Friday, May 17, 2013

Polycom RealPresence CloudAXIS Suite Live demonstration in Polycom Office....

Based on Polycom Demo Environment in Paris office, this is what I demo every day to customers/prospects. Awesome, isn't it...

CloudAXIS meeting with one OTX300, one RPX200, one HDX4500 and two laptops
Content Sharing from OTX Room
Content Sharing via WolfVision® integrated document camera from RPX Room
View from OTX
Thanks to Serge F., Dominique P., and Robert G.

Thursday, May 16, 2013

Video-Enabled Robotics

I'm a big fan of "Robot series" the series of short stories and novels by Isaac Asimov. Robots are invading our lives... Primarily to do the cleaning, but they are becoming more and more intelligent...

Thanks to a newly announced partnership with Anybots - a robotics innovator based in Mountain View, Calif.- Polycom is becoming a part of that world by integrating our video collaboration technology in a video-enabled robot called QB.

 I'm very enthusiastic by this announcement.

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

IBM Notes & Polycom RealPresence CloudAXIS Suite APIs

Disclaimer: That is not a Polycom official solution. It is a prototype illustrating two integrations with IBM Notes Client. Polycom Global Services or Polycom / IBM Business Partners can do this kind of development.


Last year, Polycom has introduced a set of REST APIs for its infrastructure. It was a major step forward in its vision to help drive the adoption, delivery, and management of UC and video collaboration for enterprises, governments, and organizations focused on healthcare, education, and manufacturing, with a rich new suite of open APIs that facilitate the development of custom applications and extend the value of the Polycom® RealPresence® Platform.


The Polycom RealPresence CloudAXIS Suite Services Portal API enables developers to integrate the Services Portal functionality into their own applications; this includes Services Portal server initialization, user account management for creating and managing accounts, user authentication, conference creation and management, core services control, and contact list management.
 The Services Portal API is based on the Representational State Transfer (REST) architecture and is accessed via standard Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) request methods.

I have developed two prototypes to provide a contextual integration of Polycom RealPresence CloudAXIS Suite within IBM Notes. The purpose of the first one is to schedule a CloudAXIS meeting directly from an IBM Calendar entry. That integration has been done via a RCP plugin. When you click on the button, the plugin retrieve all information you have put on the calendar entry like Subject, list of participants, date & time, and send an API command to Polycom RealPresence CloudAXIS Suite with these information. When the meeting is created, the meeting details (a.k.a url) is put in the location field.

Then, I have designed another plugin. Polycom CloudAXIS allows you to store participant contact information in the portal Address Book for future invitations. When you click on the button “Export IBM Notes Contacts”, it retrieves all your personal contacts in names.nsf file and copies it into Polycom RealPresence CloudAXIS Suite Address Book.
IBM Notes plugin for Polycom CloudAXIS:




IBM Notes Contacts Export for Polycom CloudAXIS:



Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Making "Polycom RealPresence CloudAXIS Suite" Social with IBM Connections

Room videoconferencing has been around for years, of course, but until now it hasn't been applied on a wide scale to social networking. Imagine an easy integration between Social Networking platform leader like IBM and Polycom Video Conferencing Solutions… To drive user adoption, video needs to be contextually integrated within Business Process or applications.

Last year, IBM has introduced a tech preview: IBM Sametime Video Chat Widget. It provides an easy way to associate a Sametime audio/video session with an IBM Connections Community page. I have extended that integration via Polycom technology to provide multipoint video conferencing in continuous presence mode (here). But, some clients haven’t deployed IBM Sametime or their Sametime server is not integrated with their IBM Connections platform.

Polycom has just delivered a new solution in its portfolio: Polycom RealPresence CloudAXIS Suite. With a browser and web camera on a PC, smartphone, or a tablet, Polycom RealPresence CloudAXIS Suite extends web video collaboration to anyone.
This solution provides, via a set of REST APIs, all features to design the same kind of integration as the Sametime Video Chat Widget.

I have developed a prototype to illustrate this use case.  Let’s suppose that there is a team of newly hired employees who join a new-hire community to share their common knowledge and successes to become productive, faster.  Or the community could be a group of developers who are Java experts who are sharing design tips. Or a virtual help desk community.  

In this prototype, any member of a community can attend a video collaboration session.  If no “Video Collaboration meeting” is in progress, one community member can start it, then all member will be able to see that and can join the meeting in progress via a single click. Audio and video can be automatically started for each person as soon as they enter the room.



Polycom RealPresence CloudAXIS Suite extends secure enterprise-grade Polycom video collaboration to anyone with a browser and web camera. Embedding it in business process through a seamless integration will allows you to drive Social & video adoption.

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Polycom CloudAXIS is NOW available...

Polycom announces availability of an Industry First: Polycom® RealPresence® CloudAXIS™ Suite extends secure, enterprise-grade video collaboration to anyone with a Web Browser.
  • Polycom® RealPresence® CloudAXIS™ Suite is a software extension of the Polycom® RealPresence® Platform that enables universal access to enterprise-grade, interoperable video collaboration to any business (B2B) or consumer (B2C) at the highest quality, reliability and security.
  • With Polycom RealPresence CloudAXIS Suite, businesses simply send a URL link in an email or calendar invitation to anyone with a browser and camera, allowing others to join a secure, enterprise-grade quality video meeting using their smartphone, tablet, computer or video room system.
  • Only available from Polycom, first-of-its-kind software solution allows users to bring contacts from social apps such as Skype, Facebook, and Google Talk, as well as input business e-mail addresses, into a Polycom business-class video collaboration session.

Experience Overview
Making Collaboration Available to Everyone


Link: http://www.polycom.com/company/news/press-releases/2013/20130416.html

Polycom RealPresence mobile on French TV

One Polycom customer "GCS-eSanté" appeared on a French TV show last Thursday.
This show, 100% Mag, is similar to the UK show The One Show.

The topic was ‘medical deserts’, and how people in France has to struggle to have access to specialist when they live outside of main cities.

GCS demonstrated a patient consulting experts using Polycom RealPresence Mobile, as a solution to the problem.

Check out chapter 6, minute 39:


Wednesday, April 3, 2013

IBM Sametime Unified Telephony Lite and Telephony Presence

IBM® Sametime® Unified Telephony Lite (SUT Lite) Client enables you to place calls to and receive calls from internal or external phone numbers, video conferencing systems or video conferencing endpoints on your desktop.

Polycom proposes a native integration with IBM SUT Lite, enabling you to use your Sametime Client as a video endpoints on your desktop.


Currently, Telephony presence is only available via full SUT solution.
Telephony status lets you know that someone is on the phone before you make a call.

But, great news, IBM just enhanced that feature by providing telephony presence in addition to IM presence with SUT Lite as you can see just below.

In that example, I'm calling a Polycom Group Series by dialing its SIP uri, and directly, I (and all Sametime users) can see in front of my name a telephony indicator, mentioning I'm making a call...

P.S: That feature is available via IBM Support.