Lifesize Share vs. Microsoft Teams Rooms

If you use Microsoft collaboration tools then Lifesize Share is a great fit for you as it integrates well with their collaboration ecosystem. We found it easy to set up and very easy to administrate. It definitely makes everyone at the conference room table be seen and heard by others during the session.

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We use Microsoft Teams Rooms across all of our main conference suites. This ensure our staff have consistent meeting experiences in out part of the education sector - meetings generally become hybrid fairly frequently and can even extend to pupils or staff working from home. We did try some of the poly equipment in a classroom environment but due to noise levels and the amount of pupils and staff it quickly became a non starter. We were advised to stick with participant numbers aligned to our purchased hardware before we tried this.

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• 4K Videoconferencing
• Whiteboard
• Content sharing
• Collaborative meetings
• Digital Signage

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• Camera view selection is a nice feature which allows remote users to choose the camera feedback to select for better experience.
• Live reactions like hand claps, thumbs up, raised hands,etc can be used to indicate to presenters that a meeting attendee has a question. This is cool.
• We can connect our laptop seamlessly to the Microsoft Teams Rooms to share our content or presentation which makes things very simple.

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• Sometimes I have compatibility issues with mac.
• Loads and updates automatically without permissions.
• No recording included.

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• Improve AI Camera to frame participants in large rooms
• no translation captions in real team for multilingual teams
• new elements to introduce quizzes and help with engagement

We may or may not return to the office as the Pandemic finally gets behind us.

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We found that employees could use Lifesize Share without any prior training as long as we created "cheat sheets" to leave in each conference room where the equipment is installed.

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Microsoft Teams Rooms has been very useful for our small business. As mentioned, it has allowed us to connect with our team more regularly, share important information, and keep productivity up by allowing our team to get on remotely and not have to commute to be together in person.

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Both the initial installation and any ongoing support went very well. The support personnel was very knowledgeable, thorough, and professional. We were very pleased with how quickly any questions were answered and that very few incidents reoccurred.

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It is nice to implement, easier than other solutions and in my opinion, other solutions could be harder to implement. I was doing some demos for other software with other companies and I realized that the way of work is more difficult to implement and probably to maintain, at least in my opinion.

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I consider MTR better because it first allows integration with all the Microsoft apps and is more cost-effective, considering all the included services such as the Office app, Cloud Storage, and email.

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• Increase in Productivity
• Less downtime
• Less interventions for IT technicians
• Increased focus and collaboration

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• Increase in Staff confidence to use meeting equipment
• less "device failures" during meetings
• More and more staff have reduced the need to travel to each of our sites for a meeting.

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