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PowerSuite™ Start

Proactive UC & Collaboration Insights Reports

PowerSuite Start software delivers a small, but strategically significant sampling of our industry-leading PowerSuite™ software toolset directly to your inbox. We’ve created this free entry-level series of short reports to provide unique insights into your environment.

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There is no one size fits all when it comes to managing or securing UC and collaboration platforms. The PowerSuite Collaboration Management and Security Suite offers a wide-ranging set of solutions to monitor and maintain UC and collaboration platforms.

PowerSuite Start subscribers are eligible for discounted upgrades to the full PowerSuite packages.

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Reporting and Analytics
Achieve 360° root cause visibility of your platform’s environment, transforming the troubleshooting experience and enabling comprehensive operational excellence. Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll get: Usage and Adoption, Benchmarking, Call Reporting, System Troubleshooting, Problem Management, Service Reviews, License Management.

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Monitoring
Don’t just troubleshoot performance issues. Stay one step ahead of system and user problems by following PowerSuite’s actionable insights, allowing for smart and quick remediation. Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll get: End-to-End Availability, SBC Monitoring.

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User Experience
Analyze the communications experience of the end user from the desktop backwards to the cloud, ensuring final mile user satisfaction and ongoing system effectiveness. Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll get: Help Desk, User Satisfaction, Executive Experience Tracking.

Learn More

Policy Management
Ensure consistent collaboration security and governance across multiple platforms by empowering IT with the tools to easily create, deploy, and monitor policies. Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll get: Guest Access, Workspace Policies, User Policies, Auditing, Compliance.

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Automation and Administration
Simple and streamlined workflows allow IT to work better, smarter, and faster to administer their UC and collaboration platforms. Take control of your multi-vendor environment with a single pane of glass to boost management to the next level. Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll get: Phone Number Management, Device Management, User Provisioning.

Learn More

Room Systems
Issues with room systems impact more users than those with any other endpoint. Move from reactive to proactive monitoring and management of quality with solutions aimed at ensuring top-notch room experiences. Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll get: Room Monitoring and Problem Management, Room Experience Tracking.  

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PowerSuite™ Start Setup

Proactive UC & Collaboration Insights Reports

PowerSuite Start software delivers a small, but strategically significant sampling of our industry-leading PowerSuite™ software toolset directly to your inbox. We’ve created this free entry-level series of short reports to provide unique insights into your environment.

Platforms Supported

PowerSuite Start Requirements

PowerSuite Start has been designed to work with paid versions of Zoom and Microsoft Teams. To use PowerSuite Start, you must have paid licenses for the following:

To receive the Usage Summary, Guest Summary, and Security Settings reports for Zoom, you must have either Zoom Meeting Pro, Business, or Enterprise licenses.

To enable Zoom Monitoring and receive alerts on end-to-end availability, you must have Zoom Phone Licenses.

To enable Microsoft Teams Monitoring and receive Alerts of Teams outages, you must have either Microsoft’s Teams Calling Plan or Business Voice Licenses.

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  1. New customers must allow PowerSuite to connect to Zoom .
  2. Once you approve the necessary permissions, our team will contact you to collect some additional configuration information.
  3. Start receiving PowerSuite Start reports about Zoom and Microsoft Teams.
  1. Some customers may not be eligible to receive PowerSuite Start based on system configurations or customer size.
  2. Your PowerSuite Start subscription may need to be discontinued at some point in the future due to ZOOM or Teams API constraints.

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PowerSuite Start software delivers a small, but strategically significant sampling of our industry-leading PowerSuite™ software toolset directly to your inbox. We’ve created this free entry-level series of short reports to provide unique insights into your environment.

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PowerSuite Start Configuration

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PowerSuite™ Start Configuration

Enabling Basic Monitoring

Basic monitoring of Session Border Controllers (SBCs) provides near-real-time alerting on issues that are related to Zoom and Microsoft Teams phone systems. It ensures end-to-end service availability for your Microsoft Phone and Zoom Systems with proactive monitoring.

Real-time alerting helps you identify and remediate ongoing issues. Our unique blend of synthetic transactions alerts you to Zoom or Microsoft Teams phone issues in your environment. 

To enable monitoring complete the form below.

Platforms Supported

What is PowerSuite Start Monitoring?

