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Whether we live in advanced or developing regions, the one tool that billions of us use to bridge our home and work worlds is our mobile device. We take it with us everywhere, it’s always on, and with it we’re always connected. As these devices continue to grow smarter, more powerful, and more integral to our everyday home and work lives, they are opening up transformative possibilities for how and where work gets done—together with a rising quality of life.

Extending your enterprise video network beyond the traditional boundaries of the conference room to mobile devices is now possible with Polycom® RealPresence® Mobile. Meeting face-to-face and collaborating via content sharing capabilities with anyone from anywhere—improves teamwork, decision making, and productivity across the enterprise. Unlike other tablet applications that are proprietary, unsecured, and have limited effective reach, RealPresence Mobile is standards-based, with the broadest interoperability in the industry. Polycom delivers the management, scalability, reliability (lost packet recovery), security, and firewall traversal requirements to enterprises with a large number of mobile employees. Ease of use and accessibility of the Polycom solution drives higher adoption rates, greater productivity, and therefore an immediate return on investment.

Home Office

We’re in the office less and less, but we want to see each other more and more. To look each other in the eye, put a face to a voice, observe the nuances of human behavior. Research has shown that this is how we learn best, retain most, earn trust most readily, and do our best consensus-building because visually we’re more persuasive. We want the same high-quality video collaboration experience that we get in a conference room. And we want this experience whether we’re in an immersive theater, conference room, corporate office, home office, or on the go.

Employees needn’t be restricted to working solely at their office desk to get the job done. Business travel, extreme weather conditions, flu pandemics, or the need to be mobile can all leave employees cut off from colleagues. This emphasises the need for communication tools to keep your workforce productive and in-touch. Part of the Polycom® RealPresence® Platform, Polycom® Telepresence m100 is a PC-based video communication software, which is easy to use, of HD quality, and low cost. Searching for colleagues, dialling them in to a video collaboration session, and sharing desktop content with the click of a mouse has never been easier. The standards-based Telepresence M100 does not require additional equipment such as gateways for sharing voice, video, and content, taking the strain off the IT department.

Work Office

Several business trends are converging and new technologies are emerging that are evolving the human collaboration experience—radically improving the way we work together. Our appetite for increased connectedness is driving innovators to create new ways to bring us closer together. And these new technologies, such as social business, mobility, and cloud-delivered services, are the driving forces behind a whole new paradigm for communication that is centered around the power of video collaboration.

Turning your personal workspace into a global meeting environment has never been easier. Video collaboration tools like the Polycom® HDX® 4000 series are built to HD industry standards, providing secure visual collaboration and content sharing in any professional workspace. With Polycom HD Voice™ technology and dual, built-in microphones, you can hear remote participants in full stereo, delivering astonishingly life-like audio. The power of video as the preferred way to collaborate—easily, reliably, and securely—regardless of network, carrier, protocol, application, or the device.

Conference Room

Our appetite for increased connectedness is driving innovators to create new ways to bring us closer together. And these new technologies, such as social business, mobility, and cloud-delivered services, are the driving forces behind a whole new paradigm for communication. The need has never been greater for a scalable, reliable platform that supports both emerging technologies, but one that can also optimise capabilities for more traditional room-based conferencing systems.

The Polycom® HDX® Series of room-based confreencing systems provides seamless interoperability with existing and future collaboration investments, reducing cost and complexity. Connecting and collaborating with anyone across your organisation via video, can be established as easily as making a phone call. People are connected visually, whether for an interview across two cities, or for a project meeting where team members are dispersed across the globe. HDX solutions deliver advanced features and HD video, voice, and content-sharing to make meetings and your workforce more productive.

Immersive Theatre

Collaborative work sessions, lengthy meetings and high-level training held in an unnatural environment can exhaust participants, leaving them less likely to contribute and perform to their best. Immersive telepresence systems have evolved significantly, creating lifelike experiences where users can completely forget about the technology and focus solely on the people.

Unlike products that are limited to calling only similar systems and require significant investments in room remediation and bandwidth, the Polycom® RealPresence® Immersive experience is truly like being in the same room. Systems are fully standards-based for calling in to other telepresence, room, and mobile clients, while using up to 50% less network bandwidth. Custom-designed immersive telepresence experiences using Polycom software and technology, can bridge the gap across a wide range of collaborative room environments and sizes.

Universal Video Collaboration

For organisations that want to share the next great idea face-to-face, from anywhere, anytime, with assurance of interoperability now and in the future, Polycom® RealPresence® Collaboration Server is software for multiparty video, voice, and content collaboration that connects the most people at the highest quality for the lowest cost. Unlike other closed, inefficient offerings that require expensive gateways, only RealPresence Collaboration Server provides efficient delivery of resources, open standards support, and native integration with the broadest range of applications and UC environments.

From the entry-level Polycom® RMX® 1000 to the enterprise-level Polycom® RMX® 4000, we've enabled businesses of any size to benefit from collaborative video conferencing that's intuitive, flexible and a productive experience for all.

