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SMART Technologies To Launch 3 New Business Solutions At GITEX
Published Oct 24, 2010
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1. What does your company do?
SMART is the world’s leading provider of interactive whiteboards. The company introduced the first interactive whiteboard in 1991 and remains the global product category leader, providing easy-to-use, integrated products and services that improve the way the world works and learns. With a legacy that spans 20 years, SMART’s innovative education products help educators achieve better results with products that support student-centered learning and businesses become more productive with collaboration solutions that enable better results.
Today, there are more than 1.7 million SMART Board interactive whiteboards in classrooms and offices worldwide, and more than 30 million users actively learning and collaborating with SMART products every day.
2. What are your company’s key product lines and services?
SMART EDUCATION SOLUTIONS
SMART has a diverse range of education solutions that ensure technology-enabled learning environments:
SMART Board™ 600i4 interactive whiteboard system
3D ready feature allows for greater interactive instruction and engagement.
The latest generation of the 600i system features an improved and easier to use extended control panel (ECP) and a fully integrated projector that is 3D ready and teachers are able to display 3D video, images and applications, (which will be visible with the use of 3D glasses).
SMART Table™ interactive learning center
First multi-touch, multi-user interactive learning center for early education.
Unveiled in October 2008, the SMART Table was introduced in the UK and North America as the first multi-touch, multi-user interactive learning center designed specifically for early education. Today, more than 500 schools across the UK and North America use the SMART Table to engage learners aged three to eight. The SMART Table supports more learning applications in 12 languages.
SMART Slate™ WS200 wireless slate
Next generation wireless slate enables whole-class interaction.
Enables teachers and students to interact with digital lessons – saves time and allows students to participate from anywhere in the classroom.
Mixed reality with SMART Document Camera 330
Offers a convenient way to display and explore images of objects anytime and never lose the momentum of the lesson.
Enables users to quickly and effortlessly display and capture physical content on the SMART Board™ interactive whiteboard and provides an innovative way for teachers and students to interact with 2D, 3D, animated and audio-enriched content in order to foster deeper student engagement and understanding.
SMART Notebook™ Math Tools
The only software developed by an interactive whiteboard company that provides the digital tools needed to create content and to recognize and graph equations within the context of a lesson.
SMART BUSINESS SOLUTIONS:
SMART products make collaboration a visual and interactive experience with easy access to files, intuitive user interfaces and effortless record-keeping capabilities.
SMART Hub™ SE collaboration platform
SMART Hub SE works with any SMART Board interactive display and lets you write, save and distribute digital notes without a computer.
SMART Board™ interactive display frame
The SMART Board interactive display frame adds easy-to-use interactivity to your flat-panel display by transforming it into an interactive display. Now, the SMART Board interactive display frame features touch gestures that make performing common operations such as clicking, scrolling or switching pages as natural as tapping or dragging your finger on the surface.
SMART Bridgit™ conferencing software
This conferencing software virtually connects multiple rooms and participants regardless of location, ensuring participants can hold collaborative sessions that save time and reduce travel costs.
3. What products or services will your company be promoting at the show?
Although the complete SMART portfolio will be on display during GITEX, SMART has added to its business solutions offerings and will be showing for the first time three new products at GITEX this year. In today’s evolving business communications environment, companies require innovative and solution-based processes that accomplish tasks faster with increased levels of efficiency for informed decision making. In order to ensure that information can be shared, accessed and updated in a simple and cost effective manner in real-time, SMART will show the following new products at GITEX:
SMART Board™ 685ix interactive whiteboard system
The 685ix combines a widescreen interactive whiteboard and an ultra-short-throw projector to give teams an unparalleled collaboration experience. It works with a dedicated meeting room computer and allows team members to write notes in digital ink, share information, capture ideas and also save and distribute notes digitally.
SMART Board 685ix interactive whiteboard appliance-based system
The appliance-based 685ix does not require a dedicated meeting room computer and employees can connect to any laptop or other USB device to easily write notes in digital ink, share information, capture ideas and also save and distribute notes digitally.
SMART Meeting Pro™ Premium software
SMART Meeting Pro Premium provides enhanced interactive whiteboarding and collaboration capabilities in meeting rooms with a computer and one or more SMART Board interactive displays.
4. Why is your company exhibiting at GITEX Technology Week?
GITEX provides SMART with an opportunity to showcase their interactive education and business solutions in the Middle East. It is an excellent opportunity for SMART to meet with customers and channel members and for them to try first-hand SMART’s easy-to-use solutions.
SMART is located in Hall 4, D 4-1.Senior SMART management and product specialists will be on hand to answer queries and discuss industry development and ME trends.
5. How important is the Middle East market to worldwide operations?
SMART is committed to work with education authorities and business leaders in the Middle East to increase awareness about the benefits of interactive products in both the education and business sectors. SMART has had a strong presence in the Middle East market for many years and continues to work with its customers to develop the best solutions for their needs.
Posted by
VMD - [Virtual Marketing Department]
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