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Real Results Report: WebEx Increases Productivity for the Enterprise

Case Study Published By: WebEx Communications

Enterprises around the world are discovering new ways to optimize business processes using on-demand web services. These businesses use WebEx online collaboration applications to reach, educate, and support a growing number of employees and customers. Companies can now collaborate anywhere, any time, without boundaries.



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WebEx Communications
Published:  Dec 14, 2007
Type:  Case Study
Length:  10 pages

Real Results Report
WebEx increases productivity
for the enterprise
Enterprises around the world are discovering new ways to optimize business processes using on-demand web services. These businesses use WebEx online collaboration applications to reach, educate, and support a growing number of employees and customers. Companies can now collaborate anywhere, any time, without boundaries.
See how these four organizations experienced exceptional results by incorporating WebEx into their work environments:
. BDO Seidman delivered rich and engaging virtual training to its 35 regional offices, saving $5 million in travel costs.
. Ashland improved business processes by accelerating distribution and improving the quality of information for employees and customers.
. Cummins leveraged on-demand web conferences to replace in-person meetings. As a result, they slashed travel costs by 80%.
. Trapeze Networks accelerated market initiatives from two months to two weeks. They also trained the sales and engineering departments in less time.WebEx Communications Inc.3979 Freedom Circle, Santa Clara, CA 95054 U.S.A.
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www.webex.comWP395 0707 USWebEx Customer Success Story
WebEx has allowed us to remove time and geographic barriers. We no longer consider ourselves a distributed organization. It's given us the ability to meet face-to-face more frequently."- MaryEm Musser, Assistant Director, Center for Professional Development
BDO Seidman saves millions with
WebEx Enterprise Edition.
Industry Founded in 1910, BDO Seidman, LLP The Solution Accounting is a professional services firm providing Musser began investigating online assurance, tax, financial advisory, solutions that would facilitate BDO's live WebEx service in use and consulting services to businesses trainings. "We knew we needed some-WebEx Enterprise Edition nationwide. Recognized as the fifth largest thing more than your average online accounting firm in the world, BDO Seidman meeting solution," she says. "We needed Summary At BDO Seidman, LLP, in-person serves clients through 35 offices and a solution that simulated an online classroom training methods could 250 independent alliance firms located classroom." After thoroughly evaluating no longer support the company's throughout the US. The company also five online applications by testing them growing technology initiatives. serves multinational clients by leveraging on different technology projects, Musser With WebEx Training Center, BDO the BDO International global network of chose to implement WebEx for enterprise-was able to provide more training alliance firms in 105 countries. wide training at BDO Seidman. "We to more employees in less time, selected WebEx Training Center because improving productivity, and The Challenge of its robust feature set, as well as the saving $5 million in travel costs. At the turn of the millennium, BDO reliability and scalability of the application," Adopting WebEx Enterprise Edition Seidman was evaluating the future of its company-wide has transformed Musser says.technology training programs. Despite the BDO's communication processes by barriers of time and travel, it had always removing geographic barriers and Musser chose the right solution. Today, relied on in-person, instructor-led classes increasing the quantity and quality BDO Seidman conducts 1800 classroom of information exchanged between to deliver internal training to its globally sessions a year using WebEx Training constituents worldwide. distributed employee base. However, the Center. With approximately 25 people in initiatives coming up in the next few years attendance at each session, BDO is able were going to require hiring additional to reach 45,000 people annually through staff to successfully train the company's WebEx online trainings. About BDO Seidman, LLP 35 regional offices. "We knew that wasn't . Line of Business the answer. Our training model just didn't The overwhelmingly positive response Accounting and consulting firm work anymore," says MaryEm Musser, to Training Center led BDO to adopt . Headquarters Assistant Director of BDO's Center for WebEx Enterprise Edition, making the full Chicago, IL Professional Development. suite of WebEx services available to its employees-along with its subsequent . Number of Employees To sup... [download for more]

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