Whitepapers
Avistar teams with Frost & Sullivan to deliver monthly Thought Leadership Articles covering the Video Conferencing and Unified Communications Market:
Article III June 2008: The Impact of Collaboration on Business Performance
The June 2008 thought leadership article discusses how communications tools including web and video conferencing can go along way toward solving the second problem, allowing employees to meet in real time, share knowledge and ideas, and then act upon their discussions quickly and effectively. But they have to be distributed throughout the organization—and employees must know they’re there as well as how to use them—to be truly effective.
Article II May 2008: Today's Communications Applications Demand Network Management
The May 2008 thought leadership article discusses as IT managers deploy next-generation communications technologies, including video conferencing and unified communications, they must consider the ancillary needs such applications require. If they are to deploy unified communications as an enterprise technology, companies must know that their employees can access the applications whenever and wherever they need to—without overwhelming their underlying networks.
Article I April 2008: The Value of Video Conferencing in Unified Communications
The April 2008 thought leadership article discusses when desktop video conferencing is integrated into a UC solution, users get all the benefits of in-person visual communications: eye contact, body language cues, and the increased comfort, camaraderie and respect that come from interacting face to face. As a result IT managers should plan to include desktop video conferencing in any UC implementation.
Frost & Sullivan Whitepaper:
Leveraging the Value of Unified Communications: A Frost & Sullivan Whitepaper
This whitepaper explores the value of Unified Communications and PC-based video conferencing:
- As a means to enhance and enable business processes, leverage a distributed workforce effectively and efficiently, and create a networked community of customers, partners and suppliers for enhanced communications
- How companies can leverage the above capability to expand the use of all IP-based communications in the enterprise to the desktop with software
- Demonstrates the need for underlying network management and support
- Discusses the ROI Avistar can and should deliver
Avistar Whitepapers:
Avistar Shepherd: Virtualize the Network – An Avistar Whitepaper
Avistar Shepherd provides an intelligent, network-aware application software solution that allows companies to dynamically view and manage the allocation of global network bandwidth across all real time rich media communications, including voice, video conferencing and streaming media.
- By centralizing the management of bandwidth allocation across multiple vendors and multiple communications topologies, Shepherd provides the basis for reducing the total required bandwidth, thus reducing the current network spend and providing room for growth in their real time communications implementations..
- By accomplishing network bandwidth management through application software, Shepherd is capable of rapidly adapting to the introduction of new communications solutions and therefore reduces the time and cost of implementation. Companies will not have to redesign their networks and add associated bandwidth before implementing new solutions and will therefore be able to leverage their existing investments to enhance their competitive position in the market.
- Shepherd’s ROI is therefore based on its enablement of immediately reducing the network bandwidth spend coupled with the opportunity to speed adoption of deploying unified communications on existing customer networks.
For more information about Avistar's Shepherd, email us at avistarshepherd@avistar.com
Avistar: Market Needs and Business Value of Unified Communications
Real people are a key component of any business process and, in today's dispersed, global work environment, it's vital that companies' most valuable assets--their employees--are armed with the communications solutions they need to get the job done. Understand more about the future of Unified Communications, the business value of face-to-face interactions and how to leverage the latest collaborative technology to increase your business results.
Case Studies
Every day, thousands of people use Avistar to solve complex business challenges faster. With more than 18,000 seats sold in over 40 countries, Avistar deployments are some of the largest in the world. Learn more about how companies are using Avistar to increase productivity and improve business results.
