On-line desktop meetings for corporate users and large organizations will become much more popular as greener ways to work become mandatory and companies embrace sustainable strategies.

1. Corporate Collaboration<br />July 2011 <br />The corporate world is on a journey from an unsustainable way of working to a more sustainable one.<br />This journey, although of crucial importance, is not yet clearly defined and the route, somewhat complex, costly and foggy.<br />When it comes to Enterprise Collaboration, most organizations are still not able to benefit fully from the technologies available because of network issues and cost.<br />This is because vendors of collaborative software tend to take the view that network issues are your problem, external and nothing to do with them. <br />Imagine what global organisations ( Corporate, Academic Government) could save if their employees suddenly were able to hold meaningful on-line meetings, conferences , training sessions etc., thousands at a time, without massive investment in network bandwidth. Imagine if all non essential travel was stopped. <br />Meetings cost companies millions of pounds every year and some argue, 70% are in fact a waste of time! The associated costs to this travel (by train, air or car) cause phenomenal energy wastage and impacts greatly our Carbon Footprint and our search for more sustainable work methods..<br />However the associated costs of network bandwidth cancel’s out any economic benefit from using these new collaborative technologies.<br />All is not lost however. A start-up company in Scotland, AppShare ( www.appshare.co.uk) have spent the last three years working on a solution to this network issue. They have invented Concierge, a solution to the bottleneck caused by scalability problems where more people equals more bandwidth. The problem has been cracked and this little innovation will perhaps be the Green IT Innovation of the Decade!<br />Now any company or organization can hold thousands of meetings simultaneously without impacting their bandwidth costs and thus really start to leverage the dynamics of The Internet for corporate communication and collaboration, freeing up resources and cutting out pollution, time wastage and stress across Society.<br />For more information of AppShare contact:<br />Dermott Reilly<br />+44 (0) 20 3287 9234<br />dermott.reilly@appshare.co.uk<br />www.appshare.co.uk<br />