Key takeaways

• Meeting room collaboration is significantly enhanced when Neat devices integrate seamlessly with tools like Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, and Zoom.

• The comprehensive Neat integration, powered by innovations like Neat App Hub, delivers versatile collaborative tools in meetings.

• Whether deploying Neat with Microsoft Teams, Google Meet or Zoom, users benefit from dedicated spaces, Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) flexibility, and innovative interop capabilities via Neat Share.

• Neat integrates with workplace management platforms and environmental monitoring systems through Neat Pulse Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and certified apps, transforming devices into intelligent collaboration and analytics hubs.

The changing landscape of meeting room collaboration

In today’s dynamic work environment, businesses prioritize flexibility and efficiency in meeting spaces. Modern meeting room collaboration revolves around empowering teams with tools that adapt to hybrid work models and diverse collaboration needs. Neat, with its range of devices and integrations, plays a central role in supporting these evolving requirements.

Neat devices such as Neat Bar Generation 2, Neat Bar Pro, Neat Board Pro, Neat Board 50, and Neat Frame are engineered to deliver exceptional audio and video quality. However, their standout feature lies in their ability to integrate with popular collaborative platforms and applications, offering a streamlined, user-friendly meeting experience that enhances productivity and collaboration across the workforce.

Integrating with Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, and Zoom

Neat provides native integration with both Microsoft Teams and Zoom, two of the most widely used video conferencing platforms globally – and will also integrate with Google Meet later in the year.

Neat devices can be configured as dedicated Microsoft Teams Rooms or Zoom Rooms during setup. Once selected, the chosen platform runs natively, providing a reliable and consistent meeting experience tailored to the organization’s platform of choice.

When deployed as Microsoft Teams Rooms, Neat devices ensure that all Microsoft collaboration features are accessible natively. Conversely, as Zoom Rooms, Neat devices provide seamless integration with Zoom’s ecosystem, supporting high-quality video calls and interactive sessions.

This focus on platform-specific reliability makes Neat devices ideal for organizations that standardize on either Microsoft Teams or Zoom. Users can benefit from a consistently optimized experience without the friction of multi-platform configurations, ensuring seamless meetings every time.

Enhancing flexibility with Neat App Hub

To provide businesses with the flexibility needed in today’s hybrid workspaces, Neat introduces Neat App Hub. This curated digital marketplace enables organizations to transform their Neat devices into multifunctional collaboration hubs through the deployment of third-party and native applications, all managed centrally via Neat Pulse.

With Neat App Hub, IT administrators can select, configure, and deploy various applications designed to support every stage of collaborative work. Digital whiteboards like Miro and Lucidspark foster ideation, while tools like Mural, Kahoot, and Mentimeter encourage interactive participation. Robin’s scheduling software streamlines room management, while web-based utilities and custom applications allow further customization of the collaboration experience.

Neat App Hub allows for deployment of single applications in kiosk mode or multiple apps in a flexible multi-app configuration. This versatility means businesses can easily adapt meeting spaces to support different workflows, whether for ideation sessions, interactive workshops, or team stand-ups. Employees can transition between whiteboarding, presenting, and scheduling activities without technical disruption, driving productivity, and enhancing the overall meeting experience.

Beyond collaboration, Neat App Hub offers certified workplace management and analytics platforms like Flowscape, Appspace, Smarten Spaces, askUMA, and 22Miles. These integrations enable Neat devices to support sophisticated workplace functions, from desk booking and wayfinding to digital signage, and occupancy analytics. By deploying these workplace applications, organizations can transform Neat hardware into comprehensive workplace intelligence tools that serve beyond the traditional video conferencing use case.

Expanding collaboration with Neat Share

Neat Share revolutionizes collaborative meetings by facilitating seamless integration of third-party applications into live sessions. This functionality allows one Neat device to operate a core meeting platform, such as Microsoft Teams or Zoom, while another simultaneously runs a third-party app via Neat App Hub. Neat Share enables the effortless transfer of content from the secondary device directly into the ongoing meeting with a single tap.

