Enterprise conferencing needs are evolving rapidly, and many clients ask about ways to equip smaller conference rooms with cost-effective tools for videoconferencing. Obviously Skype, Lync and WebEx provide popular (soft VC) tools for one-to-one conference on a laptop, but quality is usually compromised when the conference call needs to have multiple participants (say 4 or…
Calculating the benefits of lighting and energy management solutions in a commercial context poses a challenge to many workspace designers and the business that build them. The fundamental reason for this is the fact that the technology is more or less invisible or inconspicuous and therefore barely noticed at all. Businesses have also not traditionally…
Unified communications is an increasingly important consideration for businesses who look toward it as a platform for improving productivity and responsiveness while reducing costs - no matter what their size or nature of business is.
In this whitepaper titled "Evaluating Unified Communications Solutions", Cisco talks about some of the key considerations that you should keep in…
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…
The benefits to extending unified communications and collaboration through the enterprise are well understood — but costs continue to deter organisations from implementing enterprise grade video conferencing in many smaller workspaces.
Many smaller groups end up having to manage with a lower quality experience on services like Skype running on a tablet/laptop/desktop. While the performance of…
The buildings that house our offices and homes have been transformed over the last couple of decades, with massive innovations in the architectural designs and the construction methods that are employed. Even the interiors of our workspaces have been transformed considerably – but sound and acoustics have remained secondary concerns for the most part.
In an…
Video collaboration is a powerful tool for enterprises — one that boosts productivity, saves costs and provides opportunities to transform work processes with improvements in efficiency. But for CXOs and CIOs, its also important to manage enterprise adoption to ensure a return on the investments made in setting up video collaboration infrastructure.
This 12-page survey report…
At Actis, we've been working on implementing Enterprise Collaboration or Unified Communications (UC) with clients for several years. The experiences we've had, point to problems in "Bridging the IT-AV divide" as a key issue that trips up implementation of enterprise collaboration. This is usually because either the IT and AV systems (or people) aren't working…