Microsoft Office Live Meeting saves you time and money Streamlining costs and improving productivity are key objectives for small businesses in a tough economic climate, and travel costs, plus time away from the office, can eat into your bottom line. You still need to talk to people – whether they’re suppliers, colleagues or prospects, but you don’t want to spend a day on a train or in the car. This is where hosted web conferencing with Microsoft Office Live Meeting can help you save time and money. Benefits of hosted web conferencing| • | Reduce your travel expenses | | • | Improve productivity by spending more time in the office and less time travelling | | • | Reduce your carbon footprint | | • | Enable flexible working for you and your staff |
How does it work?Microsoft Office Live Meeting is a hosted web conferencing service that enables people in different locations to see each other, talk to each other and work together. With meeting attendees participating from their PCs, you can deliver a presentation, kick off a project, brainstorm ideas, edit files, collaborate on whiteboards, and negotiate deals at a fraction of the cost and without the hassle of travel. Because it’s a hosted service, you identify a service provider and pay either a one-off or a monthly subscription fee, based on the number of attendees you will have and how often you will use the service. Packages can start from as little as £50 for a two-person UK-based, one-hour conference (as of December 2008), and you can scale up or down as and when you need to. Learn more about web conferencingThrough Live Meeting, Chris Capossela, a Senior Vice President in the Microsoft’s Information Worker Product Management Group, was able to attend a meeting in Thailand and still get home for Halloween with his children.
| Because Office Live Meeting 2007 is delivered as a fully managed service, the only system requirements are for the client software that end users and presenters use to access a meeting.
Microsoft Office Live Meeting (2007 version) client system requirements
Supported operating systems include Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003. Additional requirements include:
- Disk space needed for installation: 125 MB
- For VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) you’ll need a sound card, speaker, and computer microphone
- For sending video, a webcam
- Other software: Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2000 or later, or Microsoft Office Standard Edition or Professional Edition (which includes PowerPoint software) to upload presentations.
Find more details on system and web access requirements
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How to BuyYou’ll find below a list of providers who offer hosted Microsoft Live Meeting web conferencing as a service. Alternatively, you can search for a supplier near you using our ‘Find an IT Expert’ solution finder. - Arkadin
- BT Web conferencing with Office Live Meeting
- e-know.net
- Intercall
- Premiere Global Services
- Verizon web conferencing (Use Verizon’s online calculator to estimate the cost of a proposed Live Meeting)
- Hosted Exchange Server Provider Directory Next steps Office Live Meeting 2007 is one of the products in Microsoft’s Unified Communications technologies, which use the power of software to deliver complete communications - messaging, voice, and video - across the applications and devices that people use every day. Integrating the experiences you associate with the telephone - phone calls, voice mail, and conferencing - the work you do on a computer - documents, spreadsheets, instant messaging, email, and calendars - has the power to fundamentally change the way people work. Next Steps: Learn how small businesses are saving money with unified communications solutions | |
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