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Vemun Waksvik
Recent posts by Vemun Waksvik
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Experience our award-winning gateway at ISE, Barcelona
Visit our booth to meet the team, get a demo and enjoy the best of Norwegian hospitality. Experience the new award-winning SIP to Teams interop designed to give you full flexibility.
Topics: Collaboration Video Conferencing Events
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How to ensure video communication interoperability in 3 steps
As the home office backdrop slowly loses its charm and the need for a professional meeting setting increases, people are beginning to travel into the office to make use of meeting rooms for their video meetings.
Video conferencing utilization will increase even after we return to the office, which highlights the need for proper video conferencing equipment in all meeting rooms and a strategy for UC interoperability.
Topics: Interoperability Synergy SKY CONNECT
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In-room booking of room and video with Cisco Webex touch controller
With Synergy SKY in-room booking* you can book both room and video meeting ad-hoc from your touch panel if the room is available.
In addition, the 2.3 SW release has: Cisco Endpoint Phone Books, Room Issue Notifications, Webex Fedramp OBTP
Topics: Video Conferencing Release Notes Cisco
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Cisco TelePresence Management Suite (TMS) replacement
Cisco TelePresence Management Suite and Cisco TelePresence Management Suite XE (Cisco TMS/ Cisco TMS XE)) is a portal for administering and monitoring your videoconferencing network from a single, organized interface. Both of them offers centralized control for on-site and remote video systems, as well as deployment and scheduling for the whole video network.
Topics: Cisco TMS
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3 factors that drive adoption of video conferencing
There are 3 crucial factors you need to have in order to achieve a frictionless meeting experience across technologies and generations of products: Compatibility, Interoperability, and Consistency.
Topics: Video Conferencing
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How to connect Cisco IX Series to a Microsoft Teams or Zoom Meeting
Learn how to easily connect your Cisco IX Series immersive telepresence endpoints to a Microsoft Teams or Zoom meeting with one click, while scheduling natively in Outlook or Google Calendar.
Topics: Video Conferencing
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Multiplying market access with key Cisco agreement
With the recent acquisition of an IoT platform and a fresh certification from Cisco, Synergy SKY opens its doors to millions of new meeting rooms.
Topics: News & Press Cisco
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Technology Acquisition: IoT sensor & cloud solutions for the meeting room
Synergy SKY is now increasing its reach to all meeting rooms by acquiring an existing IoT technology platform. The technology will make it possible to detect presence in meeting rooms without videoconferencing equipment, by using low-cost IoT sensors that are quick and easy to deploy.
Topics: IoT Sensors
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Bring Cisco WebEx Room Series into Microsoft Teams or Zoom Meetings
Learn how to easily connect your Cisco or Poly video conferencing endpoints into a Microsoft Teams, Skype, or any other VMR meeting with one click, while scheduling natively in Outlook or Google Calendar.
Topics: Video Conferencing Synergy JOIN
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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
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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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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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Welcome Industry Legend Sean Lessman to the Team
He has been pulling strings in the industry since 1995. Learn how he sees the market evolving and where it's going from here
First; a very warm welcome to the team Sean, we very much look forward to working closely with you and having fun together. Sean will take on the role of VP Business Development with a focus on new markets and developing relationships with Cisco and Microsoft. Read his own exciting and insightful words about the journey that lead him here and beyond:
Topics: New Hire
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New Launch: Synergy of Things - Make ALL meetings efficient meetings
The Synergy of Things is our latest software solution that extracts data from meeting room sensors, attendee behavior, and calendar data to make all meetings more efficient.
Introducing Synergy of Things
We are leading the way in making all meetings more efficient to save time, space, and money.
Topics: Collaboration Video Conferencing Synergy JOIN Synergy ANALYZE News & Press
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Meet our new CFO - Remy Engelsen
As a result of the rapid growth Synergy SKY is experiencing and to better serve our customers, employees, and partners, it is with great pleasure that we introduce our Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Remy Engelsen, a senior member of the leadership team.
Topics: New Hire
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30+ Fortune 500 are using Synergy SKY to make video meetings easier
We have added more than 30 Fortune Global 500 companies and hundreds of others to our software solutions for easier video meetings. Find out why...
Topics: Collaboration Video Conferencing Use Case
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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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It takes five or ten minutes just to get connected - Tim Cook, Apple
"It's an incredible loss of productivity" he continued to mention during his keynote at Cisco Live. Tim was talking about the time wasted to just get a virtual meeting started.
Topics: Collaboration Video Conferencing Synergy JOIN
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NEW PRODUCT: Synergy CONTROL
Synergy CONTROL gives video administrators instant control over scheduled and active meetings. Flexible search methods put the admin on top of any situation faster. The right tool at the right time eliminates frustration and ensures successful meetings in real-time.
Topics: Collaboration Video Conferencing Synergy CONTROL
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2 major pains with video conferencing and how to eliminate them
Time is your and your organization’s most valuable asset. Make sure you don’t waste it on mundane routines such as planning and starting/joining video meetings.
Topics: Video Conferencing Synergy JOIN
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Halvorsen is back in videoconferencing
After a few years break from the collaboration industry, Halvorsen thinks the timing is perfect for a comeback...
