In a new independent report from Forrester Research, Polycom has been ranked top for video collaboration strategy and current offerings.
Cisco was ranked a close second while Huawei was out of the top three.
The Forrester Wave: Room-Based Videoconferencing, Q3 2012 Report
Polycom received perfect scores in the categories of quality of experience, interoperability, product roadmap, partnerships, security and compliance.
Polycom is a global leader in open standards-based unified communications (UC), with a global ecosystem of over 7,000 partners.
The report, titled “The Forrester Wave: Room-Based Videoconferencing, Q3 2012”, uses 39 criteria to evaluate the top vendors in the industry, looking at video collaboration solutions for every work environment – from mobile and desktops to room systems and immersive telepresence – along with the services that support them.
The Forrester Wave report also discusses the growing interest in “face to face” video collaboration, which is helping businesses increase productivity, improve employee engagement and trust and lower costs.
Polycom RealPresence video collaboration solutions deliver secure, high-quality video to companies of all sizes, so that teams can meet face-to-face with colleagues, partners and customers anywhere people work ― in the office, at home, on the go, or on the manufacturing floor, in a hospital or, at a movie set.
The RealPresence Platform provides the robust provisioning, management, scalability, reliability, flexibility and security required both for video enterprises and their private video clouds serving thousands of users, as well as for Video-as-a-Service (VaaS) delivered from the cloud potentially to tens of millions.
Read more about the Polycom RealPresence Video Collaboration Solutions below.
Polycom offers a broad range of video collaboration solutions including:
- RealPresence Immersive video theaters that provide the experience of being in the same room with other participants―life-sized and eye-to-eye. Polycom provides an immersive video experience, with cinema-like video quality, crystal-clear HD audio with tailored acoustics and personal content monitors, creating a real-as-life remote group collaboration experience that makes the distance and technology invisible.
- “Videoconferencing innovation today is happening on smaller screens like PCs, smartphones and tablets that workers use in their everyday jobs.” – ForresterWave report.Room solutions that facilitate enterprise-grade video collaboration, regardless of room size or budget. Polycom RealPresence Room (HDX Series) video solutions are secure, easy to operate and consistently deliver a flawless visual communications experience. Polycom RealPresence Room solutions make it simple for people to meet face-to-face and share HD-quality content with peers, partners and customers wherever they may be located.
- Desktop systems that deliver HD video collaboration to the personal workspace, including to PCs and laptops.
- Real Presence Mobile, which extends video collaboration beyond the office to leading Apple and Android smartphones and tablets.
- Innovative video and UC solutions such as Polycom EagleEye Director, the most intelligent UC camera , which delivers breakthrough HD experiences by automatically zooming in on the active speaker in the room as they talk or walk; and Polycom UC Board, which transforms ordinary surfaces into virtual whiteboards.
These solutions are powered by the Polycom RealPresence Platform, a comprehensive and interoperable infrastructure for universal video collaboration.
Because of Polycom’s focus on interoperability, the RealPresence Platform works with hundreds of UC and business apps, transforming islands of employees and fragmented communications systems into a seamless video enterprise where enterprise-grade video is easily and securely available to all authorised personnel whether they’re mobile, remote, or on-site.
Polycom recently announced a rich new suite of open APIs for developers, partners and service providers to integrate business apps such as billing, scheduling, directory, management and monitoring with the Platform, extending the value of RealPresence video solutions to new industries, new use cases and new users.
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