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AVI-SPL Symphony a Finalist for SCN Award

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AVI-SPL Symphony is a finalist for the SCN Installation Awards’ Most Innovative IoT Product. It is now up to you to vote for the winner.

Symphony is the managed services platform that automates the scheduling, launching, management, and experience of your meetings. It gives you global control of your AV and UC estate from a web-based portal. Symphony also provides custom reports that share valuable information like room usage, quality of experience and device status, all of which your team can use to determine ROI and meet business objectives.

Vote for Symphony

Please take a moment to vote now for Symphony. The category is the sixth question in the online form. You do not have to vote in every category.

Thank you for your time and your vote for Symphony!

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Winners will be announced at InfoComm 2019.

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How Higher Education Can Make the Most of Its Current Tech Assets

AV in Education

JLL, a prominent real estate service provider, notes that higher education is facing the largest demand for capital investments they’ve ever seen. By upgrading their facilities, schools can recruit students to innovative programs that support teaching and learning in exciting and engaging ways. However, universities are also feeling the pressure from reductions in federal aid, due to defaults on school loans. JLL states that 40 percent of student loan borrowers are expected to default on their loans by 2030, which is a data point used for federal aid qualification.

So the challenge for schools is this: how to approach its building projects in a cost-effective way as they deal with the pressures of losing the support of student loans.

Gain Business Intelligence

Once a higher ed school upgrades or builds a facility, reductions in cost can be achieved with the right technology platform in place. A platform, like AVI-SPL Symphony, can bring tactical and strategic business intelligence to these institutions. Let’s look at a pre and post platform deployment example.

Pre – No Actionable Business Intelligence: A building has 100 rooms with 450 technology devices, ranging from video conferencing to projectors to displays and everything in between, all from a multitude of manufacturers. A teacher, who needs to use the equipment in one of the rooms, discovers the systems don’t work. She makes do without them, runs her class, and may or may not reach out to IT. Because the solutions didn’t work, she stops using that room or technology. IT eventually finds out about the problem, sends out a technician, fixes the issue and moves on to the next issue.

Post – Tactical Business Intelligence: This same building’s rooms and devices are loaded onto a managed services platform like AVI-SPL Symphony. Let’s say there is an issue with technology, from anywhere in that building. Through auto-detection, thresholds and ticket creation, IT can proactively resolve this issue before it affects the teachers and students. When issues cannot be resolved quickly, IT can inform the teachers, who can then move their classes and minimize disruption.

Post – Strategic Business Intelligence: As device data is collected through the monitoring and management platform, schools can analyze what is happening within their spaces, including which ones are being used and why, which technologies are generating the most tickets, and what are the root causes of those tickets. This enables data-backed decisions to be made on how to repurpose and upgrade those areas.

“Rather than turning to new construction to accommodate academic needs, colleges and universities continue to make better use of the facilities they already have,” says David Houck, co-leader of JLL’s Higher Education practice. “Campus utilization studies, occupancy planning tools and centralized management of shared spaces can unlock significant efficiency and savings opportunities.”

Work with AVI-SPL to learn more about Symphony and how it can do for your university what it’s doing for Australia’s RMIT:

 

 

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Manage Your Company’s AV and UC With Symphony as a Service

AV as a service

On the worldwide stage of ISE 2019, AVI-SPL announced the availability and value of its Symphony as a Service (SYaaS), which makes it easy for organizations to monitor, manage and improve their collaboration estate, and provide a better user experience of their AV and UC systems.

The Symphony managed services platform is the engine that drives AVI-SPL’s award-winning managed services for its clients around the world. With SYaaS, that platform is available on a subscription basis. AV and IT departments can be proactive about their collaboration spaces and devices as they launch and manage video calls, and keep track of the quality of experience during meetings. Through the service’s mobile-friendly, web-based dashboard, staff will have real-time insight into an organization’s AV devices, video systems, and conference infrastructure.

Symphony as a Service also provides analytics about room and device usage so that companies have the business intelligence to make informed decisions about future investment in meeting spaces and collaboration technology.

The announcement has been covered by industry magazines like rAVe, Tech Decisions, AV Magazine, AV Network, and Commercial Integrator, which shared this video it recorded at ISE 2019.  Here, AVI-SPL’s SVP of Services Tim Riek explains the value of SYaaS.

 

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Work With the AV Partner That Understands What Your Business Needs

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Dan Newman’s recent article for Commercial Integrator isn’t just a warning to commercial AV businesses; it’s a set of criteria that companies should use when shopping for an AV and unified communications provider.

Dan covers a handful of mistakes that AV integrators need to overcome if they want to remain competitive. Those mistakes include being too slow, incomplete service, and working with the wrong manufacturers.

AVI-SPL isn’t making those mistakes.

Rather, AVI-SPL embodies traits and abilities that companies should look for in a partner that provides digital workplace solutions and services.

