Vendors are beginning to take solid steps to make sure their video conferencing apps are interoperable with whatever meeting apps employees want to use.
At many companies, groups of employees are coming back to the office — either on a full-time or part-time basis. Their return poses challenges for audiovisual teams, IT departments and business leaders, who must confront a different meeting environment than they had prior to the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Today, video conferencing is a critical part of virtual collaboration; as a result, the number of video apps has exploded. About 75% of companies view video as important as voice, according to Metrigy’s “Unified Communications Management and Endpoints: 2021-22” global study of 396 companies. More than half of organizations are expanding their deployments of room video conferencing systems.
Against this backdrop, the majority of companies support more than one video app, and conference room video interoperability has become a necessity. Prior to the pandemic, video use was often limited and usually only available through a single provisioned platform. In 2022, video is ubiquitous, with workers often juggling different video apps throughout the day.
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