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.

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:

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
Further reading

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?

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.


