Software company NetApp has moved to new premises in Silicon Valley as part of an ongoing transformation, accelerated by the pandemic, and its future of work strategy.
NetApp operates a flexible hybrid work model and its office amenities are designed to cultivate inclusion, increase business agility while prioritising employee health, safety and wellness. The company has a large number of meeting and conference rooms, of varying size, which are used for internal staff and customer meetings, with both in person and virtual attendees joining. Technology is an important tool to help to deliver a first-class collaboration experience and the internal NetApp Multimedia Group began to look at upgrading their large format displays as people began to return to the office, post-pandemic.
Bart Saunders, multimedia specialist at NetApp and Eric Benson, director of engineering at Creation Networks, the AV integrator on the project, organised a ‘shoot-out’ to trial a variety of displays on site. One of the key requirements was for full interactivity and ‘touch’ technology, something that was lacking from the existing displays. “Team-based work and collaboration are very important to us at NetApp,” says Saunders. “As such, we wanted more interactivity in our meeting rooms so our chosen displays would need touch screens to help with that, as well as BYOD compatibility so employees could use their personal devices. After weighing up the options we found that the Avocor G Series offered the best touch experience; it was really responsive and had a nice finish on the glass. In fact, the overall device is well designed and looks great. BYOD worked perfectly with staff being able to smoothly join meetings with their own laptops, tablets and mobile devices. We’ve had no issues, reliability has been superb, and in truth, our experience has been so positive we’ve settled on Avocor as our ‘go-to’ standard display for all meeting and conference rooms.”
Following the trial, the new Avocor G Series interactive displays are now installed in many of the conference rooms and smaller huddle spaces at NetApp. “The devices offer excellent support for digital whiteboarding, an activity that is proving increasingly popular amongst our teams since we made the switch to Avocor.” adds Bart.
