Providing health care services in today's world includes constant pressure to increase the quality of patient care, reach new markets, provide new services and control costs. Tele-Health Care Solutions have aided medical professionals in increasing patient care by ensuring that they are doing what they do best - treating patients.

Applications for video conferencing:

• Access to expertise and patients records remotely.
• The use of this technology extends from the operating theatre (Teaching Applications) to mobile units at Scene of Incident.

Benefits of using video conferencing include:

• Saves time and money. It has the potential to enhance patiant care and even save lives.

We have many clients that have deployed videoconferencing to improve communications and business processes, These clients range from some of the worlds largest car manufacturers down to much smaller manufacturing organisations with just a couple of sites.

Applications for video conferencing:

• Attend project review meetings with groups that may be dispersed over two or more sites (office and factory).
• Discuss changes in product requirements or design with a colleague, the customer or even sub contractor.
• Review schedule and budget dependencies, today's solutions include full data sharing and collaboration.
• Conduct quality control inspections, safety, training, security and much more - all remotely

Benefits of using video conferencing include:

• Speeds the time required identify and resolve delivery issues : Speeds time to market .
• Allows real time feedback: Decreases production downtime : Increases customer satisfaction.

We have great deal of experience with clients in the commercial and milatry aerospace market (many of our staff are security cleared). Many have deployed videoconferencing to improve communications and business processes.

Applications for video conferencing:

• Project meetings can be difficult in what is an international market place.
• Discuss changes in product requirements or design with a colleague, the client or sub contractor.
• Review schedule and budget dependencies, today's solutions include full data sharing and collaboration.
• Conduct effective staff, safety, training, security briefings and much more - all remotely

Benefits of using video conferencing include:

• Many clients have seen huge reductions in travel budgets, this plus improved productivity and speed to respond.
• Many also use our Managed Services to provide "service" that is reliable and easy to use and allow multisite calls

Financial services companies have to make fast decisions with a lot at stake. Each day, financial managers on continents across the globe meet and discuss time-critical investment opportunities. Opinion gets transmitted more effectively. Questions are answered more efficiently. Video communications allow financial services companies to be more competitive at lower cost.

In today's competitive retail environment supply chain efficiency is a major factor. This coupled with the drive for increased productivity drives the need for us to look at innovative uses of technology to differentiate us from our competitors.

Applications for video conferencing:

• Supply Chain Management, Reduced Time to Market
• Branch communications including Business revies and target meetings to Training.

Benefits of using video conferencing: An Example A UK Clothing Retailer using video on a seasons product ranges:

• 20-25% reduction in design lifecycle from design to shop floor
• Reduction in level of product rejections
• Improved quality level of product
• Enhanced responsiveness to market trends

Time is critical on construction projects. Executing the architects vision, managing multiple contractors, and overcoming the inevitable issues of complex projects on site requires timely coordination. The architect is often off-site, clients can be located across the globe, and contractors are often engaged in multiple projects. The challenge is bringing together this cross functional team together at a moment's notice to facilitate immediate problem resolution. Video Conferencing can do exactly that: Access professionals wherever issues arise and dial-up the key players through a high quality video conference—and reach a resolution in real time!

Applications for video conferencing:

• Attend project review meetings, we have clients with VC installed on sites - broadband services make this cheap and easy
• Discuss changes in requirements or specification with a colleague, the client or even sub contractor.
• Review schedule and budget dependencies, today's solutions include full data sharing and collaboration.
• Conduct quality control inspections, safety, training, security and much more - all remotely.

Benefits of using video conferencing include:

• Speeds the time required identify and resolve supply or site issues : Reduces slippages in schedules.
• Allows real time feedback: Can enhances training and Health & Safety to the site : Increases staff and client satisfaction

The Publishing industry is the perfect industry for an application for Video Conferencing. With many people constantly on the move, and different suppliers producing different material, the need to collaborate and join everyone together is essential, allowing ideas, pictures and reviews to be shared. This ability allows companies to get their product to market quicker by utilizing valuable time and investing it into staying ahead of competition.

Video Conferencing is not only suitable for large corporations with thousands of employers distributed globally, it is now accessible and flexible to smaller companies with the same ethos of saving money. From companies as small as 5 people with 2 offices or home workers, the Return on Investment is incredible in respects with the cost of traveling on a regular basis. For SME’s, time is essential, and with Video Conferencing you can save time, increase productivity and in time increase profitability. With desk top systems to small/medium room solutions available, Video Conferencing can now cater for all sized companies, with the same benefits for all.

Benefits of using video conferencing include:

• Enables you to extend your reach and range to new markets or new geogeraphies in a cost and resource effective way.
• Allows far greater flexibility in deploying your work force - working from home is really effective over broadband.

Government agencies throughout the world are using visual communications to speed decision-making, provide employees with increased access to experts and information and to provide real-time public safety responses.

Whether you're interested in exploring interactive video-enabled classrooms, streaming video sessions or reaching out to the community, First Connections Ltd  has the answer!

Visual communication solutions for interactive distance learning give faculty, educators, and staff a secure, easy to use way to connect, collaborate and explore. Video Conferencing connects students with teachers across campus, community members with experts in the next town and administrators with resources on another continent.

Applications for video conferencing:

• As well as the obvious remote teach possiblities, stream and other technologies are becoming very poular in education
• Managing "the business" is also a key application if you are in a dispersed campus environment.

Benefits of using video conferencing include:

• Ability to run less poular courses by having students in multiple locations with only one tutor.
• Help to overcome skills or staff shortages in an effective manner.

Utilities companies have been long term users of videoconferencing solutions.
The challenge today is to scale these up to meet the new demands of enhanced competiion and the globalisation of many of these markets.

Videoconferencing needs to be moved to an IP network basis to expand its reach to th ewhole of your business and it needs to range from the desktop to the meeting room and even through to the Telepresence suite.

Having worked with many companies in Power, Water and other Utility areas we bellieve we can offer a wide range of experience and skills to help you exploit this technology.