Business expectations continue to rise while budgets are quickly decreasing – causing travel restrictions and increasing the need for advanced collaboration. As a result, this creates an extremely complex environment for business growth and survival; requiring advanced solutions needed to help businesses remain competitive.
Telepresence offers the right solution at the right time for many businesses.  Today, it’s a solution that is helping customers address the significant challenge of our current economic recession. Offering life-size visuals of meeting participants; Telepresence provides the ability to join multiple calls from across the globe in one simultaneous meeting. This business collaboration can dramatically improve productivity and fosters relationships between dispersed teams while significantly reducing travel across the board.
Solving this challenge, Telepresence enables global communication with video and audio capabilities as if a counterpart were sitting in the same room. Optimized to provide an incredibly immersive, real-time experience, global organizations are no longer confined with limited communication capabilities.
The explosion of services in recent years has caused the workforce to expect a dynamic, collaborative video environment. This has only yielded Telepresence as the next logical stage in the evolution of the remote multi-location meeting; making it an ever growing industry.
With video conferencing vastly classified as a commodity in the past, Telepresence moves beyond this, offering overall benefits and efficiencies that now more than ever prove otherwise. In a global Telepresence market study released in December, ABI Research reported the entire market for related equipment, network services and managed services, pegged at $126 million for 2007, is expected to grow to nearly $2.5 billion in five years¹.
Noting this industry trend, technology, just as Telepresence, continues to advance while challenging businesses to keep up in order to remain competitive. As a result, businesses increasingly feel the pinch in their IT wallets as budgets tighten and initiatives are prioritized. Corporate travel has become limited due to the sheer cost and shifting priorities needed to stay on track. Business resources are stretched thin, making productivity an imperative while green initiatives remain a business driver to help cut cost and maintain environmental responsibility. Despite these challenges, Telepresence offers an attractive solution to meet business needs.
HP Halo offers unique Telepresence solutions that enable fully managed, comprehensive collaboration technologies while providing industry-leading cost predictability, reliability and scalability. Customers can easily work together internally and externally – with suppliers, vendors and partners – through robust, seamless company-to-company collaboration. Offering real-time communications to help speed the decision-making process, get products to market faster, and positively impact the bottom line. These are the benefits that add up to a persuasive return on IT investment.
HP recognizes the value Halo brings its customers and now to our own business; recently announcing an initiative to quadruple the number of HP internal HP Halo Telepresence Solutions around the world in 2008. Expected to be complete by the end of 2009, this enables teams to have more productive meetings, get products to market faster, and reduce travel costs.
HP estimates that when the global build-out of new HP Halo studios is complete within the company, HP will eliminate at least 20,000 trips per year – saving HP millions annually in travel costs, not to mention eliminating tons of CO2 emissions. Customers can realize these same benefits. The addition of HP Halo to ProCurve solutions will create more value for customers – especially in the fast-growing unified communications and collaboration market.
With HP Halo solutions, provide you’re business leading face-to-face virtual collaboration experiences on the market today. Work together internally and externally – with suppliers, vendors and partners – through seamless collaboration and unlimited access to the HP’s fiber optic Halo Video Exchange Network to enable boundless communication with HP Halo.
