White Papers

White papers available on the day will include:

Audio Visual

The Art of Teleworking

There is a new class of workers out there – working from their homes nearly autonomously. Some call them teleworkers, some telecommuters. Armed with remote access to their organization’s network, with toll free numbers, VPN’s and mobile phones, they escape traffic jams, bad weather, and high fuel prices, and are able to find the right balance between personal and professional life. But when does teleworking really work? How can a teleworker be equally or even more productive than an employee in the office? This paper analyzes the teleworker’s primary challenges and offers ideas for overcoming them. It highlights the advances of technology that make teleworking truly successful and of greater benefit to both teleworkers and their organizations.

The Compelling Case for Video Telephony in Unified Communications Why Integrating Video with Telephony Call Control Makes Sense

In this white paper we discuss the video solutions available today and provide a snapshot of the current video market. We discuss how video can be integrated with a telephony server such as an IP PBX, why this is a good idea, and the benefits that organizations will get by creating a video telephony solution. We show how video fits into an overall unified communications strategy and framework, and we provide the ROI and customer evidence to illustrate that video telephony is useful to real businesses. We close with compelling use case examples in which video is integrated with telephony as part of an overall collaboration/UC framework.

Delivering on the Promise of Easy to Use, Secure and Inexpensive Video Conferencing in an IP Environment

Internet Protocol (IP) Video Conferencing can provide companies substantial operational efficiencies and cost savings. Although IP video conferencing is desirable from a cost perspective challenges to implementation exist including NAT traversal, endpoint connectivity and traffic management. Additional connectivity challenges such as differing security policies and differing vendor standards have caused concern and delay for many videoconferencing deployments. This whitepaper evaluates the challenges of deploying IP video conferencing in a secure and easy to use manner. The paper presents solutions to those problems and explains to deliver those solutions.

H.264 High Profile: The Next Big Thing in Visual Communications

What is H.264? How is the High Profile different from other H.264 profiles? What is the impact of this new capability on the visual communication market? How will customers benefit from it? How will this technology help CIOs roll out video across organizations? How does High Profile interact with other video functions? What is its role in the Polycom Open Collaboration Network strategy? This white paper will look at High Profile from both the business and technology perspectives, and provide answers to these questions.

Videoconferencing Adoption by SMEs

Conferencing technologies are experiencing strong adoption as the value of real-time collaboration rises on the enterprise radar. Economic conditions around the globe and rising environmental concerns are creating a new level of awareness and demand for collaboration. As organizations look at ways to survive during a tough economic climate, cost control is becoming top of mind. Small and Medium sized businesses are waking up to the benefits of virtual collaboration to replace travel. Additionally the exponential increase in consumer use of video has opened up avenues for video adoption among business users. As a result of these developments, the SME segment is becoming the next potential target market for a myriad of business technologies ranging from IP telephony to mobility solutions to videoconferencing.

Streaming Media in the Pro AV Environment

Streaming media has become one of the buzz words with professionals tasked with delivering user interfaces that provide more than just a point and click. Streaming media has multiple facets and multiple meanings depending on who you talk to and their view of the AV world. In the entertainment domain applications like Windows Media Player™ and RealPlayer™ deliver your favorite sports clip, music video, movie or movie trailer, or news update right to your desktop, laptop or even PDA.. In the PRO AV world streaming media is used to deliver situation or context specific information, provide automated help desk support, allow for the viewing of previously recorded and stored video, and in some cases augment video conferencing capabilities.

The ABCs of Digital Video Signals

Digital video signals are becoming widely prevalent throughout the A/V industry. They are considerably different in comparison to traditional analog video signals, with specific performance and timing requirements that must be maintained throughout the entire signal path. This paper offers an introduction to digital video signals and the digital video formats currently in use. It also explains how eye diagrams can be used to quantify and visualize digital video signal integrity, and the importance of digital video signal conditioning when designing digital A/V systems.

Understanding EDID – Extended Display Identification Data

The EDID data structure is used extensively to communicate display capabilities to attached computer graphics cards and other source devices. This paper offers an in-depth look into the operational process and pitfalls users may encounter when integrating EDID reliant source and display devices.

Office Technology

Laserfiche - The Buyers Labaratory Inc Report

Comprehensive report on Laserfiche by the independant and influential Buyer’s Laboratory Inc (BLI) in United States.

Laserfiche & Sharepoint - The Agile ECM Solution

Your integrated Content Management and SharePoint Solution is scaleable, easy to instal, easy to administer and easy to use.

The Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Paradox

Extending Local Flexibility to Strengthen Central Control.

Secure Document Governance Report - Safeguarding Confidential Information

UK & Ireland Bosses ignoring document governance to the detriment of the bottom line.

The Business of Being Green

Sustainable Document Governance Report.

Ricoh Document Governance Index

This study was conducted by independent research firm Coleman Parkes Research to provide fresh insight into document management, how it is governed in Europe and how it fits in today’s economic and technological climate. The term document governance is being used and is defined as the way an organization controls and manages its business documents. It includes effectively managing the costs, technology, sustainability and security of documents across its operations.