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Small and Medium Business
In today's economy, small and medium businesses need easy-to-use, cost-effective technologies that improve operational efficiencies and accelerate growth

Industry Solutions...

The Rural Technology Access And Employment Development Project offers the broadest range of solution providers and venders to enable all user types to successfully connect and conference, no matter what the environment. This includes almost any type of user device for enabling Unified Collaboration, as well as the necessary supporting infrastructure and management tools. The integrated approach of The Rural Technology Access And Employment Development Project ensures that users receive a simple, consistent, repeatable experience every time they interface with the technologies and systems selected to grow with their communities.

Manufacturing...

Globalization has helped improve manufacturing in multiple ways. But with globalization comes the challenge of managing disperse teams. The Rural Technology Access And Employment Development Project will provide recomendations based on your community assesment and resources that can make meeting over distance just like being there with collaborative solutions that enable more efficient build processes and enhanced vendor management.

Small and Medium Business...

In today's economy, small and medium businesses need easy-to-use, cost-effective technologies that improve operational efficiencies and accelerate growth. In a challenging business environment, small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) must be flexible enough to nimbly respond to global market demands while maintaining solid financial control. With geographically-dispersed work teams spanning different locations – including headquarters, branch office, home and mobile environments – SMBs need innovative ways to get in front of their customers more frequently and to empower remotely-located staff to work more efficiently and effectively– without the time and costs associated with travel. The Rural Technology Access And Employment Development Project delivers solutions that are developed for your community's specific geographic location and results in a high-performance design for the local workplace with easy access to information, faster decision-making, transportation and required infastructures. SMBs must stay connected with staff, customers and suppliers regardless of their location – whether they are in the same city or across the world.

Retail...

Retailers need to continuously engage and maintain customers. Customer service is often a key differentiator, as is the ability to respond quickly to market trends. The Rural Technology Access And Employment Development Project provides the solutions unique to your area that enable real-time collaboration between stores, suppliers, warehouses, buyers, and sales teams, which ultimately leads to better customer service and supply management.

Technology...

Technology companies are seeking ways to bring products to market quicker, manage outsourced partners (manufacturing, design, suppliers) and improve cross-functional coordination. The Rural Technology Access And Employment Development Project solutions can help reduce local development time, manage partners and launch products to a wider audience.

Hospitality...

Hotels and casinos search for innovative ways to attract and retain customers and differentiate from the competition. The Rural Technology Access And Employment Development Project, as a primary part of it's mission, is helping these types of local businesses implement solutions, including wireless communications and video conferencing, to provide the best guest experience possible.

Improve communications, gain workflow efficiencies and maintain competitive advantages...

Creating process improvements often means the difference between an organization's success and failure. Reducing hiring time, shortening time-to-market and maximizing a sales team's product expertise, can drive down costs, increase revenues and enhance productivity. Whether in distance learning, project and vendor management, customer service, training, and recruiting, The Rural Technology Access And Employment Development Project solutions can help organizations improve communications, gain workflow efficiencies and maintain competitive advantages. By improving collaboration, benefits such as increased employee satisfaction, stronger customer relationships and reduced financial costs follow. Employee productivity and work/life balance improve. Customers and partners experience closer integration with sales and support teams. And the entire company sees an increase in shareholder value and a maximizing of revenue and profitability. The Rural Technology Access And Employment Development Project can help your community plan and build the high tech foundation needed to prosper in this new global econemy.

Manufacturing Solutions
Better remote management and improved operational efficiencies

Globalization has helped advance manufacturing in multiple ways. But with globalization comes the challenge of improving operational efficiencies and managing disperse teams both offshore and in remote locations. Polycom makes meeting over distance just like being there with collaborative solutions that enable more efficient build processes and enhanced vendor management.

ooVoo supported video communication applications developed by CPB engineering staff can be adapted for quality-related activities such as remote quality assurance inspections, design analysis, and component testing. Suppliers are be better tracked. Unquestionably, inventory is better managed with real-time information. And, remote expertise is easily tapped to ensure understanding of build and repair processes or line and cell requirements.

