Zoom Rooms will save you time and money.
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Zoom Rooms is primarily used in conference rooms. It solves the problem of unreliable and inconsistent conference room AV. The user experience is the same from room to room, floor to floor, and building to building. The hardware can be from different vendors but the interface and user experience is still the same.
Pros
- Consistent Experience - the interface is familiar. Everyone already uses Zoom on their own devices and Zoom Rooms is an extension of that.
- One touch join - very easy for anyone to start a meeting
- Wireless screen sharing - no more worrying about dongles and adapters, easily share from any kind of device with one click
- Fewer components which means there's less things that can fail or go wrong
Cons
- Better QA between releases, especially with vendor partners, to ensure that features and capabilities that worked well before don't degrade when there are new releases.
- Longer roadmap for hardware support, perhaps with less features and capabilities, vs. just dropping overall support. Give vendor partners options beyond the black and white.
- Better support in medium to large rooms for "360" cameras. Up to 40 people. the larger rooms are where the immersive, hybrid experience breaks down because all of the people in the room appear as tiny dots for remote participants.
Return on Investment
- Reduces friction for hybrid work which better engages employees
- Reduces support costs
- Lower initial upfront cost which allows for broader roll out
Usability
Alternatives Considered
Microsoft Teams Rooms, GoTo Room, Webex Meetings and Google Meet Hardware - Series One
