Plantronics and Polycom change their name to Poly

This name is the result of the new strategy to promote interactions between people. Under the new name of Poly it has attended the Enterprise Connect event 2019, where you are exposing the products and services that put the company's vision into practice.

Plantronics has decided to change its name to Poly and will unite under a single name his experience and that of Polycom in the audio and video technology sector.

This new name reflects its strategy focused on the human experience of communications and collaboration, which aims to make all calls as rich and natural as in-person interactions.

Poly wants to become a reference to facilitate the link between users and cloud collaboration platforms, regardless of where and when they are used.
It will focus its activity on four areas of innovation, which are based on the concept of Prosumer users: the consumer looking for products that work efficiently both for their professional activity and during their free time.

In particular, the company will focus on solutions designed for open work environments, for business collaboration, to facilitate the mobile-first experience and to manage devices through cloud services.

Innovation areas

Poly will bet on four different areas of innovation: open office spaces, collaboration tools, solutions mobile-first for the modern worker and cloud services that help users and IT professionals get more out of their devices.

Open office spaces lead to noise and distractions, which reduces productivity and employee satisfaction. Poly offers solutions to address acoustic distractions in open spaces, as well as technological tools so that small meeting rooms (huddle rooms) hold the same potential as traditional boardrooms.

Users currently use three or more collaboration solutions on any given day and need endpoints that support those solutions at all levels.. In this sense, Poly has a wide range of products to respond to this growing need..

Whether it is using a personal smartphone, a business phone or working in an environment in which the personal and professional spheres merge into one, Users need voice and video capabilities as mobile as they are.

The launch of the Elara series 60 responds to this new reality and joins the company's well-known headphones for mobile devices that provide high-quality tools to be productive, regardless of where they are.

As the large-scale end-user training trend continues, IT professionals face a new challenge in knowing what devices are being used and where. Poly focuses on making these easy-to-use solutions also easy to manage.

Enterprise Connect 2019

The company has attended, with its new name, al evento Enterprise Connect 2019, which is being held in Orlando until next 21 March, to showcase their new products and services to implement the company's vision. Among these products are:

Polycom Studio: Intuitive USB video conferencing bar that takes collaboration rooms to the next level and is compatible with services like Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Skype for Business, Google Meet, Cisco Webex o Amazon Chime.

Elara 60: telephone base designed for increasingly mobile workers (mobile-first) giving users the ability to use Microsoft Teams with a single touch or via voice activation.

Eagle Eye Cube: video conferencing camera with 4K sensors that allow you to obtain a very clear image and optimal sound to improve the quality of meetings held in small or medium-sized rooms. It is compatible with many existing solutions, as Polycom Trio (in combination with VisualPro) y Group Series, among others.

Blackwire 7225: intuitive unified communications headset (UC), They feature a sleek armless design and are designed to help users stay focused in open offices.. Its active noise cancellation functionality (ANC) allows people to focus on work, listen to music and take calls professionally from a PC or Mac.

Plantronics Status Indicator: light indicator located on the desk and that connects with any communications platform that the user uses so that the rest of the employees know if it is available, taking a call or away from the desk. Also notifies messages and calls through visual and audio alerts.

New standardized voice capabilities simplify the headset assignment process for administrators. In this way, It is possible to directly modify the basic and advanced features of the headphones from a landline through interactive graphical interfaces without the need for a connected PC..

Plantronics Manager Pro 3.13 lets IT professionals know how many devices they have, which ones work and which ones don't, and what to do about it.

Polycom Device Management Service for the Enterprise (PDMS-E): from now on it is compatible with both Polycom Studio, facilitating its management, as well as with added API functions, to have greater control and management capacity for large-scale implementations.