Scandic offers one-click meetings with Barco ClickShare Conference

With the aim of offering excellence in service to its business customers, the hotel Scandic Simonkenttä of this Nordic operator has installed the ClickShare Conference system of ship in their meeting rooms.

“Every meeting at a Scandic hotel should be excellent, either face-to-face, online or something in between”, as indicated by those responsible for this Nordic operator, that you have installed in your establishment Scandic Simonkenttä, in Helsinki (Finland), the system ClickShare Conference of ship for your business customers.

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, the 70% of the company's revenue comes from business travel and conferences, which means that conference rooms are an essential part of your services.

The company offers meeting spaces ranging from two to 2.000 people, all equipped to do them in person and online, that are now adapting to the new reality of hybrid work to offer a better experience to their business customers.

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 with the intention of meeting 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 them the best meeting experience-says Kirsi Ilmasti, Scandic Meeting & Events Sales Director-. With the growing need for online and hybrid meetings we want to be sure that participants have the best viewing and audio experience, and ClickShare Conference allows us to do so”.

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

As Ilmasti explains, “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 costly 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 users of our meeting rooms can bring their laptop to the meeting and connect wirelessly to the screen, meeting room camera and speakers easily and quickly”.

There was also the difficulty of connecting different sources to a meeting device., according to Kirsi Ilmasti, “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 or Cisco WebEx, ClickShare Conference makes it easy”.

Easier for the user also means that it is simpler for the hotel Scandic Simonkenttä. Thanks to the installation of ClickShare Conference, hotel management foresees lower 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.", points out Kirsi Ilmasti.

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