Customer stories

"With the help of SMART Boards, the disadvantages of static PowerPoint presentations have been overcome. Trainers now have the opportunity to create more interactive and visual sessions. Participants are much more integrated. SMART solutions offer countless possibilities, making them suitable for both practical and theory sessions."

Ralf Schmidt

Coordinator of Technical Training in Germany, Audi AG

"The idea of networking, promoted by the SMART Board, is important to us. We no longer need to use complicated methods, we simply send everything by e-mail. In this way, our clients have something tangible in their hand. We could not achieve this with our notices on the flip charts.
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Helge Klein

Lawyer, Law firm Klein & Streu

"The training centre has been up and running for a year now and we are making full use of two SMART Board interactive whiteboards for specialist training, team meetings, foreign-language learning, brainstorming, as a substitute for paper flipcharts and for operations meetings."

Jiří Vlk

IT Engineer, Bioveta a.s., Ivanovice na Hané/Czech Republic

"The successful delivery of a customer solution relies upon the effective collaboration between people across BT. Our new SMART collaboration capability enables people to meet, regardless of where they are in the world, and interact as if they were in the same room. This has had a massive impact on travel costs and reduced our carbon footprint significantly.
Last week I trained 34 people in India from Adastral Park and yesterday I trained a further eight - that’s a saving of a flight
to India, plus my time, in just two weeks."

Bola Oshisanwo

Director, Agile Development Centre, British Telecom, UK

"With SMART business solutions, we have been able to give our clients a creative, collaborative experience – whether clients are local or remote, SMART business solutions bring them right into the conference room."

Johnny Anderson

Vice President of Business Development, Bulldog Solutions

"I have the utmost confidence in the SMART Board and Bridgit solution. I know it works when I need it to. I can set up meetings without worrying that the technology will let me down."

Chris Hanson

Internal Sales Director, Computacenter

"Our collaboration in the big room is leading us to produce a much better coordinated design."

Atul Khanzode

Director of Virtual Building, DPR Construction

"The SMART Board is the first tool I've seen on the market of which I can say that it actually supports us in our work!"

Michaela Schuller

Head of Training Center, Cosmetics, DR. GRANDEL

"With the SMART Board interactive whiteboard, we can very easily demonstrate what works and what doesn't. The evolution of a plan can take place right there, when normally it would take three meetings."

Helma Gansen

President, Gansen Lindsay Design Consultants Inc.

"Our company especially needed a presentation tool that reflects professionalism. SMART Boards helped us set a technological standard that is accepted by the whole team and help us achieve our business objectives. The SMART Boards now guarantee us easy starts and intuitive performance in each presentation."

Sascha Marré

Head of customer service, Gira Giersiepen GmbH & Co. KG

"The SMART Boards put us two to three years ahead of our competition. Our training sessions are far more effective, far more powerful and far more enjoyable. I estimate that there is a 20-25% increase in knowledge retention."

Colin Wright

Managing Director, Britannia Safety & Training

"We wanted to create a true collaboration environment in the Crawley office. Having converted it from a regular meeting room, we deliberately ensured that the hub is used as intended; for genuinely collaborative working where everyone can work together and contribute in an open, creative way."

Simon Vickers

Internal Control Manager, EDF Energy

"We have high expectations of 1. FC Cologne – of its players, its coaches and its training. By using the SMART Board, we can offer our young talents professional, personal support. The trainer can react to their needs and strengthen the skills of every single player."

Christoph Henkel

Managing Director, Youth Players Department, 1. FC Cologne

"The feedback from clients has been universally positive. It is much easier for clients to understand what they are looking at in workshops and to contribute their ideas, and easier for us to capture the discussion and action the agreed decisions. The SMART Board is a massive benefit and is making a huge difference to our projects."

Richard Baglow

Regional Director, IBSECAD

"SMART Solutions are a tremendous asset in ensuring the success of our education programmes and a great help in engaging with students and young people, using our interactive, curriculum-focused sessions. It is ideal for business users, whether it is for presentations, meetings or brainstorming sessions. Importantly, corporate visitors can get to grips with the technology quickly and intuitively, without having to sit through a training session first."

Terry Eccles

Head of Projects, Contracts & Compliance, London Transport Museum

"It is important for our clientele to understand the for the most part complex legal contexts, quickly and practically. The innovative technologies of the SMART products help us to do this. Complicated facts can be displayed graphically, and intercommunicated."

