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Vendor Landscape Plus: Videoconferencing

Choose the vendor that will bring focus to the enterprise's collaboration vision.

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Your Challenge

  • Many organizations are looking to deploy a videoconferencing solution in order to better meet business collaboration needs and address rising travel costs. However, IT leaders exploring the videoconferencing space are faced with difficult decisions around vendors and solutions.
  • IT leaders need to understand the ability of potential vendors to fit with the existing environment and meet business requirements. Integration with existing IT elements, including directory services and resource scheduling tools, is highly beneficial.
  • This solution set examines leading vendors in the videoconferencing space and highlights key considerations that planners must take into account.

Our Advice

Critical Insight
  • The technology is only one element; make sure your selected vendor can also deliver the integration, training, and support capabilities that the business requires.
  • The leading players are very competitive in terms of features and functionality; a deeper understanding of business requirements and collaboration needs is essential before engaging vendors.
Impact and Result
  • Understand key technology trends and selection criteria in order to reach a videoconferencing vendor decision in an accelerated timeframe.

Get to Action

  1. Select and deploy a videoconferencing solution.

    Evaluate and select the right solution for the business.

  2. Make the case for videoconferencing investment.

    Gain the management buy-in required to proceed with a project.

  3. Evaluate leading players and develop a vendor shortlist.

    Identify the leading candidates for the enterprise.

  4. Rank vendors and identify the best-fit supplier.

    Select the right videoconferencing vendor.

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Tags

collaboration, videoconferencing, UC, Unified Communications, conferencing, media, QoS, Cisco, video, communications, Sony, virtual collaboration, Video over IP, video conferencing, video conference, Polycom, Tandberg, video media, quality of service (QoS), teleconferencing, LifeSize, IP video conferencing, presentation, Logitech, Vidyo

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Choose the vendor that will bring focus to the enterprise's collaboration vision.

Companies Who Helped

Five organizations contributed information to assist with the development of this solution set. Due to the sensitivity of the information, all contributors have requested confidentiality.

Solution Road Map

Other Solution Sets in Video
1. Develop a Video Conferencing Strategy
Seeing is believing: understand the future of face-to-face communications before selecting a video conferencing solution.
2. Vendor Landscape: Video Conferencing
What you see isn’t all that you get: make sure the video conferencing solution you select meets all of your visual communication priorities.
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