Imagine the convenience of having your headset seamlessly connect to your PC without the hassle of adapters or manual setting adjustments as you start your Zoom meeting. Last fall at HP Imagine, we announced our Bluetooth® direct technology, a user-friendly pairing experience for Poly Voyager headsets and select HP notebooks. This week at Enterprise Connect, we are excited to introduce our Bluetooth® direct technology for Zoom to simplify connectivity for virtual meetings in Zoom.
HP | Poly offers the world's first Bluetooth® headsets that deliver call control for Zoom without a donglei
We want to make hybrid work easier for employees. With the Poly Lens Desktop App pre-installed on select HP laptops, a Poly Voyager headset can be automatically detected for a secure pairing experience with a single click — a notification with a picture of the headset model will appear for confirmation. Users have complete control over their calls and meeting experience from their paired Poly Voyager headset or Zoom. They can set preferences, accept calls, use voice prompts, and access mute and volume controls, while a simple click keeps the software current. Users can manage their hybrid work transitions without worrying about leaving a dongle or USB adapter behind or in their PC ports.
We want to make hybrid work easier for IT. The Poly Lens Admin portal empowers IT teams with centralized software control across mobile and remote workforces — with or without Bluetooth dongles. IT teams can efficiently manage fleets of devices with policy-based provisioning, actively monitor device health to improve operations, and collect usage trends to adjust device settings where necessary.
Bluetooth® direct technology for Zoom is expected to be available in July 2024 through an update to the Poly Lens Desktop App to enhance the legendary Poly audio experience. It will be available on select Poly Voyager headsets, such as the Voyager Free 60 UC Series and the Voyager Surround UC Series.
Optimizing Collaboration with Zoom-Certified Devices
HP and Poly continue to expand their portfolio of Zoom-certified solutions. The HP EliteBook 840 and 845 G11 Notebook PCs are now certified in Zoom’s premium laptop category. Equipped with HP Wolf Securityii and AI-based performance optimizationiii, users can enjoy an exceptional Zoom experience with strong security regardless of where work gets done.
"Zoom is committed to fostering innovation and improving the overall collaboration experience, and the introduction of HP | Poly’s Bluetooth direct technology for Zoom signifies an important step towards seamless connectivity for hybrid workers,” said Smita Hashim, Chief Product Officer, Zoom. Our growing portfolio of native experiences and Zoom-certified solutions with HP | Poly is a testament to this dedication, which will enable teams to do their best work.”
i Based on HP's internal analysis of Windows Notebooks as of March 25, 2024.
ii HP Wolf Security for Business requires Windows 10 or 11 Pro and higher, includes various HP security features and is available on HP Pro, Elite, RPOS and Workstation products. See product details for included security features.
iii Features and software that require a NPU may require may require software purchase, subscription or enablement by a software or platform provider, and third party software may have specific configuration or compatibility requirements. Performance varies by use, configuration, and other factors.
In response to this challenge, we're thrilled to announce a new integration with Microsoft Office 365 Calendars as part of our latest Premium offering on Poly Lens. This new integration streamlines the activation of Meeting Behavior Insights within Poly Lens. The best part? These meeting behavior insights are supported on all major meeting platforms.
Let's explore a pair of examples showcasing the insights offered by this integration.
Meetings that Started Late
Late-starting meetings often result in wasted time and can disrupt the flow of the workday. This could signal a room technology issue, a training opportunity, or an underlying organizational behavior like back-to-back meeting schedules. By analyzing the reasons behind delayed starts, you can implement solutions that can help correct the issue.
Rooms Scheduled, but Empty
When meeting rooms are booked, but go unused, it reflects a misallocation of resources. Tracking this behavior can help you understand why meetings are being scheduled but not held. It could indicate a need for better calendar management, better scheduling practices, or maybe there is something wrong with the room. Addressing this issue ensures that valuable space and resources are utilized effectively.
Full list of Supported Meeting Behavior Insights
Simplified Path to Meeting Behavior Insights
You can enjoy these new Meeting Behavior Insights in two sections within Poly Lens.
Priority Insights: A curtate newsfeed of your most notable insights. Find the latest insights at Insights > Priority > Rooms.
