In this tough economic situation, telepresence and tele-operation functionalities are being used to assist installation, maintenance or training activities in various enterprises.
According to the results of biannual networking study conduced by TheInfoPro, an independent research company for the IT industry, midsize enterprises and Fortune 1000 are adopting proven cost-cutting strategies such as telepresence and unified communications to combat the economic downturn.
The results are encouraging, with the study indicating that telepresence has met the objectives of 77 percent of enterprises, with an overwhelming 66 percent of respondents planning to expand telepresence capabilities to additional sites.
The data also shows that WAN optimization solutions remain in favor, although there are signs that that rate of adoption is slowing down.
Bill Trussell, managing director of networking research stated that the key trend of 2010 among enterprises is striking a balance between cost-efficiency and effectiveness and for the companies that have been forced to either eliminate or reduce travel budgets due to the downturn and rising fuel prices, telepresence and UC have offered solutions that are both highly productive and low-cost to the network budget.
The networking study indicates that 18 percent of enterprises have adopted telepresence with cost reduction as the primary business objective, and 14 percent indicated that they plan to move to telepresence within the next 12 months.
Unified communications maintains its position at the top of the Heat Index of data voice and video networking infrastructure solutions, with 25 percent of large and midsize enterprises indicating that they expect to boost the use of email, unified messaging, audio conferencing and instant messaging as a part of their UC strategies this year.
Anuradha Shukla is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Anuradha's article, please visit her columnist page.
Edited by Stefania Viscusi
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