Conferencing

Most powerful brands of the world will showcase their state-of-the-art products and services which would allow the user community to get exposure to a wide range of technology and solutions under one roof. Most importantly, it would provide an opportunity for business-to-business alliances, leveraging their mutual strengths. ITCN Asia Exhibitions & Conferences have been playing a pivotal role in landmarking the image of Pakistan on the world IT Map, bringing in huge foreign and local investments in the Country.

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All the choices available today, it’s tough to know which one is right for you and your business. Not to mention finding an affordable solution that won’t blow your budget.

Here are 5 Steps to Choosing the Best Web Conferencing Solution:

1) First, you must decide the maximum number of guests or attendees you need to be able to have in a meeting. If you are planning to use web conferences to train or have sales meetings, then you should be able to have a minimum of 10 guests with the option of up to 50. As your sales and business grow, you want to have your service ready to accommodate.

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Internet has become the cheapest and widest communication source to reach the maximum number of users, whether they are information seekers, students, sales persons, clients, customers, potential customers, business professionals or marketing professionals.

The Professionals may not rely only on internet phone call or video conversations but proper web communication software, conferencing software or webinar application.
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Pakistan is the regional hub of Information and Communications Technology, and is aspiring for constant development in the sector.

The country renders support to the various avenues of Information Technology and Communications through reduced tariffs, tax exemptions, and investment friendly policies. Despite the global economic meltdown, the ICT indicators in the country are encouraging and the growth has been positive. The industry has attracted FDI of over US$ 1.070 Billion during 2008-09 to uplift the industry and for the development of the ICT infrastructure in the country. The ICT industry is amongst the rapidly emerging sectors of Pakistan with the overall industry size at US$ 12 billion.

The government is endeavoring to establish the local industry to compete in international markets and to facilitate carious domestic projects to expand IT based commercial activities across Pakistan.

There are more than 2000 ICT companies actively operating in Pakistan engaged in  telecommunications, broadcasting & satellite, BPO, software development, banking automation, info-security, convergence, gaming, animation etc

The benefits of telepresence with its high fidelity audio, crisp video, and the feeling of face-to-face meeting is being offered on desktops by Tandberg, which announced a desktop telepresence solution Thursday. Called the EX90, the touchscreen solution is targeted at home office, SMB, and general business office use.

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Telecommunications provider Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (www.ptcl.com.pk) announced on Thursday it has opened the largest data center in Karachi, Pakistan.

The data center is designed to be consistent with international standards and data center certification bodies.

The facility is protected from intrusion and failure with multi-layered security, fail-safe redundancy, diversity measures, and rapid response recovery measures, says the company.

The new data center is directly connected to PTCL’s global MPLS backbone to offer a range of hosting solutions with unparalleled network performance and features.

PTCL offers capabilities designed to deliver greater efficiencies for hosting customers through the use of technologies such as storage on demand, processing on demand, business continuity and disaster recovery, all of which are integrated with PTCL network services.

Naveed Saeed, senior executive VP at PTCL, says the data center is designed to provide business enterprises in Pakistan with a “reliable, responsive and resilient infrastructure to suit their needs”.

PTCL says it is the only unified service provider in Pakistan and is able to service all enterprise segments with a range of products including fiber optic and wireless connectivity, MPLS, VPN, managed and hosted technology solutions.

The data center will provide enterprises with an application processing environment with connectivity to the fully redundant self healing optical fiber network backbone.

Online communication and e-Learning have stunningly developed now days, where two people are far away but still can communicate and conduct their viewpoint.
In seminars and meetings we have to conduct various presentations, which seems difficult to be performed online (remotely), but now it is possible to create upload and share presentation enriched with sound.
This revolution in online presentation software has boosted the communication not only in corporate sector but also allows people for E-Learning, increasing Sales, Marketing and Human Resource Management.

Webinar is widely used in internet communication now a days. It may seem like a new term but it is just like the web conferencing where more and more facilities are being added in web based communication like screen sharing, control sharing, user management, polls and surveys, white boards etc.

Webinars tools are used to conduct live meetings, training, seminars, or presentations via the Internet. In a webinar, each participant sits at his/her own computer and is connected to other participants via the internet. This can be either a downloaded application on each attendee’s computer or a web-based application where the attendees access the meeting by clicking on a link distributed by e-mail (meeting invitation) to enter the web-seminar or webinar.

According to leading web conferencing service providers, the typical sales cycle can be cut two to three weeks with web conferencing. Providing a virtual conference room environment, web conferencing eliminates the need to travel, linking geographically disperse workgroups and telecommuters. The return on investment for web conferencing can be measured not only in dollars and cents, but also in personnel efficiency, knowledge distribution and increased sales opportunities.

The ability to virtually link workgroups and project teams enables real-time collaboration, a task that once required lengthy email threads or face-to-face meetings.

Web conferencing enables businesses to:

1. Reduce operating costs
2. Minimize unnecessary travel
3. Close sales and negotiate contracts faster
4. Enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of communication
5. Deliver clear, concise and consistent training
6. Encourage real-time collaboration between distant and local co-workers
7. Engage in greater levels of communication with clients and business partners

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Before deciding on a solution, though, it’s necessary to ask a number of questions to determine how Web-conferencing products differ from one another. A key question is whether a product is hosted or premises-based.A further distinction among premises solutions is whether they come complete with hardware, or are software installations that run on enterprises’ existing servers. Another question is which, and how many, operating systems the solutions run on.A distinction that has recently gained importance is whether they require client software running on participants’ computers, or use Adobe Flash Player technology that frees them from that requirement.
Systems offer an enormous range of capabilities. Letting participants share documents with each other online is just the start. Users can often share whiteboards, see the activity on each other’s computer desktops and even take control of each other’s mouse and keyboard. They can use communication methods such as text chat, voice conferencing and video, preferably integrated to allow seamless transition from one to another.