Yannick Kennel

In Hong Kong, there is a huge demand for remote conferencing solutions that allow financial users to make multipoint Investor Relations or IR calls in real-time and support mobility. Such organisations can opt for high end webcasting applications available in the market nowadays.

Web Conference solutions, which primarily work on a Software-as-a-Service model that allows three or more group members to meet and collaborate in a virtual conference room. The main purpose of these meetings is to bridge the gap between the headquarters and geographically dispersed offices of an organisation.

Unified communication and collaboration suites are considered to be the best for conducting interactive online meetings since these are hosted live and facilitate barrier-free two way audio and video collaboration. Both point-to-point as well as multi-point conferencing is possible with such integrated suites.

In 2010, the audio conferencing revenue of the Asia Pacific region was a massive $ 669.1 million, representing the huge demand for this communication solution in the region.

In order to set up a conference call, conference service providers offer a common calling number to all participants along with a secure PIN. The PIN is case-sensitive in nature and only shared among the individuals who have been registered for the session.

Conference calling is specifically designed so that moderator or host can contact every other participant and add them to an ongoing session.

Web video conferencing is one of the most cost effective ways for these SMBs to save money and time. This service enables a group of people to communicate with their associates and peers in real-time conveniently.

The unique feature of operator attended conferencing solutions is that the whole event is supervised by a personnel designated to the customer by the service provider.

The advent of Unified Communication (UC) solutions has helped such enterprises in communicating effectively with associates, partners and investors located across the globe.

A hybrid conferencing application enables users to vary between VoIP and PSTN calls as per their convenience. This can prove to be a great advantage for companies based in Hong Kong, since their employees need to remain in constant touch with business associates located in other parts of the world.