As government agencies increasingly adopt Microsoft Teams for their communication needs, ensuring secure and seamless interoperability with existing video conferencing systems is paramount. Two primary solutions on the market — Synergy SKY CONNECT for Government and Microsoft Cloud Video Interop (CVI) — offer different approaches to this challenge. This post explores why Synergy SKY CONNECT for Government stands out as the only truly on-premises Teams interoperability solution, providing unparalleled security and simplicity.
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Why Synergy SKY CONNECT for Government is the Ultimate On-Premises Teams Interoperability Solution
Topics: Collaboration Synergy SKY CONNECT for Government Microsoft Teams
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One Organization, Six Conference Platforms
How do you schedule and start meetings when you have six platforms to choose from?
Topics: Collaboration Video Conferencing Use Case
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7 unique benefits of Synergy SKY CONNECT; SIP to web interoperability
Synergy SKY CONNECT is an award-winning, multi-vendor gateway that connects any Cisco and Poly SIP video endpoint to Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, and Zoom meetings. Here are seven unique benefits:
Topics: Collaboration Video Conferencing Interoperability Microsoft Teams
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Have you ever booked a fake meeting to appear busier at work?
Whether you want to admit it or not, throughout our working lives, many of us have bent the rules when it comes to business meetings.
Topics: Collaboration Video Conferencing IoT Meeting No-show
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Which video conferencing platform should you meet on?
How do you avoid painting yourself into a technology corner? Does the simple fact that everyone now has adopted video conferencing technology actually make business meetings easier?
Topics: Collaboration Video Conferencing
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Are meetings the biggest wasted cost for businesses?
How often have you found yourself diving into an empty meeting room that is shown as being pre-booked? You say - “let’s grab this meeting room quickly, if someone comes along we’ll find another”. It’s all too common in office spaces, and there's a very real reason for this.
Topics: Collaboration Video Conferencing IoT Meeting No-show
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Putting the ‘human’ into virtual meetings
From Beijing to Boston and everywhere in between, events and meetings are being cancelled. Starbucks has cancelled the company’s annual shareholder meeting and is holding a virtual meeting instead. TED’s conference in Canada is not going ahead, postponed along with hundreds of other trade shows.
Topics: Collaboration Video Conferencing Synergy JOIN
Summer check-in with Ståle Reitan
Popping in on Ståle's summer vacation road trip down the coast of Norway, we talked about building teams internationally. He also gave a few tips for others looking to do the same. See what he had to say:
Topics: Collaboration Culture
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Are you ready for the new normal?
The global pandemic has forced people to quickly establish and adapt to remote ways of collaborating and communicating. Many have been creative in finding new apps and systems to keep business running. So, when the pandemic subsides and we prepare for “the new normal”, IT and video administrators will be challenged by colleagues who have now settled into their own preferred tools for video conferencing.
Topics: Collaboration Video Conferencing
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The future of video endpoints, moving to the cloud, and interop
Collaboration Week is a week of information exchange coordinated by the IMCCA where manufacturers, partners, and customers can get together to discuss the current industry issues. There are many presentations and panels involving industry thought leaders and experts from both sides of the experience as well as networking meals and social gatherings to discuss the content. And of course, there were prizes and giveaways!
Topics: Collaboration Video Conferencing
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exTANDBERG team grows quadruply (...) - Dagens Næringsliv
Norway’s largest business newspaper, Dagens Næringsliv (DN), picks up Synergy SKY's hockey stick growth.
Topics: Collaboration Video Conferencing Events
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Join Teams, Skype for Business or Google Hangouts meetings with one click
The Synergy SKY Management Suite solves the most common problem users face when walking into a meeting room with a video conferencing system: "How to join the meeting?"
