PATENTEM - is an electronic meeting system, produced and developed by Czech company Sterkonix. The system operates on Windows, Linux, iOS and Android.
In 2016 PATENTEM was successfully implemented in Committee on State Construction, Regional Policy and Local Self-Government of Ukraine and the Coordination Board of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.
Apart from basic EMS functional capabilities, PATENTEM allows full integration with roughly all conference systems, use of Active Directory for system users and DCN CCU2 for microphone management.
Advantages and disadvantages of the system
As any electronic meeting system in general and an independent product itself, PATENTEM has its own advantages and disadvantages:
Advantages
Anonymity - due to anonimity mode of most EMS systems, meeting participants are more secured and feel no longer vulnerable to be thought of as incompetent or foolish for their cooments during issue discussion
Group synergy - conducting a meeting, using EMS system has a positive effect on a decision making process, since participants tend to consider themselves as a united group, rather than individuals.
Electronic records - thanks to automated record keeping, participants of the meeting no longer need to make notes, remember comments or fear that they may not hear or understand something, mentioned during the meeting. Meetting log is always accessible for participants during and even after the conference or meeting is over (log can be published on organization's website).
Time saving - it's been proven that automated meetings are significantly faster in terms of time and participanys need less time to discuss and conclude decisions.
Among other factors that positively speak in favor of EMS systems are higher group satisfaction, support meetings with a huge amount of participants, develop technical skills etc.
Disadvantages
Slower communication - since most people speak faster than type words, in some cases it may slower the whole process of meeting holding.
Situationality - not all meeting may benefit from using EMS system, but only those that require group and collective work. Otherwise, such systems would contribute nearly nothing to the meeting.
Breakdown - definitely, it's impossible to exclude a scenario when in the middle of the meeting system may crash compltetly or partially. It's something that is hard to foresee and avoid, however, nowadays chance of such scenario are increadibly miniscule.
