Why invest in Audio Visual Technology?

The business world is constantly changing and in recent years we have seen a shift in the ways in which businesses are run. The workplace is no longer a single physical space where all employees are present since a large percentage of businesses have employees and clients scattered across the world.

This causes issues with communication. With employees scattered across the globe, how are businesses able to ensure that they maintain a good level of communication with clients and employees, and keep them fully involved with the performance of the business?

The solution is audio visual technology. AV technology facilitates communication in numerous ways which increases productivity in the workplace and enables international corporations to maintain close relationships with overseas departments, ensuring that each department works collaboratively and efficiently.

Executives and associates collaborate more effectively and get face-to-face more quickly once we implement presentation technologies. These technologies range from interactive displays or turning a drafting table or boardroom table into an interactive surface using an interactive projector.

Reduce travel time and improve productivity to better serve customers. For instance, executives that previously spent a week traveling to individual sites can now meet with each site from the boardroom, saving days of travel.  Video conferencing and connective technologies make this possible.

Save money – If you get a group of individuals into a central location without requiring them to travel, that translates into a considerable cost savings for the organization. These processes include scheduling and coordinating conference calls, client meetings, and department meetings. With audio visual technology, these tasks become incredibly easy to do. Plus, an audiovisual integrator makes sure this technology is installed correctly and fits the needs of an organization, which means you can cut out the middleman and learn from the experts.

Simplify and streamline the technology in your boardrooms, conference rooms or throughout the facility. Crestron has become the definitive source for centrally and globally controlling, managing and presenting information. Control and automate the lights, drapes, screens, thermostats and AV equipment all from an intuitive easy-to-use touch panel, remote or custom keypad.

Creating a comfortable environment that sounds great and is aesthetically pleasing benefits everyone using the room or facility. Improving the sound in a workspace helps improve productivity. A restaurant with poor acoustics results in an unpleasant experience, lost business and therefore revenue.  One of the easiest ways to help achieve ideal acoustics is by reducing the terrible background noise that makes communication difficult by installing acoustic panels on walls and/or ceilings or a combination of creative solutions.

Streamline Collaboration – Commercial audio-visual solutions are cost-effective and save companies time, but they also result in even better meeting outcomes. Due to the customized features that AV offers, these communication systems are enhancing work atmospheres, work relations, and businesses’ overall ability to achieve set goals.

Keep Things Organized – Companies always want their employees to work smarter, not harder. Audiovisual technology allows employees to keep their files, calls, contacts, and meetings highly organized. Time is money, plain and simple. The less time employees have to worry about the organization and logistics of their meetings (both in-house and remote), the more time they have to work. An audiovisual system can become the virtual assistant they wished they always had.

It Improves Communication – If a company invests in audio visual technology, specifically Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technology, it can drastically improve communication among its staff. Communication is crucial, especially in a time where more companies are hiring more remote workers. VoIP technology allows in-house staff to connect with their remote teammates hassle-free. Due to its efficiency, more companies are making an investment in VoIP technology. The days of constant phone tag and missed emails from co-workers are dwindling. Now, we are in a time where audiovisual technology is used to streamline communication and boost productivity.

AV solutions provide businesses with the tools they need to easily collaborate, no matter what their unique challenges may be. A great AV setup makes powerful first impressions and inspires greater collaboration amongst teams and between organizations. This advancement in communication is presenting a multitude of benefits for companies across various industries.

Here are some of the technologies that you can leverage to enhance your communication:

Meeting room audio visual systems are vital tools to help forward-thinking companies to adapt to the fast-paced business environment. Interactive Flat Panel Displays (IFPD) allows participants to share their ideas effectively. The large-format displays allow for easier and faster access to information by everyone present within the meeting. Meeting capture systems eliminate the need for minute takers allowing for a more productive engagement between your workers.

Interactive Flat Panel Displays allow you to run your meetings and presentations with the freedom and convenience your team needs to do their best work. Fast-changing work processes in the office put a premium on technology that can keep pace. Teams need resources that help them collaborate, be productive, and become ever more efficient.

