End User Benefits – Easy to Access, Easy to Use
The ultimate goal in deploying rich media conferencing services is to provide
users with an easy-to-use and reliable conferencing experience in order to
increase usage and improve productivity. The ReadiSeries products provide
end users with simplified access to conferencing services, both through on-
demand access features as well as through familiar scheduling interfaces.
• Single number dial-in provides simple access to any type of conference –
scheduled or on-demand –- from either audio or video endpoints
• Once in a conference, users are presented with consistent and easy-to-use
conference features
• Entry queue services with IVR/DTMF control can help guide users through
conference set up and management
• On-demand conferencing is always available with the use of “virtual confer-
ence rooms”, enabling users to initiate real-time conferencing and collabora-
tion sessions with their own personal dial-in number at any time
• End-user scheduling, when required, becomes straightforward with familiar
Microsoft®Outlook®, IBM®Lotus Notes®or Web-based scheduling tools
• Access to global user directories makes finding and inviting colleagues
faster and easier
• Web collaboration applications that include IM and Presence capabilities
are available with Polycom Web
Office
®, which also integrates with
Microsoft Windows®Messenger and Nortel®Multimedia Communications
Server (MCS)
Conference Management Solutions – Simplifying Operational Overhead
As conferencing moves away from unmanaged, isolated devices to a
connected, monitored, and managed network model, administrators require a
sophisticated set of conferencing management tools. Polycom Readi
Manager
SE200 management system offers IT administrators a suite of integrated
scheduling and management applications on a single pre-provisioned, pre-
installed network appliance.
The entire suite is accessible
by an intuitive Web-based
interface for easy set up and is
supported by a single data-
base, which houses user,
device and configuration data
for all applications, significant-
ly reducing data entry tasks.
This same suite of scheduling
and management applications
is also integrated into the new
Readi
Convene
conferencing
platform on the new Integrated
Application Module (IAM), for
an “all-in-one” conferencing
solution.
• Scheduling, conference management, device management and advanced
gatekeeper applications are now integrated onto a single platform
• Management application suite is available on either the stand-alone
Readi
Manager
SE200 network appliance, or on Readi
Convene
's Integrated
Application Module (IAM) for a complete “all-in-one” conferencing solution
• Cost-effective, self contained platform - on either Readi
Manager
or
Readi
Convene
– eliminates the expense of multiple stand-alone servers
• Single database houses all user, device and configuration data to facilitate
one-time data entry across management applications
• Web-based scheduling wizard provides both administrative staff and power
users with a familiar, easy-to-use interface
