The reality of the business environment today, is that many companies and organisations have meeting rooms, conference rooms, boardrooms which are globally connected. While these are tremendously powerful tools to have, there are some problems that can potentially occur in these circumstances due to poor or just outdated design. These problems often undermine the quality…
Activity-based workplaces are getting some attention from designers of corporate work spaces and from organisations themselves. These environments get employees out of their assigned cubicles and gives them a variety of spaces to use based on what they need to do and who they need to connect with throughout the day.
This is the second part…
Creating collaborative spaces for different grade levels is important, and schools are beginning to design classrooms that will accommodate a wide variety of learning activities lectures, cooperative learning, group activities, learning by teaching or presentations or lectures by students, multimedia technology in classroom, etc.
Since learning is reliant on the social, emotional, and physiological development of…
In internal team discussions at Actis, we often marvel at how we feel 2015 represents the cusp of a massive transformation of how business is conducted. While the primary driver of this change is the real-time global business environment, this is closely followed by the fact that many collaboration-assisting technologies are now either achieving maturity,…
The term collaboration is almost always subconsciously associated with businesses, but its truly a universal tool that the mobile internet has enabled at almost every level and in almost every sphere of our lives. We collaborate as individuals in innumerable ways and then look for opportunities to apply this our work — making things happen…
While we are clearly evangelists of the power of audio-visual technology to impress an audience, this particular example of audio-visual installation art has us completely mesmerised. With names like Frank Gehry, Walt Disney Concert Hall and Refik Anadol involved, it clearly represents a new high point for the creation of an audio-visual experience.
Fastcompany provides some…
Enterprise video represents a set of technologies that have the widely acknowledged potential to transform the way we work — but making sure of which ones to follow is a challenge for CIOs and CTOs.
In this insightful infographic, AVNetwork prescribes the trends that you should keep an eye on during the course of 2015.
The top…
Amongst AV professionals, there is consensus on the fact that "the system is only as good as the distribution".
This refers to common experiences with clients who are new to large scale AV deployments — and who focus on more glamorous and conspicuous elements (like the display and audio hardware) and somewhat overlook the distribution system.
This…
A while ago, in a video conversation with Sachin Prabhudesai, we touched upon about how regular homes can now enjoy control and automation solutions too — because more affordable options for this are available.
With this video peek into its London demo room, Crestron provides an interesting glimpse into connected homes and the kinds of features…
The AVNetwork has a vision for the future of technology-enabled learning spaces, and they've described it in some detail here. Read the complete article to see if you can get some useful ideas to give your classroom design and integration project a jump start.
A few insightful extracts from the article...
"Ideally, the collaborative classroom…
With the improvements to web conferencing software and platforms (like WebEx and others) over the last few years, IT managers are wondering whether quality and reliability have reached a point where they are good enough for enterprise use.
In this video, Lifesize’s video evangelist explains the difference between the two technologies and says that quality of…
As enterprise AV technologies continue their move onto the enterprise network (which they share with IT services), its important for businesses to understand how they can be leveraged for maximum benefits. In this video (about 5 minutes) Biamp describes the benefits of Networked Media solutions and talks about various applications and also the network structures that…