| The most extensive area of applications in secure | | | | number of corporate functions increases as well. |
| webconferencing is in corporate communications. | | | | Proposal development requires many individuals to |
| All business entities, large and small have the need | | | | meet almost on a daily basis. Training is another |
| to participate in meetings. These meetings | | | | function that happens all throughout the |
| represent groups needing to talk with one | | | | corporation. Again, the need to meet increases. |
| another. Examples are a marketing group needing | | | | Just think of the costs involved in bringing |
| to talk with a production group, or a management | | | | individuals to a corporate center every week to |
| planning group wishing to talk with the advertising | | | | fulfill the missions of corporate communications !!! |
| and public relations group. | | | | A secure webconferencing system is the ultimate |
| Meetings take place every day. Meetings not only | | | | answer to corporate communications |
| happen during the business day, but also can take | | | | requirements whose costs are creating a serious |
| place around the clock. This isn't anything new. I | | | | detriment to profitability. Ever since the energy |
| recall in my engineering days working on a | | | | crisis has raised the price of fuel, transportation |
| pioneering atomic power plant project in an out of | | | | costs have gone through the ceiling. The costs of |
| the way suburb of Pittsburgh. The project was an | | | | maintaining security in airports and rail terminals |
| offshoot of the Navy Nautillus submarine | | | | have also risen beyond belief. Driving to meetings |
| development. The project was headed by an | | | | is not any better, with rising gasoline prices. All of |
| admiral in the Navy who liked to hold round the | | | | these costs find their way into employees' |
| clock meetings just to see if the staff was on | | | | expense reporting sheets. Many cost wise |
| their toes .. and not asleep on their backs. | | | | companies have found that secure |
| Corporations large and small are doing an | | | | webconferencing systems are a viable alternative |
| increasingly larger amount of business through the | | | | to run a business without supporting the airlines |
| use of contractors and subcontractors. There is a | | | | and the hotel companies. |
| growing need for corporations to communicate on | | | | Secure webconferencing is indeed the way of the |
| a regular basis with these "other" corporations | | | | future. Its ultimate success will lie in how much |
| that are a newly acquired part of the home | | | | corporate executives can implement cost cutting |
| corporation. The end result is that meetings of all | | | | measures, and how rapidly the joys of flying and |
| sorts happen all over the place, and the need for | | | | staying in posh hotels can be de-glamorized. Only |
| corporate communications increases many-fold. | | | | time and unfolding current events will tell the tale. |
| Meetings increase even more frequently when the | | | | |