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BT Offers Tool for Tracking Video Conferencing Travel and Carbon SavingsLONDON, Dec 08, 2009 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ -- BT Conferencing today announced the availability of Engage Tracker, a travel and carbon savings tool that helps companies document monetary savings resulting from the use of video conferencing. With real-time reporting capabilities, the tool is able to calculate employee travel costs avoided through the use of video conferencing, as well as carbon emission reductions resulting from reduced travel. Engage Tracker facilitates accurate tracking of cost savings using the customer's own data, not estimates or models. Travel savings can include avoided air travel and per diem costs. Carbon emission reductions are calculated based on avoided air travel. Jeff Prestel, general manager of BT Conferencing's Video Business Unit said: "Our customers who use video conferencing want concrete, measurable evidence of the technology's benefits. Engage Tracker provides them with cost savings to prove return on investment as well as actual carbon emissions savings. Both are critical to making a solid business case for continuing to invest in video conferencing technology." Several global enterprises have piloted Engage Tracker, reporting thousands of avoided trips, millions of dollars saved and thousands of tons of carbon emissions avoided on an annualized basis. Engage Tracker is available as an add-on module to Engage Meeting Manager, BT's online scheduling and call launch tool. About BT Conferencing BT Conferencing is a leading global provider of audio, video and web collaboration services. We are the foremost player in the UK's growing conferencing services market and the leading supplier of video conferencing services worldwide. Our partnerships with top technology companies and equipment vendors ensure we always have the best and latest solutions to offer our customers. About BT BT is one of the world's leading providers of communications solutions and services operating in 170 countries. Its principal activities include the provision of networked IT services globally; local, national and international telecommunications services to our customers for use at home, at work and on the move; broadband and internet products and services and converged fixed/mobile products and services. BT consists principally of four lines of business: BT Global Services, Openreach, BT Retail and BT Wholesale. In the year ended 31 March 2009, BT Group's revenue was 21,390 million pounds Sterling. British Telecommunications plc (BT) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of BT Group plc and encompasses virtually all businesses and assets of the BT Group. BT Group plc (NYSE: BT) is listed on stock exchanges in London and New York. For more information, visit www.bt.com/aboutbt. SOURCE BT http://www.bt.com |