Technology to Cut Costs
October 28th, 2008
Megan Goodchild posted this entry titled “Cut Costs with Technology” where she lists several basic things companies can do to save money during the downturn. While I was pondering a blog entry about the savings we have been realizing with open source and SaaS based software decisions, her note reminded me to make a quick post here about something simple we are doing at Ingres with video. We recently began using the video cameras that come with recent notebook computers, or USB based commodity cameras, along with Webex to do lightweight video conferencing. Up to 6 participants can join and share their lovely mugs during meetings. Could this cut down on travel a bit? We hope so - and this makes the list as a simple step towards savings.
October 28th, 2008 at 10:27 pm
yeah but that would also cut down on multitasking during meetings … which in turn lowers productivity… or so the argument could be made…