The International Institute for Management Development (IMD) Business School has installed 32 DTEN D7X all-in-one meeting room devices to update its Zoom-enabled study rooms.

These Teams-certified and Zoom-certified AI-powered devices combine camera, speakers, microphones, and 4K touchscreen for video collaboration.

Before it introduced DTEN’s devices, IMD used multiple components, including computers, printers, screens, whiteboards, phones, microphones, and webcams.

Having so much equipment can bring more complexity and challenges with it, as Louis Leclézio, Chief Digital and Customer Experience Officer at IMD Business School, explains: “The more equipment you have, the more potential for breakdown and the more potential for issues.

What we really need to do at IMD is to enable discussion among people and we need to deliver our own content and for this we need technology that has pedagogy in mind, not just video conferencing.”

The DTEN D7X devices were delivered alongside the DTEN Vue Pro advanced camera system and will be used within the school’s Lausanne campus.

DTEN, a video conferencing solutions designer, describes IMD as a “top-ranked business school.” IMD is planning to roll out more DTEN solutions in its buildings throughout the year.

‘Searching for the Perfect Solution’

DTEN explains that IMD had been looking for ‘the perfect solution’ for around one to two years before setting on its own technology.

Mark Abery, AV engineer at IMD Business School, spoke out about one of the biggest issues they were facing was brought to their attention by those using the equipment – it was nearing its end of life.

Their search criteria for the best technology to meet their requirements included speed, adaptability, and ease of use.

According to Abery, DTEN was easiest from a management, deployment, and user perspective.

The DTEN D7X also appealed because it has bring your own device (BYOD) capabilities, which are crucial as IMD hosts participants from all over the globe who bring different software types with them.

Michaël Boulianne-Gottofrey, head of IT support and services at IMD Business School, remarked that you simply need to connect a USB-C cable between the DTEN device and a laptop and then ‘click on it’ to begin using the screen.

Having only taken a couple of days to integrate the DTEN D7X all-in-one devices into the 32 rooms, the IT Support team believes that the study rooms have been modernised to offer a more dynamic learning environment while saving time and resources when installing, managing, and maintaining them.

Abery discussed some of the positive outcomes the technology has yielded: “It’s enabled us to be completely adaptable to any requests that come in, particular types of video conferencing software that have to be used, or a particular type of software in order for them to be able to do their exercises with minimal work from our part because it’s all-in-one on the DTEN.

Overall, since then, it has become incredibly easy to be able to update them, keep an eye on them from a distance, using the Orbit feature has been integral to us being able to do software updates and that side of things as well.”

IMD attracts more than 28,000 executives from more than 120 countries and is well known for its MBA programme, which is frequently ranked as one of the best in the world.



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