Cisco Board Series

Score8.4 out of 10

154 Reviews and Ratings

What is Cisco Board Series?

The Cisco Board Series offers room devices for hybrid teamwork. Its latest generation models, the Board Pro 55 and Board Pro 75, bring video conferencing and co-creation to small and medium-sized workspaces, conference rooms, and ideation spaces. These room devices feature an AI-powered chipset, a responsive, 55- or 75-inch touch screen, speaker-tracking dual cameras, built-in speakers and microphones, and a versatile set of mounting and peripheral options. Users can join any video meeting, wirelessly present, whiteboard with a team, video or audio conference, annotate shared content, use favorite apps, and share content. Combined with multi-platform video meetings on Cisco RoomOS or Microsoft Teams Rooms, and unified cloud device management capabilities, the Cisco Board Pro helps hybrid teams become more productive, engaged and included.

Categories & Use Cases

Video Conferencing

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Madison Clark

Technology Support Tech in Information Technology at East Carolina University (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We utilized the Cisco Board Series in 10 out of our 36 operational Cisco powered rooms. These devices allow our students, staff, faculty, and residents to not only collaborate from countries away but also to collaborate in person. The product allows for them to whiteboard on different dental case issues and also allows them to annotate over xrays and pans for a better teaching methodology.

Pros

Small space collaborations
Seamless wireless sharing
Whiteboarding

Cons

The pen tips fail relatively quickly
Tac responses tend to require more work
Harder to replace then other devices

Return on Investment

The Cisco Board Series has allowed us to improve spaces that weren't smart in the past
Students collaborate more in groups
Negatively when they break and aren't on smart net the replacement of them is difficult

Alternatives Considered

Cisco AnyConnect

Usability

Other Software Used

Cisco Room Phone, Cisco Room Series, Cisco AnyConnect

Akash Duggal View profile

Senior Associate in Customer Service at Accenture (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We came across Cisco Board Series while we were actively looking for a whiteboard tool for hybrid experience. Actively using this for last few years for collaboration between on site and off site employees to bridge the training and operations to maximize productivity in terms of task management and completion of daily itemized checklist and workload.

Pros

Whiteboard tool that works just the way we wanted it to be.
Enhancing collaboration experience of employees onshore and offshore
Team management is easy

Cons

The cloud licensing causes issues lately.

Return on Investment

The positive return on investment is a key factor behind the purchase.

Usability

Zulma Quiroz View profile

Corporate Credit Risk Analyst in Finance and Accounting at ICBC Argentina (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It is clear that the overall experience with the Cisco Board Series Pro has been good, especially in as much as addressing hybrid collaboration. The satisfaction, which comes along with high audio and video quality in addition to the quick response of the device, enhances meeting attendance. Nonetheless, some points include some complex installation and configurations to enable all the functionalities and connections that may take considerable time.

Pros

This board pro is equipped with a default NVIDIA artificial intelligence chipset. It enhances the remote conferencing participant's views to very good vision, making sure the LCD projector is clearly projected.
Convenience of an integrated device since huddles consist of touch screens, cameras, speakers, microphones, and computing ability all bundled in a single device.
The connectivity option available on the Cisco Board Series Pro includes HDMI, USB-C, and other options for wireless casting since the board allows connection through BYOD.

Cons

The Cisco Board Pro comes with an enhanced price.
Depending on the number of features and other applications that are to be integrated.
The response of the touchscreen is not as sensitive, and it will not distinguish the skin of the fingers or palms, then, it is preferable to draw with the pens provided.

Return on Investment

Better Picture and Sound Quality: This has helped the remote participants to have a feel of participants physically in a room, thus improving the hybrid collaboration.
The absence of a complicated infrastructure to maintain has helped to address the concern environmentally as well as freeing IT from worrying about it so that they can manage other improved ways.
Facilities such as the interactive touchscreen for presentations have increased efficiency in knowledge delivery since people can easily retain information presented to them from a PPT.

Alternatives Considered

Zoom Workplace and GoTo Meeting

Usability

Other Software Used

Cisco AnyConnect, Cisco Board Series, Webex Meetings

Steven Heaps

in Information Technology at VCAA (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

This product is used in meeting rooms for interacting with attendees who are remote or displaying information or slides for presentations. We have one of these devices in each meeting room, and this allows people to easily use these to connect with other people who are working from home and collaborate on what they are working on.

Pros

video calls
audio and video quality
displaying items

Cons

it needs a remote so you don't have to keep touching it
voice activation features don't always work
better interaction with other services

Return on Investment

staff have been able to easily connect
lots of cost and space needed
easy to use and understand

Usability

Other Software Used

Microsoft Teams

Otilde Roque Bueno View profile

Product Designer in Information Technology at eDreams ODIGEO (1001-5000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The Cisco Board Series overall has created a highly effective means of passing information across departments. While there were incidences when the performance of my device was a bit slow, especially when several devices were in use, the efficiency that it has brought together with easing of operations through centralizing data and information has highly benefited our business processes.

Pros

Optimized for cross-department meetings and presentations regardless of location.
Merges communication with customer data analysis, enabling decisions.
An environment for tracking and monitoring the most significant events and datasets related to the project, to encourage action from a position of knowledge.

Cons

May take more time to fit into the current existing CRM applications and systems.
At times, the application lags due to high levels of traffic under multiple users.
The program offers limited options to configure the graphical user interface for voice recognition to the users.

Return on Investment

This leads to efficient flow of communication and improved organizational performance.
CRM analytics provide optimal recommendations tailored to support marketing initiatives for the audience.
Minor performance delays have affected the response rates, especially in the peak hours.