

This is where Skype’s video capability ends, however, resulting in negligible real value to the organization. The Skype for Business recorder captures the audio, video, and screen content of the online meeting, and then saves the recording to the user’s hard drive. As a result, vendors like Microsoft have implemented basic recording capabilities into their web conferencing products. As of last March, Microsoft estimated that over 100 million employees were using the product for business communication.ĭuring this same period, businesses have become more interested in recording meetings. Extending the Value of Skype for Business MeetingsĪmong web conferencing technologies, Skype for Business (formerly Microsoft Lync) has seen incredible growth in the past few years. Let’s dive in and discuss these new capabilities. In our August 2016 product update, we’ve taken the next logical step to making online meetings more valuable through an elegant integration with Skype for Business.Īlso included in the release is an accessibility update that improves the flexibility and playback experience of video captions. Today, we’re excited to announce a new release of Panopto that helps solve that challenge. But what happens to all the valuable content exchanged within those meetings after they wrap up? Online meetings and web conferences are an efficient way to collaborate and make decisions within distributed organizations.
