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WhyGo Teams Up With TPEX To Provide Flexibility In Telepresence

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WhyGo, the world’s largest online booking system for video conferencing and telepresence facilities, has announced a partnership with Telepresence Exchange International, the world’s premiere telepresence exchange service, to provide users with a way to connect any telepresence system to any network. The article from PRWeb explains the kind of problems that this partnership will solve:

“Immersive Telepresence today still has equipment and network connection barriers. To the non tech savvy what this means is some Telepresence equipment worth $100,000’s on certain networks will not connect to other equipment on other networks. The reasons vary but the key ones are equipment incompatibility, which is becoming less of an issue every week, but mainly network providers not interconnecting their networks. For example, Cisco Telepresence users on the AT&T network cannot connect there Cisco Telepresence systems to say any of the 42 public TelePresence rooms on the TATA network.”

Though many have considered that the burden lies on the service providers to create compatible solutions for more interoperability in the video conferencing world, it seems that the combination fo WhyGo and TPEX’s systems and expertise will allow users to enjoy a much simpler telepresence experience. This partnership’s goal effectively cuts out a large amount of red tape commonly associated with the technology and could stand to attract new customers thanks to the simplification of usage.

The partnership also creates an interesting competitive field in the telepresence market. Service providers of video conferencing systems must now rely completely on their business’s strengths and the products they provide to attract new customers, as there will no longer be much of a connection between network providers and video conferencing systems.

 

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WhyGo Creates Partnership With Global Videoconferencing Network

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As the world’s largest online booking system of public and private video conferencing and telepresence facilities, WhyGo is always looking for ways to increase efficiency of operations and provide the public with a comprehensive communications solution. A press release made on April 20th announces WhyGo’s partnership with Global Videoconferencing Network (GVN), the world’s “virtual airline” that provides end-to-end video conferencing solutions with processes fully integrated into the travel industry.

The partnership will effectively create the largest virtual travel market in the world. All GVN video conferencing locations will be exclusively leveraging WhyGo’s inventory platform, providing users with real-time information about availability through the synchronized calendar tool that shows and instantly confirms all available bookings. The integration also adds uploaded network tariffs to give travel agents the ability to quote exact costs for connection and offer their clients a one-stop service for finding solutions to travel concerns.

How The User Will Benefit

This partnership creates a fully integrated system that will benefit GVN and WhyGo users in a number of meaningful ways. GVN users will now be entitled to the plethora of benefits that make WhyGo the world’s premier online booking system. This includes centralized billing, around-the-clock customer support (24/7 support through telephone and online services thanks to operation centers in areas all over the world), access to over 3,000 video conferencing and telepresence locations, and information on all of their available bookings. The WhyGo team’s nine years’ worth of public room booking experience will give GVN and its customers a substantial amount of support in facilitating the processes of finding solutions to travel and making them work easily and effectively.

With WhyGo serving its travel industry customers exclusively through GVN, the services and responsiveness related to these relationships can be maximized to provide customers with the most efficient and thorough support they need in the scheduling and preparation of video conferencing services. GVN’s market-specific methodologies and innovations, combined with their experience and developments in the industry, will provide WhyGo travel customers with services of higher value and efficiency as well.

Other corporations will benefit from the partnership as well. Corporate travel management companies such as Uniglobe and BCD Travel will be able to benefit from increasing supply and bookings to over 20,000 public and private video conferencing facilities. There is also now the opportunity for hotels and other public rooms to increase their bookings substantially by joining up with GVN.

GVN has also added corporate travel payment solutions like AirPlus and Tripit to provide its customers with the ultimate solution for video conferencing: with these additions and with the partnership with WhyGo, customers will experience an easy-to-use, easy-to-schedule planning system that can be confirmed instantly.

Looking Ahead

The partnership between WhyGo and GVN shows how these two companies are working together to create more comprehensive travel solutions for the public. Cutting out red tape through integration of services will attract more customers and allow processes to be moved along faster, creating more bookings across the board. This partnership only solidifies the idea that any room owner or broker of a video conferencing or telepresence facility would do very well to team up with WhyGo and/or GVN!

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Various Factors Contribute To Expected Growth in Video Conferencing Market

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Periodically, businesses and institutions will analyze market trends and pricing on various products and services in an attempt to make worthwhile projections concerning the future of companies, industries, and so on. One such institution, The International Data Corporation (IDC), recently announced a prediction that video conferencing will boom in the coming months due to the combination of low costs and green technology.

Two of the most important factors cited by the IDC were the introduction of airline taxes and the rising costs of oil, which will contribute heavily to the amount of money people spend on travel. Because video conferencing is marketable as an alternative to expensive travel, it’s now in a very good position to experience growth and take on some of the customers that are shifting away from frequent flying.

The IDC also made a point of noting that video conferencing saves users not only a hefty amount of money, but also time as well. The article from TechEYE explains: “IDC pointed out that business travel does not only cost money, it also costs a great deal of time, especially when important business decisions, processes or projects require the input of resources from multiple locations around the world.”

Improving the quality of life and ease of communication of its users has put video conferencing in the foreground for experiencing even more growth in 2012. The technology is efficient with energy and it is being offered at increasingly affordable costs in areas all over the world. Healthy competition in the industry means developers are rapidly coming out with new and more innovative hardware and software systems to support this medium of communication.

Consider video conferencing as an alternative to travel in your business and personal life – it could save you money, time, and effort!

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