Energy & Utility Skills implements Microsoft Lync
We’re proud to work with an organisation like Energy & Utility Skills, with their visionary approach to how technology can positively transform the way their organisation works. We’ve worked with their internal IT team to deliver a number of projects, augmenting their existing capabilities.
After working together to define the requirements for the replacement of their legacy telephone system we entered product selection. MIcrosoft® Lync™ not only met Energy & Utility Skills’ existing telephony requirements but offered some exciting new collaboration possibilities, especially for their remote workers.
Following a successful proof of concept deployment we worked to align the full rollout of Lync, including legacy telephony integration via both ISDN and analogue lines with a hardware refresh that included training staff on the new wave of Microsoft products.
Tim Balcon, Chief Executive said:
“I was really pleased with the professional way that RTS has approached this project and their ability to deliver both phases of the project on-time and to budget.
RTS has provided us with a unified solution that has given our organisation far greater capabilities and flexibility than a standard telephone system replacement ever could.
The benefits to EU Skills have been immense, in terms of our productivity and connectivity to our workers. I would recommend Lync to any organisation and also RTS as a go-to Partner, in order to implement it.”
You can read the full case study that was presented to the International Association of Microsoft Partners this November in our Unified Communications service section.
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Marsh Academy gets a new Maths Learning Stage
Marsh Academy is situated in New Romney, Kent and is sponsored by both Microsoft and Tonbridge School. The school has an outstanding vision for how learning can be enhanced through the use of technology and RTS are proud to be associated with their latest project, the Maths Learning Stage (MLS2).
The Maths Learning Stage is a fully immersive learning space which features a 55” master touch panel with customised interface, additional 7” panel and push-button control in each classroom as well as multiple learning zones, high fidelity sound system, projectors, wall mounted panels and input plates for students and teachers to connect their mobile devices to displays.
We invite you to take a look around:
Returning from Integrated Systems Europe (ISE)
As part of our Continued Professional Development we attend Integrated Systems Europe (ISE) held at Amsterdam’s RAI exhibition centre each year. The show offers a fantastic glimpse at emerging audio-visual technology and continues to grow year on year with over 700 exhibitors and some 30,000 attendees this year.
AV Trending Results Speaks Volumes
Gartner have recently published their latest report ‘Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies, 2010’ which the team have found makes rather pleasant reading. The document (which you can download here) summarizes the key findings of Gartner’s 2010 Hype Cycle report which is published annually and monitors the commercial viability of 1,600 technologies, applications, and trends in the 80 IT, business, and consumer markets.
One of the key themes emerging from this year’s Hype Cycle is how people experience and interact with technology. New styles of user interaction will drive new usage patterns, giving organizations opportunities to innovate how information and transactions are delivered to customers and employees. This includes devices such as media tablets and 3D flat-panel TVs and displays, and interaction styles such as gesture recognition and tangible user interfaces.
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AMITPRO Presentation – Why IT Partners need to know about Audio-visual (AV) Technology
AMITPRO is the Association of Midlands IT Professionals, a peer group of which RTS have been members of for just under a year now. The group is a fantastic opportunity for likeminded technology professionals to come together once a month to share best practices, marketplace developments, vendor presentations and even a beer or two afterwards.
Last night saw RTS’ first presentation to the group about why we feel now is the time for IT partners, as trusted business advisors, to have an understanding of Audio-visual (AV) technology. Over the course of the presentation we took the group through an overview of the AV industry, common client scenarios that we frequently see (Training rooms and Classrooms, Boardrooms, Video conferencing, Digital Signage and Audio systems) and offered our insight in to what we perceive the future of this emerging market to be.
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