SMART Meeting Pro™ and GoWire™Enterprise Visual Collaboration solution

A Guide for the Channel and End-customer

SMART Meeting Pro™ Overviewthree ways to drive a SMART display system

SMART Meeting Pro™The optimal way to drive your SMART Board, delivering the most consistent, reliable, feature-rich, and high-performance experience.

SMART Meeting Pro™ PE (Personal Edition)Delivers a personal experience, focused on the end-user, including offline editing capabilities for pre & post meeting work when you’re not connected to a SMART Board.

Go Wire™An alternate deployment for SMART Meeting Pro™ PE, allowing anyone to use a SMART Board, without the need for installing SMART software on the user’s computer.

Flexible deployment to meet your needsSM

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Pro • For organizations with

dedicated Windows meeting room computers or running high-power applications

• Meeting workflow automation

• Multi display management

• 3rd-party integrations

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Meeting Pro™ experience to laptop-based organizations

• Windows & Mac• Enables offline

editing; pre & post meeting editing

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• Allows any user, including guest users, to run a SMART Board without having to install SMART software

• Windows & Mac users get a consistent experience

In-room Personalendpoint

Guest

GoWire™ gets personal…GoWire™ extends the value of Meeting Pro™ Personal Edition (MPPE) to ensure your Guest can be as productive as your staff and fully participate in, or lead the meeting with the exact same user experience as your licensed users – crucial for efficiency.

Existing GoWire™ will remain fully operational and supported – you do not have to upgrade these, thus safeguarding your current SMART display investment. Shipped with every SMART display, GoWire™ remains a unique differentiator from our competitors.

The benefits of GoWire™ with MPPE

We looked at GoWire usage and the future needs of our customers. We believe there are many benefits from using MPPE on GoWire:• Identical to the licensed MPPE version – enhancing collaboration at

the endpoint• Full Windows & Mac OSX support – identical functionality• Powerful MPPE features planned, including unbound whiteboard• Improved User Interface in MPPE• Improved updater – download once and update all new GoWires

with a new MPPE release - without continuous internet connection

How is GoWire changing?

• Continues to be shipped in the SMART display carton• Carries our new end-point meeting management product • Contains different memory hardware – invisible to the customer

GW-MP (before Aug 12, 2013) Meeting Pro™ 3.1 SP1

GW-MPPE (on Aug 12, 2013) Meeting Pro™ Personal Edition 1.0

Replaced by

Why a new GoWire?Why a new software product on the GoWire?• MPPE places emphasis on the end-user meeting participation – in line with our strategy of

supporting multiple participation methods – laptop, tablet etc.• We want the user experience to be common between licensed MPPE users and GoWire users.

Why new memory in the GoWire?• Economies of scale with our manufacturer meant they shifted to a new memory technology. In

order to negotiate similar pricing and hence incur no additional costs we agreed to migrate to this new technology.

• New memory is 4GB – twice that of the old GoWire. All other aspects of the GoWire hardware remain exactly the same.

• The customer need not be concerned with this memory change itself. New GoWire has undergone rigorous acceptance testing with our supplier.

Key use cases are addressedUse case With GW-MP 3.1 SP1 With GW-MPPE 1.0

A guest needs to present a slide deck, or manage the entire meeting

Can connect and in second utilise the full benefit of MeetingPro

As GW-MP. Some functionality such as shapes and business gallery will come in future releases.

Guest is a Mac user Ink and drivers support only Full MPPE functionality available to Mac user – identical to Windows user

Meeting room has no dedicated PC

GoWire connects directly to display. Identical to GW-MP

MPPE licensed s/w not yet standardised in the Enterprise

No license needed – GoWire supplied in the display carton.

Identical to GW-MP

Display just purchased – need rapid turn up for crucial mtg.

Virtually plug-and-play, if vsto and .net 4 installed on the user’s laptop

Identical to GW-MP

Administrator needs to update a dozen GoWires

Updater needs constant internet connection to flash each GoWire

Download the files once and then all GoWires can be updated without internet

GoWire MPPE – growing functionalityFeature SMP 3.1SP1 SMP 4.0 SMPPE 1.0 SMPPE 1.1+ Notes

SMART Ink • • • •

HWR • • • May look different in SMPPE; functionality will match both Editions

Shapes tool • • • May look different in SMPPE, but functionality will match up

Multi-touch • • •

Meeting Concierge • •

Business Gallery • • •

Unbound Whiteboard • •

New UI • • •

Cross-Platform (Windows & Mac) • •

Open multiple files simultaneously • •

High Performance Interaction • •

Multi-Display Management • •

MPPE roadmap will bring powerful visual collaboration focused on the end-user. Fully supported by new GoWire

GW-MPPEGW-MP

Forward / backward compatibility

Scenario 1 – Brand new customer• Gets new GW-MPPE with MPPE on-board with each display purchased

Scenario 2 – Customer with old GoWires (GW-MP) only• Can upgrade these to Meeting Pro™ 3.1 SP1• Cannot upgrade these to Meeting Pro™ Personal Edition• We recommend: Customers continue using these at least until they

purchase new display hardware. They remain fully supported.

Forward / backward compatibilityScenario 3 – Mixed environments (GW-MP & GW-MPPE)• GW-MP cannot be upgraded beyond MP3.1 SP1• GW-MPPE cannot be downgraded from MPPE1.0

• We recommend:– Customers give careful consideration to the effort and cost involved in replacing

existing GoWires. Both are fully supported.– Customers understand that MPPE is a new product and as such carries less

functionality in its first release that MP. The balance will be restored in coming MPPE releases.

– We understand that some customers will want to have a common user experience across all meeting rooms. We offer the option to purchase GW-MPPE. See price book for details.

Acquiring GoWires

• Additional GoWires available for purchase – see price book for details

• Replacement GoWires on RMA basis as before

SMART Display support

• New GoWire will support all current Enterprise displays via SMART board drivers v11.2

• Our latest Enterprise displays are also supported:– 8084 IFP, 8070G4 IFP; 60WI projector display

Upgrading the new GoWire MPPE

• GoWire MPPE will be fully upgradable with each new release of MP Personal Edition

• An updater will be supplied on our portal from which administrators may download the necessary software. This will be made available in time for the release of MPPE1.1

New GoWire - visuals

• Same outer casing and cable.• Rear label - same grey colour; new title

– “SMART GoWire™ with SMART Meeting Pro™ PE”

• Front label new colour to match Meeting Pro PE product branding - Red

Known limitations and requirements with using GoWire

• GoWire continues to require Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) and Microsoft .net to be installed on the end-user’s PC.

– The latter is increasingly common on normal laptop PCs. Both are easily obtained and may be kept on the laptop for future use with GoWire or other applications. The versions needed as per the existing GoWire.

• Windows 7 onwards– In keeping with the Meeting Pro™ Personal edition product, we no longer support Windows XP or Vista

• Mac OSX 10.6 onwards