Polycom collaboration tools help keep your business running even when the office isn't.

When workers are out of the office, business can be heavily impacted. And it doesn't take much for that impact to be felt—flu pandemics, bad weather, travel delays and even power failures can bring your business to a grinding halt.

Polycom can help lessen the pain felt from unplanned downtime. Our voice and video communications solutions arm your employees with the tools they need to collaborate efficiently and effectively, anywhere and anytime. To learn more about business continuity and how Polycom can help, take a look at the following white papers.

For Polycom Users, It's 'Business As Usual'
A Polycom Case Study
Polycom, Inc.

On April 15, 2010, ash from an erupting volcano in Iceland pushed eastward and closed airports across much of Europe, prompting authorities to cancel more than 95,000 flights over the next week. Millions of tourists and business travelers were stranded and business operations were crippled across the European continent and the world. Polycom and its customers, however, found themselves well-equipped in this crisis. They responded in a way that underscores the value of video communications—they just kept working and in touch with their families and friends—almost as if nothing had happened at all. Learn about the value of face-to-face collaboration technology in crisis situations.

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Critical Communications for Business Continuity
How to Ensure Employees, Partners & Customers Stay Connected
Frost & Sullivan

These days, any organization that doesn't have a business continuity plan in place is critically out of date. Everyone is aware of the big threats—terrorism, natural disasters, regional power failures, and so on. But with an increasingly remote workforce, more companies are open to more interruptions to their business—and in a virtual workplace, even if those interruptions hit on a local level, their effects reach far and wide. On-demand conferencing tools can help companies stay in touch with employees, and help employees stay in touch with one another, as well as partners, customers, and suppliers

This paper examines why companies should develop and implement an on-demand conferencing and collaboration plan that supports business continuity for both the enterprise and its customers. It outlines which technologies to use when; how to define and determine when to put a plan into action; and how to handle the specific needs of office-based and remote employees. It also looks at how companies can benefit from these critical communications technologies on a regular basis, to boost productivity, support the virtual workplace, dramatically improve ROI and positively impact the bottom line.

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A Swine Flu Vaccine for Business
Ensuring Operational Continuity Amid a Global Pandemic
Polycom, Inc.

For companies around the world, the annual flu season typically brings employee illnesses and absences—along with their associated impact on productivity. The 2009 and 2010 flu season, however, is anything but typical, thanks to the pandemic outbreak of H1N1 influenza, or the swine flu virus. Since its outbreak in Mexico in April 2009, swine flu has swept the world, confounding medical professionals and spreading concern among disease control experts in nearly every country on the planet. For businesses, the impact of the virus could mean potentially dramatic drops in productivity and substantial losses in income. To minimize the impact of swine flu illnesses, organizations must prepare now to maintain operations in the face of a viral outbreak with a reach and severity that may be unprecedented in modern times.

This white paper outlines how visual communication can serve as a powerful and effective tool in helping businesses maintain effectiveness, improve efficiency, and protect at-risk employees during H1N1 outbreaks.

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