"We can have a team meeting in a virtual environment and everyone can see and hear each other and contribute," he said. "The ability to present documentation and architectural diagrams in real-time, where everyone can interact, has been a great thing for us."

Next on O'Brien's agenda is a move to Cloud computing, with Oakton looking to shift more of its internal operations to the Cloud.

"We're looking at what more we can put out into the Cloud externally and looking at what the pros and cons are of this," he said.

The news comes as Oncall it had slashed travel costs through deploying video conferencing|new]], and as Queensland based Mercy Health to improve internal communications and increase employee safety.