Joel Mulpeter, Product Manager of Crestron Asia Pacific, shares more on Crestron’s partnership with Microsoft as well as the Crestron Flex solutions for the modern workplace.
Tell us more about the partnership between Crestron and Microsoft.
The partnership between Crestron and Microsoft is about bringing best of class hardware from Crestron into the best of class software with Microsoft Teams and Skype for Business. All built on Microsoft Azure, Crestron XiO Cloud is focused on making management and information about how these devices are deployed, managed, monitored and ultimately how the spaces evolve as technology changes in our rapidly moving world.
What are the key capabilities of Crestron Flex solutions?
Crestron Flex leverages the power of Microsoft Teams to bring the same experience at the desk into all your meetings spaces. By partnering with Microsoft as a first party vendor, we have all the benefits
of the Teams platform on standard Crestron hardware.
Where do you see the future of intelligent communications moving towards? Communications is becoming more about collaboration every day. Sharing content and information is now a must for just about all spaces across an enterprise. This used to be reserved for larger boardrooms and meeting spaces but in recent years, has shifted to even the smallest of huddle spaces.
How can end-users better provision and manage workplace solutions such as Crestron Flex?
Crestron XiO Cloud is a provisioning platform that leverages the power of Microsoft Azure to allow customers to;
• Deploy systems remotely reducing installation time.
• Manage and configure hundreds of device at the one time
• Monitor devices to improve devices uptime • Evolve spaces by gathering data on not only how spaces are used but optimise them over time.
The physical space. It is a multitenant cloud that allows systems to be configured, updated and ultimately evolve by gathering information on how the equipment is
used empowering decisions for the next technology refresh.