Avaya recently announced that it would redesign Avaya Vantage, a tablet-like IP phone and collaboration device. I learned more about the new experience the company said is set to improve how Avaya customers work from home, and I caught up with Steve Brock, OneCloud Marketing Leader, Avaya. Brock said the redesigned version of Avaya Vantage is a home office experience that extends the same experience an employee might have in an office to remote working.
According to Avaya's recent “Work from Anywhere” survey, 65 percent of companies polled say they have and will continue to add new video conferencing solutions to their tech stacks. "They want to guarantee their workforce can adapt quickly to what is likely to be a long-term trend of home working," Brock told UC Today.
That same research highlights two growing trends - businesses are focused on providing employees with new and valuable tools to enable remote working. The second trend is that remote working shows no signs of slowing down. Brock said the pandemic gave Avaya a chance to rethink the kind of experiences employees wanted to have. Armed with this knowledge, he said Avaya's leadership felt ready to refine its dedicated meeting device to help foster such experiences.
Fortunately, Brock added, the recent redesign addresses these trends because customers can manage their time, meetings, and workload from a single device. The dedicated virtual communications and team collaboration device integrates with Avaya Spaces, a part of Avaya's OneCloud strategy that consists of its UCaaS, CCaaS, and CPaaS solutions. It has a built-in high-definition conferencing camera, wide-band audio, and four microphones, too.
Avaya has also introduced new screen shifting technology to Avaya Vantage. The feature enables content, meeting participants, or both to be shifted to a larger screen based on the meeting dynamics at any given time. If you are presenting content, one touch of the device can also open the same meeting on a laptop to enable the presentation.
