Microsoft Live Meeting

Microsoft Office Live Meeting Overview

Microsoft Office Live Meeting is an enterprise-class Web conferencing service. With Office Live Meeting, companies and organizations can engage customers through real-time meetings, training sessions, and events that are presented over the Internet.

The Live Meeting service is available to Microsoft Online Services customers through a user subscription license (USL). In addition to Live Meeting Web conferencing features and tools, organizations that subscribe to Live Meeting receive adoption services. This consulting service can help organizations efficiently adopt and begin using the Live Meeting service.

Microsoft Office Live Meeting is a Web conferencing service available to Microsoft Online Services customers that supports effective online meetings for organizations of all sizes. With the Live Meeting real-time communication platform, which provides 99.9-percent uptime availability and always-on SSL encryption, organizations can conduct online meetings with confidence.

Why Use Office Live Meeting?

In today’s global economy, where organizations need to communicate in real time with a multinational customer base, Web conferencing is rapidly becoming a mainstream tool for communication and collaboration. Microsoft is helping businesses meet these requirements with Live Meeting, a reliable, enterprise-class hosted Web conferencing service that connects and engages audiences in online meetings, training, and events. With meeting attendees participating from their computers, organizations can use the Live Meeting service to deliver a presentation, kick off a project, brainstorm ideas, edit files, collaborate on interactive whiteboards, and negotiate deals—at a fraction of the cost and without the time and expense of travel. Here are some of the key business benefits:

• Connected organizations. With the Live Meeting service, people in an organization can participate in online meetings, events, and training, so that they can easily connect and collaborate with customers, partners, and each other. The Live Meeting client includes features that help meeting organizers and presenters to share information in a way that resonates with attendees and to better ascertain that they understand the information presented. Because Live Meeting sessions can be recorded and played back, those who are not able to attend a Live Meeting presentation can view it later.
• Engaged attendees. The integrated audio, video, and media capabilities of the Live Meeting service help presenters to keep meeting attendees engaged and conduct more effective meetings. Live Meeting delivers an immersive experience that brings together multiple communication channels, including live and recorded video, chat, slide and application sharing, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) audio, and audience feedback tools. Presenters can receive feedback from meeting attendees in real time, which helps them to adjust their pace and content to meet the needs of the audience.
• Enterprise-class reliability. Live Meeting provides reliable, enterprise-class service. Thanks to its historically high availability and backed by a decade of operating experience, organizations that use this solution can be confident about service quality, reliability, and security features, so that IT directors can reassign their IT resources to other important projects.