In Today's world everyone is rushing behind the technology. With the growing technology people are in dilemma that, which technology fits their requirement exactly. However with the innovations it is very difficult to know the genuine technology which is used for our business. In the olden days to have a meeting, one should make sure all the participants are gathered at one place at same time. The advent of Video Conferencing Software has renovated the way people conducting meetings. This technology has got two phases one is hardware based and software based. The current market trend is shifting towards software based solution. In this scenario it is important for the business to find the advantages and disadvantages of the Video conferencing:
Advantages:
- Video conferencing software is a drastic time saver, in traditional meetings lot of time and money will be wasted to organize and arrange the group of people for meetings.
- Increase the global communications and makes the business easier and opens the business market world-wide.
- Users are able to communicate face-to face with the business executives who are located at far geographies.
- You can see the people and hear the voice I.e., body language of the employee which you cannot do it with the telephonic calls while taking the interview.
- Instantaneous file sharing during the time of conference is the major asset in the web conferencing software, which makes business people to easily access the information.
- Public and private chat options in the software conferencing solution, let the business executives to have a secure and confidential conversation with few of the conference participants.
- In-built recording feature let the organizations to maintain a record of the crucial meetings; these recorded videos can be saved and played, whenever it is necessary.
- Video Conferencing accessible to the people and it is best for the quality and functionality.
- It is a disadvantage to the people who are afraid of technological systems.
- By using this web conferencing staff members are always available and accessible.
- Cost of installation is high.
- Since a toy with little outlook in work places like business, Education institutes etc.
- If the hardware breaks there is no chance to attend the conference.
Lastly it is justified that Video Conferencing Technology brings the people close together and it is never replace with other technologies.