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Slide 1 - Introduction to Polycom

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Slide 2 - Introduction

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Welcome to this module in the Polycom Start Here series. In this module we will look at Polycom the company, our vision and our brand. We'll take a brief look at the company history and where we came from, and how this has developed over time to include other partners who share a similar view of things and how they should be done. We'll see how best to experience Polycom solutions, and how we view our responsibilities from a corporate standpoint.

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Slide 3 - Our Brand

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Slide 4 - Our Brand

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Our promise is to create experiences that push the greatness of human collaboration forward, by removing the barriers of distance and time, connecting experts where they're needed most, and creating trust and understanding through visual connection.

Our vision is to make video collaboration ubiquitous; we understand that collaborating over video should be as simple and common as texting, as lifelike as life itself, as reliable as a pen and paper, and as consistent as Internet access across any environment you work in: on the go, home office, work office, conference room, and immersive theater.

This is achieved by our strategy of making video and voice collaboration simple to use and available to everyone through open, standards-based software - delivered on-premise or from the cloud - that connects people securely across any network, protocol, application or device they want to use.


Slide 5 - Our Brand

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Created in 1992, our original identity symbolized the voice-driven, hardware-oriented solutions that only represented a small part of our total offering. From May 2012, we launched a new Polycom with a brand new logo - three fluid, transparent circles symbolizing connection, mobility sharing and collaboration.


Slide 6 - History of Innovation

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Polycom and the industry has changed considerably over the past 20 years… from conferencing to video conferencing in the 1990s, to immersive telepresence, and in the last year or so to software-based mobile video collaboration that extends video beyond the traditional conference room.

In addition, Polycom is driving cloud-delivered video offerings and working with leading service providers, and now with RealPresence CloudAXIS Suite, Polycom offers browser-based video to extend enterprise video to anyone with a browser.

Although it has been over 20 years, Polycom has never stopped innovating and pushing available technologies to improve both our solutions and our markets. In fact, over 900 patents associated with a vast array of inventions designed and implemented over this time are registered to Polycom and some incredibly dedicated employees.


Slide 7 - Awards

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For more than a decade, Polycom products have earned awards in nearly every product category from a broad range of industry organizations and publications. According to industry analysts, Polycom designs and delivers the world's best-selling voice, video, multi-network gateway and multipoint conferencing solutions for conducting high-quality business communications.

Polycom's solutions and products consistently earn recognition for their quality and ease of use.


Slide 8 - Industries Served

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Polycom serves the many industries (often described as verticals) across the globe, and this slide shows just some of them. As you can see, there are a huge number of customers here, and of course this isn't all of them, so let's take a look at some of the stats. In healthcare, 8 of the top 10 US hospitals and the world’s top 13 pharmaceutical companies are our customers. In education, the top 10 universities worldwide and the top 10 US universities.

Many government agencies and ministries are also our customers, including 19 of the world’s top 20 e-Governments worldwide. In case you weren't aware, e-Government is a term used to describe the utilization of the Internet and related technologies to enhance operations and communication with the public.

The world’s 10 largest banks and 6 largest insurance companies work with our solutions, as do the world’s top 10 auto manufacturers and top 3 aerospace companies. And, last but not least, the top 5 entertainment companies also use Polycom to assist with collaboration on productions such as Dr Phil.


Slide 9 - Industry Affiliations

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In June 2011, Polycom partnered with leading global telecommunications service providers from around the world to unleash broader visual communications adoption by enabling interoperability and global business-to-business (B2B) connectivity for telepresence and video conferencing. The Open Visual Communications Consortium (OVCC), of which Polycom was a founding member, was incorporated in August 2011.

Driving video ubiquity by enabling video from the cloud requires open standards and interoperability to connect and traverse all the different carriers’ network technologies and business systems. Achieving ubiquity does not lie within the power of any one customer, equipment manufacturer, service provider, or standards body to solve. It takes a concerted effort by the industry to solve the inherent challenges. Polycom is active in helping develop the commercial and technical solutions necessary to ensure interoperability across a global partner ecosystem.

World-class global service providers come together under Polycom's leadership to create a global, standards-based, multi-network, multi-vendor exchange that delivers breakthrough video connectivity and interoperability and ushers in a new era of visual communication.


Slide 10 - Experience Centers

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There are Polycom Experience Centers across the world, including Executive Experience Centers in several locations.

These Experience Centers enable you to show your customers how our solutions, tightly integrated with our partner solutions, and powered by the Polycom RealPresence Platform, are transforming the way people collaborate. If you're not sure where your nearest Experience Center is, use your mouse to roll over the dots now to see. Click Next when you're ready to see a short video showing why these Experience Centers are so important to the way we do business.


