If there is one thing that this crisis taught us is that companies do not stop when faced with problems. Thanks to the digital technology, which shortens the distances and allows you to continue work even from home, without giving up on collaboration. It is no coincidence that solutions like Teams experienced impressive growth during 2020. They have proved to be so effective that many companies will not abandon their use once normality is back, but will integrate them into company workflows, continuing to adopt smart working even when the restrictions on circulation will disappear.

But software is only part of the solution: there are numerous hardware solutions that revolve around Teams, making it more and more effective, and among these one of the best performing is Microsoft Surface Hub 2S , a very special digital whiteboard.

Microsoft Surface Hub 2S, the whiteboard that makes meetings more effective, both in presence and remotely

In corporate meeting rooms there are two tools that are hardly missing: a large display, or a projector, and a slate that acts as a support for ac hi holds the presentation, which can use it to quickly draw diagrams and examples. Microsoft Surface Hub 2S brings these two tools together . Apparently, it looks like a generous monitor from 50 “ (but a version from will come soon “) with particular proportions, 3: 2 instead of the canons 16: 9). Analyzing it more carefully, however, it turns out that it is a real tool for simultaneous collaboration. It integrates a fairly powerful computer (8th generation Intel Core i5 with 8 GB of RAM and SSD from 128 GB) which manages the whiteboard apps and communication with Teams. The Redmond giant defines it as a compute unit due to the fact that it can be replaced in a few moments with a more powerful model, simply by extracting the “cartridge” that contains it and inserting another one with more advanced hardware.

There is also a 4K wide-range camera , able to frame all the participants present in a medium-sized room, and an array of microphones capable of capturing the voices of everyone present, even those who are further away from the device. Finally included a stylus , which will allow you to draw on the touch screen with a quality and sensitivity of inking fully comparable to physical whiteboards.

The strong point of this solution is also the perfect integration with Teams , which allows you to make presentations, both those carried out in the meeting room and those made with colleagues and customers remotely, more intriguing and effective: what is drawn on the screen will be shared with all participants, simplifying a lot of group work, which will be immediately available for all participants, before a secure cancellation of the session data ..

Suface Hub 2S, an opportunity also for resellers

Maverick AV Solutions , division of Tech Data , is the exclusive distributor sivo of Surface Hub 2S for Italy. Maverick does not sell directly to end users but goes through resellers (who must be Microsoft certified to deploy Surface Hub 2S), offering a number of benefits for those interested in distributing Microsoft’s dedicated whiteboard for collaboration.

Maverick AV Solutions, in addition to distributing the hardware, offers a series of additional services : from consulting to channel support with inspections, instructions on use, maintenance and network integration, up to support for the product itself. The company’s goal is to make the solution practically plug & play for the end user: all the evaluation, installation, configuration, integration and fine-tuning work can then be delegated by the end user to Maverick itself or to its partners.

These are not the only services offered to resellers, who will have at their disposal a team of dedicated experts which will support them through webinars, events and promotions, aimed at keeping partners updated and involving them more. In short, Maverick does not just act as a paper passer, to provide a product to sell, but aims to pass on all its wealth of expertise on the solution to its partners, starting from onboarding , when the collaboration begins. Skills not limited to Surface Hub 2S, but extended to the entire Microsoft world and, in particular, to the Teams collaboration platform .

The resellers of the Surface Hub 2S, in short, are in effect Maverick’s partners.

Maverick also offers optional accessories for Surface Hub 2s that Microsoft has made together with its partners, such as Steelcase mobile carts or the APC batteries , which provide an easily transportable support for the whiteboard so that it can be easily repositioned from one meeting room to another when needed, to reach the APC backup batteries, which guarantee approximately 90 minutes of autonomy on the blackboard if disconnected from the mains.

Tech as a Service, Tech Data’s operational rental program

Microsoft Surface Hub 2S can be purchased, also together with its services, through the program Tech as a Service by Tech Data, which eliminates the initial investments, replaced by a monthly payment that includes hardware and services. Tech as a Service also allows you to always have the most up-to-date devices, thus allowing resellers to better retain customers over time. Resellers will also be able to include their personalized services in this formula, thus increasing their profit margins and offering the opportunity to differentiate themselves from the competition.

The as-a-Service offer is not the only alternative to purchase: Tech Data’s Finance Solutions business unit also allows access to financing, rental, operating, financial and even leasing, thus covering the different needs of the company’s resellers.