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I L T A W H I T E P A P E R | T E C H S O L U T I O N S 11 inventory of your firm's current system. Growing competition, falling prices, and the move towards cloud-based conferencing services means video conferencing deployments no longer require large capital investments. An honest assessment could uncover that a small investment will reap large rewards by leveraging current hardware and infrastructure. Taking stock of current hardware will help estimate the level of capital investment required to modernize a firm's existing VC system. For instance, a firm characterized by heavy desktop deployments, as opposed to laptops, might need to rethink their starting point on this journey. A firm with an environment of camera-enabled laptops, could enjoy immediate gains in productivity by simply purchasing a subscription to any of the dozen cloud-based VC services. A proper analysis will reveal the scope and complexity of the project you are embarking on - additional groundwork might be required before introducing a new technolo. A firm might realize that introducing new VC equipment lies secondary or tertiary to upgrading personnel hardware and firm infrastructure. Thus, it might be worth exploring the types of technologies that will be implemented during the next hardware refresh or update before selecting a VC solution. You might realize that installing a new firm-wide system might be a years-long project, or too much change too quick, in which case a small and basic system that shows signs of adoption could justify a larger system in the future. What Does Your Firm Want From a VC System? After fully assessing the state of your firm's technical infrastructure, you should begin exploring the desired outcome or end state of the VC project. Identifying how the firm's VC system will be used helps visualize the challenges you will face in obtaining management approval and user adoption. (An audio visual integration firm could be of assistance here.) An honest and transparent discussion of what a firm wants, with realistic expectations, will help framework the proper VC solution. Who will be the target audience and how will they interact with this new VC system? Do users wish to simply hear and see each other, screen and app share, or stream and record multi-office depositions? In order for the VC system to be a success, how much more will you be asking of employees and how will the technolo enhance, or interrupt, current workflows? How well does this new technolo integrate with the current unified communication strate and what is the likelihood it will be used? If the technolo is adopted quickly, can the firm and suppliers scale the service without incurring prohibitive costs? If you standardize the firm's VC offering, will your system, and all of the firm's offices, be flexible enough to allow communication with client systems? In addition to serving as a discussion guide, these questions are "An honest assessment could uncover that a small investment will reap large rewards by leveraging current hardware and infrastructure."

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