Slide 11 - Executive Experience Centers

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Hello and welcome to the Polycom Executive Experience Center, the best place to show your clients and partners the incredible seamless collaboration Polycom technology enables.

Basically what you are seeing here is a multipoint call that exists between all these disparate modalities and devices being handled by the Polycom RealPresence Virtualization Manager (DMA), as well as the RealPresence Collaboration Server.

We have the ability now collaborate, not only within the walls of my hospital but outside the walls to remote experts or universities, etc.

It is really all about native integration. It is about enhancing what the customer has already invested in and it is about making things easy to use for the end user.

Collaboration needs that face-to-face interaction that is as close to a handshake as you can get without being in the same room, and RPX provides that environment for customers.

There is a real wow factor going on in both of these rooms, because for many customers it is the first time they get to sit down and truly experience the benefits of enterprise class video conferencing technology


Slide 12 - Corporate Social Responsibility

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Our Polycom Foundation global relations program supports positive changes in education, healthcare and our local communities around the world through our products, our resources and most of all, our people. This includes proudly supporting the charities that our employees care most about through our Volunteer Time Off and Matching Donation programs.

In addition to this, the Polycom Foundation also supports several charities globally and our staff often jump in and get involved where they can!

Polycom and Right To Play are bringing hope and essential life skills to some of the world’s most vulnerable children. Using the power of Polycom, Right To Play is expanding their outreach by improving global communications; linking staff with teachers, coaches and community leaders worldwide; and connecting donors to see the true impact of their support.

Using Polycom video collaboration, Medical Missions for Children provide the ability for pediatric specialists at twenty-seven top-tier medical centers in the United States to bring crucial medical treatment directly to sick children. For 11 years, Polycom solutions have been removing the barrier of distance by bringing together the 700 doctors who volunteer their crucial expertise and, without ever leaving their own hospitals, improve the health of the 45,000 young lives served by Medical Missions for Children.

For more than a decade, the Global Nomads Group has used Polycom interactive video to connect more than a million young people from 45 countries so they can learn about each other...and from one another. Their programs include semester- and year-long virtual exchange programs between students in the U.S. and peers in sub-Saharan Africa; Central and South East Asia; the Middle East and North Africa.


Slide 13 - Corporate Social Responsibility

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In terms of sustainability, there are two angles to look at the benefits of what Polycom do. The first is that with Polycom solutions travel can be significantly reduced, meaning carbon emissions are also reduced. In fact, unified communications solutions are changing the way organizations communicate and that's a good thing for our planet. Although we may be geographically distant from our fellow workers, customers, and partners, we no longer have to travel to be effective. Did you know that every time two people meet over video instead of traveling roundtrip between Los Angeles and New York they save the carbon emissions that would be the equivalent of taking one car off the road for a year? It doesn't take a big change to make a huge difference!

This wouldn't be much help, however, if we didn't pay attention to how our products are built, so we employ a simple three step strategy.

1. Our products are compatible with renewable energy from diverse sources. We strive to continually improve energy consumption. Our products are RoHS and WEEE compliant.

2. Polycom, in concert with our authorized partners help customers benchmark video readiness; implement systems ensuring service quality and operational efficiency; and track and report video call savings in terms of travel miles, cost of travel, carbon depletion, and system usage.

3. Polycom strives to continually reduce our carbon impact. We conserve natural resources, recycle wher ever possible, and mandate usage of our own solutions in place of travel. Further, we encourage our employees to reduce personal emissions using Polycom technologies in the office and their homes.


In addition to this, Polycom policy is not just to fully comply with, but to exceed the producer responsibility requirements placed upon it by the countries in which we sells products. Polycom is committed to provide for recycling of its branded electrical equipment in all major world markets where our legal status and other in-country requirements permit us to do so.

This commitment to producer responsibility continues even where Polycom is not considered legally responsible. This means that Polycom provide a free recycling service for Polycom branded products in all markets where these products are sold, which provides our customers with the option to ensure that end of life products are managed in an environmentally responsible way.


Slide 14 - What's Next?

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Now that you have completed this introduction to voice and video technologies you are ready to progress onto all the streams of training that follow regarding RealPresence Video Solutions and RealPresence Platform solutions. These break down into three categories:

- Part I consists of a series of introductory modules detailing all the available solutions from Polycom, and is applicable for sales and technical audiences

- Part II consists of sales positioning modules which follow on from the introduction modules in part I, and are recommended for sales audiences

- Part III consists of a number of demo/simulation modules which show how Polycom solutions are used - these are also applicable for any audience


Slide 15 - Thank You

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Slide 16 - Thank You

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