Skype, the new colleague of small businesses
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Good timing for Skype. All surveys stressed out the fact that companies are considering VoIP technical solutions. Yesterday, Skype launched its Skype for Business, a dedicated service for tiny to small size companies. The idea was somewhat taken from researches done for the company, which claimed that 30% of their user base do Skype for work purposes and 97% of business users have subscribed to SkypeOut.
Many of the Skype for Business features come directly from the Skype control panel. The service, already on air for a quite long time, supports team worker by providing meeting attendances, conference calls, multi-chat or call forwarding functionalities.For this new launch, Skype did include some extra features such as:
- an auto-management feature that enables group administrators to make large credit purchases to one account and distribute Skype credits;
- integration with the Microsoft Outlook toolbar;
- and also a live translation service for those who don’t speak nor understand Taiwanese, Cantonese or Swedish – might be helpful if you want to interview Niklas Zennström.
Besides those software enhancements, the Skype for Business service will also become a market place for VoIP-related products and services. ActionTec, LinkSys, Polycom, USRobotics, Unyte are already part of the top partner list. And we bet that, very soon, eBay product auctions would also available. Since the, you can access to Skype for Business whether on the service homepage or via the standalone website: Skype.biz.
Mar 10, 2006 | By Nuno
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