More details at Poly Lens Help - Priority Insights.
Analysis: Self-guided dashboard that allows you to filter through the data to conduct in-depth analysis on your workspace. Explore the new Meeting Behavior analytics at Manage > Rooms > (Select Room) > Analysis.
More details at Poly Lens Help - Analysis
Enabling the Office 365 Calendar Integration
To enable the integration, to go the Admin menu > Integrations, select Office 365 Calendar. Allow Access and Authenticate to your Office 365 tenant.
Once Poly Lens has been granted access, we built in a bunch of neat tools to make linking your Calendars to Rooms in Poly Lens very easy.
More details at Poly Lens Help - Office 365 Calendar Overview.
Linking Calendar to Poly Lens Rooms
To enjoy the new benefits of this integration, it is important to Link your Calendars to your Poly Lens Rooms.
To link your Poly Lens Rooms, Go to Manage > Rooms, select Add Calendar, and link your Room calendar in Room Settings. Once linked via the dropdown or typing in, the calendar will begin Syncing and then show Integrated once all calendar details are linked. Note: Office 365 Calendar needs to be enabled before linking calendars to Poly Lens Rooms.
More details at Poly Lens Help - Office 365 Calendar Room Setup.
Monitoring Integration Status
Once you have linked your Calendars to your Poly Lens Room, we made it easy to monitor the health and status of the integration. You can view the health status of each Room calendar directly from Room Status or the Room List in Poly Lens. This near real-time visibility ensures that meeting spaces are successfully linked, and the integration is healthy. And if they are not healthy, you can understand what actions you need to take to get them healthy again.
To monitor Calendar Integration, display the list of Rooms (Manage > Rooms) and use the pencil icon to display the Calendar column.
More details at Poly Lens Help - Office 365 Calendar Details.
Upgrade and access all your Poly Lens Premium Lens Features today and empower your organization with the tools needed to drive productivity, enhance collaboration, and embrace the future of meeting insights. Your journey to seamless Meeting Behavior Insights using Microsoft Office 365 Calendar starts today – let us know what you think by clicking on Feedback in Poly Lens.
]]>To leverage this feature effectively, consider the following recommendations:
To Get Started Go to Manage > Sites > Add New or Select a Site > Settings > Device Association.
For more information search for Device Site Association in Poly Lens Help.
We have added a new way for you to have confidence a device software or Lens Desktop version gets implemented for your device end users. This option allows you to send the end user three notices to update to the version you have set in the policy, however if the end user chooses not to update during the three notices Lens will move forward to implement the update after end user PC restart.
Benefits to End User: Gives notice to the end user that an update within Lens Desktop is required and gives them the flexibility to postpone the update three times before the update happens.
Benefits to IT Admin: Gives their end users flexibility on choosing their preferred update timing and also gives the assurance the update will be automatically implemented after the third notice and PC restart.
Lens has added a Lens Desktop setting policy to enable the collection of headset acoustic events since these are turned off by default with select Poly devices. Once data collection is turned on all acoustic events will show in an Acoustic Events report to show any acoustic events that occurred during conversations using select Poly products.
For more information on Lens policy and reporting options, search for Policy Settings and Reports in Poly Lens Help.
]]>To get started, go to Manage > Rooms > Add New or Select a Room.
For more information see Poly Lens Help - Manage Rooms.
We've improved Room identification by exposing important details on the Room Overview side navigation. The following Room details that are set or added/updated by a Lens administrator are exposed in Room Overview:
Device Status Enhancements: Minimized and Expanded views on Device Online/Offline and Meeting Status.
Minimized View: Get immediate visibility to Devices that are online or offline and Meeting status for the Room. Use the Arrow Icon to expand Device and Meeting status information.
Device Status Expanded View: Descriptions on Devices that are Online and 1 or more devices that are Offline.
Click State on Offline Devices: Provides Device Name information on Device Model(s) that are Offline.
Meeting Status Expanded:
The Device Inventory Table: Includes the following information on the devices associated to a Room. This table can also be minimized with the Arrow Icon.
