General FAQ’s
What is Spontania?
How many video connections do you support?
Can people join in by calling from a regular telephone?
What types of files or applications can I share?
Can I turn on/off different services per user?
Can I interoperate with my Tandberg/Polycom videoconferencing equipment?
Can I use Spontania in a conference room setting so that multiple people can join from one location?
Can you webcast a session or recording?
Does your IM work with other IMs?
What kind of work can I expect to do on a mobile device (Smartphone/PDA)?
What is special about Spontania?
How can video add value to my current mix of audio and webconferencing?
What is your licensing model?
How do you charge for the product?
Are there any extra fees?
Why would I buy Spontania?
Q: What is Spontania?
A: Spontania is enterprise-grade, premise-based software that enables unified communications and collaboration—seamlessly and securely extending IM, voice, video and data in real time to any user, over any device or network.
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Q: How many video connections do you support?
A: We can support an unlimited number of participants during a session. We can display up to nine video images at a time, due to display limitations. However, we can cycle through images of an unlimited number of video participants. Spontania can also be set to use voice activation to automatically display the image of the speaker.
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Q: Can people join in by calling from a regular telephone?
A: Yes. Spontania supports calling out to participants, or participants can call in using a number and dialing a session code to access the appropriate web conference session, just as with a traditional voice bridge.
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Q: What types of files or applications can I share?
A: There are no restrictions in the type of applications or files that can be shared —including videos.
Any application running on a device (PC, PDA, mobile phone) or even an entire desktop may be shared among all the participants connected on the session.
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Q: Can I turn on/off different services per user?
A: Yes, service control is highly granular, with the ability to select or modify the service available on a per-user basis.
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Q: Can I interoperate with my Tandberg/Polycom videoconferencing equipment?
A: Yes, Spontania integrates with any legacy videoconferencing system that uses H.323/SIP protocols.
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Q: Can I use Spontania in a conference room setting so that multiple people can join from
one location?
A: Yes, through the use of a simple low-cost wide-angle webcam and a conferencing speaker/microphone device, it is possible to closely approximate the experience provided by much more expensive hardware-based systems.
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Q: Can you webcast a session or recording?
A: Yes, we have a webcast module that works with your own webcasting hardware or a webcast service such as Akamai. We also offer an Ajax-based chat interface for interactive webcasts.
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Q: Does your IM work with other IMs?
A: Yes, we interoperate with Microsoft Live Communications Server and Lotus Sametime.
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Q: What kind of work can I expect to do on a mobile device (Smartphone/PDA)?
A: You can do the following from a mobile device:
• Join meetings with up to four simultaneous videos.
• View and edit shared documents without having to load any applications on the mobile device prior to joining the event.
• Text chat.
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Q: What is special about Spontania?
A: Spontania is a complete on-premise software-only solution that offers multiparty voice and video over IP, webconferencing, presence awareness and IM, integration with leading calendar and directory software, file sharing, and whiteboard and comprehensive endpoint support in a single package with a unified interface.
With the versatility of Spontania at his or her fingertips, anyone in a business has the ability to engage the right people, at the right time, in the way that best suits the conditions of the moment.
Spontania helps reconnect people in business by bringing voice to the PC along with the personalization that only video can deliver; meanings become clearer, conflict resolution happens faster and solutions are richer.
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Q: How can video add value to my current mix of audio and webconferencing?
A: The visual cues from video can help
• establish rapport at the beginning of a meeting;
• minimize distractions;
• resolve confusion and reduce controversy;
• accelerate decision making; and
• navigate culture and language barriers.
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Q: What is your licensing model?
A: We sell Spontania under a standard perpetual license structure.
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Q: How do you charge for the product?
A: We charge a onetime fee based on the capacity (number of concurrent users) required to support an organization. A maintenance agreement is separately offered on an annual-fee basis.
This includes product support (email/phone) and maintenance releases and allows upgrades to all future product releases at no additional cost.
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Q: Are there any extra fees?
A: No.
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Q: Why would I buy Spontania?
A: Our feature-rich mature on-premise solution has been developed in close collaboration with our enterprise clients, who use it every day to conduct and facilitate their business activities.
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