WEBconference : for participants ACTORS, not just SPECTATORS
June 3, 2008
A challenger in the WEBconference industry, Tele-efficiency, announce the launching of Accessware, the bi-directional remote screen sharing add-on for Conferenceware, its unified conferencing solution, audio-video-WEBconference. Accessware permits to show the screen of a participant of a WEBconference to all or to grant control of the presenter’s screen to a participant with guaranteed security.
Beyond a PowerPoint presentation, screen sharing by itself permits for a WEBconference presenter to show any file as a Word document or an Excel spreadsheet and to work on it in real time. More, you may make a software demonstration sharing a portion of your screen, an application or your complete desktop. Accessware increases these functionalities opening them to all WEBconference participants who become actors and not uniquely spectators.
Concretely, The presenter accessed a remote PC, one belonging to a participant of a WEBconference with Conferenceware. This participant communicates to him a password, thanks to instant messaging from Conferenceware, that the presenter must enter to access his PC. The participant pre-authorizes the presenter to control remotely his/her mouse and keyboard. The presenter shares the participants screen on his/her PC and broadcast it to all the participants of a WEBconference with Conferenceware.
Incidentally, the mechanics can be reversed, when the presenter gives control of his PC to a participant, who now becomes a co-presenter. In most cases, participants to a WEBconference hesitate to install a software on their PC to participate. «Conscious of participants to a WEBconference reservations, we conceived a technological architecture providing an unequal security level.» declare Tele-efficiency’s CEO, Michel Dionne, at Conferenceware launching.
To do this, the presenter and the participants need to open a screen sharing software, which will establish an encrypted tunnel via a SSH server transparent to firewalls. Once downloaded and saved, they only need to click on the icon of the shortcut place on their desktop to start the program.. When WEBconference ends and the Accessware application is closed, that one exits the computers memory and absolutely no trace of communication is kept on both side.
As a one-stop shop, Tele-efficiency provides a unified conferencing solution; audio-video-WEBconference at a fixed price for an unlimited number of meetings up to 25 participants. It integrates with most CRM applications as well as with Outlook and Skype. The greeting is customizable for each client’s company image with their logo. It is hosted on the WEB as a service or can be installed on the Intranet of a client. A 30 days free trial is offered.
