BT offers Engage Tracker tool

The Engage Tracker, a travel and carbon savings tool that helps companies document monetary savings resulting from the use of videoconferencing, has been made available by BT.

The tool calculates employee travel costs avoided through the use of videoconferencing, as well as carbon emission reductions resulting from reduced travel.

Engage Tracker , which incorporates real-time reporting capabilities, facilitates accurate tracking of cost savings using the customer’s own data, as opposed to estimates or models. Travel savings can include avoided air travel and per diem costs. Carbon emission reductions are calculated based on avoided air travel.

Jeff Prestel, general manager of BT Conferencing’s Video Business Unit said: “Our customers who use video conferencing want concrete, measurable evidence of the technology’s benefits. Engage Tracker provides them with cost savings to prove return on investment as well as actual carbon emissions savings. Both are critical to making a solid business case for continuing to invest in video conferencing technology.”

Several global enterprises have piloted Engage Tracker, reporting thousands of avoided trips, millions of dollars saved and thousands of tons of carbon emissions avoided on an annualised basis.

Engage Tracker is available as an add-on module to Engage Meeting Manager, BT’s online scheduling and call launch tool.