Offshoring/Line Efficiencies

In offshore locations, improving the manufacturing build process can result in reduced costs and operational efficiencies. Polycom collaborative solutions are ideal for manufacturing activities such as video-based training, remote meetings with engineering or procurement, tracking and status checks or promoting facility-wide wireless communications. As a result, organizations enjoy improved yields, shorter development and build times and reduced costs.

Quality Assurance

Streamlining and enhancing the quality assurance process can not only save time, money, reduce errors and improve customer satisfaction. It can also safeguard a company's reputation. That's why Polycom collaboration solutions are used every day for quality assurance activities such as product inspections, remote product tracking and validation tests, production line status updates and changes, and remote meetings with development, sales teams and customers. Need to see every detail? Polycom's High Definition video solutions provide the level of detail required to ensure highest levels of quality.

Supply Management

For optimal profitability, most manufacturers can benefit from better inventory management and more accurate supply and demand forecasting. Polycom real-time video and voice collaboration solutions keep information flowing between manufacturing locations, suppliers, vendors and customers. Better information leads to improved customer satisfaction, faster response to market and sounder upstream/downstream supply management.

Customer Service

A satisfied customer often results in a loyal customer, so it's no surprise that companies continuously look to improve customer service and increase customer satisfaction. Polycom collaboration solutions and tools are used to enhance a manufacturer's interface with customers as needed in the repair process for a visual diagnosis, engineering assistance, or instructional support and product expertise through kiosks to enhance satisfaction and shorter repair times.

Improve communications, gain workflow efficiencies and maintain competitive advantages

Creating process improvements often means the difference between an organization's success and failure. Reducing hiring time, shortening time-to-market and maximizing a sales team's product expertise, can drive down costs, increase revenues and enhance productivity. Whether in distance learning, project and vendor management, customer service, training, and recruiting, Polycom collaboration solutions help organizations improve communications, gain workflow efficiencies and maintain competitive advantages.

Companies worldwide are looking for innovative training vehicles that allow information dissemination to large and disperse audiences. Employees, channel partners, franchises and suppliers can all benefit from a quality learning environment without geographical boundaries. The level of customer service and customer support provided by a company can result in a customer satisfaction, retention and referral. Using Polycom collaboration tools provides a personal, yet time-sensitive, element to support or service calls.

In today's economy, small, medium and large businesses need the same easy-to-use, cost-effective technologies used by our leading industries to improve their operational efficiencies and accelerate market growth. Access to technology attracts new and helps grow existing local economic resources by providing the network services that allow for the better remote management and improved operational efficiencies for all Business and Industries that have located all or part of their opperations in a rural Oregon location.

•Product Information and Questions?
Click to Chat Features: Globalization has helped advance manufacturing in multiple ways. But with globalization comes the challenge of improving operational efficiencies and managing disperse teams both offshore and in remote locations. Polycom makes meeting over distance just like being there with collaborative solutions that enable more efficient build processes and enhanced vendor management.

•Quality Assurance
Streamlining and enhancing the quality assurance process can not only save time, money, reduce errors and improve customer satisfaction. It can also safeguard a company's reputation. That's why video based solutions are used every day for quality assurance activities such as product inspections, remote product tracking and validation tests, production line status updates and changes. Partners and management can benefit through the use of remote meetings with development personel, sales teams and customers. Remote high Definition video solutions today provides a level of detail that enables the highest level of quality and service allowing any business located in rural America to compete in the global market

•Supply Management
For optimal profitability, most manufacturers and businesses can benefit from better inventory management and more accurate supply and demand forecasting. Real-time video and voice solutions keep information flowing between all critical locations. Including manufacturing, suppliers, vendors to the end customers. Better information leads to improved customer satisfaction, faster response to market and sounder upstream/downstream supply management.

•Customer Service
A satisfied customer often results in a loyal customer, so it's no surprise that companies continuously look to improve customer service and increase customer satisfaction. New hi-tech communication solutions and tools are used in business and manufacturing to enhance the company's interface with customers providing an offsite visual process for engineering and technical support, training, diagnostics, special opperation service contracts, ongoing system and product support services. A full service planning and design staff is available assist with any future opportunities for growth.