HCLTech has introduced Meeting-Rooms-as-a-Service (MRaaS) in collaboration with Cisco Webex which allows globally distributed workforces to collaborate effectively.
According to the global technology company, HCLTech, MRaaS brings legacy meeting rooms up-to-date while giving users the ability to join meetings from any meeting platform provider with Webex devices.
The solution, which is available on a subscription model, also enables organisations to enhance the design, implementation, and maintenance of integrated meeting rooms.
Rakshit Ghura, Senior Vice President and Global Head of Digital Workplace Services at HCLTech, commented on the new product partnership:
“MRaaS combines our consulting and managed services expertise with Cisco's proficiency in Webex devices to change the way employees conceptualize, organize and interact in a collaborative environment for a modern hybrid work model.
“The common vision of our partnership is to elevate the collaboration experience at work and drive productivity through modern meeting rooms.”
MRaaS includes Webex collaboration devices that utilise artificial intelligence to provide intuitive and seamless collaboration experiences through smart features like meeting zones, intelligent people framing, improved attendee audio, background noise removal, and more.
AI in collaboration is evidently an important focus for Cisco Webex at the moment, with new AI partnerships announced at Cisco Live in June this year.
Before its collaboration with Cisco, Amlesh Sengar, Senior Consultant, Digital Workplace Services at HCLTech demonstrated the necessity for companies to incorporate MRaaS in a blog post by citing various studies.
This included research by Gartner which found that employees are 16 percent more productive and view their company 30 percent more favourably when they are satisfied with their physical workspace.
He also pointed to the statistic that 35 percent of employees waste between two to five hours per week on virtual meetings. Meeting rooms, therefore, play a crucial role in a company’s productivity.
The Benefits of MRaaS
Sengar listed three key advantages to using MRaaS for end users, IT, and business leaders:
