VIDEO CONFERENCING

Bring Your Associates and Clients Closer to Your Business

As recently as a few years ago, the idea of video conferencing as a viable solution in the workplace still seemed to be reserved for Fortune 500 companies with multiple national offices, or organizations more interested in high-profile gadgetry than cost-savings. Video solutions were often complex, expensive and difficult to implement. Typically, these systems were proprietary.

All this has changed significantly, and today video conferencing is accessible, affordable, and can offer significant benefits to the bottom line. In recent years, companies of all sizes have embraced telepresence and video conferencing due to some compelling factors:

  • Bandwidth is more available and affordable than ever before, while the conferencing technology has evolved in a more competitive market.
  • New economic realities in this post-recession decade are urging businesses and organization to investigate video conferencing as a means to maintain communication and collaboration more regularly while avoiding travel costs.
  • Environmentally responsible decision-makers are seeking the means to conference and collaborate without travel, or in some cases in spite of weather or environmental factors.
  • The technology is literally easier to obtain and use now. A more tech-savvy and technically enthused business culture means that many organizations already accept that a high definition display makes sense in their conference areas, therefore adding the video conferencing components is logistically less daunting and now more affordable.

Whether it’s a sales call with an existing or potential customer, an internal meeting between management at headquarters and a team in a remote office, or a meeting to discuss supply lines with vendors – to embrace this technology becomes a competitive advantage, while avoiding it is certain to become a disadvantage. Liken this phenomenon to e-mail about 15 years ago: there was a time not long ago when boardrooms argued the merits of email, while today email is a fundamental form of communication. Just as the telephone, the fax machine, and email systems only enhanced communication without entirely replacing face-to-face interaction, likewise video conferencing and telepresence provide greater flexibility and greater potential for communication.

Why Innovative, and Why Now for Video Conferencing?

Implementing video conferencing with expertise and attention to detail involves disciplines associated with hardware networking, cabling, IP configuration, computing, and training – all areas in which Innovative, Inc. excels.

Innovative, Inc. – operating throughout Washington County, Maryland, and surrounding areas since 2001 – offers a comprehensive, turn-key approach to video conferencing. We handle all aspects of the conferencing solution:

  • Component selection and system refinement, including television and display screen selection, and microphone and speaker requirements.
  • Procurement – we are a LifeSize Authorized Reseller with certified sales and technical professionals on staff.
  • Mounting – our technicians are experienced and highly detailed oriented.
  • Network integration and optimization – our firm employs a team of certified network technicians and engineers who can readily guide and execute your video conferencing project so that your solution fits neatly into your network.

Even if your organization has existing IT staff or another IT vendor, Innovative, Inc. will work with your existing IT professionals in partnership to meet your video conferencing objectives. Solutions can typically be integrated into a properly installed network with minimal disruption or reconfiguration.

We offer demonstrations at our office in Hagerstown, as well as on-site visits, implementation training, and post-implementation technical support – enjoy a better relationship with technology, offered locally by the certified sales team, technicians and engineers at Innovative, Inc.