GAITHERSBURG, Md., Dec. 06, 2016 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- BroadSoft, Inc. (NASDAQ: BSFT ), a global unified communication software as a service (UCaaS) leader, today announced the commercial availability of BroadSoft UC-One ® Conference Room – a one-click conference room system experience that enables businesses to easily and affordably connect existing conference rooms to any UC-One virtual conference .
Today’s conference room system experience is not only cost-prohibitive for most businesses, but complex to install and use. Meeting organizers and participants navigate TVs and video cameras that don’t work together properly, requiring different remote controls for each individual component. These legacy systems make it difficult to add remote participants or share content. It is no wonder that 47% 1 of employees view meetings as the number one time-waster at the office.
“The conference room experience has always been a challenge for traditional UC," said Stan Chizhevskiy, Technical Director of Access4. "We've found BroadSoft UC-One Conference Room a perfect fit for this problematic use case giving us an excellent integrated, easy-to-use and deploy product for conference room users that need both HD audio/video, as well as instantly available to collaborate between conference rooms, desktop UC users and external guests."
UC-One Conference Room works with any standard LCD screen, in any conference room, and includes Logitech GROUP, a ConferenceCam featuring wideband audio and HD video. As a result, UC-One Conference Room makes it easy and affordable to add video to every room at a price point that is approximately 1/10 the cost of comparably equipped telepresence systems.
“Logitech is delighted to partner with BroadSoft to overcome one of the biggest challenges with video conferencing in the meeting room, which is the ease of joining a call,” said Scott Wharton, vice president and general manager for Logitech Video Collaboration. “With Logitech ConferenceCams, BroadSoft UC-One solves this challenge by providing one-click join, high quality audio, video and content-sharing, and more, all at a highly affordable price.”
UC-One Conference Room delivers several features and benefits that dramatically improve the conference room system experience:
- One-click join – One-click meetings can be initiated from UC-One Conference room. All meetings are hosted in My Room, the BroadSoft virtual meeting space that brings together voice and video conferencing, multi-party chat and desktop sharing.
- Easy scheduling – From their office calendar, users can select any available conference room system to schedule their video conference. Once scheduled, users just need to walk into their conference room, click one button and start the video conference. Users will always know which video conference rooms are available.
- Content sharing with HD video – Meetings are intended to increase productivity, not reduce it. Content sharing functions allows anyone to start a collaboration session and review spreadsheets, presentations or any other document type; while wideband audio codecs capture every verbal nuance, and HD video relays crisp visual details.
- Reduces complexity – By enabling business users to manage their room video conferences from within the intuitive, desktop experience they use every day, UC-One Conference Room can reduce the cost and complexity of multi-point video conferencing. Desktop and room video users can start conferences with just a click, and it’s easy to add remote participants, joining via desktop and mobile devices.
“Most employees attend a whopping 62 meetings every month 2 , time that is often highly unproductive because of technology hiccups and a poor experience for those attending in-person and virtually,” said Scott Hoffpauir, chief technology officer, BroadSoft. “Now conferences can be started with the click of a button from our UC-One desktop and mobile apps, and service providers are now positioned to offer businesses of all sizes a multi-point solution that can be affordably and easily added to any conference room as needed.”
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Forward-Looking Statements:
This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These forward-looking statements may be identified by their use of terms and phrases such as “enables” and “can,” and other similar terms and phrases and include, among others, statements regarding the benefits to BroadSoft’s customers resulting from the use of the UC-One Conference Room app. The outcome of the events described in these forward-looking statements is subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the results anticipated by these forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to, the financial and other benefits to BroadSoft resulting from the use of the UC-One Conference Room app by its service provider customers as well as those factors contained in the “Risk Factors” section of BroadSoft’s Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2015, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, on February 29, 2016, and in BroadSoft’s other filings with the SEC. All information in this release is as of December 6, 2016. Except as required by law, BroadSoft undertakes no obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statement made herein for any reason to conform the statement to actual results or changes in its expectations.
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BroadSoft is the technology innovator in cloud communications, collaboration, and contact center solutions for businesses and service providers across 80 countries. We are the market share leader for cloud unified communications with an open, mobile and secure platform trusted by 25 of the world’s top 30 service providers by revenue. Our BroadSoft Business application suite empowers users and teams to share ideas and work simply to achieve breakthrough performance.
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