Video Resource Management

For video conferencing/telepresence administrators who want to efficiently and easily manage their network, Polycom® RealPresence® Resource Manager provides scheduling and management of conference calls, provisioning and monitoring of endpoint devices, and efficient and easy-to-use services such as dial plans and directory services. Unlike other products, RealPresence Resource Manager scales network operations to efficiently deploy new services such as RealPresence Mobility in a fully redundant configuration for increased reliability.

These centralised, highly scalable solutions are a component of the Polycom RealPresence Platform, the most comprehensive software infrastructure for universal video collaboration.

Virtualisation Management

For UC-enabled organisations that need to integrate and scale their communication systems, Polycom® RealPresence® Virtualization Manager bridges disparate collaboration networks, services, and devices together while providing a high-quality user experience. Unlike competitive solutions, RealPresence Virtualization Manager provides the highest UC support, geographical redundancy, resiliency, scale, and maximum resource utilisation for world-class services.

Scaling up to 75,000 registrations and 25,000 concurrent audio and video calls, Polycom RealPresence Virtualization Manager makes the most of your existing conferencing resources and infrastructure, future-proofing your investment for the long term.

Universal Access & Security

For video conferencing administrators who want secure business-to-business and inter-company voice, video, and content collaboration, Polycom® RealPresence® Secure Access Manager securely and seamlessly connects video participants in and outside the firewall and optimises for the best collaboration experience. Unlike other session border control solutions with limited video collaboration optimisation, RealPresence Secure Access Manager delivers business-grade video quality through efficient services delivery, which identifies and prioritises business applications.

Video conferencing has become mission critical in helping enterprises, governments, educational institutions, healthcare organisations, financial institutions and many other organisations be more productive and effective in their businesses on a daily basis. As a mainstream and highly effective form of communication, it is important that video conferences be secure and that video participants feel protected and safe when sharing sensitive information during a video call. As such, security is a paramount concern for Polycom, and we have security features across our full range of solutions - from endpoints to infrastructure - to ensure that audio, video and data traffic remains fully secure when passing across the network.

Video Content Management

For video-enabled organisations that need an easy-to-use rich media communication solution, Polycom’s video content management software provides the ability for webcasting, recording, and streaming high-value presentations in meeting rooms, classrooms and boardrooms. Launch and expand online communications, training, and educational initiatives with ease, plus track, report and distribute content securely.

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Mobile Apps

Polycom® RealPresence® Mobile is a free-to-download software solution built on the Polycom RealPresence Platform. Our legendary HD video collaboration technology now extends beyond the office and conference room to your favorite tablet and Apple® iPhone 4S.

Polycom® RealPresence® Mobile for Apple® iPad®

Turn your iPad into a portable video conferencing room

Polycom® RealPresence® Mobile for Apple® iPhone®

Turn your iPhone into a portable video conferencing room

Polycom® RealPresence® Mobile for Android™

Take video collaboration mobile with the first enterprise HD software solution for Motorola and Samsung tablets

Education

With their budgets under strain, administrators are using Polycom video solutions to give students more interactive, immersive, and innovative educational experiences—with a technology that pays for itself by reducing administrative costs and improving staff productivity. Four of the world’s top five colleges and universities, as well as hundreds of schools, colleges, and universities around the world, are using Polycom to improve all facets of education from teaching to course development to administrative meetings to advanced blended learning applications.

Polycom offers a broad portfolio of video collaboration solutions specifically designed by educators for educators. These solutions bring HD video collaboration within reach of even the most challenged budgets, so every student can experience the resulting boosts in learning, engagement, teamwork, and collaboration. For students, Polycom video collaboration is a sort of magic portal that can bring them potentially anywhere, face-to-face with anyone, from the safety and comfort of their classroom. With Polycom:

• Schools get a richer learning and administrative environment while also reducing costs.
• Teachers get the potential for more deeply engaging lesson plans that incorporate virtual excursions, interactions with remote experts and environments, and joint classes with students in other countries.
• Students get on-demand access to a world of information and knowledge.

Healthcare

Healthcare organisations the world over are turning to Polycom video collaboration solutions to transform how they learn, teach, and deliver care. Polycom solutions eliminate the distances between patients and caregivers, between physicians and educators, and between medical facilities. Eight of the top 10 hospitals and all of the top 10 pharmaceutical companies worldwide are Polycom customers, using Polycom technology to reduce patient evaluation times, treat patients remotely, improve medical education, enhance caregiver productivity and quality of life, streamline hospital operations, reduce costs, and ultimately save lives.

Polycom offers a full portfolio of communication and collaboration solutions to meet the needs of all healthcare environments. These solutions are driving rapid innovation in healthcare through several new and emerging healthcare applications, including: Remote Healthcare/Telemedicine, Medical Education/Distance Learning, Health Emergency Management and Round-the-Clock Services.

