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16 Sep 2015

Business Leaders Get On Their Bikes to Help Homelessness

Dublin Chamber of Commerce President and Digicom Managing Director Greg Clarke lead a group of 30 Irish business people on a five-day 800km cycle from San Sebastian to Barcelona in a bid to raise more than €30,000 for the Peter McVerry Homeless Charity Trust.

The group, which is also includes Liam Kavanagh, Managing Director of the Irish Times, Mick Sweeney, Director of Customer, Insurance & Investment Businesses at Bank of Ireland, Brendan Foster, Partner, Grant Thornton, set off on the cycle on Sunday morning and arrived at their destination in Barcelona on Thursday. All 30 cyclists participated at their own expense meaning that all money raised will go directly to the Peter McVerry Trust.

Pictured (l-r) were Adrian McGennis (Sigmar), Kieran Garry (Gordon MRM), Pat Doyle, CEO, Peter McVerry Trust, Niall Hayes (Contracting Plus), Dublin Chamber of Commerce President and Managing Director, Digicom Greg Clarke, Fr Peter McVerry, Kathryn O’Connor, Kevin James (Gardiner & Theobold), Simon Horsley (Bentley Systems). Picture Conor McCabe Photography.

24 Mar 2015

Top 10 Reasons to use PaperCut MF

PaperCut MF is the easy way to automatically monitor and manage copying and printing in your organisation, giving you control over your costs and environmental impact. PaperCut MF intercepts print jobs on the print server and analyses them, applying rules to enforce your print policies.

Digicom are of one Ireland’s leading re-sellers for PaperCut MF. We are currently running a PaperCut MF special offer, please get in touch with us for further information.

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10 Mar 2015

Greg Clarke – President’s Speech | Dublin Chamber

Dublin Chamber’s AGM Dinner 2015, which was kindly sponsored by Bank of Ireland, heard from Greg Clarke in his inaugural address as Dublin Chamber President and Mark Roden, founder of Ding.com and winner of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2014.

Greg spoke of his background and driving vision for the Chamber for 2015, speaking particularly of the need for greater support for building the entrepreneurial culture in Dublin and Ireland. Read Greg’s speech in full below:

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25 Feb 2015

How to Make Friends and Influence End-Users

The delicate process of relationship-building was explored in all its psychological depths yesterday in the InfoComm Professional Development Training “Needs Analysis of End-User Requirements — What Are They Really Saying?” session taught by Bill Thomas, CTS-I, a staff instructor from the association.

Detailing the finer points of “getting to people’s real feelings” from the initial project interview through to a follow-up survey after commissioning, “it’s all about creating comfort,” Thomas emphasized. “Our end-users aren’t technologists like us. Create an atmosphere where it’s okay for them to say what they think and what’s on their mind, rather than talking them through ‘Technology, technology, technology’ and ‘We really want to look smart.’ If we make them feel bad that they don’t know as much about technology as us, then we haven’t connected with them.”

To gain better results from meetings, take careful note of the atmosphere you’re generating, the body language you and your client are using, and continually check understanding. “Keep asking, “Does this seem right to you? Am I understanding what you’re asking for? Do you understand what I am talking about? Is that what you think too?”

Tailoring your interview to the person with whom you are speaking is key, asking questions about the aspects of the system with which they will connect and interact on a daily basis.

The classroom was abuzz with discussion on the best questions to ask in the interview process, and how to elicit ideas and needs from potential clients. In general, InfoComm training at ISE is a tremendous draw, particularly for Peter Fox, sales director of Digicom in Dublin, Ireland. “I come to this event for the learning, to learn more about the industry and the happenings within the industry. I concentrate more on attending classes than going to stands,” he said, adding, “I’m basically in these classrooms or in one of the show-floor Unified Communications or Commercial Solutions Theatres all day.”

By Kirsten Nelson, www.avnetwork.com

24 Feb 2015

HDBaseT Alliance – The Standard of the Future, Today.

Defining the standard of the future

The HDBaseT Alliance advances and promotes the adoption of HDBaseT technology as the global standard for high definition, digital connectivity. Since its founding in 2010 by LG Electronics, Samsung Electronics, Sony Pictures Entertainment, and Valens, the Alliance has brought together the leading names in the Consumer Electronics and .Professional AV manufacturers, and it counts today with more than 100 members and hundreds of products

Enabling 5Play over a single cable

HDBaseT technology has become the new standard for home and professional networking. It brings a rich feature ,TMset, increased reach, and better performance than existing solutions. The cornerstone of the technology is 5Play the converged delivery of uncompressed high-definition digital video, high-quality audio, Ethernet, up to 100 W .power, and various control signals, through a single LAN cable.

Coming to a home near you

With the recently released HDBaseT 2.0 specification, the Alliance is now enabling the development of consumer .electronics devices to better address the needs of the connected home HDBaseT 2.0 brings the quality of pro-AV to the cost-conscious consumer electronics market, for an unparalleled user ,experience. From simple point-to-point applications and up to the most cutting-edge multimedia home solutions. HDBaseT 2.0 delivers the 5Play feature set, from any source to any display around the house, using a simple control app.

