will also share common channel partners. This integration allows ClickShare users to easily share content to their Zoom Room and remote attendees.
A live demonstration of ClickShare working with a Zoom Room is available at the Barco stand at InfoComm in Las Vegas.
Wim De Bruyne, vice president of meeting experience at Barco, commented: “Adding ClickShare to Zoom Rooms not only provides a consistent sharing experience for all but also provides simplicity and security, especially for visitors. Millions of people are choosing Zoom Rooms as their preferred option to create a collaborative work environment. These clients will be pleased to learn that, with ClickShare, there is no need for them to install anything to share their content quickly in a safe way, or for IT to put complicated network configurations in place. The ClickShare portfolio adds great value to Zoom Rooms, from huddle spaces to meeting rooms and boardrooms.”
Oded Gal, head of product for Zoom, said: “Zoom is the industry leader in modern enterprise video communications, and our Zoom Rooms technology enables businesses to outfit any space with video, audio, collaboration, and scheduling capabilities. Joining forces with ClickShare provides an excellent user experience, creating more opportunities for high-quality and effortless remote meetings. states. We look forward to continuing the collaboration with Barco to push the boundaries in cloud meeting experiences.”
George Stromeyer, senior vice president for enterprise at Barco, said: “In order to create totally seamless, best-in-class meeting experiences, working together with key players such as Zoom is the best direction toward the future. Today, there are good point and single vendor solutions but in order to offer our customers choice while keeping the overall experience simple and seamless, co-operation between key players is of utmost importance”
Meanwhile, Barco has announced that its AV monitoring and control solution, Overture, now includes Active Directory and Microsoft Exchange. This latest update to Barco’s AV control solution uses ADFS (Active Directory Federation Services) and LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) for Cloud and On-Premise deployments respectively. These two elements offer increased security through enterprise level access control, as well as the ability to manage users and user groups in the Active Directory environment.
With the integration to Microsoft Exchange, Overture automates the power of the room and its devices based on the room schedule. The automation ensures that as participants enter their meeting, the room is set in the correct state. By reducing the steps needed to get a meeting started, Overture provides participants with a better user experience and acts as a significant time saver for everyone involved.
Once the meeting ends, the room will automatically switch off all relevant devices, increasing the life of the devices and decreasing a company’s overall power usage. If a meeting ends up not taking place, the power saving automation preset prevents unnecessary device power usage and releases the room back to Exchange as available.
Since its initial release a year ago, Barco has enhanced the Overture offering by introducing a variety of features to increase the automation functionalities of the software. The latest feature sets further enhance the capabilities of the A/V monitoring and control solution.
“Active Directory and Microsoft Exchange integrations were developed to further support enterprises with an A/V monitoring and management solution for their meeting room spaces,” states Jan van Houtte, director of product management. “We are committed to continuing to push the boundaries with software-based AV monitoring and control solution for the enterprise environment to proactively address to customer needs, at the same time maximising ROI”.