News Continued from P1


BlueJeans redesigns around end-user demand


BlueJeans brings video, audio and web conferencing together with the collaboration and messaging tools people use every day. Dolby Voice now powers the entire BlueJeans audio ex- perience, from the cloud to the client, for ultra-wideband, spatial audio with noise reduction technology on any de- vice. “We built the new BlueJeans experi- ence by empathizing deeply with our users, and placing the focus of meet- ings where it belongs, on the people and ideas that propel business, col- laboration and productivity,” said Mark Strassman, Chief Product Offi- cer, BlueJeans. “The new BlueJeans provides the most elegant and natural experience in the industry. Users are instantly productive and engaged while administrators have strong se- curity, control and management capa- bilities for the enterprise.” “BlueJeans has been an integral part of the meeting and collaboration process at LinkedIn for years. The new experience is a big step for the indus- try, and exactly what we expect from the team at BlueJeans -- management and control for administrators and a user experience that becomes second nature for everyone involved,” said Brian Frank, VP, Operations at Linke- dIn.


BlueJeans partners, including Dolby Laboratories, Facebook, Kaptivo, Poly- com, Microsoft and Voicera, help cre- ate a unified experience across all en- terprise endpoints inside and outside the office while building innovative applications for the digital workplace. Voice control


From digital assistants to interactive whiteboards, BlueJeans and its part- ners are evolving traditional meetings into intelligent meetings that greatly improve productivity. Leading Blue- Jeans partner integrations include: Alexa for Business allows meet- ing participants to dial into meetings with their voice and control BlueJeans by using Amazon Echo devices as a speaker phone. Kaptivo: Integrates with BlueJeans to transform any dry-erase board into a real-time collaboration tool to capture images and live stream content. Voicera's Eva, the enterprise virtual assistant enables the voice artificial intelligence powered Eva to join your meetings, like other participants, lis- tens, takes notes and provides high- lights, full transcripts or recordings as well as action items that can be shared by email, Slack or into systems like Salesforce. Simplicity


BlueJeans provides one-touch meet-


ing access from the widest array of endpoints, devices, collaboration and messaging tools like Slack, Atlassian HipChat and Skype so people can work more productively, whether through its native app, a browser or a room sys- tem.


For example; The Dolby Conference Phone with Dol- by Voice technology delivers one-touch access to meetings with crystal clear, ultra-wideband audio capture while reducing background noise and inter- ruptions.


Users of Workplace by Facebook can stream BlueJeans Meetings to their Workplace page to share content and broadcast events.


Meetings are also remarkably sim- ple for Microsoft customers, with the BlueJeans Gateway for Microsoft Teams providing one-touch meeting and native calendaring on any room system. In


addition, BlueJeans now


includes Microsoft Office 365 schedul- ing which provides one-touch calendar and meeting entry from Mac, Windows and Outlook Web Access.


Customers of Polycom, Cisco and LifeSize room systems enjoy Blue- Jeans’ one-touch meetings, calendar integrations and centralized controls for meeting administrators. BlueJeans supports the WebRTC standard for a wide variety of brows- ers. BlueJeans’ users can easily invite customers and partners to participate in 2-way video and audio conferenc- ing and content sharing with no app download or installation required. Trusted and secure


BlueJeans continues to extend its strength in enterprise-class security, manageability, performance and con- trol with enhancements for IT: With the addition of even more capa- bilities to its best-in-class Command Center, an interactive dashboard for live meeting management and service intelligence that includes alerts and more than 70 performance metrics, BlueJeans customers and partners have enterprise-class insight into ev- erything from individual meeting per- formance to international regulation compliance.


BlueJeans has successfully complet- ed its fifth consecutive round of SOC 2 audits and availability of our SOC 3 certification, a process which requires companies to maintain internal con- trols over their systems. The certifica- tion process requires an outside audit over several months and has become critical policy for cloud technology to scale across the enterprise environ- ment.