Basic Monitoring immediately alerts you of any systemic failures impacting inbound PSTN calls for Zoom and Microsoft Teams, based on synthetic transactions. By using synthetic transactions and simulating end-user behavior, any issues within the overall system will be found. PowerSuite Basic Monitoring immediately alerts you when the following occurs on your Zoom or Microsoft Teams environment:

  • A failure in the environment prevents users from receiving incoming PSTN calls.
  • The failure has been resolved and the system is working again. 

How do I set up PowerSuite Start Monitoring?

We recommend that you set a scenario for every unique location that is used to host Zoom or Microsoft Teams calls. If you have three distinct offices that host Zoom calls (example: EMEA Headquarters, US Office, Australia office), you would set up three scenarios for Zoom. If your EMEA Headquarters also hosts Teams calls, then you would also set up a single scenario for Teams, totaling four scenarios. PowerSuite Start Basic Monitoring supports up to five scenarios.  For each scenario we need three pieces of information:

  • Platform: Within each office location, select which platform you wish to monitor. If you use both platforms at a single location, then create two entries. 
  • Scenario Description: Typically this is the office location that you want to monitor.Learn More.
  • Target Phone Number: The phone number, including the country code, that will be used to answer the synthetic phone call. Learn More.

Please complete the form below.

PowerSuite Start supports a total of five scenarios. If you need additional scenarios please Contact Us. 

What is a Scenario Description?

The Scenario Description is used to identify both the office location and the platform that is generating the alert. The description then appears within the Alert message that is sent to the administrator when a problem occurs. For example, a Scenario Description could be, “EMEA Headquarters – Paris Office, Zoom Outage.” To learn more about Scenario Descriptions, click here.

What is a Target Phone Number?

To receive PowerSuite Monitoring Alerts for your organization, you will need to set up a target phone number for each office location. These target phone numbers will be used to answer calls from synthetic transactions. The target phone numbers are Auto Attendants and must play a sound for a minimum of 30 seconds once a connection has been made. To learn how to set up an Auto Attendant for both Zoom and Teams, click here.

Once the Auto Attendant phone number has been configured, it needs to be submitted in the E.164 phone number format. This format includes the + symbol, the country code, area code, and local number. For example:

For additional information please see our Online Help.  If you have any questions please Contact Us. 

PowerSuite Start

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PowerSuite™ Start

Proactive UC & Collaboration Insights Reports

PowerSuite Start software delivers a small, but strategically significant sampling of our industry-leading PowerSuite™ software toolset directly to your inbox. We’ve created this free entry-level series of short reports to provide unique insights into your environment.

Platforms Supported

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PowerSuite Start

PowerSuite for All

IT Professionals come in all shapes and sizes and with different needs. Some IT Admins like to live in a full-featured Collaboration Management and Security tool. Others prefer quick and simple email reports on a periodic basis.

Meet PowerSuite Start — Free Solution

We’ve created PowerSuite Start to bring advanced analytics directly to your inbox. PowerSuite Start features exclusive reports and functionality to optimize your UC and collaboration environment, quickly and simply.

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Zoom Usage Summary

Go beyond out-of-the-box reporting and discover how end-users are utilizing Zoom, for both meetings and phone. This high-level summary shows important metrics around conferencing minutes, video usage, and much more.

Zoom Security Settings

Is your organization following best practices for Zoom security? We highlight where settings differ from industry recommendations, as well as where users have settings that deviate from organizational defaults.

Microsoft Teams Basic Monitoring

Ensure end-to-end service availability for your Microsoft Phone System with proactive monitoring. Real-time alerting helps you identify and remediate ongoing issues.

Zoom Guest Summary

Track the numbers of authenticated and unauthenticated guests dialing in for Zoom meetings as well as the per department usage for your organization. Receive unique insights on guest activity.

Zoom Basic Monitoring

Resolve problems proactively, before end-users are impacted with end-to-end coverage. Our unique blend of synthetics alerts you to Zoom Phone issues in your environment.

PowerSuite
Shadow IT Scout

PowerSuite™ Shadow IT Scout reveals security blind spots by surfacing usage of unsanctioned collaboration and communications platforms.

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PowerSuite Start Requirements

PowerSuite Start has been designed to work with paid versions of Zoom and Microsoft Teams. To use PowerSuite Start, you must have paid licenses for the following:

To receive the Usage Summary, Guest Summary, and Security Settings reports for Zoom, you must have either Zoom Meeting Pro, Business, or Enterprise licenses.