Via: www.hdbaset.org

29 Jan 2015

Kramer VIA Connect

Kramer VIA lets you connect wirelessly, collaborate easily, and engage everyone in the room in the work you’re doing. It provides a common platform for all those laptops, smartphones, and tablets in real time on one digital canvas. So things get done right then and there—not afterwards or through email.
Kramer VIA is a shared workspace for team collaboration in real time. Anybody who’s in the room can help create and edit a common document through their individual devices, then share and save it. Designed to eliminate wasted time, lack of productivity, and distracted attendees in meetings, classrooms, and presentations, Kramer VIA is the enemy of inefficient meetings. That’s because VIA acts as a collaboration hub so you can:

Connect
VIA is a solution that enables you to bring your own device (BYOD) to a meeting: Mac® or Windows laptops, tablets, iOS or Android based Smartphones. Just log on using Wi-Fi or LAN connections and you are connected. It’s wireless, it’s instantaneous and it’s easy!

Collaborate
Attendees can work together in a meeting, using VIA’s network. All you do is click “Step-In” and your screen is integrated on the main display. Then, you can start collaborating and interacting with other participants, work on a shared document, save it and send through the VIA Cloud or even use the interactive whiteboard.

Engage
VIA enables authentic engagement in meetings. You can share your files with other participants, chat or stream full HD videos in perfect quality. Everyone gets to participate, interact and be involved. Attendees become active participants – not bored bystanders.

via Kramer Electronics

09 Dec 2014

Samsung Smart MultiXpress Wins

Samsung Smart MultiXpress Wins 2 Editor’s Choice Awards

The critical acclaimed Samsung Smart Print range – Samsung has brought smartphone-like ease of use and expandability to its new MFPs.

Samsung is shaping its print offering to meet the challenges of the office of the future

Launched at September’s IFA 2014 consumer electronics exhibition in Berlin, the ten new MFPs are the first of their kind to be equipped with an Android operating system. The combination of Android OS and Samsung’s Smart UX Center, the same touch technology used in Samsung Galaxy smartphones and tablets, provides a familiar user interface and a scalable platform for individual printer apps – just like a smartphone. It also allows the printers to operate independently of a PC with on-the-go connectivity through Samsung Cloud Print.
This, says Mark Ash, General Manager of Samsung Electronics’ Print Division in the UK and Ireland, makes the Smart MultiXpress series ideal for the flexible working practices employed by businesses today.

04 Dec 2014

Cloud Video Conferencing from Digicom

Digicom to white label the Cirrus-Connects cloud video conferencing for the Irish market

Digicom has chosen to add the Cirrus-Connects cloud video conferencing solution to their product portfolio. Cirrus-Connects is now amongst an already impressive list of Digicom partners such as Polycom, Cisco, LifeSize, Samsung, Sony, NEC and Ricoh. As the number one choice for Print and Audio Visual/Video Conferencing solutions to the business sector in Ireland, Digicom recognise their clients changing needs for video conferencing solutions. Digicom aren’t just looking for a solution that looks great, they want a technologically robust solution that delivers significant benefits to their customers.

Not only do companies wish to continue using video conferencing at the boardroom level but due to the power from desktop/mobile hardware devices and the ever increasing telecommunication networks, companies want to easily connect their offices, customers, suppliers and partners and remote staff by video. “It’s all about the user experience! I’ve been so impressed with the reliability of Cirrus-Connects”, says Digicom Sales Director Peter Fox “the interoperability it offers and how simple it is to use, especially when running it from a webbrowser without the need to download any software plugins. With immediate effect, Digicom will be deploying Cirrus-Connects for use in our own business process”. Digicom has white labelled Cirrus-Connects under the Digicom brand.
Cirrcom Limited Managing Director, Steve Roberts is very proud and privileged for Cirrus-Connects to be associated with Digicom.

For further information, please contact:
Digicom
Peter Fox, Sales Director
T: +353 (0)1 460 0022
E: peter.fox@digicom.ie

01 Dec 2014

How I Made It | Greg Clarke

The Sunday Times recent ‘How I Made It’ article on Greg Clarke (Managing Director, Digicom). Read how Greg has grown the business since 1997, and also what lies in store for the future: “We have a good management team in place and good systems and processes. This means things are handled better, which means [profit] margin is better too. All in all, we have a good platform for growth”

01 Dec 2014

Ricoh Projectors | Freedom of Expression

A record-breaking throw distance of just 11.7cm allows the Ricoh projectors to be placed just inches from the wall, ensuring that nothing comes between you and your message: no shadows; no noise; no glare. Use it to display images of up to 80 inches in meeting rooms, classrooms, museum displays, restaurants, bars, shops, window displays, anywhere there is a wall or flat surface to project upon. And because it is so compact and light, you can move it from room to room and even carry it to meetings off-site.

The PJWX4130N boasts all the features of the PJWX4130, plus wired and wireless network connectivity, a USB port for PC-free presentations and enhanced device management.

In summary:
Can be placed just 11.7cm from wall and will display images up to 80cm.
Optional Unique Stand.
HDMI Input.
Bright with 2500 ANSI Lumen.
Automatic distortion adjustment and wall colour correction.
Network Connectivity.
Low Energy Consumption.
3Kg.
Quick start/shutdown
Rapid 3 second start-up makes these projectors deal for impromptu, ad hoc meetings.
USB storage: A USB 2.0 interface allows JPEG images and MPEG2 video to be projected directly from USB memory devices for PC-free presentations.

For more information on the RICOH Projector & AV range contact a member of the Digicom Team today.

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