Jabra, leading communications hardware company, recently announced that its innovative Evolve Series is now fully certified with Microsoft Teams. Devices across the entire Jabra business portfolio are now available for an upgrade to access a new level of integration for improved user experience, productivity, and collaboration opportunities.
Jabra will support existing Evolve Series users with free and flexible upgrades via firmware. The upgrade isn’t just limited to the Jabra headset Series. Select call-centric and collaboration products like the Jabra PanaCast have also achieved Microsoft Teams certification.
At a time when collaboration tools are an essential component of the workforce, the Microsoft Teams certification is a valuable feature for Jabra’s Evolve Series and surrounding products. Around 80% of the time we spend at work today focuses on collaboration, with around 1 in 3 meetings happening virtually. Microsoft Teams is now a hub for communication and teamwork.
Updating Jabra Tech for Microsoft Teams
Devices from Jabra, such as the Evolve Series, Panacast, Speak 750, and Engage 50 are all certified for use with Microsoft Teams. This ensures that you can rely on a fantastic plug and play audio experience, with excellent call control functionality. The devices provide next-level integrations with Teams to bring the tech to the foreground of a conversation at one touch of a button. Users can even get notifications when meetings are starting and take action to join from their headset.
Jabra is leveraging its extensive relationship with Microsoft lasting more than a decade, to help customers seamlessly transition to Teams. Jabra’s legacy certified products will have access to a flexible upgrade when they’re moving to Teams, which will happen via a firmware enhancement that automatically launches when a user connects a headset to Jabra Xpress or Direct.
Newly purchased Evolve Series technology will come with access to Teams certification already, while maintaining the same feel and look of the rest of the range. Models that are upgraded to provide Teams functionality might not have the same button icon however, and may have a different notification colour on the LED.
Connecting Hardware and Software
The certification for Microsoft Teams is rolling out across the full Jabra Evolve Series, including devices like Evolve 80 (pictured, above), 75, 65T, 65, 40, 30 II and 20. The Evolve Series from Jabra is extremely popular. The company has sold millions of professional headsets to become the leading UC series for noise cancellation to aid with better concentration in open office environments. Since the first headset launched in 2014, the Series comprises of 9 different models.
Featuring an iconic busy-light notification and premium noise management functionality, the Evolve Series is a crucial component in many office environments worldwide. The latest Evolve2 Series is already certified for use with Microsoft Teams, with a dedicated button that infuses interaction with the app with one-touch simplicity. Remaining Evolve products like the 75e and 65e will follow with certification before the end of 2020.
