This morning I had the opportunity to chat for a bit with Lou Guercia, President and CEO of WebDialogs here at the ITExpo. WebDialogs has been around in the voice and web conferencing space for a number of years, and has an area of channel resales partners and OEM partners. Their WebInterpoint solution is a powerful and widely respected web conferencing too.

What Lou's really excited about now is something new called unyte.

WebDialogs products bring people and information together, “unyting” them over the Internet at any time, from anywhere to anywhere. Our products are quick to install, easy-to-use, secure and don’t cost much, some products are even free.

Unyte is based on WebDialogs proven web conferencing and collaboration technology. Unyte offers a unified customer experience with seamless escalation from one mode of communication to another. We wanted to bring this robust capability typically associated with elite organizations to individuals and businesses worldwide. We believe this technology can and should be ubiquitous.

Unyte is Skype certified and is currently integrated with both Skype and Salesforce.com.

unyte looks like an interesting approach to voice and video collaboration, and a desktop/application sharing tool that creates a new and simple approach to starting up sessions. If you've ever run a "Live Meeting," you were probably faced with more options and features than you knew what to do with. And Cisco's Meeting place can take more effort to set up and run than time spent actually in collaboartion. These tools work well for the connoisseur of web meetings, and not especially user-friendly. unyte offers friendly tools that work with the progams many of us already use on a daily basis.

unyte is Skype certified, and if you go to www.unyte.net with your Skype client running, the signup and setup process is both painless and seamless. unyte will link right to your Skype ID and simplify kicking off collaboration sessions with your Skype contacts. it also integrates with salesforce.com and other common tools. There's really a suite of offerings and potential here and I think it's worth following closely.


The fastest, easiest and lowest-cost method for building profitable relationships with your customers, prospects, partners and colleagues online, Unyte lets you create more personal interactions without leaving the office.

A complete instant gathering and application sharing workspace for better
collaboration among individuals and small groups.

New revenue and partnership opportunities for conferencing service providers, applications providers (hosted and on-premise), equipment makers and Internet portal application vendors are possible with Unyte. SDKs and APIs are available.

This is really an intro to a new solution, and as we watch the evolution of software as a service, we'll see more of these tools appear. unyte clearly looks to be a leading solution with huge potential.

I'll be talking with Lou again in a few weeks and we'll probably do a podcast here with more information, but for now, I encourage you to explore what unyte can do for you. I know I am.


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