Vision Financial

Recent evolution in the mobile applications market now offers enterprises new opportunities for reaching customers in ways never before possible. In the past 18 months, a number of independent market forces have converged to enable goods-and-services providers to market to specific customers, at specific times, at specific locations. Importantly, such targeted messaging draws on a richer-than-ever set of consumer information, including not only detailed demographics from implicit (inferred) and explicit (user-provided) profiles, but also real-time, location-based data.

For 2010 and beyond, research firm Frost & Sullivan sees Web conferencing as a key catalyst for improving business processes by facilitating remote group decision-making and action. This paradigm shift repositions web conferencing as a strategic tool, not only an email or travel substitute.