WebConference Tool Needs and Solutions Available in India

With the country on work from home, demand for WebConference tool has increased, as  the employees working from home need these tools to connect to their professional colleagues and also for  commercial purposes. There are innumerable softwares in the market which the employers can licence for webconference use in their organisations. These softwares are of different capacity and offer different facilities, although basic facilities which come free are more or less same.

When using for business purpose, one has to keep in mind the characteristic webconference needs of one's own organisation to decide about which platform to licence.   Some of the major points to consider are the number of people who can join at a time, the duration of time for a meeting allowed, whether phone call is allowed,  number of people who can make presentation and speak and of course, the money involved. Besides, some also  may need to know if they can live stream on social media which helps in promoting the business interests of the organisation,     helps to attract the traffic and increases the contacts with the professional colleagues and peers.

"The scheduled visits of the clients at our co-working offices have been postponed. Few of our clients have cancelled their outstation meetings and have now started audio/video conferencing for virtual meetings," said Nakul Mathur, MD, Avanta India.

At this time when because of Coronavirus attack, people are forced to stay indoors, the demand  for the conferencing softwares has skyrocketed.

"Videoconferencing, messaging, collaboration tools and document sharing are just a few examples of technologies that facilitate remote work. Additional bandwidth and network capacity may also be needed, given the increasing number of users and volume of communications,"  said Sandy Shen, Senior Director Analyst, Gartner.

Following table gives an overview of a number of softwares, which  the readers can look at  and decide which software they should go for. However, please keep in mind that these characteristics and figures are only indicative and one should check online for the latest data before making any decision -