Barco has formally entered into an agreement with Microsoft around Teams devices. As a first outcome of the agreement, Barco will enable ClickShare devices to provide data that will be available through Microsoft’s Teams Rooms Pro Management Portal, and through the Pro Portal to offer IT managers insights into room and device utilisation.
With more than 240,000 ClickShare Conference devices in the field, ClickShare
will be a significant data source for Microsoft Teams Rooms management capabilities and
will feed into future initiatives.
This first step provides valuable insights for
IT decision makers without changing the user experience. When initiating a Teams call,
the user's Teams desktop client identifies the connected microphone, speaker, and camera
via the ClickShare Base Unit and Button, passing the data into the Teams
Pro Portal.
Once multiple users have connected to the same ClickShare Base
Unit, the information is populated for IT managers as a potential shared space
within the Pro Management portal, enabling registration and management of the meeting space.