Feb 11, 2020

Barco and Logitech collaborate on new all-in-one solutions to enhance the Wireless Conference experience

Barco, global leader in professional meeting room visualization and collaboration solutions, today announced its partnership with Logitech to combine ClickShare Conference, its wireless conferencing solution, with Logitech Video Collaboration products. The new all-in-one solutions provide organizations with outstanding conferencing experiences in any workspace – from huddle rooms to large meeting room

KORTRIJK, Belgium, February 11, 2020 — Barco, global leader in professional meeting room visualization and collaboration solutions, today announced its partnership with Logitech to combine ClickShare Conference, its wireless conferencing solution, with Logitech Video Collaboration products. The new all-in-one solutions provide organizations with outstanding conferencing experiences in any workspace – from huddle rooms to large meeting rooms.

 

ClickShare Conference is the latest product range in Barco’s highly appreciated ClickShare family for wireless collaboration experiences. ClickShare Conference is all about wireless conferencing and BYOM (Bring Your Own Meeting), as it allows you to join any type of video conference from your own device, whether in huddle, a meeting room or a board room. ClickShare Conference works seamlessly with your video conferencing software, your camera brand, your laptop, and most importantly, makes remote meetings as intuitive as having a face-to-face meeting. Launched in 2012, ClickShare is the industry’s leading wireless presentation solution, equipped in more than 700,000 meeting rooms worldwide at the end of 2019. Users love the collaborative solution for the freedom it offers by ensuring a seamless setup and unprecedented ease of use. Building on the success of ClickShare, ClickShare Conference enables intuitive wireless conferencing.

Plug-and-play simplicity

The Logitech Room Solutions for Barco ClickShare Conference are all-in-one packages pairing ClickShare Conference with Logitech MeetUp or Rally conference cameras and contain all the components needed for video conferencing. It’s as easy to set up as it is to use – just open the box, connect and get started. Logitech Room Solutions for Barco ClickShare Conference come in three variants, depending on the size of the meeting room: from huddle rooms to large meeting rooms.

All-in-one video conferencing tool

“By integrating the functionality of the camera and audio in the meeting room, ClickShare Conference meets the market need for agnostic unified communication and collaboration (UCC),” says David Fitzgerald, VP Global Alliances for Barco. “The key to the ease of use offered by ClickShare is the high-quality and reliability of our solutions. We are pleased to team up with Logitech, a market leader in video collaboration solutions, and offer organizations an all-in-one package that ensures absolute peace of mind.”

Offering a better user experience

“We are excited to work with Barco as a leading provider of wireless content sharing,” said Scott Wharton, vice president and general manager, Logitech Video Collaboration. “Now, with Clickshare Conference, they are extending easy-to-use capabilities to voice and video, and without wires. Together, we are solving an important need for business users to simply start a high quality video call when bringing their own device to the conference room and the flexibility to use any cloud video service they want."

The Logitech Room Solutions for Barco ClickShare Conference will be available from April 2020.

About Barco

Barco designs technology to enable bright outcomes around the world. Seeing beyond the image, we develop visualization and collaboration solutions to help you work together, share insights, and wow audiences. Our focus is on three core markets: Enterprise (from meeting, classroom and control rooms to corporate spaces), Healthcare (from the radiology department to the operating room), and Entertainment (from movie theaters to live events and attractions). In 2018, we realized sales of 1.028 billion euro. We have a global team of 3,600 employees, whose passion for technology is captured in 400 granted patents.

For more information, visit us on www.barco.com/clickshare, follow us on Twitter (@BarcoClickShare), LinkedIn (ClickShare by Barco), YouTube (BarcoTV), or like us on Facebook (ClickShareBarco).

About Logitech

Logitech designs products that have an everyday place in people's lives, connecting them to the digital experiences they care about. More than 35 years ago, Logitech started connecting people through computers, and now it’s a multi-brand company designing products that bring people together through music, gaming, video, and computing. Brands of Logitech include LogitechLogitech GASTRO GamingStreamlabsUltimate EarsJaybird and Blue Microphones. Founded in 1981, and headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland, Logitech International is a Swiss public company listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange (LOGN) and on the Nasdaq Global Select Market (LOGI). Find Logitech at www.logitech.com, the company blog or @Logitech.

Logitech and other Logitech marks are trademarks or registered trademarks of Logitech Europe S.A and/or its affiliates in the U.S. and other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. For more information about Logitech and its products, visit the company’s website at www.logitech.com.

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Yannic Laleeuwe

Yannic Laleeuwe

Marketing Director, Meeting Experience

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