February 14, 2012
Hitachi Solutions
TOKYO, February 14, 2012 . Hitachi Solutions, Ltd. today announced the release of the Hitachi Advanced Collaboration System1 which makes it easy for users to collaborate from separate locations. This user-friendly system offers an integrated interface that enables users to share audio, video and documents, as well as a whiteboard workspace. The solution supports five languages.Japanese, English, German, Italian and French.and will be available starting March 1, 2012 in Japan, the U.S. and Europe. The system makes it a breeze to work collaboratively across different locations, enhancing work efficiency in dispersed environments for everything from brainstorming to review work.
Corporate activities rely on good communication, and today's corporations are using remote conferencing systems in order to reduce travel costs. Until now, remote conferencing systems were typically restricted to dedicated meeting rooms, and because they had to use multiple systems to allow participants to share audio, video and documents, they were complicated to use and stifled discussion. As a result, corporations need a new collaboration system that enables collaborative work to be performed more efficiently and effectively.
Hitachi Solutions has addressed this need by offering the Hitachi Advanced Collaboration System as a solution to enable efficient work collaboration. The system incorporates Hitachi Solutions' whiteboard software, which offers unmatched ease of use for writing down information and sharing documents, and integrates the Microsoft Lync unified communications platform with presence information and audio/video conferencing features. Whereas users previously had to deal with separate systems in order to work collaboratively, the entire environment is now integrated within a single accessible interface that has been designed with the user experience in mind. Moreover, the features can be accessed with a single touch, ready for a wide range of situations from conferencing to daily communications.
The Hitachi Advanced Collaboration System is effective in many settings. Take for example product development teams that span different departments and offices in international manufacturing operations. To review drawings and documents, team members can be called with a single touch and connected by audio and video to the conference. Users can add drawings and documents to the virtual whiteboard, making it a highly collaborative workspace where everyone sees the information written on the whiteboard. Individual users can also take personal notes. All this is performed within the system, delivering a truly collaborative work space to disparate locations efficiently and with ease.
1: Advanced collaboration system: A system that offers features needed to perform collaborative work integrated under a single interface.
Hitachi Solutions will market the Hitachi Advanced Collaboration System in Japan, the U.S. and Europe, aiming to develop the market for new collaboration systems.
1. Versatility for a wide range of situations
2. One-touch, direct access to features
Figure 2 Features of the Hitachi Advanced Collaboration System
This product release is endorsed by Microsoft Japan, which markets Microsoft Lync, and the U.K.-based Moving Brands, which helped to design the system's user experience.
Microsoft Japan wants to extend a hearty welcome to the launch of the "Hitachi Advanced Collaboration System" by Hitachi Solutions.We expect that this new collaboration system from Hitachi Solutions, which has a lot of experience deploying Microsoft Lync, SharePoint and Exchange, will accelerate widespread utilization of Lync among customers. Microsoft Japan will continue working closely with Hitachi Solutions, to contribute together to increasing the business productivity of customers through new work style offerings.
Roan Kang, Senior Director, Microsoft Office Division Business Group Lead, Microsoft Japan Co., Ltd.
Working with Hitachi Solutions on this new collaboration software was a great opportunity to help shape a product that strikes a balance between familiarity, specificity, and good, clear logic. Moving Brands worked with Hitachi Solutions in London and Tokyo, grouping and rationalising gestural modes of inputs, software architecture, user experience and interface design. Whilst going through these processes, we also had to ensure that we never lost sight of either the end user or the technical requirements of Hitachi's development team. Our challenge was to ensure that a whole set of potentially complex processes.with multiple participant interactions.came together into something that looks and feels simple and intuitive; we hope that we have managed to achieve this, and look forward to seeing Hitachi Solution's new software rolling out in markets around the world.
Campbell Orme, Design Director, Moving Brands.
| Features | Description |
|---|---|
| Share audio, video and documents | Share audio, video, documents and notes written on the whiteboard with colleagues. |
| Write down information | Write on documents or on the virtual whiteboard. |
| Invite participants | Select colleagues from the contact list, check their status, and invite them to the conference. |
| Save data | Save data from the virtual whiteboard so you have the option to edit it later, enabling stop or restart of a conference without worries. |
| Recording | Record video including audio and notes written on documents or the virtual whiteboard, to later confirm what was covered in the conference. |
| View documents2 | View and share documents from a computer, or documents registered to a document management system. |
| Hold conferences linked with scheduling3 | Hold conferences linked with scheduled appointments |
March 1, 2012
Corporate Communications Department
E-mail: inquiry@hitachi-solutions.com
Hitachi Solutions, Ltd., headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is a solutions provider with approximately 10,000 employees. Hitachi Solutions provides value-driven services throughout the IT life cycle, from systems planning to systems integration, operation, and maintenance. For more information on Hitachi Solutions, please visit the company's website at http://www.hitachi-solutions.com.
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