Home Who we are Engineering Equipment and Systems New Solutions Clients Contacts Work with us News archive HOME » COLLABORATION, the more you use it, the more you earn! COLLABORATION, the more you use it, the more you earn! According to a new study by Frost & Sullivan (October 2009), organizations around the world using the most advanced Internet Protocol (IP) -based collaboration technologies double their returns on investment in collaboration tools and perform better than companies that make less use of collaboration. The "Meetings Around the World II: Charting the Course of Advanced Collaboration" study , sponsored by Verizon and Cisco , analyzes how professionals in companies and government agencies work together using advanced collaboration tools such as VoIP (Voice over Intenet protocol), instant messaging or meetings via high definition video or Cisco TelePresence. The study also presents the industry's first quantitative model for collaborative return on investment. The innovative measurement method, called the Return on Collaboration index (ROC - Return on Collaboration) , establishes a progressive impact of the use ofUC&C (Unified Communications and Collaboration) technologies on business performance and measures improvements in areas such as Research & Development, Human Resources, Sales, Marketing, Investor Relations and Public Relations. The study found that companies and government agencies using increasingly sophisticated collaboration tools - such as VoIP softphones, immersive video and fixed-to-mobile convergence - have seen a corresponding improvement in business results relative to the money invested. The general average index of ROC was equal to 4.2 and this means that the organizations recorded an average return equal to four times the investment made for the implementation of collaboration technologies in terms of improvement in the most important areas for the company. Companies surveyed in the study reported that advanced collaboration solutions such as UC&C technologies increase their ability to produce positive results . For example, R&D managers in organizations using UC&C technologies reported that advanced collaboration tools enable faster product and solution development, with better chances of market success, higher quality and , in general, lower development costs. The new study is based on Frost & Sullivan's 2006 research "Meetings Around the World: The Impact of Collaboration on Business Performance" which defined collaboration as a key element of business performance and established that the use of communication technologies is able to guarantee competitive advantages. "The 'Meetings Around the World II' study builds on the conclusions of the original, confirming and expanding its findings," said Brian Cotton , Vice President for Information and Communications Technologies at Frost & Sullivan. “This latest research indicates that the progressive adoption of more advanced communication and collaboration tools can help organizations achieve a corresponding return on collaboration and improvements in all business functions. This return was most evident in the Sales, Marketing and Research & Development sectors. " Convert Telecomunicazioni S.r.l. Viale Luca Gaurico 9/11 - 00143 Roma - Tel. +39.06.87655859 - info@converttelecomunicazioni.com C.C.I.A.A. Roma N. 1185233 del 3.12.2007 - P.IVA/C.F. 09731401007 - Cap.Soc. 440.000 Euro i.v. Ideazione e realizzazione grafica e piattaforma di inserimento contenuti: LAG Consulting - realizzazioni applicazioni web