One platform to manage all devices with Jabra+
Jabra+ is the first cloud-based software platform for managing Jabra’s professional audio and video conferencing room solutions. Whether your customers have just a few offices or numerous meeting rooms, Jabra+ ensures that Jabra’s video conferencing tools, headsets, and speakerphones perform flawlessly from any location. Designed with modern businesses and hybrid teams in mind, Jabra+ makes it simple to remotely manage meeting room setups, along with headsets and speakerphone.
What is Jabra+ for admins?
Jabra+ supports the management of Jabra audio devices alongside video conferencing solutions in meeting rooms. This expanded functionality means IT admins can manage all Jabra devices from one central dashboard, streamlining workflows, freeing up valuable time and boosting productivity with features like automatic updates, troubleshooting and remote reboot of video conferencing room solutions. Please check out this link to see how Jabra+ for admin makes remote meeting room management easy and efficient, all from your fingertips!
Key Questions for Decision Makers:
Let’s look at the critical factors for evaluating a management platform for devices and meeting rooms. Addressing these ensures the solution aligns with your goals and enhances efficiency.
Usage & Requirements:
- How many headsets, speakerphones, and models do you need to manage?
- How many meeting rooms do you have, and how often are they used?
- What key features are must-haves for your management platform?
Integration & Compatibility:
- What management platforms do you already use?
- Do you need features like analytics, reporting, or AI insights?
- How should the platform integrate with your setup (e.g., Active Directory, single sign-on)?
Scalability & Growth:
- How many locations or offices will the platform support?
- What challenges do you face managing multiple rooms or devices?
- How do you coordinate support across time zones?
Support & Maintenance:
- Do you need 24/7 support or just during business hours?
- Will your IT team handle the platform, or do you need managed services?
Remote Management:
- How do you manage meeting rooms and devices remotely?
- What remote features are most important (e.g., centralized control, real-time monitoring)?
Why will customers and IT admins love Jabra+?
Starting with meeting room management, and now personal device management as well. It will help provide customers and users with new experiences through updates and prolong the lifetime of their investment.
- Fully scalable: Whether you’re managing just a few devices or a whole fleet, Jabra+ has you covered. Easily monitor and manage audio devices and video conferencing setups by location or across the globe. Plus, you can customize IT access to suit your needs.
- Set things up your way: With Jabra+, you can easily organize your devices by location, group, or individually using a simple drag-and-drop interface. Find the information you need quickly and clearly, exactly how you want it.
- Secure and scalable: Jabra+ uses Microsoft Azure, with encryption and single sign-on for easy, secure access from anywhere.
- Easy firmware updates: Keep your devices up to date with the latest features. Schedule updates after hours, test them on specific devices, or roll them out automatically.
- Simple and streamlined: Manage all your meeting rooms and audio devices from one easy dashboard. Set standard configurations or customize them for specific devices, and check performance with clear reporting stats—all in just a few clicks.
- Reboot remotely: Keep your video conferencing systems running smoothly by restarting them from your office – no need for IT visits.
Key features improved:
Some of the key features improved are:
- More granular role-based permissions
- SSO integration, easy search and filtering options
- Selective firmware updates testing prior to full deployment
- More flexible grouping and policy management for custom device configurations.
Comparison with Jabra Xpress:
Jabra+ provides a more streamlined, admin-friendly experience with modern integration features, while Jabra Xpress is more mature in terms of softphone compatibility, end-user control, and Mac support. Unlike Jabra Xpress, which is an enterprise-level tool for IT administrators skilled in MSI deployment, WMI protocols, and advanced querying. It’s easy to sign up, currently limited to Teams, and offers basic analytics. Features like noise or error detection are expected to be added in the future. Currently, Jabra+ supports Windows only, with no macOS compatibility.
Conclusion:
Expand your reach and seek new cross-selling opportunities with our top-tier audio and video solutions alongside Jabra+ management system, featuring Single Sign-On (SSO) integration for unified access control and security across all locations. This is also an opportunity to evaluate which of your customers are ready to transition today to Jabra+ for a more streamlined device management, and our team is here to support you through the transition process. Reach out to us at uc@bluechipit.co.nz for all the further queries. Get all the know-how and tools you need to maximise the value of the Jabra solutions you sell and bring new meeting room experiences and solution enhancements to life.