Vox Pureview, the conferencing and collaboration specialist within the Vox Telecom group, says its new Eyeris mobile application is the first affordable app that offers boardroom-quality video conferencing, no matter where the participants are.
"Eyeris mobile bridges the gap between formal corporate video conferencing and informal, consumer-level video chat applications," says Vox Pureview's Gene van der Walt. "Formal video conferencing has historically been very expensive. It could cost hundreds of thousands of rands to set up a couple of boardrooms, and even then most companies could only talk between branches. Breaking out of the corporate ecosystem was extremely difficult."
Connect to all platforms
Smaller companies who couldn't justify the expense, resorted to informal video conferencing with services like Skype. "This is a huge market, but the informal and formal video conferencing environments still couldn't talk to each other. There was still a gap in the market for applications to link corporate boardrooms with team members who are out of the office or with partners, clients and suppliers who don't have the same boardroom setup," Van der Walt says.
Eyeris mobile is a hosted software application that will link the smaller corporate executive to his client who uses traditional boardroom systems. "No matter what platform you're using, in a boardroom, in your office or on a mobile, we can connect multiple parties into the same video conference."
Van der Walt says Eyeris mobile can be downloaded to a desktop, laptop or mobile phone and set up within minutes. "It works on any Apple or Android phone or tablet. It doesn't matter where you are, you can connect straight into the boardroom for a video conference."
