Business & Enterprise
Businesses of all sizes are taking advantage of videoconferencing in new and innovative ways. They are reaping the benefits of increased efficiency and realising the competitive advantages. Videoconferencing is being used in every department and business unit for higher efficiency, faster decision-making, and improved employee quality of life. Some examples:

Manufacturing Bringing the experts right to the shop floor for troubleshooting and quality assurance. As a result, the experts' time is optimised and the production downtime is minimized.	Management Operations Senior Managers are collaborating on new processes and managing projects remotely. Timely information and immediate feedback result in faster implementation and diminished project delay.	Human Resources HR departments are interviewing potential employees for key positions while reducing travel costs and shortening the filtering process in the interview cycle.
Marketing Review copy and layouts for new ad campaigns, conducts market research focus groups and launches new products with the benefit of faster approval processes and turnaround time and the ability to launch to the entire company instantaneously.	Sales Sales managers are reviewing results, forecasts and objectives with remote sales representatives and entire sales teams. Strategic account planning and simultaneous information relay leads to shorter sales cycles, increased sales and reduced expenses.	Research & Development R&D are discussing changes in new product design with colleagues around the world, significantly reducing time to market.
Training Training departments are conducting on-going employee education with one expert able to train the entire organisation without the time and expense of travel.	Legal Solicitor's, Barristers, Law Enforcement & Legal departments are reviewing documentation and exhibits, pursuing settlement discussions and interviewing witnesses while achieving more productive use of billable hours and reducing travel time and costs.	Finance Financial services companies have to make fast decisions with a lot at stake. Each day, financial managers on continents across the globe meet and discuss time-critical investment opportunities. Opinion gets transmitted more effectively. Questions are answered more efficiently. Video communications allow financial services companies to be more competitive at lower cost.
Government Local Government & Government agencies throughout the world are using visual communications to speed decision-making, provide employees with increased access to experts and information and to provide real-time public safety responses. Applications include Managing and providing quality healthcare, education, and emergency services to citizens are just a few of the key responsibilities of our national and local authorities.Tourism, jobs, aging, libraries, military, parks, public works, port authorities, security, prisons,arts,agriculture,natural resources, Inland Revenue, etc,etc... the list goes on and on.	Retailers Retailers, for example, face the challenges of getting products to market faster than the competition, attracting and retaining customers and training employees. By bringing together multi-city or multinational project teams more often and at lower costs, companies are shortening production times and reducing time-to-market. Improved information flow and immediate feedback allows development teams to work faster and smarter, and they appreciate the efficient and more effective face-to-face discussion without having to leave their offices.	Oil & Gas Industry Oil and gas companies are increasingly embracing new information technologies as they rely less on their traditional gut instincts and more on real time facts , to unlock fresh sources of energy. Indeed, throughout the industry - from upstream exploration and drilling, to midstream processing, and downstream marketing and retail selling - collaborative communication technology , advances are helping the energy sector discover and recover new fuel supplies and uncover unnecessary costs.