The 10 Best Performing SaaS Solution Providers 2018
Insights Success has selected some of the most prominent organizations around the globe in the issue of “The 10 Best Performing SaaS Solution Providers 2018”. These organizations are transforming the SaaS industry with their revolutionary innovations and foremost initiatives that mainly focus on product acceleration and customer satisfaction.
Insights Success has selected some of the most prominent organizations around the globe in the issue of “The 10 Best Performing SaaS Solution Providers 2018”. These organizations are transforming the SaaS industry with their revolutionary innovations and foremost initiatives that mainly focus on product acceleration and customer satisfaction.
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Highfive:Meetings Reimagined<br />
<strong>SaaS</strong> has become a common delivery model for many<br />
business applications because of its numerous<br />
benefits in terms of cost and performance. Highfive,<br />
which combines software and hardware into a singular<br />
service, is one of the best performing solution providers<br />
putting its own spin on the <strong>SaaS</strong> playbook.<br />
Joe Manuele is the Chief Executive Officer at Highfive.<br />
Joe joined the company earlier this year amid a period of<br />
rapid growth for the company, which was recently<br />
recognized by Fast Company as one of the “World’s Most<br />
Innovative Companies in Enterprise Software”.<br />
Highfive’s Inception<br />
While enterprises were struggling to figure out how to make<br />
conferencing work for businesses on a broad scale,<br />
Highfive founder Shan Sinha, formerly of Google, saw the<br />
simplicity and reliability of consumer products, and knew<br />
there had to be a better way to make video conferencing<br />
just as easy for the business world. Thus, Highfive was<br />
born.<br />
Highfive was founded with a simple mission: meetings<br />
reimagined. Shan foresaw the open-source technology<br />
WebRTC as the future of communications and shared<br />
content, and made a concerted effort to build a conferencing<br />
system that could be powered on that protocol. WebRTC is<br />
the perfect tool for team collaboration solutions, since it<br />
enables seamless browser-based audio and video calls and<br />
content sharing. CEO Joe Manuele shares this vision.<br />
Together, Shan and Joe have formed a powerful partnership<br />
aimed at making video conferencing ubiquitous in every<br />
meeting room. Improving collaboration through video<br />
communications is now viewed as a must-have for the<br />
business; however, more than 80% of meeting rooms still<br />
do not have video capabilities, and that number rises to<br />
90% when adding small and medium-size huddle rooms.<br />
Reducing IT Headaches<br />
Highfive built the first WebRTC-based conferencing<br />
solution on the market. Highfive’s integrated platform<br />
marries dedicated video conferencing hardware and bornin-the-cloud<br />
software in order to provide a seamless<br />
experience for workers, while also making enterprise-wide<br />
deployment simple for IT administrators. <strong>The</strong> powerful, allin-one<br />
solution delivers a consumer-simple experience with<br />
superior video (4k cameras) and high-fidelity audio that<br />
reduces IT headaches and meets the challenges of today’s<br />
most demanding virtual meetings and collaboration<br />
workspaces. From large enterprises with offices all over the<br />
globe, to startups seeking a better way to communicate<br />
internally, Highfive enables instant collaboration for every<br />
worker at every organization, no matter their size or<br />
location.<br />
Highfive is hosted on Amazon’s AWS hyperscale cloud to<br />
ensure the best quality service and leverages WebRTC to<br />
enable the industry’s first true download-free and one-clickto-join<br />
experience that connects participants from any<br />
combination of physical meeting rooms, devices and<br />
locations.<br />
With this, Highfive is leading the charge as the only end-toend<br />
WebRTC-powered solution on the market. <strong>The</strong> versatile<br />
technology is fully integrated and built into every aspect of<br />
Highfive’s hardware, and by pioneering the shift to<br />
WebRTC, the company has rewritten the playbook for how<br />
cloud-based visual and audio communication is built and<br />
deployed.<br />
Cost Effective <strong>Solution</strong>s<br />
With WebRTC, Highfive calls are crisper and more reliable<br />
than competitors, and consume fewer network resources,<br />
battery, and bandwidth. <strong>The</strong> browser-friendly framework<br />
means no software downloads are necessary for workers,<br />
and that Highfive can run on any type of operating system<br />
for incredible flexibility. <strong>Best</strong> of all for IT administrators,<br />
WebRTC’s browser-based functionality and updates over<br />
the cloud eliminates the need for hardware maintenance and<br />
management with zero compromises to the user-experience.<br />
With WebRTC, Highfive is also able to provide a<br />
comprehensive dial-out experience that eliminates the need<br />
for conference phones, landlines, and VoIP providers.<br />
Pushing the Limits for Larger Impact<br />
For years, the collaboration equipment needed to enable<br />
distributed meetings has been clunky, complicated and<br />
difficult for users and administrators. Highfive puts an end<br />
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