ISE: Barco enhances ClickShare

Barco announces that its ClickShare solution for wireless presentation and conferencing has been extended with digital signage capabilities. Meeting room displays that are connected to ClickShare can now be leveraged as corporate branding tools to impress, inspire and inform by distributing digital signage messages. The first digital signage integrations are made possible by ClickShare alliance partners Signagelive, Seenspire, and Korbyt.

Office managers are increasingly looking for cost-effective ways to disseminate information across locations in the organisation towards employees, visitors and customers. At the same time, IT managers want to maximise the return on investment of their meeting room technology, displays, and conferencing systems. Barco has joined forces with alliance partners Signagelive, Seenspire, and Korbyt to present an answer to these needs. 

Digital signage messages can now easily be distributed across a range of ClickShare devices located in the facility. This enables organisations to keep meeting room visitors informed and engaged by delivering focused messages. Without needing additional hardware investments, the functionality of existing meeting room displays can be extended from presenting and conferencing towards digital signage. You can now simply publish and push content from your preferred digital signage platform to all meeting rooms equipped with ClickShare Conference or ClickShare Present and other locations in the workplace. Activation is simple and painless: you just need to enable signage on ClickShare from the XMS cloud management platform.

“ClickShare steps up its integration with digital signage, offering customers the opportunity to increase the ROI of their meeting spaces,” says Michaël Vanderheeren (Product Management Direct Workplace at Barco). “In collaboration with our digital signage alliance partners, our customers can get the most out of their meeting spaces and turn them into corporate branding tools, helping them to communicate and exchange information, like welcome messages, news, social feeds, customised and branded content and boost engagement in their workplace.”

Barco’s customer-first approach is the starting point for our new alliance partnerships with Signagelive, Seenspire, and Korbyt on digital signage integration.

Signagelive is a global leader in the development and delivery of digital signage applications and interactive media solutions. Content managers can now securely broadcast their digital signage content to ClickShare devices through the Signagelive software and without using any additional hardware.

Jason Cremins, CEO at Signalive, comments: “The launch of Signagelive for ClickShare enables organisations to extend the reach of their digital signage to meeting rooms and huddle spaces. From a single cloud-based platform, unified dynamic messages integrated with internal data systems and calendar software can be published to ClickShare, engaging employees and visitors in contextual and highly engaging content. We are proud to be digital signage alliance partner for ClickShare and look forward to demonstrating to Barco partners and customers the benefits of Signagelive for ClickShare.”

Seenspire is a subscription-based streaming service for digital signage content. The company offers worldwide AV and System Integrators access to fresh and engaging content for their displays. Content managers can use Seenspire to keep meeting room users informed by streaming continuously updated information across ClickShare Conference and ClickShare Present-equipped meeting rooms.

“Through the partnership with Seenspire, Clickshare users can effectively leverage the digital signage feature, regardless of the users’ current digital signage CMS. With our joint solution, Clickshare users can now stream unlimited Social, Infotainment, and Collaboration content and effectively communicate via meeting room displays, “ says Samuel Mekonen, CEO Seenspire.

Korbyt Anywhere is a workplace experience platform that enables companies to reach their workforce to deliver relevant content, data, and information, or enable easy access to the systems and resources on any screen, anywhere. Organisations can use Korbyt to reach and communicate with their entire workforce through its omnichannel products — digital signage, desktop and mobile devices, and email inboxes.

“As organisations continue to encourage employees to return to the office our purpose is to make their workplace experience stellar”, says Korbyt’s CEO, Ankur Ahlowalia. “Aligning with Barco on this initiative makes it easy for our shared customers to maximise their IT investments and use ClickShare products and Korbyt’s CMS to communicate and engage with the employees that surround all the meeting room and collaborative displays available in their facilities.”