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August 18, 2005
The Arrival of the Virtual Office - Whitepaper
Wainhouse Research has published a new Whitepaper entitled "The Arrival of the Virtual Office". This Marratech-sponsored whitepaper is available here.
Here is the summary from the article:
The typical work day can be divided into two distinct parts: the time spent attending meetings, and the time spent completing work. In recent years, a wealth of “meeting enhancement” tools has flooded an efficiency-hungry marketplace. For the most part, these tools provide significant and material benefits (like increasing access to expertise or decreasing business travel). These tools, however, are designed to support the metaphor of a meeting, but not the remainder of the work day; in many respects they do not address the continued need for collaboration and teamwork.
This white paper, sponsored by Marratech, focuses on the emergence of a relatively new paradigm for collaboration: the virtual office. More than just an enabler of virtual meetings, virtual office solutions bring geographically dispersed employees virtually together into the same workspace, thereby supercharging teamwork and cooperation between previously isolated resources.
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Emblaze Acquires VCON
Of the smaller players on the H323 market, VCON has been acquired by Emblaze. More info on Conferencing News and here.
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August 13, 2005
Conny Ericsson is getting married TODAY!
Conny Ericsson is a former Marratech employee and is today one of our best resellers working from his own firm. BUT I doubt he is thinking about selling Marratech licenses today ( or at least I hope he is not) as he is getting married today. He has been living in "sin" for the last 20 years with his bride to be. We at Marratech wish him all the best today and we urge him to not trip and to check his fly!
Here is a small poem in Swedish by Rikard dedicated to Conny and his bride:
Uti första Moseboken står att finnaAll the best and warmest congratulations,
Utav Adams revben blev en kvinna
Därför hylla vi ikväll Conny och hans "revbensspjäll" :-)
-Marratechianerna
The Marratechs
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August 12, 2005
Evening everybody
Hans Öhman left us today for new endeavors at Upzide Labs. I will replace him for the time being as development manager at Marratech.
On Monday we will have an internal development day were we will discuss various development related issues. Might not be of much interest for you but you still get to read it :)
A more fun thing is that I have created a Guestmap where you all can add a small marker (if you are a Marratech user that is) and I hope everybody will do it so we can get a nice world picture of many of our Marratech users! Just follow this link: Marratech User Guestmap but remember to zoom into you place before clicking on the map.
Have fun!
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August 08, 2005
ReelSmart.com - Marratech: Complete Collaboration For Online Meetings
ReelSmart.com blog writes about the Marratech solution.
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Back in business
Hi all,
Most of us are back from vacation and back in the grind of things. The summer vacation gave us thousands of Marratech Free downloads as well as good questions and feedback in our user forum. The first feedback we got was that our Mac OS X installer was hard to use... so today, we have posted a new one in response to this. We are learning every day, and your feedback makes this possible.
The autumn has a lot in store for us, but our main activities will be set around releasing the H.323 connection functionality sometime in the early fall. (Sept - Oct) A lot of people are waiting on this one and we feel the pressure :-) This means that, in a way similar to making a SIP call, you will be able to call an H.323 videoconferencing end point, or a conference hosted at an MCU with both voice and video.
Our API is also developing and we have started to explore more possibilities for integration. Our first big integration is our Time-to-Meet model and look out for some new announcements during the fall. LMS, financial tools, project planners... we want the Marratech experience bundled everywhere!
And of course, maintenance. We like to fix bugs. Even if new features are what people see with every release, we spend a lot of time using optimizers, fixing our releases for the latest Cupertino OS, doing code reviews and using our own internal builds within the company. So keep reporting your issues in the forum, they will be on our list!
You will also get a chance to meet us at different conferences and events in both Europe and North America. For example, Officeline, our Norwegian reseller, has a full day of activities planned on the 1st of September in Oslo. Conny Ericsson has activities planned in September in Stockholm. We will be attending these events and we hope to see you there.
And finally, we will be looking at new ways to communicate as a company. We will be using our forum even more, this blog will grow, our own software will be used for seminars and support sessions and we have a few more surprises in store...
So, the Swedish summer is over and Marratech is ready for the autumn!
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August 07, 2005
Tip: Testing your own audio
Good day,
Did you know that a very quick and simple way to test your own audio is to have a private conversation with yourself? Nothing beats talking with yourself as you always get the best answers!
Anyhow, press the P next to you own name in the corridor and a private conversation window will show up. Press the phone handle icon and you will now be sending audio to yourself to check the quality of your microphone (if it is working at all e.g.).
A very good and simple thing to do before a meeting starts!
Take care!
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