Conferencing
The workplace has changed dramatically over the last 16 months. Businesses need solutions that enable employees to be as productive with customers and colleagues seamlessly. Whether they’re working in the office or remotely either at home or on the go.
Microsoft Teams is the UCC platform from Microsoft. Part of Office 365, it supersedes Skype for Business. The number of daily users surpassed 115 million in October of 2020, up 53% from April 2020. Demand shows no sign of abating as businesses continue to adopt and adapt to more flexible working practices.
Microsoft /teams brings together meeting, collaboration, calls, chats, app integration and file storage into one single interface. Often described as a “control hub for teamwork” MS Teams is designed to help streamline the way we now need to work.
In today’s article, we have put together a comprehensive guide exploring common challenges when using Microsoft Teams, and the products best suited to your working environment.
Common Challenges Using Microsoft Teams and BDM's solutions:
1. Maybe you are back working with a team and colleagues and you have the common challenge of crowding around a laptop, all trying to squeeze into the narrow camera angle.
2. Working from home or the office you will often be subject to background noise, interrupting your meeting whether that be with a client or colleagues.
3. Getting the correct camera angle is difficult enough when trying to take a new profile picture, let alone when trying to find the perfect angle for an hour-long MS Teams meeting.
4. Joining a meeting sounds simple in practice, right? This is often not the case, not being able to get into a meeting can lead to an unneeded amount of frustration.
Choosing the right products for your business:
Shared and personal workspaces are prevalent in organisations today. Whether you are a desk-based employee who works from home or an office or a combination of the two. Maybe an on-the-go professional who needs a mobile solution for whenever your day takes you. Or you require socially distanced working and meeting in huddle rooms to larger meeting rooms.
BDM Voice has a broad range of product options, all of which are certified by Microsoft for MS Teams. We will touch on a few of the key products ranging from home worker to large conference suites.
Home Worker:
Home or remote working is now commonplace for many workers. Changing the technology people need to communicate and collaborate. Whether you need headsets or speakerphones, all of our products are certified by Microsoft and have a dedicated Teams button. For example, the Jabra speak 710 has a simple one-touch that takes the user directly to Teams and all of the functions, making the whole process seamless and simple.
Huddle Room:
For small meeting spaces, such as Huddle Rooms, a video collaboration bar is an ideal solution for every Microsoft Teams meeting. An affordable product that is simple to set up and use in limited spaces. The Yealink VC210 video collaboration bar is ideal for meeting spaces with 3+ people:
- All in one design takes up less space and minimises cable clutter.
- Compact and lightweight design allows for multiple mounting options
- Ultra HD 4K 120° wide-angle camera for wide a wide field-of-view.
- Built-in Bluetooth and Wi-Fi
Small Meeting Room:
With over 50% of meetings taking place in small meeting rooms, a screen and the appropriate product, provides the ideal workspace for collaboration between colleagues, customers and suppliers. A Yealink MVC400 is the ideal solution for facilitating more productive and efficient meetings:
- Simple and easy to set up and use
- Auto framing 133° wide-angle camera with face detection
- Clear sound with speaker tracking and sound localisation
- Certified for MS Teams
Medium Meeting Room:
Whether it is your boardroom or a medium-sized meeting room, a fully installed premium solution that delivers superior quality audio and video seamlessly across a large workspace is a must. Yealink MVC500 2 enables collaboration with ease across multiple locations with many colleagues collectively:
- Fully Installed
- Simple to use interface with single button MS Teams operation.
- Auto framing 91° wide-angle camera with face detection
- Clear sound with speaker tracking and sound localisation
- Wireless content sharing and device management
- Certified for Microsoft Teams
Large Conference Suite:
Large-sized meeting rooms and conference suites require a completely integrated video solution. It needs to be easy to use without compromising performance or usability. Ensuring that everyone in the room can be seen and heard clearly. The MVC800 2 from Yealink is the perfect ‘complete room solution’:
- Fully installed
- Simple to use interface with single button MS Teams operation
- Auto framing 91° wide-angle camera with face detection
- Clear sound with speaker tracking and sound localisation
- Wireless content sharing and device management
- Certified for Microsoft Teams
- Remote device management via Cloud service
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