Ingram Micro U.K. and Ireland has announced a partnership with Infocus, who provide end- to-end display videoconferenc- ing solutions from video phones to projectors, and JTouch in- teractive touchscreens, the Monopad all-in-one touch and videoconferencing


solutions


and ConX Cloud videoconfer- encing services. The partner- ship enables Ingram Micro UK to enhance their AV portfolio and offer channel partners a strong choice of technologies. Raj Pandya, Commercial Di- rector Specialty Solutions at Ingram Micro commented: “Ingram Micro continues to ex- pand its AV proposition to our customers, the addition of In- focus, a globally recognised AV brand, will enable us as Ingram Micro to provide collaboration solutions and leading AV tech- nologies that cater for various end user markets. We look for- ward to building a strong part- nership together with Infocus and our channel partners.” Ingram Micro will be able to support customers to be able to provide a full suite of pre-


Ingram partners with Infocus sentation and collaboration


technologies that will enable


end customers to teach, train and visualize their work en- vironment. Infocus also offer videoconferencing software and cloud services, a full array of accessories, tablets, kanga- roo pocket PC’s, display wall processors and visualization and collaboration products that enable anyone to see and connect anywhere at any time, even using personal and mobile devices.


“InFocus prides itself on se- lecting the top partners around the world to enable its collabo- ration products to help people connect across the conference room and across the globe,” commented Mark Harris, Vice President Sales EMEA at Info- cus. “Ingram Micro’s network and commitment to the PRO AV, education, office and col- laboration space supports our overall growth strategy and is a natural alignment for a partner- ship. We are sure to increase with Ingram the brand recog- nition and the market share of InFocus”.


New leasing service from Midwich


Midwich has announced the launch of a new leasing service, which expands the Group’s ex- isting range of financial ser- vices available to customers. The


new service, branded


‘Dedicated Leasing Service’, will offer Midwich customers competitive rates for lease and hire purchases across the busi- ness’ broad spectrum of Docu- ment Solutions and AV product portfolios. To support ‘Dedicated Leasing Service’, Midwich has carefully selected five trusted finance providers with both industry and technical knowledge. The new service will further enable customers to provide leading technologies across markets such as retail, higher educa- tion and corporate. Leasing is becoming increasingly attrac- tive to customers wanting to accelerate the acquisition of new technologies, opting for regular fixed repayments. Louise Nevard, Head of Credit (UK & Ireland) at Mid- wich, commented: “We are constantly looking


at ways to increase our service offering to our customers. We are now in the position to offer bespoke leasing under ‘Dedi-


Louise Nevard, Head of Credit (UK & Ireland) at Midwich


cated Leasing Service’, either for our customers’ own use (rental and events) or as an of- fering to facilitate transactions with their end client.”


The Q38: Full HD 1080p resolution with Android OS, wireless connec- tivity and built-in rechargeable battery.


ly, there are integrated dual-2w speakers, as well as the option to pair the device via Bluetooth to a compatible sound system. To- gether, those features all help to amplify the large-screen viewing experience, while bringing con- tent to life.


The Qumi Q38 features a built-in wireless connection that enables


at a high-quality resolution, while featuring an embedded battery and light weight design, are all factors that have been designed with our customers’ needs and requirements in mind.” The Qumi Q38 is available imme- diately in red, black and white, from £499 ex VAT .


Full HD Qumi 38 features Android Full HD


Vivitek’s latest addition to its Qumi family features full HD 1080p resolution with Android OS, wireless connectivity and built-in rechargeable battery. Weighing just under 750g, and featuring a slim and lightweight design, the Q38 projector can be easily carried around in a hand- bag, briefcase or backpack. With a sleek minimalistic design and available in three colours - red, black and white - the projector is stylish enough to be suitable for a range of settings whether at home, at a garden party or even at work. With the Qumi Q38, customers can now share and enjoy the large-screen experience with even more friends and family, playing games, watching videos, or displaying other high-defini- tion content, thanks to a diagonal projection of up to 130” and full HD resolution. Its performance is aided by 600 Lumens bright- ness, 10,000:1 contrast ratio, along with its 30,000 hours LED light-source lifetime. Additional-


users to seamlessly connect to the web and project


digital content. For those who prefer to project directly from the projector, easy access to online streaming content provider apps is possible, enabling users to watch movies or television shows via services such as Netflix™ and YouTube™, using a smartphone as a hotspot. Similarly, the pro- jector’s PC-Free Reader enables users to preload media and doc- ument files onto the projector’s internal 8GB memory (5GB user availability), or to display content via a connected USB memory drive.


Commenting on the introduction of the Qumi Q38, Holger Graeff, General Manager, Vivitek EMEA, said: “The Qumi Series is one of our signature product ranges, and the newest addition to the range continues to show the im- proved technical advancements and projector


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