Hybrid conference rooms are the future. Wireless presenting and conferencing have taken over with how simple they are to use. Barco ClickShare have many products to cover this preferred meeting habit, but what actually is it?
Barco ClickShare are one of the top contenders for wireless meetings. Their straightforward and easy equipment allows anyone to transform their meeting rooms, or any old room, into a new shiny hybrid way of working. But if your meeting room is already at the top of its game then ClickShare can still enhance your ways of collaborating. Their products include the CX-20, 30 and 50, the C-5 and 10, CS-100 Huddle and 100, CSE-200, 200+ and 800.
The ClickShare product that you use will have a Base Unit that needs to be installed, this is so your ClickShare Conferencing or ClickShare Presenting product have something that you and guest can connect to. Barcos wireless conference and wireless presentation categories hold a range of products to encourage great collaboration. With not only people in the room but with people participating remotely. Their ClickShare Button gives fast connectivity to any meeting room, even if you're the guest. With just plugging the button into your laptop, click the button to connect to the base unit and your ready to join. That fast and that seamlessly.
ClickShares basic actions are to connect everyone wirelessly with the advantages of collaborating. However, there is much more to ClickShare devices, so what actually is ClickShare Conferencing and ClickShare Presenting devices?
ClickShare Wireless Conferencing
ClickShare conferencing is designed to take a bare conferencing room, or any old room you have, and upgrade it to a state of the art conference room. A big feature of all ClickShare conferencing products is that it can effortlessly join into a meeting room. So with Barco making sure that their products are agnostic, it allows all their products to be connected to any device and work with any type of conferencing platforms, like Zoom and Microsoft Teams.
ClickShare conferencing have a few products to chose from. With the CX-20, CX-30 and the CX-50. However, it includes the most popular Barco ClickShare device, the CX-30. These small devices are a fully integrated wireless system with a 7 second set up time. ClickShare prides itself with being able to integrate with any existing equipment you have in your room already. So ClickShare is compatible with a broad range of USB audio-visual peripherals like sound bars, mics and webcams. With no software and touch panels, its easy to install and utilise ClickShare conferencing products for whatever needs you have.
Features
The device covers full BOYD support and full interactivity and moderation. If you have never heard of BOYD it stands for Bring Your Own Device. This simply means that if you are invited to a conference, you can easily bring your own device and connect to the already installed ClickShare Base Unit with your ClickShare Button. This is a great feature as anyone can connect and share with their device, with no set backs. ClickShare lets a conference run smoothly.
With a Full interactivity and moderation feature, this lets everyone and anyone interact with the content that is being shared. This can be annotations to completely editing the content. This brings your teams together and allows creativity to flow and team work to thrive. So if you have some participants working from home, as a lot of people are at the moment. They can still work closely with the people in the office by having the feature to annotate any work that a user is sharing. This can also encourage people to collaborate with others that they haven't collaborated with before, therefore creating new teams and new ideas.
The moderation functionality is best for larger conference rooms. This stops the rapid switching of users on your screen, so with many people chiming in wanting to have their say and other wanting to share their content. It can become overwhelming and confusing, making your meetings a mess. The moderation manually selects which content appears on the screen and when it appears, stopping people from talking over each other and giving everyone their chance. This feature is important as it guarantees your conference will run smoothly.
The Different Devices
In the ClickShare conferencing category, the CX-20 is most compatible with huddle and small meeting rooms that need a total transformation. With this product also coming with one ClickShare Button, it can massively update your room to habitat wireless conferencing. The CX-30 is their most popular product and its most suitable for small to medium sized conference rooms. With this device coming with two ClickShare Buttons for more sharing opportunities and full interactivity. This is a good starter product for anyone who hasn't used Barco ClickShare products before. Then the CX-50 is for the larger conference rooms and boardrooms that need that extra boost to put it into a high standard conference room. The CX-50 offers higher quality of collaboration, with participants being able to add comments to presentation slides in real time and moderation so that nothing gets confusing.
All these products have enhanced security to protect all and any of your companies data. All products are ISO27001 certificate approved. This means that they are all at the standard of how to manage security. Furthermore, every product comes with the benefit of 5 years of Smartcare. Smartcare includes a 5 years of analytic license, 5 year coverage on hardware and free software updates. This guarantees you the best coverage on all your ClickShare products with the peace of mind that if anything goes wrong you are covered by Barco.
ClickShare Wireless Presentation
The ClickShare presentation has a larger range of products than the conferencing range to chose from. With products, C-5 and C-10, the CS-100 Huddle and CS-100, CSE-200, 200+ and the CSE-800. The ClickShare presentation is all about wireless collaboration. It brings you HD video quality to collaborate to a high standard without any video quality problems. These devices are designed to connect to your existing equipment in your meeting room without any hassle. ClickShare presenting is just there to enhance your meeting experience. With ClickShare having 30 on board partners in their partner program. Its easy for anyone to be compatible with a ClickShare device.
ClickShare presentation is your best friend for hosting. Especially when those impromptu meetings pop up that need to be done quickly. Its easy with ClickShare as you can gather the people you want and need in your meeting and easily walk into your conference room. Plug-in and click the ClickShare Button and you're up and ready to present. As ClickShare presentation is so easy to use, anyone can host a meeting. Even if hosting is a new territory to you, ClickShare takes out all the technology stress that comes with hosting a conference. It allows you to focus on what matters within your presentation. However, even if you are a regular conference host, the ClickShare presentation products lets you collaborate with other companies in your conferences fast and efficiently.