To enable Zoom Monitoring and receive alerts on end-to-end availability, you must have Zoom Phone Licenses.

To enable Microsoft Teams Monitoring and receive Alerts of Teams outages, you must have either Microsoft’s Teams Calling Plan or Business Voice Licenses.

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How it Works

Once you have downloaded your FREE version of PowerSuite Start, begin your journey to managing, analyzing, and securing UC and collaboration platforms:

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Once you approve the necessary permissions, our team collects some additional configuration information.

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Then, our software analyzes your environment using available APIs.

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From there, you’re all set to receive the reports to help you optimize your environment.

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PowerSuite Start delivers instant insights to your inbox.

  1. New customers must provide one button click approval to connect PowerSuite to Zoom to enable data retrieval.
  2. Some customers may not be eligible to receive PowerSuite Start based on system configurations or customer size.
  3. The duration of the PowerSuite Start subscription may be limited due to ZOOM or Teams API constraints.

What’s the best part about PowerSuite Start? After signing up, you’ll automatically get access to new reports and functionality as they become available. Our team is excited to introduce more ways to manage, analyze, and secure your UC and collaboration environment.

Experience PowerSuite’s
Full Capabilities

There is no one size fits all when it comes to managing or securing UC and collaboration platforms. The PowerSuite Collaboration Management and Security Suite offers a wide-ranging set of solutions to monitor and maintain UC and collaboration platforms.

PowerSuite Start subscribers are eligible for discounted upgrades to the full PowerSuite packages.

Learn More
Reporting and Analytics
Achieve 360° root cause visibility of your platform’s environment, transforming the troubleshooting experience and enabling comprehensive operational excellence. Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll get: Usage and Adoption, Benchmarking, Call Reporting, System Troubleshooting, Problem Management, Service Reviews, License Management.

Learn More

Monitoring
Don’t just troubleshoot performance issues. Stay one step ahead of system and user problems by following PowerSuite’s actionable insights, allowing for smart and quick remediation. Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll get: End-to-End Availability, SBC Monitoring.

Learn More

User Experience
Analyze the communications experience of the end user from the desktop backwards to the cloud, ensuring final mile user satisfaction and ongoing system effectiveness. Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll get: Help Desk, User Satisfaction, Executive Experience Tracking.

Learn More

Policy Management
Ensure consistent collaboration security and governance across multiple platforms by empowering IT with the tools to easily create, deploy, and monitor policies. Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll get: Guest Access, Workspace Policies, User Policies, Auditing, Compliance.

Learn More

Automation and Administration
Simple and streamlined workflows allow IT to work better, smarter, and faster to administer their UC and collaboration platforms. Take control of your multi-vendor environment with a single pane of glass to boost management to the next level. Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll get: Phone Number Management, Device Management, User Provisioning.

Learn More

Room Systems
Issues with room systems impact more users than those with any other endpoint. Move from reactive to proactive monitoring and management of quality with solutions aimed at ensuring top-notch room experiences. Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll get: Room Monitoring and Problem Management, Room Experience Tracking.  

Learn More

PowerSuite Start Edition

Access all of PowerSuite’s free tools and quickly gain actionable insight into Zoom & Microsoft Teams. Get it Now. 

Standard Edition

PowerSuite’s entry level paid toolset with full monitoring, reporting and analytics solutions.

Enterprise Edition

PowerSuites’ advanced software suite incorporating solutions from all 6 solution categories. Learn More.

Premium Edition

PowerSuite’s top of the line offering pairing all software solutions with our 24x7 Cloud Managed Services.Learn More.

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PowerSuite Start software delivers a small, but strategically significant sampling of our industry-leading PowerSuite™ software toolset directly to your inbox. We’ve created this free entry-level series of short reports to provide unique insights into your environment.

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Resources for Remote Work

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Top Assets To Help You Plan, Deploy, Run and Secure Remote Work Platforms

The rapid transition to a remote environment is severely testing both the performance of the various platforms, as well as the expertise of IT to manage them. Here are the most downloaded free assets to assist you in this quick transition within Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Skype for Business, and Slack: 

Microsoft Teams
Deployment Guide

Key Steps to Pilot, Rollout, and Operate Microsoft Teams at Scale in a two part series.

