Poly Lens

2020: Release of the preliminary version of Poly Lens service

On February 12, 2020 the Poly company (before Plantronics and Polycom) provided Poly Lens, service of cloud analytics and management. The preliminary version of commercial service will be initially available. Poly Lens combines instruments of uninterrupted management and updating with powerful analytical opportunities using which IT specialists can control operation of Poly devices and manage them.

"The modern companies understand that correctly picked up tools for communication and cooperation can increase productivity, but trace how these tools are used by their employees, was impracticable. Poly Lens provides higher level of visualization and control of use of jobs and devices without need to install the additional hardware", 'Bo Wilder, the vice president and the CEO of Poly on infrastructure, cloud services and analytics noted'

As noted in Poly, the organizations aim at transparency and want to analyze information on successful and unsuccessful initiatives, including use of new tools or devices. Poly Lens collects data and offers customers the unique analytical opportunities allowing to pass from outputs to actions. Poly will continue to update the preliminary version of Poly Lens, adding features and collecting all solutions on device management of Poly in one convenient service. For February, 2020 Poly Lens provides upgradeabilities and managements for family of Poly Studio X video walls and also for the Poly G7500 system. In the future in Poly Lens there will be a support of headsets and the Poly phones, and the range of analytical tools will continue to extend.

Basic functions of Poly Lens service mentioned by the developer:

• Device management – Poly Lens provides simple connection of new devices, configuring of settings, resource management using the evident card of devices and a software update. For example, customers can use Poly Lens for providing continuous access of Studio X video walls and G7500 systems to Poly MeetingAI opportunities. Existence of suitable technology and tools is important: it helps IT specialists quickly and without errors to put crucial devices, services and the systems of communication into operation. The simple modern Poly Lens interface will help IT specialists and administrators quickly and to effectively put Poly devices into operation and to manage them.
• The intellectual analytics – Poly Lens shows, devices and meeting rooms in the company are how correctly and effectively used. The enterprises can apply these analytical data to bring the IT resources into accord with needs of end users, quickly to collect information on a status of attached devices, to obtain data in real time and to monitor long-term trends, revealing the arising problems in use — for example, unfortunate attempts to begin a call. Designers of premises will be able to understand better how and when they are used negotiation to plan space in the best way. Service is supplemented by a news feed with intellectual selection of the most important information.
• Cloud service – More and more companies undergo the operations in a cloud, and convenient and safe Poly Lens will allow the enterprises to reach the new level of flexibility and innovations quickly. Customers of service will be able to migrate between suppliers of "video as service", without losing the valuable analytical data which collected during operating time.

"The companies need to control a huge number of devices in workplaces, at the same time rent costs and service of premises constantly grow. In the modern world it is very important to optimize use of the general working spaces and tools to save competitiveness. All this will feed further requirement for intellectual, simple in the installation and easily scalable devices providing the based on data, practical knowledge", 'Melissa Fremeyer, the senior analyst of IDC, European Telecommunications and Networking noted'

The preliminary version of commercial service Poly Lens with a full support is free of charge available around the world since February, 2020. It is more than the price information and commercial use will appear in the first half of the year 2020.