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Whether you’re planning to revamp the AV in your boardroom or design the communications technology system for your entire corporate infrastructure, AVW-TELAV keeps you in the know about what’s most current and most capable in the world of permanent installation and systems design and integration news.
What have your AV systems done for you lately?
To compete in today’s business climate, an organization must be able to communicate with the same proficiency and efficiency as the companies it works for, works with, and most importantly, competes with. Technology can not only level the playing field, but implemented effectively, it can tilt it in your favour. So what have your audio visual systems done for you lately? Are you getting the most out of your investment?
Perhaps they are always breaking down? Maybe users find them too complicated to use? Maybe you are not convinced they are worth the financial investment that you are putting into them, or perhaps it seems that all your current AV provider seems interested in is selling you something new rather than making what you have work properly. Or, quite possibly, you don't even know what it is you actual have in order to form a sensible opinion.
Like most investments, if you don't know what is possible, know what your goals and priorities are, or have a way of measuring and tracking performance, chances are you'll never maximize the return on that investment. AVW-TELAV has built its permanent installation business on the premise of consulting, designing, building, and supporting audio visual and related systems that maximize the technology investment you have made, or intend to make, through a proper consultation and design process at the frontend of the project.
AVW-TELAV offers Consultative Services for companies seeking to make the most of their existing technology, or for those requiring the needs analysis and design for an entirely new audio visual infrastructure. Our approach is based around industry best practices. In fact, you could say we wrote the book—Infocomm's Audio Visual Best Practices—as an AVW-TELAV representative sat on the 11-member committee that developed the outline for this publication.
For new projects, our process:
- Defines project-specific requirements from all vested parties
- Undertakes an educational process to present possible opportunities and return on investment for key technologies
- Includes the development of a needs-analysis document outlining proposed system operational capabilities and budget
- Provides detailed system engineering, including issuance of shop drawings and related infrastructure requirements for other trades/consultants
- Defines ongoing operating costs including service and support models, consumables, etc.
For companies with existing audio visual systems, AVW-TELAV offers complete system audits to diagnose existing problems and make practical short, medium, and long-term recommendations for improvement. This process:
- Establishes baseline documentation for what customers currently have
- Determines some of the difficulties the customer is facing with the current AV system on all levels, from basic user operation, to technical support, or overall management standpoint
- Provides education of possible opportunities, return on investment and business cases for these, and a set of recommendations to proceed
- Allows AVW-TELAV to present the customer a range of considerations to implement a structure for on-going performance and reliability
Leading Canadian corporations like General Mills, KPMG, Intuit Canada, and REMAX have all discovered the benefits of AVW-TELAV's consulting services in recent times and are already reaping the benefits. For more information about AVW-TELAV’s Permanent Installation Consulting Services, please call 1.800.868.6886.