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Zoom
Deployment Guide

Tips and Trick on how to deploy Zoom within an enterprise and at scale.

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Overcoming Challenges of Workstream Collaboration

Unify Square research reveals and insights around the most utilized workstream collaboration applications.

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Ultimate Guide to
Collaboration Security

The challenge is balancing risk and end-user utility. It’s only a matter of time before something is shared with the wrong person.

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UC Conference
Rooms Webinar

Watch to this on-demand webinar to learn about the top UC Room System challenges and the associated end-user productivity and satisfaction.

Watch Webinar

Tips & Tricks Collaboration Platforms Deployments Webinar

Best tips and tricks on how to successfully deploy workstream collaboration and unified communications platforms.

Watch Webinar

Blogs to Guide You Through Remote Work

  • A Love-Hate Affair:
    Challenges In Workstream Collaboration
  • Remote Work Means Increased
    Challenges For IT
  • Make Work From Home
    Work For You
  • A Fresh Look At Skype For Business
    To Teams Migration
New report reveals trends around collaboration applications and their impact on today’s enterprises and employees

We’ve all been there… head down, focused on the task at hand, when a coworker sends a funny GIF on Slack, or the boss flags yet another project request. Concentration is suddenly interrupted, the flow of work brought to a screeching halt. This all-too-common experience is just one of the many reasons behind the love-hate relationship workers today have with workstream collaboration applications.

Remote work is becoming more and more common for enterprise employees, and teams are increasingly disparate. Productivity and efficiency have become cornerstone benchmarks of performance and value.

Click Here to read more!

As the world struggles with the unprecedented COVID-19 crisis, businesses of all sizes are asking employees to work remotely.

Since mid-January we’ve been helping our customers around the world adjust their Skype for Business, Zoom and Microsoft Teams unified communications (UC) systems to respond to the Work-From-Home onslaught. Not surprisingly, we’ve started noticing some obvious patterns emerge. We understand that IT teams are under significant strain as they support the unexpectedly high number of remote employees.  

To that end, we’ve compiled this checklist of top challenges and solutions/adjustments to help best scale your UC systems. 

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Working from home can be an adjustment in any scenario, but in the past few weeks many people have unexpectedly been asked to stay home to work to help slow down or prevent the spread of COVID19.  

In the past, many employees have had the occasional “Work from home days” during their normal week, but this is much different than making a forced full-time adjustment.  A sudden shift to “work from home” and the range of adjustments that it entails can make it difficult to find a rhythm that works for you and your family. Compounding this adjustment is a lack of guidance if you don’t have other folks who are accustomed to working from home to provide guidance.

Here are some helpful tips for making working from home easier on you as a human.

Click here to read more!

Anyone looking to educate themselves on how to approach a Skype for Business to Teams migration will need patience, lots of caffeine, and the ability to objectively vet reams of data. 

In addition to the myriad of technical documents which have been devoted to this subject, there have been many Microsoft partners, including the brain trust here at Unify Square, who have zeroed in on this topic. 

Microsoft has been very clear that their UC future is Microsoft Teams. Given the huge Skype for Business install base, the customer interest and demand for this migration topic is not surprising. However, before simply stepping straight into a Teams upgrade framework, our latest take on how to upgrade to Microsoft Teams is a bit unconventional.

Click Here to read more!

Proactively Monitor UC System Health

Your UC deployment, is working great…until it isn’t. Ensuring optimal call quality and service availability especially during peak remote work times is a tricky task, especially given the uncertainties of home networks and un-optimized devices.

Manage Remote Home Users
So many of your employees are working from home because of the COVID-19 virus; it’s even harder to support these new working scenarios. Implement proactive support and troubleshooting for remote employees to keep them happy and productive.
Detect and Resolve Network & Device Issues

Reporting can sometimes be a less-glamorous side of the IT equation. However, reporting is invaluable in order to correctly drive accountability and track return on your investment as you deploy new platforms. 

About Unify Square

We are on a mission to enable outstanding experiences for enterprise meetings, chats, and calls.

Unify Square’s software and services optimize and enhance the world’s largest collaboration and communication deployments, helping businesses manage and secure their meetings, chats, and calls. PowerSuite™ software creates a unified dashboard to surface actionable insights and help manage collaboration and communications platforms – optimizing and transforming performance health and user effectiveness.

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