The future of work: Hybrid workplace solutions & strategies

Enhancing employee experience for the multi-vendor hybrid office

Optimizing the new hybrid office

Creating a successful meeting room experience for the multi-vendor hybrid office.
2023 UC awards VOSS - Highly Commended Best Microsoft Teams Solution

The Challenge

Do you want to create an amazing workplace experience, with Microsoft Teams as the foundation? Are you reconfiguring office space to accommodate the needs of office and remote workers?

Office meeting rooms serve different purposes: from dropdown points to huddle spaces to large boardrooms. All must enable in-office and remote participation while delivering a superior meeting experience and making the office a magnet that employees come to to work, collaborate, and drive productivity.

The Solution

Cisco and Microsoft now deliver certified compatibility between Microsoft Teams and the wide range of Cisco meeting room products. This unlocks a solid foundation to build multi-vendor UC and collaboration solutions.

Now you can optimize your meeting room experience with VOSS. We provide a highly automated management platform to administer all UC tools and address all meeting room requirements.

Investing in VOSS automation management will support you across the deployment, operational management, analytics, and monitoring lifecycle; all from a single point of control:

  • Accelerate the deployment of new meeting rooms

  • Proactively monitor meeting room status

  • Deliver proven configuration profiles

  • Monitor version and model compliance

  • Reset to a pre-configured setup at the start of each day

  • Track usage, occupancy, and costs

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98% of meetings now have remote participants

The Value

With VOSS, you can optimize your meeting room experience and enjoy these benefits:

Gain visibility and control into the meeting room experience across Microsoft Teams, meeting room devices and users, across your UC network.

Match meeting room requirements to a certified device from Cisco, then streamline the management with automation and analytics

Deliver inclusive experiences for both in-meeting and remote participants, with a toolset that quickly identifies and resolves issues

Proactively monitor usage, occupancy, licensing, and related costs, to track and optimize your investment

Avoid frustration with a meeting room setup by deploying a standard configuration template at setup and regularly during the working week, and in bulk

Seamlessly integrate existing users on Cisco Call Manager systems into your Microsoft Teams meeting room experience

Optimizing the New Hybrid Office

See how you can create successful meeting room experiences using Microsoft Teams as the foundation, for your new multi-vendor hybrid office.

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Further reading

Microsoft Teams for the hybrid workplace
Managing many meeting rooms

Meeting rooms, communication platforms, calendar coordination software, videoconferencing equipment – the function-rich, multi-vendor nature of today’s modern hybrid office is a double-edged sword.

On the one hand, this apparent Frankenstein monster is an unlikely fusion of the world’s biggest and best enterprise communication brands capable of delivering stellar user experience. After all, for many, what’s not to like about the recent, surprise, and much-vaunted Microsoft/Cisco endpoint certification partnership announcement?

UC today article about How to leverage a Microsoft/Cisco partnership to optimize the new multi-vendor hybrid office

How to leverage a Microsoft/Cisco partnership to optimize the new multi-vendor hybrid office
Read the latest article from UC Today

In this guest blog post, esteemed industry analyst, Kevin Kieller looks at the challenge facing larger organizations who are managing multiple meeting rooms that have equipment from several different vendors.

Young woman having a meeting in a public area on a laptop - multi-vendor hybrid office meeting room experience

Optimizing the new hybrid office
Read the latest blog from VOSS

Cisco and Microsoft are collaborating to deliver exceptional meeting room experiences. In this latest blog post, we explain how can enhance the experience with VOSS