Written By: Manish Bakshi, Managing Director at BenQ Middle East

With enterprises reopening worldwide, most of them are moving to smaller offices (as more workers go remote) and upgrading their office technology. This ongoing change unfolding with the pandemic offers organizations an excellent opportunity to improve and upgrade the way they operate. In addition, trends indicate a growing shift to hybrid work, consistent with the progression of organizations downsizing their office real estate and converting spaces previously reserved for employee desks and cubicles to more valuable and collaborative meeting hubs and workspaces. This makes an interactive flat panel an ideal solution that not only saves space but also consolidates multiple collaborative tools like wireless projection, presentation screens, cloud whiteboards, and VoIP systems into one, easier-to-manage device.

Here are some ways in which interactive flat panels can transform any office:

Consolidating multiple technologies into a convenient solution

Considering how office real estate is shrinking, adding new hardware to already packed rooms with even more things makes no sense. Instead, companies need to streamline their use of technology, and a multi-purpose solution like an integrated flat panel (IFP) does just that. An IFP takes away the need to purchase and install several tools for different requirements like standard displays, projectors, tablets, speakers, and more. Interactive displays are designed to integrate all the functionalities these devices offer and more into just one system.

Transforming content creation and content sharing completely

Whether an IFP is being used for presentations or cloud whiteboarding, one doesn’t have to worry about poorly drawn flow charts, unreadable diagrams, or markers running out mid-meeting. The intelligent and highly beneficial features of IFPs can exponentially propel engagement in business meetings to a genuinely magnificent level. IFPs allow ideas and information to be shared easily with features like digital documents written on using a stylus pen or a finger, images being moved and resized quickly, and changes presented in real-time.

Employees and meetings become more focused

IFPs enable everyone to stay more focused on the presentation and the meeting agenda rather than get distracted by the minor issues and problems mentioned above. Moreover, a large number of IFPs come with recording capabilities that can make sure that everything that is covered in a meeting is recorded and saved. Hence, no one needs to worry about taking notes or photos of the main display. Notes and screenshots can be taken in real-time with the built-in recording feature in IFPs that allows presenters to take screenshots, record notes shared, and put them into the whiteboard app simultaneously. This results in better meeting outcomes and more productive meetings.

More convenient processes for sharing ideas

IFPs are very convenient and easy to use and come packed with user-friendly features that take collaboration to the next level. For example, BenQ’s latest IFPs come with a unique EZWrite 6 software, a globally leading annotation solution to power interactive and collaborative meetings. It allows everyone to enjoy enhanced interactivity by collecting, categorizing, editing, and sharing notes between the IFP and their mobile devices.

Manish Bakshi, Managing Director at BenQ Middle East

Manish is based out of Dubai, UAE and he is responsible for BenQ’s operations of the Middle East, Turkey, and Africa past 20 years. Mr. Bakshi has been managing a cross-functional team and a business line in a multicultural context with the required competencies in strategic thinking and interpersonal communication as a co-founder of ACM office for the META region.