Scandic offers one-click meetings with Barco ClickShare Conference

With the objective of offering excellence in service to its business clients, the hotel Scandic Simonkentät of this Nordic operator has installed the ClickShare Conference system of Barco in their meeting rooms.

“Every meeting at a Scandic hotel must be excellent, whether face to face, online or something in between”, as those responsible for this Nordic operator point out, that you have installed in your establishment Scandic Simonkentät, not Helsinki (Finland), the system ClickShare Conference of Barco for your business clients.

Scandic is the largest Nordic hotel operator, with a network of 280 hotels with 58.000 rooms in operation and under development in six countries. Approximately, he 70% of the company's income comes from business trips and conferences, meaning conference rooms are an essential part of your services.

The company offers meeting spaces ranging from two to 2.000 personas, all equipped to carry them out in person and online, who are now adapting to the new reality of hybrid work to offer a better experience to their business clients.

An example of this investment is Scandic Simonkenttä, located in the center of the Finnish capital, which has deployed the Barco ClickShare Conference wireless conferencing solution in its meeting rooms to meet a growing need for easy-to-use video conferencing equipment.

More hybrid meetings

“Whether our users want to meet face to face, online, etc. "We want to offer you the best meeting experience," he says. Kirsi Free, Scandic Meetings & Events Sales Director -. With the growing need for online and hybrid meetings we want to make sure participants have the best viewing and audio experience, and ClickShare Conference allows us to”.

Expectations are high among today's business customers, “"They want meeting solutions that allow them to interact with everyone," he adds., but also extremely easy to use”.

How to explain Ilmasti, “the typical Scandic conference room user does not have extensive IT experience, so video conferencing should be easy to set up. At the same time, IT interventions by Scandic staff are expensive and, therefore, the hotel company wants to limit them”.

Until relatively recently it was necessary to “provide many different cables and connectors for different devices.”, remember this directive, “but today our meeting room users can bring their laptop to the meeting and connect wirelessly to the screen, meeting room camera and speakers quickly and easily”.

There was also the difficulty of connecting different sources to a meeting device, according to Kirsi Free, “and now only one ClickShare drive is needed. The fundamental difference is its ease of use: one click is enough for users to join the meeting, either with Zoom, Microsoft Teams o Cisco WebEx, ClickShare Conference makes it very simple”.

Easier for the user also means easier for the Scandic Simonkenttä hotel. Thanks to the installation of ClickShare Conference, hotel management expects fewer costs. “For now we offer written user instructions for conference room users who wish to use the ClickShare unit. Because this technology is so simple, "People don't need our personal assistance.", apunta Kirsi Free.