Date Added
Date Last Seen
Device Model
Device Name
Last Provisioning Sync
MAC Address
Private IP
Provider
Serial Number
Software Version
Status (Online/Offline)
At Poly, we’re committed to providing you with all the tools and flexibility you need to create the best collaboration experience for your users and your unique use cases. Our portfolio of nearly 100 officially supported Poly Lens APIs already caters to several use cases such as Inventory Reporting & Management, Device & Room Insights, and Device Controls.
And today, we’re excited to add another dimension to our API portfolio. Announcing, the Poly Lens GraphQL Subscriptions! GraphQL Subscriptions enable you to create web-socket based listeners on fields of your interest so that you get an alert as soon as the value of the field changes. This opens a plethora of new use cases that you can now address using Poly Lens APIs. The first API utilizing the new GraphQL subscription stream focuses on People Counting.
The peopleCountStream
subscription is a simple, yet powerful and versatile API that enables you to monitor room occupancy in near real-time. It creates a web-socket based listener on people count data sent by Poly devices. As soon as people count changes, the API notifies the API user of the change and provides an updated people count for a particular meeting room.
This simple, yet powerful API is designed to show live room occupancy. When combined with custom applications, a variety of different use cases could be enabled, including:
You can access the peopleCountStream
API at the Poly Lens GraphQL Playground. To use this API in your application, you can create credentials in Poly Lens. See How to Get Started.
peopleCountStream API in action on the Poly Lens GraphQL Playground
Note: The peopleCountStream
API is available to Poly+ Enterprise customers and currently supports Poly Studio X30, Studio X50, and Studio X52.
To find device and application software to download, follow these steps:
Once you are on the Software Versions page, you can search for and select the device or application, select the software version, and download for local use. Only device and application software that is currently supported in Poly Lens is available via the Software Versions page. If the Poly device or Poly Lens application does not appear in your search and is not listed, visit HP Customer Support.
]]>Our newly introduced Poly Lens API Credentials come equipped with a range of powerful features tailored to enhance your experience:
Our Poly Lens API Credentials are designed to enhance versatility and efficiency, empowering you to streamline operations, leverage data more effectively, and foster innovation. This tool enables seamless data extraction from multiple Lens Accounts and facilitates the creation of custom applications for interaction, modification, or report generation across various Poly Lens Accounts, all accomplished using a single set of API credentials.
Whether you're focused on improving access management or exploring the possibilities of data-driven applications, this tool serves as your gateway to simplifying device management and enabling managed service offerings that harness the power of the Poly Lens platform.
The Poly Lens API Credentials are now available, poised to transform the way you navigate and utilize Poly Lens. Get started by going to Go to ACCOUNT menu > Manage Accounts, select and Account from the list and select API Credentials. For more information, visit the Poly Lens Help.
]]>This release expanded Poly DirectorAI people framing to Studio X30 and X50 video bars*. Now users can experience the same Poly DirectorAI smart camera technology across the entire Poly Studio X family of video bars. Since Poly DirectorAI launched in 2019, we have continued to fine tune, enhance, and expand our AI-driven camera capabilities.
To level the playing field between remote and onsite meeting participants, it is crucial that everyone within the video meeting is seen and heard equally. People framing is a smart camera mode that identifies participants in the meeting space and uses zoomed-in shots to create a unique layout of frames, showing all in-person participants with an up-close view. This layout of frames is then sent to the video app of your choice as a single video stream so that far-end viewers can easily connect with in-person participants. People in the room feel seen and able to speak up, while remote participants no longer feel they are missing out on the in-room dynamic as they’re able to catch the details previously lost with one single zoomed-out view. This experience helps bring teams closer together and encourages more effective collaboration.
Of course, people framing might not be the answer for every meeting, so camera mode selection is easy and can be adjusted for each meeting via an in-room touch interface. Poly Studio X family video bars also include Poly DirectorAI group framing and speaker framing modes.
We continue to focus on driving high-quality standards and have dedicated much of this release to quality improvements, including enhancements for our recently released Poly DirectorAI Perimeter feature.
For a full list of updates and technical details regarding the Poly VideoOS 4.1.1 release, check out the release notes.
Ensure you have the best video experience from Poly. Check out our demo videos of other features released in recent software updates.
*People framing is not available on Poly Studio X30 and X50 while in Poly Video mode.