Stefan Rizor

Partner, Osborne Clarke

"Space savings alone enabled a less than six months Return on Investment. Teams are much more efficient and productive. As an example, we have managed to reduce the length of our management meetings by 50%. Personally I am a big fan of SMART - iObeya."

Jean-Pierre Dumoulin

Chief Technology Officer, PSA Peugeot Citroën

"It's so simple. With only a single tool we can meet the company's requirements, from the simple archiving of product development steps to planning a new building."

Günter Behnke

Vice President, Technical Services and Plants, HARTING Technology Group

"Taking care is the key. There is always someone who can quickly orientate new users to the SMART Board interactive whiteboard and demonstrate what the benefits and features are and all the possibilities this powerful solution offers to our customers."

Bob Nijhuis

Director of Kaap Doorn, Kaap Doorn

"SMART has convinced us with its overall package. Its flexible solutions, the easy-to-use, the many various applications and especially the service are unbeatable!"

Michael Born

Project Manager, Augsburg MAN PrimeServ Academy

"Using the new solution from SMART Technologies, we have improved the effectiveness and efficiency of our meetings and write ups. Because of this, we are now able to fit in additional meetings at the MTC. This has helped our sales teams to meet more customers and thereby increase our sales pipeline."

Martyn David

Manager MTC, Reading/UK

"We can set up a conference in less than three minutes and SMART’s collaboration technology fits perfectly with our mantras of “walk up and use” and “three touches and go” – it really is that simple."

Alan Parkin

Programme Manager, Infrastructure Design and Delivery, O2

"SMART Board’s interactivity makes presentations much more communicative."

Xander Buschgens

Peters Shipyards

"When we combine our system for business execution with SMART solutions, it creates a unique value proposition and gives our clients an experience that is unlike anything they get anywhere else."

Tim O’Connor

Chief Operating Officer, RESULTS.com

"The SMART solutions have become a universal tool for all forms of company communication."

Tomáš Kubalík

IT Specialist, REXAM Ejpovice, Ejpovice/Czech

"In addition to its practical advantages, Rusch also finds that the SMART Board adds credibility. It looks good and contributes to a positive impression of Rusch among (prospective) customers."

Ruud Schreijer

Rusch

"We wanted to break down silos, we wanted to have an ‘adhocracy’ rather than a hierarchy, we wanted staff to collaborate more – and the SMART Boards really help us do that."

Diane Coles

Director of Workplace Solutions, SCAN Health Plan

"Innovation is a priority for us and we are increasingly exploring new technologies and identifying creative ways of working to deliver future value and further increase our efficiency."

Ronnie Mercer

Chair, Scottish Water, Dunfermline/UK

"In the past, we had to set everything up. It was very time consuming. Now, we’re saving a great deal of time and effort. Just a few minutes before training starts you go into the training room, turn on the SMART Board and begin!"

Reinhold Knecht

General Manager, SCHOTTEL Academy

"SMART solutions are so intuitive that our clients enjoy working with them and join us in developing a project plan by adding notes directly."

Petra Giebel

Founder and CEO, SIGN FOR COM

"SMART solutions act as a new interface. Several teams can now work together from various locations in the same document and develop a product - a major step toward global engineering!"

Dr. Thomas Stange

Manager Engineering Knowledge & Collaboration, TE Connectivity

"SMART Boards have changed our meetings. We’re able to get on topic, pull up a 3D model, show the problem and quickly get others on board."

Dan Gramer

National Manager, Integrated Building Solutions

"Travel time and costs have been reduced, as we can now share data remotely. This includes travel to offshore oil facilities, which is resource intensive. We estimate that the SMART Boards and the TAP system deliver a saving of tens of thousands of dollars in indirect costs"

Murtaza Amin

Production Technology Team Lead, Tullow Oil, London/UK

"We believe we've overcome the biggest challenge faced by lawyers with the SMART Board interactive whiteboard."

Peter Villari

Personal Injury Lawyer, Villari, Brandes & Kline, P.C. Lawyers

"We’ve harnessed a way for people
to effectively communicate, share
presentations and data, and
collaborate together on projects
without having to be in the same space."

Michael Longstaff

Deputy General Manager, Weetwood Hall Conference Centre and Hotel