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With an Attend Anywhere Button Your Next Appointment Could Well be by Video Conference
Commercial Grade Video Conferencing at the Click of a Button on Companies Own Web Sites
Melbourne, Australia May 4th 2010 - Video conference integration software provider Attend Anywhere today announced an embedded ‘single click' button for company web sites.
Companies can now say “yes you can attend by video - just follow this link or go to our web site.”
Customers, patients, students or staff can attend unique appointments or meetings via secure, high definition video conference directly from their company’s website. First timers also get step by step set up and test assistance.
The software integrates with breakthrough ‘personal telepresence’ from Vidyo™. The video is so natural people forget about the technology. Participants interact from multiple sites (including standard room based video conference systems) and can share anything on their desktops. To facilitate the video conference companies can use their own infrastructure or subscribe to a pay-as-you-go service.
Attend Anywhere CEO Chris Ryan says “People are asking “I video conference via the Internet on my computer at home why can’t I use it at work or to attend appointments?”
“The answer in the past has always been because it’s too hard for companies and service providers to integrate.” Chris Ryan says.
People may have played with web conferencing but now they want to get serious. They want to generate high volumes of unique video appointments, use existing processes and make it easy for people to find the right appointment on their web site. They want to use the Internet from wherever they are but it must be secure, reliable and very high quality. And they don’t want to set each new user up in a directory.
“Attend Anywhere solves those challenges and makes video conference integration easy. Our web based management software sits in front of the technologies making it easy for people to find services or each other and simply connect using whatever infrastructure makes sense. At the back end the Attend Anywhere website provides all of the business process integration, scheduling and management required” Chris Ryan concluded.
Attend Anywhere are offering a free trial of the web site button.
Companies that have trialled the button on their web sites have this to say;
Sarah Calleja - Director, Action Psychology
“It is much more intuitive for clients to video conference from our web site. The simple process, security and video quality make a huge difference. Clients who are too busy, too far away or too unwell to travel to access psychological or coaching support can now do it at the click of a button with Attend Anywhere. It is increasing my capacity to offer supervision to rural/remote and interstate colleagues too.”
Dr David Cunnington, Director, Melbourne Sleep Disorders Centre
“The ‘Video Appointments button on our website makes it much easier for patients to access sleep medicine consultations in rural and remote areas without local services. Using Attend Anywhere, we provide psychology services (cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia) to patients outside Melbourne, liaise with physicians in Hamilton, support our sleep medicine clinical service in Mildura, and follow-up any urgent patient concerns between monthly visits. We are also using Attend Anywhere to train 14 sleep medicine specialists in India at seven sites across the country, as well as provide clinical sleep medicine support reviewing cases and sleep studies at one of the major hospitals in Delhi.”
Dr Mel Miller - Director, Siggins Miller consultants
“Making access this simple with a button on our website will revolutionise our use of video conferencing. Over the past 3 years Attend Anywhere has reduced the silo approach and improved our professional development and project management capacity. Now face to face client communication is going to be much easier as well.”
Rebecca Haynes, Manager, Business Development, VITS LanguageLink
“Attend Anywhere’s approach negates a host of IT and physical obstacles relating to the use of video conferencing for interpreting. Our interpreters and clients can get together literally at the click of a button via our web site regardless of their location with no compromise on quality or security – it is a huge step forward”
About Attend Anywhere
Attend Anywhere is an Australian software company based in Melbourne that has been committed to the effective integration of video conferencing since 1998. Attend Anywhere recognises that the key is connecting people and managing logistics first and foremost – and that technology is just an enabler.
Developed with input from the Australian medical sector and other service sectors, Attend Anywhere is a 'software as a service' so as technologies improve and customer feedback is implemented everyone shares the immediate benefits. Attend Anywhere Enterprise is used by organisations and conference providers to underpin their video conference services.
In 2009 the Attend Anywhere management platform was used to facilitate over 30,000 site hours of services delivered via video conference.
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Chris Ryan, Attend Anywhere
+61 3 9863 7447 or via www.attendanywhere.com