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As clients demand more effective hybrid work experiences, AV Managed Services offer a real advantage for IT solution providers to stand-out from the crowd.

Blinking your eyes blearily between sips of coffee, you sound off at the start of the meeting to alert everyone to your presence before quickly muting yourself and booting up solitaire. You know that your input will not be required or welcome during the call and you’ll just be given written instructions later, so what’s the point of paying attention

The Stem Ecosystem enables IT providers to expand their UC offering and deliver professional audio services without requiring specialized capabilities or outsourcing.

Creating a DIY conference room isn’t as easy as buying a microphone and some speakers and plopping them willy-nilly onto the conference room table and calling it a day. There’s a reason it takes weeks for professional AV teams to create fully integrated conference rooms – each room is different, and the materials, size, and layout can significantly affect sound quality during a call.

Huddle rooms are proving to be a lasting development in modern offices as the workers prefer a small and secluded space for uninterrupted, informal collaboration sessions. Just because the space is limited doesn’t mean it’s any less important to plan out the room’s layout, however - creating a slapdash DIY solution leads to poor quality calls and useless space.

With the rate technology is advancing in the conferencing space, it’s easy to get overwhelmed when choosing out the equipment for your rooms. But don’t worry, we’re here to help you create a modernized, ‘future-proof’ conference room with a few simple steps.

The communication revolution created by video conferencing is a big leap forward towards one of the ‘good’ sci-fi futures, a brighter tomorrow in which we’re able to make genuine connections the world over. Before we get there, though, we’re going to have to step up access to quality education to help the next generation gain a head start. This means utilizing hyflex and distance learning effectively in the classroom. Unfortunately, most schools are still using setups and designs made for 100% in-person attendance or utilizing piece-mealed solutions that were never meant to be permanent.

Despite the tech world being abuzz with new ideas and products that revolutionize the way people do business, we’re STILL stuck with some of the same problems we’ve been dealing with since the 50s. Flying people around the world for simple meetings, breakdowns in communication, and plain old employee burnout are issues we’re dealing with that our grandparents would be all too familiar with.

Designing conference rooms with new technologies like video conferencing in mind can be tough, especially when you also need to factor in the aesthetic presentation of the room and the audio equipment needed to effectively cover the room. To make things easy on you, we’ve created a number of different sample layouts for your conference rooms that make the audio solution easy with the Stem Ecosystem.

IT was never an industry for the faint of heart, but many organizations still treat their IT departments like the third-string players on the team despite technology’s ever-growing role in the workplace and its corresponding growth in responsibilities. Luckily, technological improvements don’t just make everyone else’s lives in the office easier – they also work to save IT a ton of time and effort.