Multifaceted Benefits of Desktop Sharing for Foreign Companies and Varsities

An open economy and state laws favouring foreign investments have made Singapore the ideal destination for trading. Many global organisations have selected the country as their headquarters for Asian operations. Singapore also attracted many leading varsities to set up their campuses here due to her world class education environment. Needless to say, the country has a reliable infrastructure that facilitates seamless global information exchange 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Conducting trade on global platform demands that communication channels are open at all times. International conferencing service aims to bring geographically dispersed business entities under the same Telecom environment so that these can confer efficiently and securely. This is highly important since overall success of any business operation depends on seamless information exchange in between sales professionals, project execution team and clients. Traditionally, boardroom meetings used to be organized in order to accomplish the same. In the current globalised scenario when business operations are conducted across time zones, holding regular boardroom meetings is highly difficult.

Business associates are based in various countries, all across the globe which means for a physical meeting, all participants travel to a single location that consumes effort, time and costs. Travelling not only consumes time and cost, employees often develop stress and suffer from jet-lags due to long flights. As a result, their efficiency drops considerably that ultimately affect their involvement in the business conferences. However there are several online meeting software available now, which aim to facilitate highly effective conferencing while eliminating the hassles of travelling and accommodation. Such online meeting software are easy to install and work across various operating systems and web browsers.

An important feature of such popular online meeting software widely used by corporate firms and training institutes is desktop sharing. Remote desktop sharing allows participants to view the moderator's computer screen. The participants can be based in geographically dispersed locations and yet view each other's desktop content, such as documents and files, with ease. High speed Internet connectivity is the only prerequisite for facilitating efficient desktop sharing.

Remote desktop sharing begins as the host invites all the participants to join a session. Using a unique ID, participants can successfully log in to a session and view the host's screen conveniently. Mouse movements as well as documents and applications in the host's desktop can easily be viewed by all participants. As a result, the overall organisational productivity is increased manifolds.

The benefits of remote desktop sharing are, however, not only limited to business organizations. Similar to business operations, education is also no more limited to a particular geographical boundary. Instead, majority of leading universities worldwide are turning global by setting up offshore campuses. Prominent international universities in Singapore are making use of online meeting software to facilitate information exchange with their home campuses. These annexure campuses, in spite of full time faculties, collaborate and confer with their home campuses for superior knowledge transfer. Remote desktop sharing enables students in Singapore to attend theory and practical lectures that are being delivered by professors, based in their home countries.

The multifarious benefits of this application have contributed heavily towards the increasing popularity of online conferencing solutions in Singapore.