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Cisco Board Series

Score8.6 out of 10

165 Reviews and Ratings

What is Cisco Board Series?

The Cisco Board Series offers room devices for hybrid teamwork. Its latest generation models, the Board Pro 55 and Board Pro 75, bring video conferencing and co-creation to small and medium-sized workspaces, conference rooms, and ideation spaces. These room devices feature an AI-powered chipset, a responsive, 55- or 75-inch touch screen, speaker-tracking dual cameras, built-in speakers and microphones, and a versatile set of mounting and peripheral options. Users can join any video meeting, wirelessly present, whiteboard with a team, video or audio conference, annotate shared content, use favorite apps, and share content. Combined with multi-platform video meetings on Cisco RoomOS or Microsoft Teams Rooms, and unified cloud device management capabilities, the Cisco Board Pro helps hybrid teams become more productive, engaged and included.

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Who Buys & Uses Cisco Board Series

Pros

  • Enhanced collaborative work with integrated whiteboarding and annotation.
  • Ease of use and streamlined setup process.
  • Comprehensive communication functionalities for hybrid teams.

Cons

  • Difficult integration with external calendar systems and Google collaboration tools.
  • Occasional performance struggles, especially with large files or specific features.
  • Higher cost compared to some market alternatives.

Effective Meeting Data Management

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The switching process took approximately a month until everyone was relaxed. It has now been made central to our functioning. There have been more dynamic morning briefings and smoother credit committee meetings, and multidisciplinary collaboration has been noticed to be more amenable. The best surprise to me was the way it transformed meeting culture. Individuals are better equipped since they are aware that we can peep into any data point.

Pros

  • You can access and retrieve live dashboards and do on-screen manipulations when discussing them.
  • The collaborative annotation option allows the rest of the team to point out issues and annotate risk reports at the same time, which is significantly better than wasting time sending documents to other users.
  • The encrypted connection offers you the comfort of talking about sensitive information on a portfolio, which you seriously require in this field of work.

Cons

  • The system is at times slow in loading bulky spreadsheet files with complicated formulas.
  • The calendar integration could also be more seamless, as invites do not always integrate with existing systems.
  • The mobile app companion is an addition to the core unit.

Return on Investment

  • We can now pluck the right people and evaluate circumstances with a much quicker response time to emerging credit risks because we have been able to shorten up our response time.
  • When we can show a period-of-time risk modeling, client-facing presentations have been more persuasive.
  • The team cohesion also increased because remote analysts are more involved than merely listening on the phone.

Alternatives Considered

Zoom Rooms

Usability

Other Software Used

IBM Power Virtual Server, Wrike, Google AdSense

Speed of implementation and management

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use the Cisco Board Series 55" and Cisco Board Series 75" as our main meeting room collaboration devices. These were chosen due to their ease of installation, security in installation and management, integration between Google, Webex, Teams and Cisco Spaces.

We were able to upgrade our current architecture extremely quickly due to the method of installation and management within the webex platform, they are much more than video collaboration devices with whteboarding functionality being used throughout the organisation. They also operate as real time Cisco Spaces boards showing availability of meeting rooms in real time.

Pros

  • Whiteboarding and collaboration for teams
  • Ease, security and speed of implementation
  • Management and monitoring through webex
  • Seemless integration into cisco spaces to monitor business consumption of meeting room spaces.

Cons

  • Tigher integration into Google Services, such as Drive for further collaboration. Whiteboarding in Google Meet.

Return on Investment

  • We were able to save significant amounts and have proven ROI based on our previous licensing by this investment.

Alternatives Considered

Neat Board

Usability

Other Software Used

Vidcast by Webex Leap, Cisco Spaces

Great piece of equipment but with lot of room to improve

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We primarily use Cisco Board Series for video conference but also we recently deployed Cisco Spaces 3D maps in many offices in EMEA (Europe, the Middle East, Africa).
The business problems the product accesses specially with Cisco Spaces is the use of the space, availability and end user facing easy to use platform to navigate into the offices. Also is making the collaboration between colleagues much easier with the new Cisco Board Series we recently deployed across EMEA offices, adding value also with the metrics that we got from the endpoint which help us to have an overview of the space usage, environmental behavior, room usage, etc, that we get in Cisco Spaces, which we integrated with Webex Control Hub. Additionally the easy to setup process and troubleshooting is facilitating our daily work

Pros

  • End user easy to use
  • Whiteboarding and instant save and share capability
  • Easy to setup and activate
  • Easy to mount

Cons

  • Web refresh usually fails, specially when deploying CIsco Spaces 3D Maps
  • AV integration specially with microphones and audio mixer
  • Cisco Microphone pairing over the network
  • more POE available ports in the unit
  • Better integration with Google Meet

Return on Investment

  • Great for collaboration
  • less time consuming for troubleshooting
  • Return on investment

Alternatives Considered

Cisco Desk Series

Usability

Cisco Board Series is our way to make meetings interactive

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Cisco Board Series has improved the way we conduct meetings and discussions. It has supported our teams to interact using the whiteboard and collaborate better in brainstorming sessions during the workshop time.

Pros

  • Wireless operation and presentation of information to the team
  • Video conferencing with built in microphone and camera
  • Simple user interface

Cons

  • Expensive solution compared to other market available solutions
  • Does not integrate with other communication applications
  • Setup requires highly technical teams

Return on Investment

  • Improved our brainstorming ability
  • Reduced traveling requirements with digital meetings
  • App based control makes it easy to operate

Alternatives Considered

Webex App and Webex Meetings

Usability

Other Software Used

Microsoft 365

A digital workshop enabler for tech savvy generation.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Cisco board is a game-changer as a real-time collaboration game-changer for our company. With this system, it is easy to work on a board together and save progress on the go by reducing the extra step of digitizing discussions during a workshop. The Cisco board has reduced our time to note actions and develop solutions for the market. It makes the workshops so simple to arrange and easy to operate.

Pros

  • Digital Whiteboarding.
  • Videoconferencing
  • Real time editing and saving of workshop data.
  • AI tools to support and suggest ideas.

Cons

  • The cost is very high.
  • Complexity to integrate with other solutions.
  • UI is challenging for people with less technological knowledge.

Return on Investment

  • Expensive solution but excellent one.
  • Improved our speed to conduct workshops.
  • Makes things digital and reduces rework.

Alternatives Considered

Mural

Usability

Other Software Used

Mural, Miro, Microsoft Teams