Cisco WebEx facilitates training through web conferencing — from Cisco WebEx
Bangalore, Karnataka, India, Wednesday, March 24, 2010 — (Business Wire India)

Web conferencing and its functionalities
“Though collaboration technology is still not known by the masses, it has made inroads into several sectors including construction, manufacturing, hitech, retail, healthcare, pharma and education.” Says Kiran Datar, Managing Director, Cisco WebEx.

Web Conferencing facilitates the inter-department communication, dealer meetings and vendor interactions. It is effective in creating team workspaces with adequate authentication and security mechanisms, enforcing policies, giving the data complete security. Developers can enjoy the flexibility to rollout applications quickly and customers can enjoy the freedom to choose from multiple vendors.

This tool is used from product development to marketing, resulting in shorterturn-around time for completion of the product design cycle, supply chain and off shoring. Web conferencing is extensively used for multi-party audio, data sharing, synchronous video conferencing, application sharing, dynamic power point presentation sharing and file sharing.

Whether it is to increase sales effectiveness, enhance customer support, better communication with partners or permit employees to effectively coordinate their work with colleagues, web conferencing can produce tangible benefits and measurable results. It is for these reasons that a significant portion of large enterprises have adopted web conferencing and a growing number of smaller businesses are following suit. Web conferencing is a perfect way to cost-effectively deliver presentations, product demonstrations, meetings, seminars and training in today’s increasingly virtual workplace

Importance of web conferencing in training
Training is always a hot topic for debate and many companies usually defer training unless absolutely necessary because of various issues associated with it. Today many companies are looking for efficient ways to train more people at lower costs. This is where Web conferencing comes in. This technology makes it a joy for companies to train their employees.

There are many advantages a company could enjoy by embracing Web conferencing, some of which are mentioned below

• Savings through travel costs
• Involve more people in the same course
• Save time
• Scheduling becomes simpler
• Deliver custom made content
• Reinforcing learning through repetitions