Beam Suntory trusts Ricoh to renew its meeting spaces

The spirits multinational Beam Suntory has counted on Ricoh to equip twenty-seven meeting rooms and common spaces with the latest AV technology “for the best employee experience, both in their face-to-face and remote work”.

Created in 2014 thanks to the union between the supplier of bourbon and the pioneer in Japanese whiskey, Beam Suntory It is a world leader in spirits premium, whose brands are demanded by consumers from all countries. Based in New York, is a subsidiary of Suntory Holdings Limited from Japan.

In order to support the process of digital transformation and hybrid work who has undertaken Beam Suntory, the company has trusted Ricoh to respond to your challenges of collaboration and communication services in your market in Spain and SBFE.

Specifically, have been established two types of project: common use areas, composed of a dining area, a training room, rest and well-being spaces, and another double conference room, equipped with multimedia systems to generate a satisfactory employee experience.

To which is added the project to provide videoconferencing equipment in twenty-seven meeting rooms by Beam Suntory in its building in Madrid (ground floors, first and second).

Ricoh has installed a advanced video over IP system in common areas, with ceiling speakers in different rooms and handheld microphones, lapel and tie, as well as sound managers to be able to control its output throughout the area or in individual rooms.

The technology of Barco to share content from laptops to monitors with ClickShare devices, Control iPads to manage the different image and sound output options in each room and video conferencing equipment Crestron in the double conference room to hold meetings through Microsoft Teams.

As for the rest of Beam Suntory's rooms, it has been decided to MTR systems Lenovo for small and medium sized spaces (capacity up to ten people), that incorporate everything in the same equipment (codec, camera, speakers and sound) and by Crestron MTR systems for larger or more complex rooms, that have an extra set of ceiling speakers and microphones Shure, camera Yealink y Poly E70, etc.

The project for the common areas includes the deployment of eleven monitors Samsung, along with a video over IP system that covers all spaces and can be isolated by room or used together.

The conference room (a space with an amphitheater) It has two large format monitors and two other support ones, with a Barco screen sharing system and a Crestron MTR video conferencing system. All equipment is managed with five control iPads to manage the configuration of each space, with room reservation panels from the latter manufacturer in all rooms

Regarding the solutions for the meeting rooms, eight Samsung monitors have been installed, replacing systems that had been operating for more than seven years. Ten Lenovo MTR computers have been installed in the small and medium-sized rooms., while the largest have sixteen Crestron MTR equipment, with different speaker and microphone equipment depending on the size of the space, with reservation panels Logitech in all rooms.

The project has included support for incidents that have arisen, whose response has been quick and efficient, according to the company. Besides, At the end of the project, several training sessions with the Beam Suntory IT team.

This is what he points out Pablo Ruano, senior manager TI –international service delivery, “The result has been very satisfactory.”. Today all the rooms are in use and have been very well received by all users. Also, Ricoh continues to help us with the maintenance and training service for users”.

The two objectives set by Beam in this project “have been met,” says Ruano.. Improving the employee experience and enabling new ways of working thanks to collaboration systems allow us to be more efficient every day and enhance the creativity of our greatest asset., the employees”.