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Conferencing On The Web : System Advantages
- Conferencing on the Web offers a simpler model for enabling people to communicate and work together from their desktops across Wide Area Networks. This single platform can support group interaction and collaboration within and across enterprises, and between enterprises and their customers or constituents.
- Replication among servers is unnecessary in most environments. The Internet's ubiquitous transport protocols together with the Web's http protocol make virtually any server reachable from virtually any desktop. Moreover, Conferencing on the Web requires no custom software at the client's desktop. The browser, with its simple and familiar Web pages, is the only tool required.
- The Web browser is quickly becoming a universal network client -- the display and interaction point for a wide variety of seamlessly integrated networked applications. Conferencing on the Web allows discussion and information exchange to be linked to virtually any other Web-based application.
- Because a contribution to a conference item can include text, graphics, audio, video, "live" HTML links to information worldwide, and more.
- Conferencing on the Web lets people wrap all kinds of data, analysis, opinion, evidence, etc. in simple packages and add them to an ongoing conversation. In this way Conferencing on the Web positions online conversation as a key environment for collaboration.
Conferencing On The Web : How, When & Where
- Applications for Conferencing on the Web suggest themselves readily. Within an enterprise, an application as general as discussion and feedback on Human Resources policy, and one as specialized as interaction among a distributed team scouting locations worldwide for a new company facility, are both ideal for Conferencing on the Web.
- Because of the universality of the Web, it is possible to integrate groups and systems between enterprises without a great deal of effort. A manufacturing company and one of its suppliers,for example, might use Conferencing on the Web to improve the performance of a "Just-in-Time" inventory supply system.
- At an Internet site, Conferencing on the Web is a powerful tool for supporting customers, building loyalty and a sense of community, and enabling members of your constituency to add value for each other. The conclusion is clear. Wherever collaborative work methods are important in order to achieve success for a project, team, or an enterprise as a whole, Conferencing on the Web is a natural tool to employ.
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