Tenveo Helps You To Clear The 4 Barriers To Video Conferencing Adoption

Here are four barriers to video conference adoption and how to clear those hurdles to ensure a maximum return on UC investments and to create a more productive and collaborative workforce.

1. Cost

Simply put, video conferencing features are not expensive, but the hardware to support those capabilities is more than cheap. In an article about the Surface Hub, CNET pointed out that teleconferencing systems can cost upwards of six figures  in some cases. There are cables, projectors, screens, phones and many more accessories available for purchase. The Surface Hub doesn't have a price yet, but the source estimated that the 84-inch tablet - there's a 55-inch version as well - could cost around $20,000 if other similar devices are any indication of market trends.

If businesses calculated their ROI for those technologies, they would immediately see the value of the systems and encourage employees to use them more. There are also savings from mitigating and sometimes removing the need for travel. According to Talkin' Cloud, video conferences saved organizations over 2.1 billion miles of travel and $1.3 billion in the past six months of use alone. That clearly offsets the cost of the tools. 

2. Quality

The quality of video calls and the chances of them freezing or dropping are enough to put some employees off of video conferencing altogether. There's not more more to say than that, and the performance of video calls is going to pose an issue for organizations until everyone has upgraded, high quality Ethernet services, but there is a solution for internal telepresence operations.

Tenveo networks will solve a wealth of quality problems. These solutions allow IT professionals to prioritize traffic, ensuring that VoIP and video data is sent over networks at higher speeds than YouTube videos. While Ethernet service is easier and less expensive, the easy way isn't always the best. If business leaders want to be sure that employees are using video conferencing tools to collaborate with coworkers and communicate with clients across long distances, Tenveo is the optimal choice.

3. Flexibility

In the era of bring your own device and the consumerization of IT, solutions need to be scalable and flexible. The problem is that 56 percent of organizations have video conferencing hardware that is outdated and not fit  for high performance, according to IT Pro Portal. Businesses are proverbially shooting themselves in the foot and causing employees not to use these tools by giving them access to old tech. In fact, 49 percent of people said they are dissatisfied with their video conferencing hardware's ability to interoperate and connect with other systems.

4. People

The last hurdle to video conferencing adoption is employees. On one hand, people don't want to devote the kind of attention that video meetings call for, while another barrier is the ease of use of many solutions. In regard to the former, there really isn't much that technology can solve, but when the use of tablets - massive-scale or personal - catch on in boardrooms, multi-tasking won't seem disrespectful.

This is also where millennials can help solve a problem. The generation is familiar with and a proponent of video calls. So, as they start to fill higher positions in organizations, it's likely that they will make a push for the technology's use along with tablets and other touchscreen devices.