This feature is invaluable for organizations conducting dynamic, content-rich meetings. Teams can easily share whiteboard sessions, digital presentations, or interactive applications with all participants without interrupting the meeting flow. For example, a brainstorming session conducted on Neat Board 50 can be shared into a Zoom or Teams meeting on a Neat Bar Pro, enabling both in-room and remote participants to collaborate in real-time.

Available through Neat Pulse Plus or Pro plans, Neat Share ensures meetings remain focused, interactive, and productive, positioning it as an essential tool for hybrid collaboration.

Supporting BYOD environments

Flexibility remains a cornerstone of effective meeting room collaboration, which is why Neat devices also support Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) environments. In BYOD mode, users connect their personal laptops via USB-C, enabling Neat hardware to serve as a high-performance peripheral system. This mode allows employees to run their preferred video conferencing or collaboration platforms directly from their devices, leveraging Neat’s superior audio-visual quality without being constrained by corporate software deployments.

This feature is particularly valuable for organizations with diverse user preferences or those collaborating with external partners using non-standard platforms. Whether using Webex, Google Meet, or another conferencing tool, Neat devices accommodate a wide array of platforms, maintaining flexibility without sacrificing quality.

Extending integration through Neat Pulse APIs and workplace platforms

In addition to its video conferencing and collaboration capabilities, Neat integrates with wider workplace ecosystems through Neat Pulse APIs. These APIs facilitate data exchange with third-party platforms like Neowit and Utelogy, enabling advanced room monitoring, control, and analytics.

Through Neat Pulse APIs, organizations can aggregate critical environmental data, such as occupancy levels, air quality, temperature, and ambient noise, integrating these insights into centralized building management platforms. This supports data-driven decision-making, allowing businesses to optimize space utilization, ensure comfortable environments, and improve operational efficiency.

Complementing these capabilities, Neat Sense, an embedded environmental intelligence system, continuously gathers real-time environmental data, providing actionable insights for IT and facilities teams. Whether managing energy usage or maintaining workplace wellness standards, Neat Sense helps organizations build healthier and more productive environments.

Neat Pulse also supports enterprise identity management via Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML)-based Single Sign-On (SSO). This ensures secure administrative access, simplifies device management, and supports compliance with enterprise IT standards. Features like bulk enrollment and remote firmware updates further reinforce Neat’s position as an IT-friendly solution designed for scalability and centralized control.

Addressing modern collaboration challenges

Neat’s layered integration strategy offers solutions to diverse workplace collaboration challenges. Organizations can deploy dedicated rooms configured with Neat with Microsoft Teams or Neat with Zoom for reliable, platform-specific meeting experiences. For spaces requiring greater versatility, Neat App Hub enables deployment of collaborative tools, workplace management apps, and environmental monitoring systems, transforming meeting rooms into multifunctional spaces.

Neat Share enhances meeting flexibility by enabling real-time sharing of third-party content during meetings, supporting collaborative work without disrupting communication. BYOD support ensures that all employees and partners can participate using their preferred tools, further broadening the usability of Neat devices.

With the integration of Neat Pulse APIs, organizations can incorporate room usage analytics, environmental monitoring, and workplace insights into their broader facility management platforms. This level of integration transforms Neat devices from traditional meeting room tools into dynamic collaboration hubs and workplace management endpoints.

The future of meeting room collaboration

Neat continues to innovate, expanding its Neat App Hub offerings and enhancing Neat Share functionalities to support increasingly complex collaboration workflows. Future developments promise deeper integrations with industry-specific platforms, broader support for digital signage and visitor management applications, and extended interoperability across various tools.

As collaborative tools diversify, Neat’s integrated approach ensures businesses stay agile and future-ready. By blending native platform support, customizable app deployment, interactive sharing, BYOD flexibility, environmental monitoring, and centralized management, Neat devices evolve into intelligent collaboration and workplace solutions capable of meeting the demands of hybrid work environments.

Neat’s commitment to enhancing meeting room collaboration, coupled with its strategic integrations and innovations, positions it as a leader in enabling effective, productive, and engaging hybrid work models.

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Sources

• Workplace management integrations with Flowscape and Appspace. Flowscape.