Video conferencing has proven itself to be a powerful addition to the modern business landscape, and with good reason. This is a technology that's offered a variety of benefits to those companies who put it to work properly, and posed plenty of potential for future cash savings and bottom-line impact to come. As such, several solutions have been provided in the video conferencing space, and TrueConf has just released a new update for TrueConf for OS X. This new version—version 1.2.3 by name—will offer up an array of new features for companies wanting to take advantage of the technology and put it to work toward gaining those all-important bottom-line goals.
The new TrueConf for OS X 1.2.3 offers up a set of new collaboration tools to make an already powerful system even better in terms of keeping users connected. The update allows users to screencast a desktop, or any other program running on a computer, which means that sharing documents, presentations, or most anything else that could be built on a PC is now very simple. But the new version also allows users to share video content to any video conferencing endpoint, which means that those joining in the conference by session initiation protocol (SIP) device or Web-based real time communications (WebRTC) device can all get in on the action. A call history feature allows for easy recall of who talked to who and when, and there's a new Address Book functionality that allows for ready access to more information about the participants on a call.
Instant messaging has also taken some upgrade here, and a server network connectivity test allows users to see where the server may have gone awry, or might go awry in the middle of a conference, even before the conference takes place. That allows for a better overall user experience as conferences can be rescheduled during periods of server issues.
TrueConf's CEO, Michael Gotalsky, talked about the update, noting that while OS X wasn't exactly a huge presence in Eastern Europe, it was the second most popular platform to be found in North America, and that was a point that couldn't readily be ignored. But with the new upgrades, OS X users will find TrueConf to be an even more robust system than it already was, offering up high-quality video conferencing tools in a fashion that Apple users can really get behind.
It was Let's Do Video founder and CEO David Maldow, however, that really expressed what kind of potential the TrueConf updates had, noting that a $499 Mac Mini, backed up by TrueConf for OS X 1.2.3, could essentially allow companies to turn one room of a building into a collaboration room. This move gives Apple a further foothold in the field, and offers up a system that Apple users could really get behind. Indeed, it's not hard to see where video conferencing has value; it's allowing businesses to remove some business travel from the roster altogether, and that frees up cash to go elsewhere, even back to the bottom line. Plus, video conferencing allows for a more remote workforce to be put to use, which spurs savings from reduced property, plant and equipment expenses; why pay to heat a room that no one uses?
Video conferencing has plenty of great value for those who use it, and use it well; TrueConf's new updates, meanwhile, should go a long way in making sure that it's easier to use it well, and take advantage of the bottom line potential that it represents.
Edited by
Maurice Nagle
