing is available in three basic configurations.
Reservationless Conferencing
A “virtual” meeting room that allows you to met with up to 125 clients and customers, or colleagues from around the globe without ever leaving your office. Available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and accessible from any location, toll-free inside the US or Internationally. Reservationless conferencing is easy to start and easy to use. To begin a conference simply dial the access number for your conferencing service, enter your private code and a PIN and the conference is set. With perfect audio quality reservationless conferencing becomes a cost effective business tool that is available whenever business dictates.
And if you need additional capabilities they are also available:
- Participant Name Capture which prompts participants to record their names to be played upon conference entry and exit.
- Entry and exit tones that sound when a participant enters or exits the conference call.
- Security, billing and recording features to prevent unwanted participants, track usage by private codes and record conference calls for playback later.
- Listen Only Mode to mute all participant lines or allow participants to mute and unmute their own lines.
- Lecture Mode and Q&A allows participants to listen only then use the Q&A feature to allow a participant to ask a question.
Reservationless conferencing can be as simple as a quick conference call or incorporate additional capabilities and features to leverage the conference into a sophisticated business tool. At the OBJ Group we can help you choose the best reservationless conferencing service for your needs and we will definitely find the carrier with the lowest total cost for your usage.
Operator-Assisted Conferencing
With operator assisted conferencing specialists are available before, during and after the conference to work with you, schedule the event and participants, moderate the conference call and produce post-conference reports. They can also record the call and produce a digital copy or CD. On most operator assisted conference services the operator answers the incoming calls from conference participants, enters the participants into the call and conducts a roll call or announces the participants. In addition the operator assistants can provide participant management and live Q&A sessions.
Operator-assisted conferencing allows virtually unlimited participants into a conference and can include polling and fax/email broadcasts.
If your business has any of these advanced conferencing needs call one of our conferencing experts at the OBJ Group to personally work through your organizations needs and find the best operator-assisted conferencing to fulfill your requirements at the lowest total cost.
Web Conferencing
Web Conferencing integrates voice and web conferencing into one intuitive and user-friendly interface. You manage your meetings with simple point and click commands. Moderators can show documents on demand, present applications, deliver animated PowerPoint® presentations, manage their voice conference and take control of remote participants’ computers.
Web Conferencing can include features such as:
- Live multi-point video with full audio integration
- Outlook integration so meeting invitations can be sent directly from an Outlook address books with automatic calls to participants.
- Desktop and application sharing with annotation, whiteboarding and chat capabilities.
- Powerful moderator control tools as well as meeting history creation, security and billing features to record conference audio and video and track usage.
With integrated Web Conferencing a meeting can be started with a click of a mouse and requires no advance notice or reservation. Once in a meeting room participants and moderators benefit from the application sharing, interactive chat and other collaborative features. The integrated audio and desktop video makes it easy to present material and give participants a visual focal point.
The Benefits
By using an Integrated Reservationless Audio, Web and desktop video conferencing solution your business can:
- Improve staff efficiency saving time and money
- Reduce travel expenses
- Create more effective communication with clients increasing sales and profitability
- Collaborate internally saving valuable time and resources
At the OBJ Group we know conferencing, we know the carriers, the products they offer and we know how to find the best match for your business at the lowest possible cost. Whether you need conferencing for an occasional audio conference call or you need an ongoing web based collaboration tool, let us find the best match for your business. Call us for a no cost consultation and recommendation.