Agenda item

Verbal report of the Chamberlain

Members were provided with a demonstration by the Head of IT Projects and Programmes (Head of IT) of a surface hub, a large portable touch screen computer, and the following points were made:

·         The Head of IT demonstrated to Members that the devise allowed the user to use skype for business to host and join meetings, using an interactive screen that allowed content and documents to be uploaded and displayed.  Users could upload comments to documents in real time and could use a whiteboard programme to draw on the screen whilst the document was still displayed. 

·         The Head of IT informed demonstrated that the devise had access to all documents in the users OneDrive and was capable at creating diagrams, shapes, tables and adding internet searched images to a document or white board quickly and easily.

·         The Head of IT informed Members that the devise had two cameras designed for video conferencing.

·         In response to a question the Head of IT commented that the Corporation currently only had the devise on loan from Microsoft for demonstration purposes, but was looking to get them for the committee rooms and the Ground floor meeting and training rooms. It was added that depending on the business case external sites could potentially request for a devise for regular video conferencing.

·         In response to a question, The Head of IT informed Members that the devise could only be used by the internal network and was therefore security protected.

·         It was commented that this devise fits into the IT Strategy as it promotes the use of new technologies and generates a return of the investment.

RESOLVED – That Members noted the verbal report.