OpenScape Video Conferencing Solution

Geographically dispersed workforces are the norm in the new economy, making the challenge of working together with colleagues, suppliers, and customers increasingly difficult.  Conventional wisdom states that face to face meetings are usually the best meetings but they are time consuming, expensive, and they increase an organization’s carbon footprint.  Excessive business travel impacts quality of life. 

As a result, organizations find themselves under increasing pressure to find new ways to keep productivity up while saving time, cost, and conserving carbon footprint.

OpenScape High Definition Video from Siemens Enterprise Communications is the next best thing to being there, bringing many of the benefits of face-to-face meetings where audio-only conferences fail. 

Seeing is believing!

Providing an affordable, viable alternative to in-person meetings - that is truly accessible - OpenScape Video offers far-reaching benefits to business.

• Reduce IT costs by leveraging IP network investments and reducing or eliminating fees paid to third party service providers and for PSTN/ISDN circuits dedicated to video.
• Reduce direct travel expenses and improve productivity by intelligently providing alternatives to business travel, whether it is a 30 minute trip across town or a flight across an ocean.
• Maintain workforce productivity as your organization transitions to a distributed, virtual workforce with remote workers and telecommuters. 
• Reduce costs by leveraging IP network investments.  It also works with legacy and third party endpoints, so there is no need to deploy a costly rip and replace strategy.   Cost avoidance from travel expenses as well as productivity savings from travel time can have a measurable impact on your bottom line.
• Increase collaboration by implementing a fully integrated easy to use system that makes it easy for work teams to take full advantage of the powerful tools available with simple point and click commands.  Even users on mobile devices or soft clients can be added to the meeting on an ad-hoc basis.  Enable your meetings to be as productive as possible.  Video is a supporting application that helps
• Enhance your green credentials by tracking and publishing your carbon savings.

The OpenScape Video portfolio from Siemens Enterprise Communications includes a broad range of offerings from best-of-breed manufacturers – including Polycom, Tandberg and LifeSize tightly integrated into the OpenScape software environment and featuring the OpenScape UC Application Desktop Personal client – a SIP based soft client that supports voice and video calling.