  • AVI-SPL Smart Spaces is a catalog of ready-to-deploy meeting rooms that allows for easy collaboration and presentation using the latest in AV and UC technology, including video collaboration and wireless presentation systems.
  • Our research and development team is always improving AVI-SPL’s Symphony managed services platform, which is the cornerstone of its award-winning video managed services. Symphony automates the scheduling, launching, and management of your meetings, gives you the ability to monitor and manage your AV and UC estate (including rooms and devices), and generates the reports you need to guide your AV and UC investment.
  • AVI-SPL is the only AV and UC solutions provider that is part of JLL’s Workplace Strategy Council. To share its commitment to workplace transformation, AVI-SPL hosts educational events throughout North America. JLL, a global professional services company that specializes in real estate, is a valuable partner with us in delivering these events, because they help explain the future of work and how companies must adjust to attract and retain the best employees. I frequently share insights from JLL on this blog, including this one on the 3-30-300 rule.
  • AVI-SPL meets with Fortune 500 companies in its Customer Advisory Board to understand what they need to improve collaboration in the future workplace. These meetings have helped us understand the issues these companies want us to help them solve, including voice control in meeting rooms, workplace flexibility, and the need for video collaboration systems that are reliable and easy to use.

I’d like to hear about your challenges when it comes to improving the workplace experience. Comment below or send me an email. I may use your insight for a future post, and I’ll help guide you toward resources that address those challenges.

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See AVI-SPL Solutions and Services for Workplace Transformation at ISE 2019

AV Events

We hope to see you at Integrated Systems Europe, also known as ISE, the world’s largest AV integration show.  For businesses of all types, and IT and AV professionals, ISE is a great opportunity to network with colleagues while learning about the new technology solutions that companies have created to improve the way organisations do business.

This year’s event will be Feb. 5-8 at the RAI Amsterdam. You’ll find AVI-SPL at booth 11-C155. AVI-SPL is one of the world’s best known providers of AV and collaboration solutions to organisations of all types around the world. Our teams from the U.K., Germany, UAE, and the U.S. will be at the exhibition to share our services and answer attendee questions.

Schedule of events

All events are at booth 11-C155 in the Unified Communications Theatre unless otherwise indicated.

10 am – 10:30 am (Feb. 5-8)
Digital Workplace Transformation. Learn what digital workplace transformation can mean for your organisation, like improving the way people in the company work together and helping them be more productive because they have the tools and environment to be engaged with their work.

10:30 am – 11 am (Feb. 5-8)
Meeting-Room Standards. Discover why standards are important to establish when you want to implement meeting rooms throughout your organisation. Learn about AVI-SPL’s approach to creating those standards for your company and our Smart Spaces meeting rooms.

11 am – 11:30 am and 3:30 pm – 4 pm (Feb. 5-8)
AVI-SPL Symphony Demonstration. See how AVI-SPL’s managed services platform improves your company’s team collaboration and the reliability of your AV and UC systems.

11:30 am – 12 pm (Feb. 5-8)
RMIT Presentation. Australia’s RMIT University is using the AVI-SPL Symphony platform to monitor thousands of devices across hundreds of room around the world.

1 pm – 1:30 pm (Feb. 5-8)
MultiTaction Presentation. See what’s possible with the MultiTaction board and how it can be used to share your company’s story.

1:30 pm – 2 pm (Feb. 5-8)
Business Intelligence. You’ll understand why it’s important to track the use and health of your AV and UC systems. You’ll also see how Symphony delivers the custom reports that you need to measure the ROI of those systems.

2 pm – 2:30 pm (Feb. 5-8)
Technology Services. Get an overview of AVI-SPL’s process for providing clients with technology solutions that improve your operations. We’ll take you from consultation through implementation, adoption training, and global support.

Use AVI-SPL code 912672 when you register for ISE 2019 and save on the €150 admission.

 

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AVI-SPL Wins 2018 Frost & Sullivan Best Practices Award for Managed Video Conference Service Growth

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Frost & Sullivan recently named AVI-SPL the winner of its 2018 Global Managed Video Conference Service Growth Excellence Leadership Award.

This award recognizes AVI-SPL’s leadership in supporting the way people communicate and collaborate within the workplace. The variety of meeting spaces — huddle rooms, collaboration spaces, boardrooms, training areas — and the technology within them require flexible managed video conferencing services.

Within the award report, Frost & Sullivan looks at AVI-SPL’s ability to grow its video conference services by providing support that includes:

  • Professional services like evaluation, design and deployment that meet business outcomes
  • Managed services (onsite or from global service operations centers) that monitor and manage the AV and UC environment
  • Customer care like global help desk assistance that focuses on exceeding expectations by measuring customer satisfaction

The paper also looks at AVI-SPL Symphony, the managed services platform that Frost & Sullivan nicely summarizes:

Considered the centerpiece of AVI-SPL’s services go-to-market strategy, AVI-SPL Symphony allows businesses to automate the back-end processes required to schedule, monitor, manage, and analyze the global video conferencing and AV assets from a single platform. The AVI-SPL Symphony end user management application is designed as an easy to use, browser-based and mobile-friendly dashboard representing the customer’s window to the organization’s total meeting environment.

Frost & Sullivan explains the criteria that led to this award, including AVI-SPL’s growth strategy, which provides companies with simple, reliable collaboration systems and the business insight of Big Data and analytics.

Read the Frost & Sullivan “2018 Global Managed Video Conference Service Growth Excellence Leadership Award” >

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