IFPD’s also feature Multi-Touch Display that allows for more than one-touch control of the screen. They encourage true interactivity, creative brainstorming, and total group collaboration. In addition, it’s an office display solution that works with a wide range of software, including the software that most businesses already own. With fewer new licenses to purchase, that’s good news for the bottom line.

Everyone hates the hassle of trying to make the projector work in front of your now agitated and slightly embarrassed colleagues. Wireless presentation systems are offering solutions to those who are looking to move away from wired technology.

Wireless presentation system is a device that allows you to mirror your notebook or mobile device content on a shared projector, flat panel, or TV without a need to plug in a cable. Presenters can be switched at a click of a button and no precious time will be wasted. According to Gartner Research, wireless presentations systems are one of the top 10 strategic technologies to improve BYOD collaboration in office spaces.

Unlike consumer wireless dongles for screen mirroring, commercial wireless presentation systems are designed to improve collaboration during meetings and enable multiple presenters to share ideas, concepts, and media without having to plug in a long cable.

Because these are purpose-built for collaboration, a typical system will have these key elements:

• Multiple presenters – Most systems come with at least two buttons to enable collaboration out of the box and can support 16 or more different presenters.
• Content Encryption – Market leaders in this category encrypt the content so that people outside the meeting room cannot wirelessly “listen in” or record the presentation

The ‘plug and go’ interface is incredibly user-friendly, allowing for flawless presentations during your business meetings. No more anxious calls to IT support and an added advantage of having fewer cables strewn across the floor and desk.

Shop floors and showrooms have undergone a massive transformation from walls with dark colors to interactive display screens that market the company’s product. Audio visual experts tap into augmented reality (AR) that enables the consumer to visualize the product and imagine how it may feel having it even before purchasing it.

Covid-19 has supercharged all things virtual, propelling industries like retail well into the future. According to IBM’s 2020 U.S. Retail Index report, the pandemic has accelerated the shift to digital shopping by roughly five years.

Augmented Reality (AR) applications have been on the rise with virtual “try-before-you-buy” experiences ranging from previewing furniture and products in your home with everyday brands like IKEA and Home Depot, to virtually trying on luxury fashion such as Louis Vuitton and Gucci. Once a nice-to-have feature, AR has quickly become an essential technology for retailers. Retailers are also beginning to use AR technology to reimagine the digital shopping experience with virtual store fronts. The visual appearance, coupled with expertly designed audio systems, impact the commercial environment boosting your chances of making a sale.

The impact of video conferencing on the business world is staggering. 47% of companies have cut on travel expenses thanks to the availability of secure and integrated communication systems. With 50% of the workforce in 2020 expected to be millennials, business enterprises are turning to teleconference to allow workers to work from anywhere and everywhere. Businesses that adopt video conferencing utilize cloud-based technology to conduct meetings with staff spread out across the globe.

Video conferencing describes online meetings that take place over the internet to connect video conferencing systems in meeting rooms with personal devices such as laptops or mobile devices with embedded webcams. Utilizing a simple, unified video conferencing solution with support for screen sharing empowers your global teams to be more connected, productive and engaged.

Video conferencing in previous years has been limited by high costs and network latency. However, this is no longer the case and now more meetings are taking place online than in physical locations. Simply put, face-to-face meetings are slowly becoming a thing of the past. Video conferencing systems run the gamut from basic desktops housed in huddle rooms to sophisticated telepresence suites. Thanks to more reliable tech and lower prices, video conferencing is becoming a core enterprise collaboration tool.

At Al Reyami Technologies, we ably rely on our hand-selected mix of suppliers to bring the most advanced, reliable solutions to our customers. Our team takes complicated, multi-vendor systems and transforms them into intuitive, stable platforms for our clients.

We take care of your audio visual needs from start to finish. The entire system design and installation is completed by a knowledgeable, experienced team.

The 3 pillars based on which our offerings are encompassed are as follows:

The desired experience, and how the solution supports a company’s workflow, will impact the equipment and technologies featured in the space. Conference rooms may feature dual-screens with ceiling-mounted microphones and touch panel user interface, while a huddle room may include an interactive display.

Our projects range from a single conference room to enterprise wide standardization for meeting room design and integration.

Keen to know more? Do get in touch with us if you would like to revamp your meeting room infrastructure and learn about the various possibilities applicable to your scenario.

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