Pressure to cut costs and complexity is nothing new. Good news from Google Meet: Over the past 2 years, it has silently become a platform for VOIP, video calling and unlimited web conferencing. Those operating expenditures have built up knowledge capital as the organization already knows how to use Google Meet.
Shall we take a look at true scalability and all the ways Meet saves money?
Everyone is used to comparison tables: "What tool to use in which circumstance?". But with the newest web conferencing additions, Meet ticks all the boxes.
"Hey - got two minutes?" - "Sure!" is how many Meets start.
Adding more people (even dialing a client's mobile number) turns your call into a conference call.
As you add people to your invite list (or to your call, on the fly), there is no infrastructure to worry about.
In the past, you bumped against "oh, we should have asked for a so-and-so type meeting".
Instead, your people add features to their calls as they need them. Just-in-time, Meet will grow to support:
Chatting
Polling
Q&A
Live streaming
Recording
Breakout rooms
Whiteboards
Participant statistics
Moderation
Multiple co-hosts
and more - at no cost, no setup and no expert guidance required.
Many territories are finding they do not need an external TV crew or expensive third-party software to reach hundreds or thousands of staff.
Meet's live streaming feature can service double and triple the biggest audiences PwC has ever seen - at no cost.
Some of these high-stakes meetings may still be run by facilitators. Except these are now your people, and knowledge and budget stay in-house.
But can you open a Meet yourself, add a live stream and speak to 100.000 people from the comfort of your chair? Worry-free, in 2 clicks? Yes, you definitely can.
Gone are the days where global licenses were carefully managed to avoid clashes. People no longer need hand holding - those intermediaries can be put to more productive use. Perhaps they have grown and handle broader issues as service managers or communications experts.
Meet is part of Google Workspace. Meet provides dial-in numbers in over 100 countries and in most of them, clients can dial into Meet calls at no cost to PwC.
For organizations already on Google Workspace, such as ours, the easiest achievable return on investment today is to have more Meet calls. It is easy, secure and the quality is outstanding. Thank you for reading!
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