At Leicester Tigers’ Welford Road rugby ground on Thursday Timico launched “Meet Me Now”, a brand new Web Collaboration and video conferencing service with Presence and IM.
I missed it due to ITSPA prize awarding duties at the House of Commons. I also had to miss out on a long planned trip to watch the annual Oxford v Cambridge varsity match at Twickenham which was also on the same day. You might say that this was very poor diary management!
I’m told that all events went really well. I can vouch for the ITSPA one of course because I was there. Timico was a finalist in two categories (SMB and Enterprise).
Anyway this is not the point of this blog post. We have been reviewing the year at Timico HQ today. The business has grown. Considering the market conditions in 2009 and that the interim results of some of our competitors show shrinkage this has to be taken as extremely positive news.
Next year is I believe going to be another tough one for business. We ain’t though this recession yet. This means that customers are still going to be looking for cost savings and productivity improvements. More so probably.
In 2009 Timico very much saw a trend towards home/distributed working. This, for example, saw one hosted VoIP customer shut their office and set their six employees working from home. There was no disruption to their comms as a result – they were on hosted VoIP.
Clearly for 2010 a product that makes it easier for people to work from home makes a lot of sense. Enter “Meet Me Now”.
Meet Me Now is a multimedia Meet Me Voice Video and Web Collaboration service. It can be used in stand alone mode or for customers using the Timico VoIP For Business service it can also be integrated with your existing voice communications.
Our (home working) sales force has been playing with Meet Me Now for some months and using the service the channel team in particular can sit at home churning through 8 or 10 online Business Partner meetings in a day. It is hugely productive and in fact has encouraged a high number of channel partners to take up the product from day 1. They have already seen the power.
There’s also been a lot of talk about “The Cloud” in 2009. For ease of support reasons home worker solutions are largely going to be “cloudy” if that is the right adjective and certainly this is the case for Meet Me Now.
Quite exciting really. Semi sales pitch over.
2 replies on “2010 is “Year of the Home Worker””
brave new world indeed. but not for the rurals… we still on dial up. Whilst openretch is busy replicating the virgin network nobody bothers trying to get fibre out into the sticks, where many homeworkers would love to be…
Some of us are homeworkers, and have been now for 15 years. I dream of the day Skype will work to my Canadian and US clients, as well as to those in the UK.
When will this govt and the industry as a whole understand that those of us sitting in our makeshift offices at home could be contributing far more into this recession-hit country than we have ever been able to because our efficiency is limited, and our cash goes out in bills it needn’t rather than being spent in the economy as a whole (particularly as Blue Pounds in sectors of the economy which most need supporting eg rural)?
Roll on 2010. It can’t, surely, get any worse?!