Topics: New Hire Sales
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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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Skype Online IVR by Pexip and Synergy SKY
The Synergy SKY management suite enables external video systems to join Skype Online (S4B O365) meetings
Topics: Collaboration Video Conferencing Synergy JOIN Release Notes Skype for Business Pexip
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Never miss a meeting - record it!
To record and later playback a video meeting used to be quite an exercise. Now we've made it as easy as scheduling ordinary meetings with people and rooms
Topics: Collaboration Video Conferencing Synergy JOIN Skype for Business REC.VC Quickchannel
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REC.VC + Synergy JOIN: Video meeting recording made easy
It has never been easier to schedule, join, record, and playback your meetings, across any collaboration platform
Topics: Sales Partners Pexip Videonor News & Press REC.VC
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Synergy SKY CEO relocates to New York
Video-Valley is in Norway, but the market is in the US
Topics: Sales Partners News & Press
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Welcome Justin Haaga as Sr. Sales Engineer (US)
We are pleased to introduce Justin Haaga to our Americas team as Senior Sales Engineer
Topics: Collaboration Video Conferencing New Hire
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Your plans for 2018 are...?
Do something memorable or spectacular enough to influence the course of your life in good a way!
Topics: Collaboration Video Conferencing Synergy JOIN StarLeaf Partners Pexip Videonor
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Google Calendar Support in Synergy JOIN 3.0
Schedule video resources from Cisco and Polycom in Google Calendar (G-Suite) and start your video meeting with one click!
Topics: Collaboration Video Conferencing Synergy JOIN Google
Synergy SKY partners with Icubed
And with that, Italy is now on the Synergy SKY map.
Topics: Synergy JOIN Partners
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Back to Basic, “B2B”, Pär is back
Pär Svensson, the co-founder of Visual Conference Group (VCG) and Synergy SKY’s biggest investor, is back in business.
Topics: New Hire Sales
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Synergy SKY partners with Mercuri Teleconferencing
We are excited to announce a partnership with Mercuri Teleconferencing, a StarLeaf gold partner and our first partner in Canada
Topics: Collaboration Video Conferencing Synergy JOIN Skype for Business Partners
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Deal Secured With Bank on Forbes Top 100
The bank settled on Synergy JOIN as the optimal product to make life easier for users scheduling and booking video meetings across the bank's many Cisco video rooms and Skype desktop clients.
Topics: Collaboration Video Conferencing Synergy JOIN Skype for Business
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Synergy JOIN 2.2 with Starleaf Support
Synergy JOIN now also supports StarLeaf, making it easy to schedule Skype4B video meetings and join in one click from Polycom and Cisco video endpoints.
Topics: Collaboration Video Conferencing Synergy JOIN Release Notes
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Welcome Magnus Rabben as VP Sales Americas
We are pleased to introduce Magnus Rabben as the first of many strategic steps coming up in our new Americas commitment
Topics: Collaboration Video Conferencing New Hire
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Dan-Ove Hafstad new Sales manager Norway, Denmark and Iceland
Synergy SKY hires Dan-Ove Hafstad as Regional Sales Manager Norway, Denmark, and Iceland
Topics: Collaboration Video Conferencing Telepresence New Hire
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Dan-Ove Hafstad ny salgssjef Norge, Danmark og Island
Synergy SKY ansetter Dan-Ove Hafstad som vår første salgssjef dedikert for Norge, Danmark og Island. Han er litt av en mann! Les intervjuet med han her
Topics: Collaboration Video Conferencing Telepresence New Hire Norway
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Join video meetings in One-Click (extended support to WebEx and Spark)
Synergy JOIN enables one click to join from Cisco and Polycom endpoints. Now with extended support for WebEx and Spark
Topics: Collaboration Video Conferencing Telepresence
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Join Teams, Skype for Business or 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?"
Topics: Collaboration Video Conferencing Telepresence
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Office Management first mover on new technology from Synergy SKY
Leading Swedish collaboration experts brings national footprint and global customers to Synergy SKY certified partner network.
Topics: Collaboration Video Conferencing Telepresence
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Synergy SKY partners with Nevicom
Nevicom and Synergy SKY today announced a partnership that will bring customers in Switzerland simplified ways to schedule and join video meetings and analyzing tools for video conferences and Skype for Business.
Topics: Collaboration Video Conferencing Telepresence Partners
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Synergy SKY partners with Atea Denmark
We are pleased to announce our partnership with Atea Denmark. With this, we are able to expand Resale, Service, and Support to reach Denmark.
Topics: Collaboration Video Conferencing Telepresence
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Norsk video-mygg gjør det enklere for amerikanske kjemper å møtes
Jobber du i en organisasjon som bruker samhandling er det stor sansynlighet for at du har mottatt en slik møteinnkalling. En slik invitasjon kan være en utfordring å tolke spesielt når du i siste liten har funnet riktig møterom, eller lurer på hvilken klient du skal bruke og hvem ringer hvem?
Topics: Collaboration Video Conferencing Telepresence Norway
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Improved integration for Skype for Business and video meetings
Synergy SKY announces Synergy JOIN, enabling One Button To Push for Video Conferencing systems participating in Skype for Business scheduled meetings.
Topics: Collaboration Video Conferencing Telepresence
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SPv4.6, New Robust Sheduling and more
