Exertis has signed a UK distribution agreement with Visonect for Joan, its digital display and meeting room booking system for the smooth scheduling of office spaces and meeting rooms.
Aimed at the corporate, education and government markets, Joan solutions integrate with a variety of existing calendar systems and WiFi networks to improve the way people use meeting and office spaces, using a real-time schedule to show room availability. Users can search for available meeting rooms and book meetings from a single interface.
No drilling and no wiring are needed to install Joan. The digital display can also be customised and branded with company images. In addition, with Joan analytics, companies can make informed decisions on meeting room usage to utilise space better, reduce estate costs and enhance productivity, the vendor said.
Greg Bennett, Exertis Pro AV Solutions, head of solutions, said: “Joan is an easy-to-use system that helps companies to better organise and reserve meeting spaces and huddle rooms. It provides a simple, power-efficient and affordable way to display when a room is occupied or vacant, eliminating unnecessary interruptions and enabling you to book meetings on the spot if the room is free.
“Joan will provide our resellers with an additional option to provide a complete solution when kitting out meeting rooms.”
Lex de Grijs, director of Western Europe for JOAN, said: “AV and IT play a major role in ensuring that people can work to the best of their ability. The workplace has undergone a transformation, in which the use of these functionalities should be intuitive, frictionless and scalable. Organisations want to ensure ROI on their meeting room investment, whilst providing effective and efficient use of it. And their employees want a user-friendly way to book and use these rooms and office spaces.
“Joan is supporting these aims by offering a meeting room booking solution for easy scheduling of office spaces and meeting rooms. Our approach is to create simple, easy-to-use, easy-to-install products and solutions with an outstanding design.”
On the calendar scheduling side Joan supports G Suite (Google Apps, Google Calendar), Office 365, Microsoft Exchange 2010+ (Outlook), iCalendar (.ics) and CollegeNET 25Live.
