Audio conferencing services enable you to rapidly connect any number of parties together in an interactive voice communication environment via telephone.

Audio conferencing solutions provide a number of benefits to users:

• Enables meetings to be conducted more rapidly or on a more regular basis, thereby increasing the speed of decision making.
• Reduces time, travel and environmental costs associated with travelling.
• Promotes frequent and effective communication.
• Activities/sessions can be easily recorded and accessed on demand – thereby becoming enduring materials versus one-time events.

Ways in which HSIMS’ clients use audio conferencing:

• Education: To extend the audience reach of educational programming – both in real time by delivering programming to various locations and asynchronously by recording events which can be listened to on demand.
• Business: To hold meetings with stakeholders and interviews with candidates without the requirement to travel.
• Frequently used to extend other conferencing services. For example, audio conferencing can be used to extend video conferencing events to areas where video conferencing is unavailable.
• Frequently used in conjunction with conferencing/web casting services to provide an optimal mixture of voice and visual communication.