]]>Device Families will enable you to group products from HP Poly that share similar settings together into one single configuration policy. This will reduce the number of touchpoints you will have to make when modifying your devices. With this change we have updated quite a few experiences to Lens Policy which you can see below.
Device Family support will start rolling out to customer accounts this week.
You’ll see that none of your existing Policies have been lost.
We have introduced this new classification to allow you to roll up similar configurations that are shared across like devices, simplifying the work necessary as you deploy multiple models within a family. We feel that this new classification matches how many of our customers are using Lens today, so we defaulted to the Lens Family Policy view going forward.
This will migrate all the settings from the current Device Model and create a new Family Policy, applying to all models within a family.
Keeping Things Tidy: Not only have we simplified the process of moving to Family Policies, but we have also added in intelligence that will automatically reduce redundancy in your Model Policies whenever you save or update your Family Policies. Any duplicative Setting Policy that also exists for a Device Model within the Family that is also within the same layer of inheritance will automatically be removed. This action only happens when an admin saves or updates the Family Policy, allowing you flexibility in settings deployment without worrying about fragmentation over time.
Extending Existing Behaviors: Just like every other layer of Lens Policy, Family Policies will be reflected in My Settings for a device and can then be navigated to for any necessary adjustments.
Understanding Inheritance: This new level of classification does not change existing Policy Inheritance, instead, it enhances it by creating an additional layer within each Policy Layer. While Family Policies apply to all Models within a Family, if you define a Model Policy that will take priority over any Family Policy within a particular layer of Lens Policy (Group, Site, Account).
Limitations of Family Policy: While Family Policy represents a superset of settings across all models, support of the settings will still be limited based on the device capabilities. Furthermore, while you can set software update policy, specific version selection is still limited to a per model view.
Note: Family Policy is currently only available for network attached devices. Devices connecting through Lens Desktop and Lens Mobile do not support Family Policy at this time.
This capability streamlines the onboarding of large number of SIP devices, paving the way for a smoother and more efficient transition to Microsoft Teams for enterprise communication. Organizations can save valuable time and resources while delivering an improved user experience. See Teams SIP Gateway-compatible Poly devices here.
To leverage Bulk Sign-In Onboarding with Microsoft Teams SIP Gateway, consult our documentation in Poly Lens here and Microsoft's updated documentation here. These resources provide step-by-step instructions, best practices, and tips to get your large-scale migration underway effortlessly.
For any comments or suggestions on this release you are welcome to provide your Feedback from Poly Lens using the Feedback tool in the bottom right corner of the Poly Lens portal. Your input is highly appreciated.
]]>In the world of technology, managing assets is the first crucial step in ensuring a seamless experience. AVI-SPL Symphony and Poly Lens have streamlined this process, making it easier than ever. With Poly Lens, you can capture information about your devices and structure them efficiently. This not only provides a clear view of your technology assets from a global perspective but also allows you to delve into specific rooms or spaces. This newfound clarity enables organizations to understand their deployments, track works in progress, and prepare for budgetary planning effectively.
In the era of cloud migration, integrating legacy and modern technology can be challenging. AVI-SPL Symphony and Poly Lens simplify this transition. The integration of Poly Lens APIs and Symphony allows you to schedule meetings through Outlook, monitor live meetings in Symphony, and gain a deep understanding of technology utilization. This collaboration ensures a smooth transition, regardless of the mix of legacy and newer devices.
Monitoring the health of your deployment is paramount for ensuring uninterrupted technology experiences. Symphony, with its 24/7 communication capabilities, monitors your AV, VTC, and UCC systems even when you can't. This proactive approach ensures that issues are identified and addressed before they escalate. Symphony consolidates performance data, room information, and meeting statistics from various devices and aggregators, such as Poly Lens, into a single platform for seamless centralized monitoring.
In the unfortunate event that something does go wrong, Symphony is always ready to step in. Whether it's a loss of communication with a device or a critical temperature alert, Symphony can automatically create a ticket for your technical resources based on predefined values. Furthermore, if you use an ITSM system like ServiceNow, Symphony can create a twin ticket, streamlining the incident resolution process. This approach not only ensures swift issue resolution but also provides valuable insights into trends, aiding in future issue prevention.
