{"id":5090,"date":"2021-06-08T08:00:08","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T15:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/?p=5090"},"modified":"2021-06-08T08:00:08","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T15:00:08","slug":"butler-hospitality-simplifies-unlocks-the-power-of-video-with-poly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/butler-hospitality-simplifies-unlocks-the-power-of-video-with-poly\/","title":{"rendered":"Butler Hospitality Simplifies & Unlocks the Power of Video with Poly"},"content":{"rendered":"

The next time you\u2019re in a hotel and order a meal from their restaurant or room service, it may not actually be coming from the hotel.\u00a0 A new firm called Butler Hospitality is helping hotels meet their guests\u2019 dining needs in four US cities so far \u2013 and they\u2019re growing.<\/p>\n

Serving more than forty-thousand hotel rooms In New York, Chicago, Miami and Washington D.C. \u2013 and soon to be serving over two-hundred thousand rooms in US cities coast-to coast \u2013 Butler\u2019s ability to communicate with their staff, investors, customers and potential customers has never been more important.\u00a0 They wanted to find a videoconferencing solution that would be reliable and provide them with a sense of pride as they collaborated with others in their industry.<\/p>\n

The first system they installed was not from Poly.\u00a0 It was a multi-component endpoint with a robotic camera, controller, and processor.\u00a0 It seemed to work OK for them during initial tests, but they soon found that it locked them into only one video platform provider.\u00a0 Aaron Cohen, Butler\u2019s Chief Revenue Officer, explained that \u201cIf we\u2019re courting a new investor, and that investor uses Zoom, we don\u2019t ask that investor \u2018do you mind using our platform instead?\u2019<\/em>\u00a0 You\u2019ve got to be able to join that Zoom call.\u201d\u00a0 Having made a big investment in video equipment that turned out to be incompatible with other video platforms was a big headache for the Butler team.<\/p>\n

In an attempt to find a solution, Butler purchased one of the many Poly endpoints that is platform agnostic and put it in one of their other conference rooms.\u00a0 (It was actually less expensive than their initial investment.)\u00a0 Aaron explained that the results were very impressive.\u00a0 The Poly video bar was able to follow the action in the room and always perfectly frame the shot without any distracting camera motors or other moving parts buzzing around.\u00a0 Poly\u2019s innovations in noise elimination and low-light camera pick-up created experiences that were, in his words, \u201cas good or better than\u201d the more expensive system in every aspect.<\/p>\n

Poly has video solutions that are certified for use on multiple platforms, so whether you chose a USB device to connect to a PC (like the Poly Studio<\/a><\/span> for medium rooms or the Poly Studio P15<\/a><\/span> for individual use) or instead choose an all-in-one device (like the Poly Studio X30<\/a><\/span> or Studio X50<\/a><\/span>) you can always rest assured that you will be able to use that device\u2019s superior features natively on multiple platforms (such as Zoom, Microsoft Teams and many more.)<\/p>\n

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Aaron Cohen, Butler Hospitality\u2019s Chief Revenue Officer<\/h5>\n

In Aaron\u2019s words, he would \u201cabsolutely recommend the Poly systems to anyone who wants a high-quality system that doesn\u2019t want to get locked-in to just one video platform provider.\u201d\u00a0 In his mind, his current usage of video platforms involves \u201ca little mix of everything.\u201d He has \u201cno idea\u201d what the prevailing video platform will be next year, as he says, \u201cit may not even have been invented yet.\u201d\u00a0 Aaron is very confident however that the Poly systems are his best choice to ensure the value of his firm\u2019s investment into the future.<\/p>\n

To find out more about the many Poly systems that can give your team the same confidence to just crush your meetings, visit our website<\/a><\/span>, or reach out to your Poly representative and tell them you want the less expensive, better quality, video platform agnostic endpoints that are helping Butler grow their business every day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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