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Interwise Connect Provides Enterprise-wide Conferencing and Collaboration for PNM Resources

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November 13, 2006

Interwise Connect Provides Enterprise-wide Conferencing and Collaboration for PNM Resources

By Stefania Viscusi, TMCnet Assistant Editor


The travel expenses and collaboration difficulties once faced by larger enterprises, especially those with various businesses located around the world, are no longer a problem, thanks to the capabilities of IP. Today, large enterprises looking for a communication solution to unite their many businesses are utilizing IP conferencing and collaboration for its ability to provide cost savings and increase productivity.
 
PNM Resources, a rapidly expanding Southwest mutli-utility holding company recently chose Interwise's Interwise Connect offering as its corporate standard for conferencing and deployed it on the desktops of all employees of their various subsidiaries, approximately 60 locations and 3,400 people.
 
According to a recent news release, Jeff Sterba, CEO of PNM Resources chose interactive Webcasts in a bid to help strengthen the performance of the companies overall work environment. After a specially assigned team reviewed the options for IP Web casts that unite business groups and employees, they decided on Interwise Connect for its rich feature sets, reliability and cost benefits.
 
The choice of Interwise Connect immediately brought benefits to the company as well, "In our first week of usages, we saved almost $50,000 in travel expenses on one project alone," commented Marc Christensen, corporate communications director for PNM Resources in a statement.
 
"Their blended deployment model allows us to leverage our own network for on-site conferencing at our large facilities and wherever it makes sense, securely link into Interwise' global hosted network for smaller offices. The hosted network integration also kicks in for overflow capacity for our large events and automatic failover in the event our own network is interrupted," also commented Christensen.
 
Some examples of the way PNM has used the conferencing solution to change the way employees communicate were outlined in a recent news release.
 
-Company-wide web casts for employees, chaired by the CEO and CFO to promote understanding of corporate initiatives and internal functions, such as acquisitions and corporate finance.
 
-CIO-chaired IP meetings to unify and lead technical staff throughout PNM's spending IT operations. This included recognizing the companies IT superstars with a "You Rock" award;
 
-Human Resources-chaired Webcasts to inform employees in 60 offices of an upcoming benefits enrollment program, plus on-demand recorded versions for employees and family members to access conveneitnenly from the public website on an ongoing basis;
 
-Cross-functional meeting for acquisition-related tasks, such as integration of power operations.
 
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Stefania Viscusi is an established writer and avid reader. To see more of her articles, please visit Stefania Viscusi’s columnist page.
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