Team collaboration applications have achieved critical mass, but achieving success takes some work. Team collaboration applications like Cisco Webex Teams, Mattermost, Microsoft Teams, Mitel MiCollab, RingCentral Glip, Symphony, Unify Circuit, and many more have rapidly taken their place at the center of the unified communications universe,...
Having a clearly defined IoT architecture framework greatly improves the chances for success of an enterprise's connected deployment. If your company is like many organizations, it's actively engaged in or considering launching one or more IoT initiatives. It has a goal, a strategy and a desired...
Cisco’s 2018 acquisition of BroadSoft highlights the growing trend toward cloud-based communications. Prior to the acquisition, Cisco’s cloud strategy was two-fold: Hosted Collaboration Service, a platform that partners can leverage to build their own cloud-based offerings, Cisco Spark calling – a Cisco-hosted service designed primarily...
Digital Customer Experience (DCX) efforts enables organizations to provide new means of engagement including via mobile apps, chat, virtual and augmented reality, and by using AI to improve engagement routing and response. As organizations invest heavily into DCX strategies, they are bolstering their contact center...
IT staffs have an incredible responsibility to implement and support enabling technologies to transform their companies. In fact, more than 70% of companies have digital transformation initiatives underway or planned, involving numerous technology deployments to drive business value. Before jumping into a technologically advanced digital transformation...
Are you evaluating Webex Teams and Microsoft Teams telephony options? Learn how to decide which calling capabilities meet your organization's needs in the Webex Teams vs. Microsoft Teams debate. Microsoft and Cisco have pushed their respective Teams applications as a new model for employee engagement....
As collaboration gets integrated into workflows, IT leaders must rethink how they deliver these services and measure success. Those responsible for collaboration planning, implementation, and operations used to have a fairly clear-cut deployment process: Identify business need for technologies, evaluate options, determine the best option, deploy...
Bellwether cybersecurity technologies -- advanced endpoint security, behavioral threat analytics and a trio of cloud-based apps -- are used by successful cybersecurity teams. Find out why. When it comes to cybersecurity, what differentiates highly successful enterprise technology organizations from their less successful counterparts can often be...
Picking the right video streaming solution for your organization requires careful consideration of myriad questions: How do I capture video? How do I manage video assets? How do I ensure high quality distribution across my network? In today’s market, individual solutions exist for all of these...
The challenges related to enterprise team messaging security can be a big barrier to entry. The team messaging market continues to grow, with nearly 60% of the approximately 600 companies participating in Nemertes Research’s annual unified communications and collaboration study either already using or planning to...
We measure success for Digital Customer Experience (DCX) initiatives in many ways – revenue generated, cost reduction ratings, or churn reduction, to name a few. But ultimately, we want customers to walk away elated from any interaction. A satisfied customer might say: “OK, that went well. I got...
Desk phones seem to be going the way of the Dodo in favor of softphones and mobile clients. But research suggests organizations are finding new ways to use desk phones for business. The desk phone has gone through many changes over the years,...
