Web conferencing gaining currency amongst enterprises

The world may have become a smaller place, but the distances continue to remain the same. Corporations that need live communication between its employees are finding it difficult to manage their relations due travel and time constrictions. This has lead to acute focus on web conferencing which forms an essential part of the evolving theme of Unified Communications.

More and more enterprises are taking up web conferencing as the prime means of communication between its overseas divisions, permitting them to reduce costs on travel and allowing them more flexibility in communication. However, the percentage of small scale enterprises taking up this tool is lesser in comparison to the large scale organizations. Nevertheless, in the year 2007, users of web conferencing have used more than one Web Conferencing tool to initiate communication with their clients and employees. The numbers of web conferencing tool users have also gone up. The web conferencing software vendors have also experience a boom, with the major web conferencing software vendors clocking more than 10 million deployed clients.

With a slow economy in the future, the prospects of web conferencing is also getting better; as the diminution of traveling charges and the promptness in communication allows for smoother working of the whole organization.