1. What is Web Ex?
Visit the Web site www.WebEx.com and explore Web Ex’s capabilities for small and
medium enterprises in Ghana.
What is WebEx?
WebEx is a web base service from Cisco that allows you to connect with anyone, anywhere,
in real time. WebEx combines desktop sharing through a web browser with phone
conferencing and video, so everyone sees the same thing while you talk. WebEx allow you
to save time and money in travel. Easily collaborate with distant colleagues and clients.
Eliminate the hassle of emailing files and following up by phone. Make your meetings more
productive and successful.
How WebEx works.
Web Ex requires no hardware installation or software maintenance. It works on any
platform - PC, Max, Linux, or Solaris. All you need to be on WebEx are a computer or
wireless device (mobile phone) with an Internet connection, an audio connection - either
through your computer or phone and a webcam (optional). Upgrades and patches are
automatic when you are online.
It allows you to use a whiteboarding, note-taking, and annotation tools to mark up
documents as you share life online. Knowing how face to face is important, WebEx allows
you to stream live webcam video in every meeting or session. Catch all those smiles, make
eye contact, and get ready for your close-up. Also you can keep track of conversations and
decisions by recording your meeting audio and video with just one click. And then share it
securely with anyone you'd like.
WebEx is also very secure. You can count on the highest levels of performance and security
for all of your WebEx online meetings. That's because every meeting is delivered over the
Cisco Collaboration Cloud–a highly secure, scalable, and available meeting network. Plus,
you have a variety of security options–such as meeting password protection–to control
who attends your meeting and ensure that all your data is safe, every time.
Furthermore, it is environmentally friendly. When you meet online using WebEx, you
reduce your fossil- fuel consumption and air pollution. You save much CO2. E.g. you Save
2,690 pounds of carbon dioxide by using WebEx instead of flying from New York to
London for a team meeting.
Various packages of WebEx for small and medium scale businesses
WebEx Meeting Center
WebEx Meeting Center offers modern solutions for handling business in today’s world,
where the average business person or individual is as likely to have business contacts on
the other side of the globe as he is right in his neighborhood. With the technological power
to make it easy and cost effective to conduct business at a distance, WebEx Meeting Center
is an invaluable asset.
WebEx Support Center
With the WebEx Support Center system, quality support becomes much easier to provide,
whether dealing with a local network or with a team or set of clients spread throughout the
world. Effective support is essential, as that can determine whether a client chooses your
business again and can have a heavy impact on how productive your team is. With WebEx,
support is assured.
WebEx Sales Center
Quickly qualify leads, manage prospects, negotiate contracts, and shorten sales cycles. Sales
Center offers numerous valuable services, ranging from facilitating communication and
training, to engaging customers to data organizing and tracking. Easy to use and affordably
priced, WebEx Sales Center is a wise investment for business that rely on sales.
WebEx Event Center
Event Center has a broad range of features sure to make your web event effective, ranging
from its WebEx Live Stream Services, which make the creation of unique multimedia types
of presentations simple to achieve, to support and planning that can take you from start to
finish in the organizing of your web seminar.
WebEx Training Center
Deliver live or on-demand online training as you eliminate logistical barriers. Training
Center is one of many targeted solutions created by WebEx aimed at improving business
success. Being able to work with large groups of distant people via the web is an essential
part of staying competitive today, with the benefits of cutting costs and increasing
convenience for all parties involved.
WebEx Web Office
Share documents, calendars, and more, from any web browser. Manage multi-person
projects effectively, helping to ensure that participants have access to the information they
need to meet project deadlines reliably. Event planning is a snap with the organizational
tools provided by WebEx Web Office, including sophisticated coordination tools and
automatic reminders.
WebEx PC Now
Access your PC and everything on it remotely. Secure and reliable. PC Now makes screen
sharing and other useful, business enhancing activities possible, all from any local
computer a user may have on hand, making it easy to handle business while traveling and
away from the home or office desk top computer.
WebEx Pay-Per-Use
Within minutes of choosing Pay-Per-Use, you can have your next important collaboration
up and running. It really is that simple and WebEx support is readily available to offer
support if needed. Convenience from top to bottom, from the simple pay-per-use plan to
the ease with which all applications function, makes WebEx Pay-Per-Use an excellent
choice.
Some business functions performed using WebEx
WebEx helps organizations to perform the following functions:
Team collaboration
Sales presentations
Lead-generating webinars
Online training
Demonstrate a product
Hold any kind of meeting
Conduct remote training
Collaborate on designs
CEOs Connect with the board, with investors, and with the media
Educators or teach long-distance etc
WebEx’s capabilities for small and medium enterprises in Ghana.
The business benefits of WebEx for Ghanaian small and medium scale enterprises extend
well beyond basic network connections and information sharing in real time.
Businesses and entrepreneurs can communicate and coordinate with one another,
exchanging knowledge and insights in real time, by sharing the contents of multimedia
screen displays. But network connectivity is only a means to an end. There is more involved
than simply faster communications, WebEx also promote reduction in travel costs. It is
evident that for most small businesses the cost of traveling to meet supplier, establish
business contacts and meet with other stakeholder impact largely on their expenditure.
With the introduction of WebEx, cost of traveling will reduce drastically because of
packages such as WebEx Sales Center, WebEx Meeting Center etc. in Ghana where
dense traffic makes face-to-face meetings hectic, this solution helps to save cost and
time spent in traffic.
Also people working together at a distance can depend upon live communications links,
anywhere and anytime, as a reliable set of extended network services. As a result, business
team members working in different locations can readily convene for a live group
discussion and then adjourn.
A geographically-dispersed group or branches can meet together with an expert trainer for
a little while during a day and then return to their own work activities where they can
immediately put their newly-acquired information (and skills) to good use. Without leaving
his office, a skilled support specialist can trouble-shoot a customized enterprise
application, running on a remote system in another locale. Similar to the way telephone
service for voice communications is used throughout a business, WebEx Communication
Services are used across sales, marketing, training, support, engineering, and other
functional groups.
