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How To Get More Work Done In More Places At Once

Posted: 4/29/2011

Connect, present, share, interact, collaborate—interactive whiteboard technology can create virtual “meeting rooms” and improve meeting spaces.

(NAPSI)- Many believe one key way in which business culture is changing is that work on a specific project can now be conducted from various locations—in some cases simultaneously.

As a result, businesses are looking for ways to become more flexible and agile. Agility, in this case, refers to a business’s ability to collaborate either with distributed teams or customers and rapidly respond to change—delivering on projects in a timely manner anywhere in the world.

Agility has a cost

Having experts travel to central locations to work out solutions is the only means many companies see of delivering what their clients need. With multiple offices and a culture of flexible working, coupled with dispersed teams and clients, they see no alternative to in-person, despite the expense and time lost to travel.

Recently, a number of technologies have emerged, all trying to offer innovative solutions for organizations to simulate a single meeting environment from multiple locations.

Teleconferencing, videoconferencing, Web conferencing and telepresence all promise to meet this demand, giving people the opportunity to communicate with one another.

An interactive solution

Re-creating the dynamism, interactivity, information sharing and productivity within meeting spaces, interactive whiteboard displays produced by SMART Technologies are replacing traditional tools like dry-erase boards and flip charts. These solutions are transforming the way businesses collaborate, problem-solve and share data. The technology is ideal for companies that want to increase productivity, reduce travel and offer staff creative and timely ways to share information.

Coupled with SMART’s Bridgit™ conferencing software, this technology has been used to create connected virtual “meeting rooms,” where people working across multiple locations can share computer desktops, use touch-screen commands, simultaneously write in digital ink over any application from Adobe Reader to Microsoft PowerPoint, generate and integrate data as well as write, save and e-mail notes immediately with colleagues or customers anywhere in the world.

Tangible benefits

Solutions from SMART Technologies have been adopted by organizations of all sizes, with such companies as BT, Cisco, Microsoft, Turner Construction and the U.S. Army reporting measurable benefits.

Learn more

For more information on SMART, please visit www.smarttech.com.

See SMART’s latest videos on the SMART Collaboration YouTube page.