Workplace management takes a strategic view of your space, technology assets, and resource utilization. Bringing this data into a single platform alongside Symphony's other functionalities offers a data-driven understanding of your environment. This holistic perspective empowers organizations to optimize their spaces, troubleshoot issues, and make informed decisions.
Data is a valuable resource, but its true potential lies in its analysis and visualization. Symphony provides interactive dashboards that transform raw data into digestible success metrics. These visual insights enable organizations to make data-driven decisions and leverage historical data for future planning, ensuring continued improvement and excellence in collaboration experiences.
The partnership between AVI-SPL Symphony and Poly Lens brings a new level of sophistication and ease to the management of AV, VTC, and UCC environments. This collaboration empowers organizations to streamline asset management, monitor their technology health, manage incidents efficiently, gain a strategic understanding of their workplace, and utilize success metrics for informed decision-making. The Poly Lens ecosystem continues to evolve, and with AVI-SPL Symphony onboard, it's safe to say that the future of collaboration is looking brighter than ever. Visit here to learn more about AVI-SPL Symphony.
]]>We understand that collaboration is at its best when it's seamless and efficient. Today, we've introduced a brand-new way to explore key integrations developed by HP | Poly. These integrations are meticulously designed to amplify your Poly Lens experience. Notable applications to this roster include integrations with Microsoft Power BI and Microsoft Entra ID, formerly known as Azure Active Directory. These integrations are geared to supercharge your reports and streamline your onboarding experiences.
In the spirit of enhancing collaboration on all fronts, we're delighted to introduce experiences brought to life by our esteemed partners. These collaborations harness the power of Poly Lens to its fullest extent. With AVI-SPL Symphony, Neowit, Ubiqisense, and Vyopta, there is likely a solution that caters to your unique needs. Discover a world of possibilities as you explore these cutting-edge integrations.
We've also streamlined the location of some critical features. Power BI and Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory) have found a new home in our Integration section.
Poly Lens Integrations revamp isn't just an update; it's a leap forward. With these integrations, we're making your Poly Lens experience more intuitive, more efficient, and more powerful than ever. Go to the Admin menu > Integrations to explore the new Integrations page.
]]>In December 2022, we opened the Lens Management & Insights API to our developer community. And now, we have taken our API portfolio to the next level by adding several highly useful APIs for:
The guiding principle of the Poly Lens Management and Insights API is to provide our developer community with opportunities to innovate and create in ways that continue to build new experiences, making collaboration easier for everyone by leveraging our platforms. Whether you are an independent developer, enterprise developer, solution provider, or system integrator, you can take advantage of the intelligent insights and management capabilities offered on the Poly Lens platform to optimize your workflows, build custom applications, or extract the data from Lens in a way that works for your organization.
The new APIs not only cover several new use cases but also enable developers to dive deeper into those covered previously. Here are all the use cases covered by the officially supported Poly Lens APIs:
Use Case Category | Use Cases |
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Inventory Reporting & Management | - Notifications Center - Custom Devices Tags - Inventory Reporting - Room & Site Management - Subnet Management |
Device & Room Insights | - Call & Meeting Records - Device Utilization - Room Occupancy & Utilization |
Platform Management | - User Management - Tenant Management |
Device Control | - Device Logs - Software Updates - Reboot & Reset Device - Call Control - Device Registration |
Device Software | - Device software |
All the APIs are documented at the Poly Lens Developer Portal. The depth and breadth of covered use cases showcase the power of the Poly Lens Management & Insight APIs - enough to hopefully get you started with exploring these APIs on the Poly Lens API Playground. To make it easier for you to spot officially supported APIs, we have highlighted the officially supported APIs as such on the Poly Lens GraphQL Playground. See the screenshot below.
We'll continue to expand our portfolio of supported APIs to cover more & more use cases. In the meantime, if you have specific content requests or questions, reach out to DL-DeveloperSupport@poly.com.
]]>Today, we're proud to share that we have removed the mandatory requirement of devices being assigned to a Site or Room. This change has been implemented to make the Poly Lens portal more flexible and user-friendly than ever before.
