Customer story Enterprise Teams Rooms interop Connect

How to bring two meeting platforms together after an acquisition

In a nutshell

The customer: A European media organization acquired by a company with a different collaboration environment.

The challenge: One organization used Microsoft Teams while the other ran on Google Meet. Their employees now needed to collaborate as colleagues without meeting platforms getting in the way.

The solution: Pexip connected the two environments, allowing employees to join meetings from their existing rooms and use the content sharing and dual-screen capabilities they need to work together.

When companies come together but their technology doesn’t

An acquisition can bring two organizations together quickly. But their collaboration technology is another matter.

In this case, one organization operated a Google Meet environment using Cisco room systems. The acquired organization used Microsoft Teams Rooms. As employees began working together, meetings increasingly needed to cross that technology divide.

And joining the meeting was only part of the challenge. Employees needed to participate fully, including sharing content and using dual screens when collaborating with their new colleagues.

Bring the meeting environments together

To support collaboration across the newly combined organization, Pexip connected the two meeting environments without requiring either side to immediately replace its existing room technology.

Employees can walk into a room, press join, and meet. Whether the invitation originated in Google Meet or Microsoft Teams doesn't need to determine how they work together.

That also means employees don't have to recreate meetings on another platform simply because they need to share content or participate fully from the room.

Challenge

Need to facilitate communication between 6 intercommunal bodies bringing together the territory's 92 communes and their internal & external contacts. Replacement of Bluejeans' video interoperability service in 2023.

Results

Secure, flexible and easy-to-use cloud service. Operational stability and guaranteed quality of service. User satisfaction: easy connections from video meeting rooms and/or Microsoft Teams.