ADVISORY/Can Businesses Operate without Flying? Sonexis Audio and Web Conferencing Executive Available for Comment.

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Corporate travel continues to undergo extensive scrutiny, due to safety, personnel and budget concerns, further exacerbating travelers who are now dealing with long delays and layovers as airlines announce flight cutbacks and cancellations. As a result, conferencing - a market that's expected to reach $13 billion according to IDC- is increasingly being utilized as an immediate substitute to business travel.

During times of global uncertainty, conferencing provides a practical meeting option to keep businesses running as usual. New conferencing technologies, like built-in options to present and share documents for remote review, are dramatically increasing the "collaborative value" of virtual meetings and enhancing business productivity by fostering quick, real-time decisions despite a disparate workforce. These benefits are predicted to outlast the initial spike in usage spurred by travel reductions.

Ed Wadbrook, senior vice president at Sonexis Inc., a Boston, Mass.-based provider of an in-house, integrated audio and Web conferencing system, is available to discuss the conferencing market and trends in the marketplace as companies continue to move from initial interest to acceptance and enterprise-wide utilization.

Media inquires should be directed to Lynne Ostrowski, [e-mail], 617-393-4278.