Here's what you need to know about this improvement:
The Poly Lens Web App is crafted to offer you unparalleled control and settings customization over your preferred collaboration tools from Poly. This includes an array of devices such as headsets, speakerphones, and personal video conferencing systems, all accessible directly from your web browser. With the official GA release, the Poly Lens Web App supports many popular headset models, including the Poly Voyager Focus 2 UC, Poly Blackwire 5200 series, and Poly EncorePro HW520. It also extends compatibility to some of the most popular personal video solutions, including the Poly Studio P5 and Studio P15.
For a comprehensive rundown of all supported devices visit: Lens Web App - Supported Devices.
Use the Poly Lens Web App today by visiting: Poly Lens Web App. Note: Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge is required. Visit HP.com - Poly Lens App to learn more.
]]>Poly VideoOS 4.1 introduces new features designed to help you overcome challenges that glass walls present when video conferencing. Beyond rooms with glass walls, these features can also be beneficial in other challenging environments that you might encounter while hybrid working.
Poly DirectorAI Perimeter (Preview Feature): We know that a glass wall represents a boundary, but our cameras might not. With DirectorAI Perimeter, you can provide important context to Poly VideoOS devices about what area should be included in framing decisions for your meetings. Just input the dimensions of your conference area, and only faces detected within that perimeter will be used for framing. This is also useful in conferencing “areas” that don’t have any walls, or rooms with monitors on the walls that show pictures or videos of people.
Sound Reflection Reduction: Glass walls might look good, but when it comes to audio conferencing—they don’t sound good. These hard surfaces create significant reverberation of sound, which comes across to the far end as echoey, hollow, and generally hard to understand. Sound Reflection Reduction removes those strange audio artifacts caused by reverb so that speech comes across as natural and clear. This reduces the need for complex, expensive microphone arrays or significant acoustic paneling.
Different types of video productions can deliver different types of experiences. The type of experience that is needed in the modern hybrid meeting is one that is predictable, even in uncontrolled environments, and non-distracting, so that the focus is always on the conversation.
In order to deliver this within Poly DirectorAI speaker framing mode, we’ve implemented a few updates:
We love to see more and more video-enabled rooms in the workplace, but what this means for our users is that they need solutions that are flexible, scalable and cost-effective to satisfy a large range of meeting spaces. IP-connectivity of conference cameras is a great way to provide that, and is now available for Poly Studio E70 when connected to G7500 running the Poly Video or Zoom app.
For more information and technical details regarding the Poly VideoOS 4.1 release, see the PolyOS Release Note.
]]>Poly Lens has introduced two additional Lens settings: Bulk Onboarding and Tenant GUID. This updates the device provisioning information to Teams SIP Gateway service which can be applied to any of the following Policies - Device/Device Model/Device Group/Site. We continue to include support for compatible devices with Teams SIP Gateway such as VVX, Trio, CCX series, and Edge E series just certified by Microsoft for compatibility. For more information, please see Microsoft - Plan for SIP Gateway.
With this enhancement and SIP Gateway compatible Poly devices, organizations can save valuable time and resources while delivering a better experience for the end user. This feature is currently released with a Preview tag as we coordinate with Microsoft to promote to Generally Available. You are welcome to provide your Feedback from Poly Lens using the Feedback tool in the bottom right corner of the Poly Lens portal. Be sure to select Preview as we track this release.
To get started, go to Manage > Policies > Individual Device/Device Model/Device Group/Site.
Select Integrations > Microsoft Teams.
Then Enable Lens Assisted Provisioning Feature and set your SIP Gateway Region and Device Language.
Lastly, enable Bulk Onboarding and enter your Tenant GUID (Office 365 Tenant ID) from Microsoft to enable PowerShell commands to remotely deploy to Common Area Phones. Note: For detailed information see Microsoft Teams - Bulk Sign-In on Adding Public IP Range(s) as Trusted IPs at Teams Admin Center.
Note: The Clear Cache button that will allow you to start the integration over with the Teams SIP Gateway platform. A new deviceID and provisioning URL will be sent for authentication.
Teams SIP Gateway Troubleshooting: When a device is signed out or getting the following error from PowerShell Device not found with Bulk Sign-In use Clear Cache starting from the Individual Device Level and then expand to additional device policies experiencing this issue. This Clear Cache process will assign a new device ID that will be pushed back to the device. The device will sign back in on the next provisioning cycle (typically every 24 hours) unless you explicitly reboot.
For more information on Teams Admin Center pre-requisites, Lens assisted provisioning with Bulk Onboarding and Tenant GUID, and Microsoft PowerShell commands to remotely deploy to Common Area Phones, see Poly Lens Help - Bulk Sign-in.
]]>Gone are the days of making decisions based on guesswork. The new CDR reports provide a comprehensive view of call data, enabling you to analyze call patterns, duration, participants, and more. By leveraging this data, you can fine-tune your communication strategies, identify where issues occurred, and enhance your organization collaboration experiences. The new CDR reports embedded in the updated Power BI integration empowers you to make data-driven decisions that truly impact your bottom line.
Efficient use of meeting spaces is crucial in today's dynamic work environments. With the new Room Utilization Reports support with Power Bi, you'll gain valuable insights into how your meeting rooms and collaboration spaces are utilized. Make informed decisions about space allocation, optimize room configurations, and eliminate underutilized areas to foster a more productive workplace.
With the addition of Call Detail Records (CDR) and Room Utilization Reports, Poly Lens continues to revolutionize how organizations optimize their resources and enhance productivity. These new reports are just another example of our commitment to providing you with the tools you need to optimize your communication and collaboration environments. Stay ahead of the curve, enhance productivity, and make informed decisions with Poly Lens. Setup is easy, and you'll love the newly expanded starter dashboards designed to get you started with instant visualizations of your Poly Lens inventory, CDR, and Room Utilization Reports. Don’t use Power BI? No problem, you can connect your preferred analysis tool to your Poly Lens Visual Analytics database to gain access to your device telemetry data and visualize it in a supported tool that works for you.
Ready to explore these new groundbreaking reports? To get started, find the new tool by going to the ACCOUNT menu > Manage Accounts. Select an Account from the list. Select Integrations > Visual Analytics. For more information on how to get started, data organization, and schema diagrams, visit Poly Lens Help - Visual Analytics.
Note: The Call Detail Records (CDR) and Room Utilization Report features are available with Poly+ Enterprise and Elite services. Please refer to our documentation for more details on feature availability.
]]>As the hybrid work model continues to evolve, companies are on the lookout for insights to improve the workplace experience to entice employees to the office. Workplace cubicles are no longer the norm, and employees’ preferences are various. While some might prefer open & informal huddle workspaces, there are a few who prefer the quiet offered by small rooms & individual desks. There is no one-size-fits-all. According to research by Gensler (a global architecture, design, and planning firm), organizations are realizing the need to make the workplace into a destination rather than an obligation.
Right-sizing office space can help companies reduce their carbon footprint and achieve compliance with environmental sustainability goals. And lastly, companies are also realizing that there are enormous savings to be made by optimizing real estate utilization. Whatever the case, to make effective decisions, companies would need data & insights into how their office spaces are being utilized. Which is why Poly has partnered with Ubiqisense and Vyopta.
Ubiqisense is a leader in space utilization analysis & insights. Through its solution, it can provide insights into occupancy, usage patterns & footfall across office floors, meeting rooms, open spaces & shared desks.
Vyopta is a digital collaboration experience management company. It provides insights into room utilization, helps identify inefficient meetings, and enables you to take action to prevent costly repetition, repurpose existing resources, and plan for new build-out.
Through its hardware & software innovation, Poly continues to go the extra mile to bring unique value to its customers. People counting sensors can cost anywhere between USD 1K- 3K. However, Poly’s Studio X30, X50 & X52 have these sensors built in. That’s a direct cost saving for customers. People counting data from these devices is readily available via Poly Lens APIs. This data is quite helpful for analyzing office space utilization on platforms such as Ubiqisense & Vyopta.
Through Poly Lens APIs, you can take advantage of the intelligent insights and management capabilities offered on the Poly Lens platform to optimize your workflows, build custom applications, or extract the data from Poly Lens in a way that works for your organization. The Poly Lens APIs are documented at the Poly Lens Developer Portal.
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