Polycom and Jive Software announced a strategic
relationship to integrate Polycom HD video into Jive’s social business
platform. The new solution will transform how businesses engage and collaborate
with customers, employees, and partners.
The solution will allow Jive customers to conduct live
video chats, including group video calls, as well as record video meetings or
messages for archiving, training, and ongoing collaboration.
As consumers and knowledge workers rapidly adopt social business
and video collaboration, seamlessly integrating the two technologies is
addressing a clear market need. Video-enabled social platforms give people a
powerful communication vehicle to more deeply engage with others in their
social circles.
Video collaboration promotes richer conversations, more
effective discussions, faster decision-making, and improved creativity and
brainstorming.
“Integrating social business with real-time video is
the next logical step in significantly improving how enterprise users
communicate, collaborate, and become more productive,” said Sudhakar
Ramakrishna, executive vice president and general manager of UC solutions and
chief development officer, Polycom. “Together, Polycom and Jive will
deliver a real-time HD video solution powered by the Polycom RealPresence
Platform for social business that is incredibly easy to use and fulfills the
growing demand for real-time workplace collaboration,” Ramakrishna added.
“Jive is excited to partner with Polycom to bring
the latest innovation in video communications to our customers,” said
Chris Morace, senior vice president of Business Development, Jive.
The HD video offerings will be based on open standards to
ensure interoperability with other business and communications applications.
The planned offerings will enable users to make point-to-point and multi-point
group video calls in real-time, as well as record meetings or video messages
and archive them in the context of their group for others to retrieve and view
at any time.
Recently Polycom and the International Virtual e-Hospital
(IVeH) partnered
on a new model that enables medical professionals to collaborate via video and
share their expertise across 35 healthcare and academic institutions globally,
thanks to Polycom video collaboration program that has helped rebuild Kosovo’s
medical system.
The model is now being deployed more broadly in new
regions outside the Balkans including Africa, the Middle East, South Eastern
Europe, and South America.
By Telecomlead.com Team
editor@telecomlead.com