Manufacturing

Video conferencing technology accelerates time-to market for manufacturing companies by an average of 24%. Polycom makes meeting over distance just like being there with RealPresence video solutions that bring teams together from wherever they’re actually located. Employees can visually collaborate on demand with partners, suppliers, and distributors to reduce time-to-market and control costs, while improving quality with better design analysis, component testing, quality assurance inspections, and remote repair. The world’s leading manufacturers—including the top five automobile and top three aerospace companies—are Polycom customers.

Polycom offers a full portfolio of communication and collaboration solutions to meet the diverse needs of manufacturing companies. Polycom solutions are transforming core design, build, and quality assurance processes with the ability to communicate and collaborate face-to-face in high-definition from anywhere.

Government

Market liberalisation, social and political changes, security threats, resource shortages, and climate change top the list of major trends that governments must manage. To cope with these changes, governments have invested heavily in information and communication technologies (ICT) to provide e-government services that citizens can conveniently access online. This has transformed the ways that governments operate and communicate and improved both access to and quality of public services, safety, security, education, and healthcare. Now, new trends in mobility, social networking, and cloud computing continue to offer more effective ways to reach constituents—including those who may never have owned a PC but now have a smartphone. Polycom® RealPresence® video collaboration spans all of these trends to allow citizens to access and interact with government representatives face-to-face on their desktop PCs, on their mobile devices, on any computer using a web-based social networking application.

Polycom Global Services

Polycom Global Services help customers realise the full potential of their investment in Polycom, regardless of where they are in the solution lifecycle. We can support you throughout your journey from developing a company-wide Unified Communications strategy to enabling your users to collaborate where and when they want.

In the design phase, we help customers lay the groundwork for a successful deployment whether that means translating our broad portfolio into the solution that will work best for your business or evaluating the network on which the video collaboration solution will reside. Beyond simple installation, when you’re ready to deploy Polycom has the expertise to integrate our products into a unified communications environment and the resources to project manage complex or geographically dispersed solutions. For Customers who would like to develop the open standards API’s we offer Consulting services to support those developments. Once installed, Polycom maintains the technology at the level that meets your needs. Customers with mission-critical video deployments can even outsource the management of the technology to Polycom experts. Finally, to extend your return on investment, Polycom has a range of services to help you optimize infrastructure and endpoints.

• In the design phase, we help customers lay the groundwork for a successful deployment whether that means translating our broad portfolio into the solution that will work best for your business, or evaluating the network on which the video collaboration solution will reside.
• When you’re ready to deploy your solution, we have the expertise to integrate your products into a unified communications environment and the resources to project manage complex or geographically dispersed solutions.
• For customers who would like to utilise our open standards API’s we offer Consulting Services to support those developments. Once installed, Polycom maintains the technology at the level that meets your needs. Customers with mission-critical video deployments can even outsource the management of the technology to Polycom experts.

A comprehensive range of Adoption Services are available to help customers maximise the usage of their solution; from driving education and awareness into the user environment, through to visibility into usage patterns through Polycom® RealPresence® Analytics.

Financial Services

Polycom’s communication solutions provide an array of customer service options, so that clients benefit from a higher level of interaction, timely advice on transaction processing and enhanced customer care whenever needed, in any language they require, resulting in increased customer deposits and investments.

UC technologies improve access to people and resources on-demand, helping ensure businesses can connect and serve clients regardless of their medium of communication. With integrated video, voice, data and web-based conferencing, Polycom provides technology solutions that are easy to deploy, intuitive, and simple to use.

By using Polycom collaboration solutions to communicate internally in lieu of business travel, significant cost savings can be realised, too. Video conferencing can improve training capabilities without expensive onsite sessions or risking poor retention from audio-only sessions, plus Polycom collaboration solutions increase the potential hiring pool by allowing HR to look beyond local candidates. Candidates can interview from a local conferencing location, saving time and money on travel while reducing the number of interview cycles.

Polycom Hospitality Industry Solutions

Customer service and a rewarding guest experience are critical for the hospitality industry. In fact, customer loyalty is a key metric and one reason for the abundance of "frequent stay" programs. Hospitality companies that do the best job delighting their customers are often the most successful. But managing multiple locations, handling specific guest requirements, and coordinating a highly dynamic workforce are not easy tasks. Communications—both on-property and between properties—play a major role in determining the operational efficiencies and guest satisfaction levels that successful companies expect.

From video and voice conferencing solutions for meetings, customer service kiosks for concierge assistance, through to video content management solutions to create, manage and deliver on-demand video streaming, Polycom offers a broad portfolio of collaboration solutions to meet the needs of the hospitality industry.

The Only Way to Truly Experience the Power of Polycom Telepresence

The only way to truly experience the power of Polycom voice, video and telepresence solutions is by trying them for yourself. We invite you to attend a hands-on demonstration at one of our state-of-the-art centres in London, Paris, Milan, Moscow, Brussels and Stockholm.

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