The Benefits of ClickShare: Quick, Easy IT Integration
As an IT manager or member of an IT department your work life is always challenging. Software upgrades and locked accounts are peanuts compared to new implementations of ever-changing tools and solutions. Freeing up your time for big, future-proof projects and helping you get rid of the daily break & fix issues, now there’s our challenge.
ClickShare offers a range of wireless collaboration and conferencing solutions that are secure, easy to manage and performant. Thanks to a specific set of features designed to match your needs, ClickShare is sure to boost business efficiency and performance for all employees and guests. When you invest in ClickShare, you prepare your enterprise for the future and embrace the Digital Workplace.
Embrace BYOD and BYOM in your company
New generations of millennials are entering the workplace and their expectations are driven by their digital lifestyle (online gaming, Google docs, social media…), especially when it comes to choosing technology solutions. Ease-of-use and accessibility are their main requirements for technology, and they are not only the ones using the tools, they also manage them. BYOD and BYOM have since long been common practice in businesses.
With remote and flexible working on the rise, it is also paramount that devices and tech used by your employees are fully secure, easy accessible and fully compatible with your existing IT infrastructure. Still the use of personal devices, apps and tools often clash with the requirements of a business. Deciding and implementing technology solutions in an enterprise is the responsibility of an IT department. The challenge for an IT-manager is to find those tools that fit within the budget, but that also give employees that same intuitive experience and that speed up business outcomes. Preferably one–fits-all solutions that don’t disrupt the employee experience.
“By 2020 the greatest source of competitive advantage for 30% of companies will come from the workforce’s ability to creatively exploit digital technologies” – Gartner, Hype Cycle Digital Workplace, 2018
What does this mean for your collaborative tools?
Setting up a meeting or conf call today is not as straightforward as it might seem. It’s trouble, it’s calling IT and fighting with tech that is not as intuitive as it should be. The meeting room collaboration tools are often too complex and room-centric. Unlike, person-centric tools that are more closely integrated into the employee’s digital workflow than any of set-ups in enterprises today.The success of your future meeting room strategy and the choice of your collaborative tools depends a great deal on putting the user at the center of the workflow. Only then will you be able to make effective use of your meeting room real estate, free your enterprise from clutter and useless interventions in meeting rooms and actually gain time.
“55% of younger workers have begun to push conference managers for spaces with more accessible video solutions in the workplace” – Wainhouse research, 2017
The success of your future meeting room strategy and the choice of your collaborative tools depends a great deal on putting the user at the center of the workflow. Only then will you be able to make effective use of your meeting room real estate, free your enterprise from clutter and useless interventions in meeting rooms and actually gain time.
How can ClickShare change your work life?
In order to enable your business to grow its productivity, you, as IT-manager, will need to opt for new tools and ways of working. So, in looking for innovative and cost-effective meeting solutions, take note of the benefits ClickShare wireless solutions can bring you and your department:
1. A single user experience
Why not go for collaborative solutions that can be used throughout your entire enterprise, from huddle space to boardroom, from meeting room to conference room? Integrating and combining different solutions requires extensive IT support and knowledge by users. ClickShare set-ups, however, are seamless and unified, without integration compatibility issues. Our ClickShare Conference range works with the UC solutions of your choice, no matter which, and instantly connects to your AV USB room peripherals (speakerphones, soundbars, cameras). Starting a meeting is always the same, no downloads, manuals or extra tools needed for your employees. We offer a simple Plug and Play option in every huddle room, meeting room or boardroom. Next to that ClickShare products are fully BYOD compatible. Wireless presentation with the ClickShare range can be done from any device with both the Button or Collaboration Apps, where it are devices from Windows, Android or Mac users. Access to wireless conferencing in the ClickShare Conference range works with a Conferencing Button, collaborating in the actual meeting room can be done with both Button and Collaboration App.
2. Perfect fit with your environment
The integration of all ClickShare systems into your network, whether they are from the range of wireless presentation systems or wireless conference systems, is simple and can be fully adapted to your network requirements. Our connected, IT grade solution supports any infrastructure configuration that your company might deploy: standalone, connected or fully networked. Read more
3. No additional training
Explain once, enable forever. ClickShare fits with a consistent and intuitive meeting experience that allows you to train users on their laptop, enabling them to use that same workflow to start a meeting in a meeting room.
4. Easy to manage
The day-to-day management of ClickShare is easy, with tools like ClickShare configurator or Button manager. But real value comes when working with our XMS management platform. Managing, monitoring and updating with our free software updates a fleet of units can be done smoothly and automatically with our XMS cloud-based solution. A set of analytics and dashboards offers insights in the use of your collaborative tools and gives you further possibilities to optimize the capacity of your facility.
5. No need for additional investments
When your IT department considers a new solution, one of the most common problems is, inevitably, the cost involved. Not only do new systems require investment, they often need further investments in new peripherals for use with them. With ClickShare there is no need for any additional investment. Our products work with your existing USB peripherals and there is no requirement for additional HDMI leads or adapters to meet BYOM (bring your own meeting) needs.
6. Guest friendly
Guests bring their own devices, and are often crucial participants in meeting rooms. Use a secure solution, enabling your employees to close deals, meet, brainstorm with guests in and outside the meeting room with only, one single experience for all.
7. Secure
As only ISO 27001 certified wireless solution on the market, ClickShare products are designed with security in mind. Both in hardware, software and even on a process level. Your security, privacy and confidentiality are high on our agenda. Enterprises can benefit from choosing their own security levels, there are multiple layers of encryption and a thoughtful implementation of verification mechanisms like a pin-code. Working with the ClickShare Button or App, only allows original Barco software to run on your device and prevents malware from invading. Know more on our security? It’s clear that your end users should not deal with complex meeting room set-ups when they are used to quick meetings and video calls. Recognize the improvements you can make? ClickShare can help you to bring collaboration to the next level in your company.