A sense of community is deeply rooted in the values of Northumbrian Water Group (NWG), an organisation that supplies excellent quality tap water to 4.5 million people. It
So, how does such a widely distributed business keep its people fully connected and in touch?
NWG has mostly addressed part of this challenge by choosing Microsoft Skype for Business as its unified communications platform. At the very least, employees can message, call and video each other from their desktops. But there was a gap connecting to legacy video conferencing systems. They needed to also easily offer remote workers a straight forward and effective way to communicate with their colleagues via video in key meeting rooms.
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As an organisation with a commitment to video communications and collaboration, it is no surprise that NWG is a long time user of video conferencing meeting room systems.
been dealing with.
NWG employs more than 3,200 people, and according to Wrightson, a large proportion of the workforce have access to video communication, either with Skype for Business or via StarLeaf, from desktops, mobile devices or while in meeting rooms.
of its systems.
To enable interoperable video conferencing and calling between Skype for Business desktops, and remote workers and meeting rooms, NWG has deployed over 30 StarLeaf GT Minis and has widely distributed the StarLeaf Breeze software client.