RTC dashboards help make locations moot
Real-time communications dashboards becoming more recognizable and more valuable in the eyes of IT executives

By Robin Gareiss, Network World, 01/17/06

Sometimes, all it takes is the emergence one real-world challenge in the workplace to demonstrate how a new IT investment really hits home.

For our company, it was our recent off-site retreat. Keep in mind that we’re all used to being “virtual.” We’re spread across several U.S. states and rely heavily on audioconferencing, file sharing, and Web conferencing. But when we were all together recently - minus one key person who had just returned from maternity leave - we realized the limitations of audioconferencing alone.