Blue Jeans Video with InterCall Reservationless-Plus Audio Conferencing Improves Meeting Options, Experience and Performance
SINGAPORE, Nov. 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- InterCall®, a subsidiary of West Corporation and the world's largest conferencing and collaboration services provider, announced today the integration of Blue Jeans Network video with InterCall Reservationless-Plus® audio conferencing, giving organisations the ability to easily enhance their meetings through face-to-face communication.
InterCall Reservationless-Plus audio conferencing lets people host conference calls anywhere in the world on any type of device. With more than 400,000 access ports, InterCall has one of the largest proprietary IP-based global conferencing platforms in use today.
Combining Reservationless-Plus with the Blue Jeans service now enables up to 175 people using a mix of audio and video to participate in a single conference. By merging audio and video, these two companies are creating a global collaboration platform that makes meetings easier to schedule, join and experience regardless of whether people connect from traditional phone lines, mobile devices or by video.
"People are interested in using video to improve collaboration, and they want a simpler way to connect," said, Rob Bellmar, Senior Vice President of Conferencing and Collaboration for InterCall. "Integrating our Reservationless-Plus and the Blue Jeans services gives hosts a simple way to start meetings on-the-fly, while participants can easily click-to-join from anywhere on any device, and experience the high quality audio and video conferencing that they expect."
"The collaboration between InterCall and Blue Jeans makes video conferencing a more viable meeting choice than ever before." said Shaun Wormald, Senior Director of Unified Communications at InterCall Asia Pacific. "The integration of Reservationless-Plus and Blue Jeans enables users to enjoy superior audio and high quality video conference by eliminating the challenges of cost and complexity to remote offices."
Among the benefits of the new InterCall and Blue Jeans integration:
According to MIT Sloan Management Review, 75 percent of all businesses will use collaboration technology tools in 2013 and nearly 90 percent will employ them by 2015. Studies prove that face-to-face video helps people meaningfully connect, reducing hostility, fostering empathy and improving communication.
Capturing more than 30 percent of the video conferencing market in just over two years, Blue Jeans Network has disrupted legacy players with a unique cloud model and the ability to connect users across conference rooms, desktops, and mobile devices, bridging the gap between increasingly dispersed social and business networks. Blue Jeans is extending the reach of video conferencing beyond specialised rooms to everyone who can't be in them.
"As video collaboration services transition from hardware to the cloud, Blue Jeans Network can deliver easy, accessible live video conferencing, regardless of location or device," said Krish Ramakrishnan, CEO of Blue Jeans Network. "Our company is fulfilling the appetite for face-to-face communication by delivering an easy-to-use, scalable solution. The combination of Blue Jeans Network's rapid growth in the video conferencing market along with InterCall's global presence and strength in the audio conferencing industry is creating an unstoppable force."
