The Power of Collaboration
Organizations are continually rethinking how to best leverage space and technology to enable their workforce to collaborate. Today’s knowledge workers and students expect to be able to work together in small groups, participate in conference calls, connect via video chat, and share content from their laptop, tablet, or phone. These modern workforce expectations remain the same for both local and offsite employees.
Along with the rising demand for collaboration comes the need for properly-designed and equipped meeting spaces. Businesses seek technology solutions to help them meet the demand while also making efficient use of their available floorspace. In addition to updating existing conference rooms and boardrooms, technology can be used to transform unused office areas into open meeting spaces and huddle rooms. Options like these enable more productive meetings and provide areas that are frequently used by groups for quick meetings and project collaboration.
Keys to Successful Collaboration Systems
Extron collaboration technology supports the modern workspace by creating meeting rooms that are easy to use, schedule, and manage remotely. In addition, we have the system design experience, customer support, and enterprise software solutions to help ensure your success. Whether designing a large conference room, a training room, or smaller huddle spaces, it’s critical to provide the right communication and collaboration technology to simplify and enhance meetings.
A successful collaboration technology plan should support these key capabilities:
- Scalable Solutions – The technology solution must be customizable to meet the needs of various collaboration spaces from the smallest and simplest to larger and more complex.
- Intuitive Operation – Users must be able to enter the space and get going immediately without any training on the system.
- Flexible Capabilities – Users should be able to easily share the content from their laptops, tablets or phones with a wired or wireless connection.
- Secure Network Connectivity – To support scalability to dozens or hundreds of rooms in the enterprise, systems must be network connected to provide remote support, monitoring and firmware updates.
Powerful Management Tools
Integrated meeting solutions from Extron combine application-specific hardware along with powerful AV resource management tools. We offer a complete AV technology platform that makes meetings more productive and optimize use of available resources. This combination further enhances collaboration by delivering connected meeting spaces with automated functionality, consistent user experiences, and convenient room scheduling.
Extron Room Scheduling simplifies the room booking experience. Elegant TouchLink Scheduling panels connect directly to popular calendar services for simple and convenient room booking. For more information on Extron Room Scheduling.
Extron GlobalViewer Enterprise is a powerful tool that allows efficient management, monitoring, and control of AV systems across the entire enterprise. The integrated Help Desk displays a detailed view of room and equipment status for convenient remote support. For more information on GlobalViewer Enterprise.
Technology
Seamless Integration
With Leading Unified Communications Technologies
Extron has developed the technology to integrate with the leading UC solution providers, providing a one-touch user experience for conferencing, collaboration, and control. Through our partnerships, we can extend Extron control capabilities to spaces that use Zoom, Cisco, Logitech, and many other popular providers. We offer complete system integration for convenient, centralized control of conferencing systems, audio, video, lighting, window shades, and much more.
Wireless Collaboration Systems
Wireless collaboration systems provide content sharing from personal devices, enabling BYOD to be used in a wide variety of rooms and spaces. These easy-to-use systems have many valuable features including wired and wireless presentation in one device, secure collaboration, centralized management, simultaneous display from multiple sources, moderator control, customizable welcome screen, display control, and more. These professional capabilities provide easy integration of AV and mobile devices into huddle, meeting, and collaboration spaces.
Room Scheduling Systems
Book a Room the Easy Way
In today’s business environment, meeting rooms are in high demand, and finding an available space can be a time-consuming experience. We have simplified the room booking experience with Extron Room Scheduling. This stand-alone system consists of elegantly-designed TouchLink Scheduling panels that connect directly to Microsoft® Exchange and 365®, Google Calendar™, 25Live®, EMS, NFS, and Ad Astra®.
Users can make reservations directly from these panels, a computer, or any smartphone or tablet that connects to any one of the supported mail servers.
Extron Room Scheduling supports a TLSI 201 Interactive Wayfinding Interface to provide real-time meeting space availability, status, and location information using a centralized display.
GlobalViewer Enterprise
AV Resource Management
GlobalViewer Enterprise software simplifies AV system resource management with intuitive control for hundreds of common AV tasks. Whether you’re working with 5 or 5000 rooms, GVE provides a powerful, flexible way to manage, monitor, and control nearly any device over a standard network. It’s quite common for corporations, universities, and government agencies to have hundreds of collaboration spaces spread over broad areas. GVE allows you to manage this ever-increasing AV technology while effectively leveraging valuable help desk resources. The Help Desk view in GVE provides all the information you need from the entire enterprise or campus, all in one, easy-to-navigate interface.
GlobalViewer Enterprise Features
Designed to Enhance Productivity
Remote help desk
The Help Desk view provides a balance between power and usability. Easily navigate between rooms, manage each system with multiple tools, remotely interact with the Extron control products using visual representations, and see system notifications all within one view.
Track and analyze usage trends
Reporting tools help you make informed decisions about inventory and maintenance plans. View device and room usage trends to help improve equipment standardization across rooms, identify energy usage forecasts, and maintain inventory lists.
Simplify tasks with schedules
It’s easy to create schedules based on location or device type. Set a global schedule to turn off all displays in an entire building at the end of the day, schedule multiple actions to lock the front panel of multiple controllers, or schedule reminders for maintenance and support tasks.
Create user roles for all team members
GlobalViewer Enterprise minimizes the burdens of user administration. By simplifying access control for team members and creating custom user roles, administrators can easily govern security policies while still allowing users or user groups access to the specific features they need.
Monitor the status of AV equipment
Proactively monitor the status of AV equipment based on locations or device types throughout the enterprise. Get detailed email or text alerts on projector lamp life or if a device unexpectedly goes offline. Enhanced monitoring and scheduling tools provide significant time and cost savings.
Use facility scheduling systems
Instantly access room scheduling and availability for popular facility scheduling applications including Microsoft Exchange, Office 365, iCalendar, Google Calendar, CollegeNET R25, and 25Live.
Convenient notifications
Simplify operations with notifications that appear in the Help Desk view. Get status notification of your system configuration import or re-import, devices, controllers, and additional system events. These notifications and event logs add insight into system monitoring and help maximize efficiency.
iGVE mobile app
Use the iGVE App to effectively manage and control AV installations on-the-go from Apple iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch devices.
Global Support
With offices around the globe, Extron is able to provide dedicated, full-service support to customers worldwide. Extron’s global presence means that we are here for you, wherever you are.
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