An epoch of videoconferencing only begins
According to researches of foreign analytics, an average statistical manager spends almost 3 years on an airplane, 2 years on the road to an airport and back, 23 months of waiting for the flight, 3 months of searching the place for the parking. And really, the business that is closely connected with often negotiations or meetings outside the city, demands particular tenacity and patience. Besides time expenses, companies used to spend huge budgets on journeys and the residence of their employees. In such cases an excellent opportunity to economize becomes spending money on videoconferencing. This is a new technology for Ukraine which enables the participants of conferences to see and hear each other, to share the data and jointly work on it.
“Videoconferencing allows business to make a new step in its development, expedite the process of decision making, as the visual contact can be set in few minutes”- says the system manager of “Cisco” company. The most distinguishing feature of videoconferencing is the high quality in video and audio transmission. This technology is already applied in Ukraine by “MTS” company. The press secretary of “MTS” says that it allows to study colleague’s mimicry, gestures, that increases the efficiency of interactive meetings. The videoconferencing is highly demanded by enterprises that have geographically distributed structure, regardless of company’s specialization. So, “MTS-Ukraine” uses it regularly. They held the conferences between top-managers and partners. The First Ukrainian International Bank (in Ukrainian so-called “ПУМБ”) was the first bank to start using videoconferencing in practice. It helped them to carry negotiations with bank representative offices in Kiev, Donetsk and other twelve out-of-town offices. In other Ukrainian company “TNK-BP” meetings are often held through the videoconferencing and they are quite happy with it.
Despite relatively “young age” of Ukrainian videoconferencing market, it is highly demanded. And such leading world-known firms as “Cisco”, “Sony”, “Tandberg” prepare their businesses to offer new products and services to Ukrainian companies.