Video meetings have become an essential part of our professional lives. However, they often come with their fair share of complexities and challenges. Sean Lessman from Synergy SKY discusses how to solve some of these problems with an easy-to-use, user-friendly, and cost-effective solution.
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Vemun Waksvik
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Make business video meetings easy: Simplified Scheduling, Joining & Content Sharing
Topics: Video Conferencing Microsoft Mixed Workflows Interoperability SIP Synergy SKY CONNECT
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Synergy SKY Featured in Cisco Webex Blog
Synergy SKY was recently featured in a blog post on the Cisco Webex website. To learn how we together connected 120 Cisco video rooms to Zoom and Google - read the full blog here.
Topics: Video Conferencing Microsoft Cisco Interoperability SIP Synergy SKY CONNECT
7 min read
SIP to Web interop gateway now available in the Azure Marketplace
Synergy SKY CONNECT offers an award-winning interoperability gateway that connects Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Zoom, and Webex meetings to existing video conference devices such as Cisco and Poly.
Topics: Video Conferencing Microsoft Mixed Workflows Interoperability SIP
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How to handle video meeting invitations - and connect to your meeting
Every video meeting invitation looks different, and it can be complicated to interpret what to dial to get into the meeting. This leads to frustration and delays in the start of meetings or people refusing to use video conferencing rooms.
But relax; Synergy SKY CONNECT will do that job for your meetings by taking any meeting invitation and producing a green button that will connect you to your meeting on time. Included in the Synergy SKY service is a gateway making this the only service your video room need.
Topics: Video Conferencing Microsoft Mixed Workflows Interoperability SIP Synergy SKY CONNECT
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The only Standards-based Interop Video Gateway
Synergy SKY CONNECT – the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) to WebRTC interoperability gateway - is a patented solution that connects these two standards for video, audio and data together.
Topics: Video Conferencing Microsoft Cisco Interoperability SIP Synergy SKY CONNECT
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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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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 meetings ad-hoc from your touch panel if the room is available. In addition, the 30.03 SW release has: Cisco Endpoint Phone Books, Room Issue Notifications.
Topics: Video Conferencing Release Notes Cisco
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How does CVI compare to the Synergy SKY CONNECT interop?
Is Synergy SKY better than CVI?
3 solutions in 1: Interoperability, Meeting workflow & Management Suite
Topics: Video Conferencing FreeBSD Microsoft Cisco Mixed Workflows SIP Synergy SKY CONNECT Featured
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How to connect your Cisco and Poly endpoints to ALL Microsoft Teams meetings
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There is an alternative to buying new hardware. You can get interop software today!
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The number of meeting platforms that you need to adapt to is increasing. Interoperability is becoming more and more important
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The major meeting platforms are changing every 3 years*
Topics: Cisco SIP Synergy SKY CONNECT Microsoft Teams Featured
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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 offer 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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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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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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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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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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Certified or non-certified solutions? 3 factors to consider when deciding on a VC solution
When deciding on software to streamline your set-up and eliminate your challenges, it is important that this software gives you the needed features today, tomorrow, and for the future.
Topics: Video Conferencing Cisco
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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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Benefits of adding Synergy SKY Suite to Cisco TMS XE
Experienced Videoconferencing and Collaboration/Workspace Technology teams have long understood the value of endpoint management tools such as Cisco TelePresence Management Suite (Cisco TMS).
Topics: Cisco TMS
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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
10 min read
'Tandberg offshoot doubles revenue'
Growth in the American video conferencing market doubled Synergy SKY’s results last year. And there’s more to come.
Topics: News & Press
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Meet our new Regional Sales Manager for UK and Ireland
Having grown up in the collaboration field, there is no doubt Adele Thornton is a perfect addition to the Synergy SKY team. With more than 17 years of industry experience, she is now taking on the role of the new Regional Sales Manager in the UK and Ireland.
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Izettle investor with $6.5 million USD boost to Synergy SKY
Synergy SKY receives $6.5 million USD backing as the Swedish investor Håkan Roos becomes major shareholder. This post is a translated version of a news article published by the Norwegian leading business news publication "Finansavisen".
Topics: Board Investment
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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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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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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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Your plans for 2018 are...?
Do something memorable or spectacular enough to influence the course of your life in a good way!
Topics: Collaboration Video Conferencing Synergy JOIN StarLeaf Partners Pexip Videonor
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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 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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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.