Features
All of the ClickShare products are compatible with any device. From a laptop to a tablet or a phone if you're on the go. To connect with your laptop, you do this via the Button of Desktop App, with your tablet and phone you can connect via the IOS and android app or through screen mirroring. Screen mirroring is a handy feature that can let you quickly share your screen. This can be from your phone or tablet screen to the meeting rooms tv or projector. This is compatible with Airplay, Google Cast and Miracast. There is no need for any cables or adapters. Another feature that is very useful is that you can have synchronized content sharing. This can be with the people in the room or with the people meeting with you remotely. So it doesn't hold anyone back from collaborating.
Just like the ClickShare conference products the ClickShare presentation includes full interactivity and moderation with touchback support, annotation, blackboarding and moderation. However, unlike the conferencing products this is almost the basic feature in the presentation products. It is still a great and useful feature to presenting but as ClickShare presenting is all about collaborating, its only fitting that this feature is included with it. The ClickShare presentation products can fit any sized room, from a huddle space to a large board room. So ClickShare presentation can help anyone with their collaboration needs.
The Different Devices
The ClickShare presenting products all have the important feature of sharing to allow for the collaboration to happen. Each of these products are for different sized conference rooms. So the CS-100 Huddle, CS-100 and the C-5 is for huddle to small sized rooms. This allows up to eight users to share their content with one person being able to share their content on the screen at once. This helps everyone get their point across at once without any interrupting or confusion.
The C-5 is one of the products from the new range by Barco ClickShare. It is for hybrid collaboration in small and huddle sized rooms. The C-5 is great for fast wireless connection, with anybody having the opportunity to connect and share their screen. This model can be used as a stand alone device or it can be seamlessly connected to any other ClickShare device that you have in your conference room. This model also works well with any device that you need to be sharing from, from a laptop to a mobile device. The C-5 is a perfect suit for BOYD with the benefit of a 4K canvas, clearly showing your content for collaboration.
If the CS-100 Huddle or the CS-100 doesn't seem to suit your conference room, as you have a bit of a bigger room. Then the CSE-200, 200+ and the C-10 will fit perfectly, the CS range lets two users share on the screen simultaneously. The C-10 is more suitable for your medium sized rooms. Unlike the C-5, it comes with full interactivity for users to enjoy. Plus the C-10 is also delivered with a ClickShare Button, to maximise your collaboration. With having a bigger room this is handy as it allows more people in your meeting to collaborate as two people can show their content at once to the whole room. Furthermore, this lets everyone collaborate together.
However if you have a large room or a boardroom, the CSE-800 is best. It lets eight users connect and share their screen simultaneously. Again this really helps encourage collaboration. As people from your team can show multiple pieces of content at once. You can also have the benefit of getting feedback from either guests or others apart of their team. This feature also stops the need of a meeting later on as everything can be done in the one meeting, then and there. Being able to simultaneously share and present content stops the time wasting of thinking who is going to share next and setting up to be able to share.
Contact Us
With all this information on Barco ClickShare products, it can be somewhat confusing on whether ClickShare Conferencing or ClickShare Presenting is best for you. If you are a bit stuck, fill out the form with your confusion and someone from our team will get back to you. Or if you need your answers right away then give us a call on 0118 997 7770.
ClickShare App
ClickShare have a desktop and mobile app. Both apps are super handy to get your collaboration and conferencing done right. The desktop app is for both conference and presenting. The app will detect when you are in a conference room with a ClickShare Base Unit and will automatically connect. Saving you the time of connecting your device. Letting you connect efficiently, even without the ClickShare Button. The app allows you to have full control over you tv or projector screen that you are using, sharing your screen from your laptop to your larger presenting screen and controlling it without having to leave your seat. There are no boundaries to using the desktop app as you can still connect to your equipment, such as your webcam, sound bars and speakers, in your conference room.
The mobile app can wirelessly connect to your mobile phone, android or IOS, to any of your meeting room equipment and any ClickShare model. Just like the desktop app the mobile app can detect you are in the room. This can instantly connect you to the ClickShare Base Unit. This is a great feature of the mobile app as people who have their work on their phones can still connect and share with the room. Also if you want to keep some of the work done by other participants from the presentation. You can easily screenshot the content and store it in your photo album on your phone. Making it simple for you to take notes and keep anything important that you can go back and look at.
Management Platforms
To manage your ClickShare products, they have multiple management platforms. With XMS Cloud Management, Button Manager and ClickShare Configurator. The XMS Cloud Management is a wider management platform for larger ClickShare installs with an insight to more analytics. The ClickShare Button Manager allows you to remotely pair yours or guests Buttons to the Base Unit. This management platform is useful as if you have guests coming in for a meeting and they want to share their content. Its simple for them to bring along their ClickShare Button and connect to your base unit. With the help from the Button Manager. ClickShare Configurator is the platform for your daily management of your unit setting. This lets you keep your ClickShare products up to date with the new updates, keeping your products running smoothly.
ClickShare devices are mostly cloud managed by ClickShare's XMS Cloud Management. This controls a wider management of your device with its security and customisable features. It also gives you a view to more of your devices analytics. This can help you see if you are getting the maximum usage of your ClickShare product. This goes hand in hand with ClickShare's guarantee of enhanced security. As you can go into the XMS Cloud and manage anything you want with your device. With the devices enhanced security it is possible to join any meetings. Such like a meeting for a different company where you are the guest. This gives the best support and security for the host and everyone joining.
