Posts tagged "Unified Communications"

How Voice Services Support Remote Employee Engagement

In an era defined by flexibility and remote work, one of the key challenges organizations face is to ensure constant connectivity between dispersed teams.  With a staggering 98% of American […]

Creating the Right Microsoft Teams Rooms Setup for Your Organization

Keeping employees connected and collaborating with each other has become a modern business challenge as enterprises explore the benefits of remote and hybrid work. One way to foster exceptional communication […]

Unlocking the Benefits of Zoom Phone: Your Complete Guide

What is Zoom Phone? Zoom Phone is a feature-rich cloud-based phone system for locally, nationally or globally distributed businesses. The service provides voice-over-internet protocol (VoIP) local and international communications services […]

Key Factors Leading Organizations to Embrace Cloud Communications

With businesses increasingly prioritizing collaborative work, legacy systems can no longer support the demands of modern-day workplaces. The limitations of traditional hardware and software hinder collaboration and communication between teams, […]

Is Your Enterprise Getting the Most out of Zoom?

In the modern day workplace, effective communication and collaboration solutions are essential. But, as the workforce becomes fragmented, making sure enterprise users enjoy the same experience (regardless of where they […]

Zoom Phone: The Seamless Integration of Voice and Video Communication for Your Business

Modern day professionals require modern day communication and collaboration. Fortunately, for organizations, Enterprise Collaboration Solutions combine the voice, video, and productivity tools your business users depend on into a single, […]

3 Reasons Why Zoom Phone Can Benefit Your Organization

There are many reasons why Zoom has been so successful in the highly competitive, ever-changing realm of mobile and unified communications and collaboration. It is easy to use. They offer […]

Signs It’s Time to Switch to AV as a Service

Have you ever geared up for a meeting with your team members to discuss pressing issues or set up a video call with a client to close a deal, only […]

Here’s How Voice Solutions are Changing the Modern-Day Workplace

As the nature of work has evolved rapidly in recent years, so has the technology of communication. A wide web of different voice services connect businesses and consumers around the […]

5 Things to Consider When Choosing Your Cloud Voice Solution

In a few short years, business communication has changed significantly. As remote work options have become more commonplace since the COVID-19 pandemic, a recent survey from McKinsey found that 58% […]

Would Your Organization Benefit from a Cloud-Based Voice Solution?

It’s an understatement to say that enterprise telecommunications have evolved significantly in the digital age. As modern workplaces have evolved to hybrid and remote work being the norm, businesses across […]

What is Enterprise Collaboration and Why Your Organization Needs Systems and Solutions

Effective collaboration that creates purposeful connections among business users to work towards goals or solve problems by harnessing the power of varied skill sets, strengths, and perspectives, has been a […]

Why Consider Cisco Collaboration Suite for Your Workplace

It’s safe to say the concept of a workplace for many businesses is significantly different from even a few years ago. For many years pre-pandemic, Cisco Collaboration Suite was already enabling […]

What is Unified Communications As A Service (UCaaS)?

With hybrid working now a core aspect of many organizations, effective communication and collaboration have never been more important. However, ensuring communications remain seamless and reliable when a workforce is […]

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Unified Communications Monitoring Explained

With the enormous shift to hybrid working that has taken place in recent times, organizations have had to ensure their communication solutions are not only facilitating their employees to work […]

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How an Enterprise Collaboration Strategy Can Revitalize Your Workplace Environment

What is an enterprise collaboration strategy? Enterprise collaboration refers to the various ways in which an organization gathers and shares information amongst employees and partners. Beyond simpley email and phone […]

The End of Technology Islands – How Gateway Solutions Are Transforming Your Many Platforms Into a Seamlessly Unified Workplace

Almost since the inception of the Internet, organizations have attempted to connect disparate “islands” of enterprise communication platforms and networks. Historically it has been a mammoth endeavor to create seamless […]

UC&C Roadmapping, Part IV: Success Factors for a Winning UC&C Deployment

UC&C Roadmapping, Part IV: Success Factors for a Winning UC&C Deployment

The process of bringing UC&C into a business involves several stages, and does not end once the contract has been signed. Leading up to that, business objectives must be set, […]

UC&C Roadmapping, Part III: the Value of a Proper UC&C Assessment and Vendor Selection

UC&C Roadmapping, Part III: the Value of a Proper UC&C Assessment and Vendor Selection

As this series continues, my intention is to better prepare IT decision-makers to not just match the right UC&C solution with their collaboration needs, but to also to help them […]

UC&C Roadmapping, Part II: How to Provide a Great UC&C Experience

UC&C Roadmapping, Part II: How to Provide a Great UC&C Experience

I began this blog series by detailing the need for a thorough assessment of networks, stakeholder use cases, existing infrastructure, IT strategy, management goals, and other critical factors as the […]

UC&C Roadmapping, Part I: Assessment – Defining Goals to Overcome Problems With Enterprise Collaboration

UC&C Roadmapping, Part I: Assessment – Defining Goals to Overcome Problems With Enterprise Collaboration

For technology to have real business value, it must address a tangible problem. When it comes to Unified Communications and Collaboration – UC&C – goal number one is enabling more […]

Why do I believe that Skype for Business will have a far greater impact than Lync ever had?

Why do I believe that Skype for Business will have a far greater impact than Lync ever had?

I am often asked this question, and there are numerous answers and reasons as to why I believe this. To illustrate, let’s start with a simple exercise. Load up Google, […]

Will Skype for Business Become the New Killer UC App?

Will Skype for Business Become the New Killer UC App?

About two months ago, Microsoft’s corporate VP for Skype, Gurdeep Pall, revealed some big changes projected for Microsoft Lync in the first half of 2015 including a new name – […]

3 Video Conferencing Industry Trends to Watch for in 2014

3 Video Conferencing Industry Trends to Watch for in 2014

With Q1 2014 in the books, it’s a good time to anticipate what may lie ahead for us in 2014. For starters, there are some interesting things happening in the […]

Global UC Market Predicted to Reach $16 Billion

Global UC Market Predicted to Reach $16 Billion

It’s exciting to think about what’s in store for unified communications in 2014. For starters, multiple research firms are predicting big growth for this technology. Transparency Market Research predicts the global UC market […]

Survey shows video’s popularity as essential business collaboration tool

Survey shows video’s popularity as essential business collaboration tool

My most recent post in our ongoing blog series in Smart Business, addresses results from a Polycom survey. Specifically, decision-makers worldwide view video conferencing as the essential team collaboration tool. Of more than 1,200 decision-makers […]

4 Reasons Why Enterprise Video Must Evolve and Integrate

4 Reasons Why Enterprise Video Must Evolve and Integrate

In this month’s Smart Business, I wrote a piece that talks about how as enterprises build out video platforms to enable seamless communication across their organization, they want to make […]

Looking at Video Conferencing

Looking at Video Conferencing

By Bin Guan, Chief Technology Officer for Yorktel (@YorktelCorp) As I recently wrote about in the Cisco Tribune, although video conferencing has been available for over three decades, recently introduced […]

Options Beyond Skype For Enterprise Video Conferencing

Options Beyond Skype For Enterprise Video Conferencing

Author: Vishal Brown, VP Professional Services Technical difficulties might not be a big deal when you’re just using Skype to chat with distant cousins overseas. But when you rely on […]

Cisco Live 2012: San Diego

Cisco Live 2012: San Diego

Imagine being able to take your video enabled mobile device (iPad, Samsung Galaxy pad, etc.) and start a video conversation from: Your home (home WiFi network) then… Commute to the […]

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