Case studies

Scenario 1 -
A project update using Audio Conferencing

You are in charge of a project with a delivery date fast approaching. To keep the project on track you need to have regular team meetings. Not all of the team are based in the same office, two team members are based in Manchester, two in Reading whilst you are based in London.

Face-to-face meetings incur travel time and expenses. Over two months the costs could be as follows:

Minimum travelling hours @ 20 x 8 weeks = 160
Cost in train fares @ 443 Euros (£300) x 8 weeks = 3,545 Euros (£2,400)

Alternatively by making use of audio conferencing, service costs are as follows:

5 participants, with 1 meeting per week, for 60 minutes @ 27 Euros (£18) x 8 weeks = 213 Euros (£144)

Therefore by using Logica MeetMe Global Access there is the potential to save 3,332 Euros (£2,356).

Scenario 2 -
An international bid review using Managed Video Conferencing

You need to hold an urgent face-to-face meeting with overseas colleagues to review important bid documents. Team members are located in the Netherlands, Australia, Sweden and two locations in the UK (London and Manchester). Overseas travel is both impractical and expensive for all members of staff. You therefore decide to book the video conference rooms at each location.

A Managed video conference call for 60 minutes connecting the 5 video sites (Australia, Sweden, Netherlands and two in the UK) costs 685 Euros (£464) including a dedicated conference co-ordinator.

This is only 137 Euros (£92.80) per location, a significant cost saving compared with the cost of flights for the team.

Scenario 3 -
A project review using point to point Video Conferencing

You need to hold an urgent face-to-face meeting with an overseas colleague(s) to review an important project. You are based in London and your colleague is based in Australia and you both have access to a video conference unit. Overseas travel is both impractical and expensive so you therefore decide to book the video conference rooms at each location and self dial the other location, in either direction. You are now able to conduct a face to face meeting over video as well as being able to use your laptop to display documents if using the new Tandberg units.

A self dialled point to point video call does not incur any additional conference charges to your cost centre; all costs are included in the normal video call charges.