Meet Navistar. They are an international company headquartered in the Chicago area and they are a leading manufacturer of commercial trucks, buses, defense vehicles and engines. Like so many of us during the coronavirus lockdown, the team members at Navistar have become adept at videoconferencing from home. But recently, their team started returning to the office. They needed a solution that would allow them to continue to host video conferences that go beyond a single laptop and that includes the active participation of everyone in the room as well as of external participants.

In 2018, Italian-based UMBRAGROUP acquired Thompson Aerospace & Defense, A Saginaw, Michigan-based company that designs, manufactures, and services critical actuation components and equipment for various defense and aerospace platforms. Then the process began of not only merging these two company and cultures together, but their IT systems as well. This job fell into the very capable hands of the company’s new U.S. Director of IT, Joe Sheridan. With more than 33 years’ experience, he’s developed a stellar reputation for being able to quickly and efficiently “turn around IT.” True to form, he cleaned up the network and got it humming, then turned to the next challenge that was the conferencing system.

Meet Orangebox, one of the UK’s leading furniture manufacturers. As an international company with a showroom and co-working space in the heart of London’s Design Center, Orangebox set to revamp their office environment with more agile and flexible solutions fit for the post-pandemic collaboration needs. Looking for collaboration technology that has a small footprint, is platform agnostic, intuitive and easy to use, and will help reduce operational costs, Orangebox chose Barco ClickShare Conference.