Web Conferencing News & Articles

Today at its Collaboration Summit 2011 in Miami, Cisco unveils updates to its unified communications platform Jabber and its web conferencing platform Webex that will enhance enterprise collaboration and let people work anytime, and from anywhere.

How do you know you are using the right collaboration tool? With 2000 + tools in the market place today, how do you know you have the best solution to your collaborative challenge? The goal of this article is to give you some general rules of the road for collaboration. What technology to use and the best time to use it.

SalesCrunch (news, site) has updated its online social selling platform, CrunchConnect, with new functionality that improves your company's ability to collaborate.

Now, not only can you share your presentations on Slideshare (news, site), but you can also host a virtual meeting to discuss them.

Just about two years after IBM (news, site) announced the release of its LotusLive cloud collaboration platform, IBM continues to extend the reach of LotusLive with the announcement of integrations with SugarCRM and Ariba’s social commerce platform.

Salesforce.com (news, site) makes another acquisition in the social space as it aims to widen its collaboration product base.

In a time when the work force is becoming increasingly mobile, Saba (news, site), works hard to stay up to speed by offering nifty Web conferencing tools. The company's latest release consists of  new and enhanced support for iPad and iPhone devices, enabling users to tap into online conferences while on the go. 

Elementool (news, site) ups the stakes in project management software by adding instant video conferencing to its SaaS toolset, so now co-workers are never more than a click away.

Japan based web conference provider ANET has launched a new solution to support organizations in their web conference and collaboration activities. Called the FRESH VOICE HD desktop video conferencing system, it has at its core, the Global IP Solutions Video ConferenceEngine.

As the biggest provider of web conferencing solutions in Japan, ANET is going out its way to keep that market share, offering bigger and better solutions regardless of the size of your organization.

ANET FRESH VOICE HD

The new FRESH VOICE HD desktop video conferencing engine offers features such as:

• Full HD voice and video
• Desktop and document sharing for collaboration
• Ability to invite and schedule conferences

The new solution enables you to connect up to 50 locations at a time and claims productivity and cost savings in the area of ¥40 million (US$ 425,000) each year.

The GIPS Video ConferenceEngine supports this new solution offering. This is a platform for developers who want to build video conferencing solutions. It is a plug and play solution designed to support even the worst network connections.

You can see this new solution in action in this YouTube video. Just remember that it is for a Japanese market. So unless you know Japanese, you might want to keep your volume down and just watch it in action.

Want to share files and ideas at the same time? Now you can, thanks to Box.net’s (news, site) new partnership with Fuze Meeting. The effort aims to integrate real-time online meeting and collaboration directly from within the Box.net service.

Users can share screenshots and more with real time video presentations giving individuals the opportunity to come together, as well as the ability to review and comment.

IBM has announced a new suite of collaboration services straight from the cloud. LotusLive is their new portal offering a number of collaboration and social networking services. With integration from some solution providers like Skype, LinkedIn and Salesforce.com, IBM customers will be happy to go cloud-jumping.