Lifesize this week announced a new Rooms-as-a-Service offering, enabling customers to purchase Lifesize’s video meeting room devices, video conferencing service and support “with simplified, predictable pricing and lower upfront costs.” [related]
Through Lifesize Rooms-as-a-Service, available immediately in the U.S. and Europe with more expansive international availability planned for 2020, organizations can deploy end-to-end video collaboration solutions in meeting rooms for as little as $99 per room per month.
“The most successful modern enterprises embrace video collaboration as a primary method of communication across the business,” said Lifesize COO Michael Helmbrecht in the company announcement, but most company have taken an incremental approach due to cost.
“With Lifesize Rooms-as-a-Service, we’re responding to customers’ desire to accelerate video initiatives by making it significantly easier to predict and scale costs as they improve meeting spaces and experiences with video collaboration technology,” he said.
Through Lifesize Rooms-as-a-Service, customers can get started with and standardize on Lifesize’s meeting room solutions via a subscription offering, with meeting room hardware, cloud service, maintenance and support provided for a fixed price.
Inside Lifesize Rooms-as-a-Service
Customers that choose Lifesize Rooms-as-a-Service enjoy 20 to 30 percent lower total cost of ownership in their first two years of service while also preserving budget to invest in other innovation and business growth initiatives.
Customers will have a choice of multiple room system configurations and payment options based on contract length. Beyond that flexibility, Lifesize’s Rooms-as-a-Service offering provides numerous benefits for customers, including:
- Accelerated video adoption. Reducing upfront costs allows enterprises to scale video conferencing deployments and adoption more rapidly through a consistent meeting experience, from huddle rooms to boardrooms.
- Predictable pricing. Offering fixed-fee, transparent pricing starting at $99 per room per month makes video room system costs more manageable in both the short and long term while protecting Lifesize customers’ total cost of ownership.
- Reliability and support. Lifesize Rooms-as-a-Service covers customer support for the entire video collaboration solution – hardware, software and services included – along with Advanced Hardware Replacement, all from a single vendor.
