Strategic partnership reflects the growing adoption of UCaaS and CCaaS, and is a positive move for both companies. The strategic partnership Avaya and RingCentral announced last week (see No Jitter coverage here and here) is remarkable in many ways, but perhaps most of all, reflects the...
UCaaS has garnered a great deal of attention in the marketplace over the last few years thanks to its ability to offer low cost, flexible, calling and unified communications services. Moving to the cloud enables organizations to shift responsibility for provisioning, operations, and management to...
Whether moving to UCaaS or hosted services, successfully moving calling platforms to the cloud requires addressing PSTN connectivity, management, and network performance among other things. Failure to do so can lead to poor performance, unhappy employees, and high operating costs. In this webinar we'll share insight...
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...
Unified Communications-as-a-Service (UCaaS) offers small businesses the opportunity to purchase an integrated set of communications and collaboration functions, all from a single provider, on a per-user subscription basis. Via the cloud delivery model, UCaaS eliminates capital costs associated with equipment purchase, as well as PSTN...
While small businesses have unique business needs, when it comes to collaboration tools, they share a great deal in common with larger enterprises, including: Support for Digital Transformation: Small businesses often operate in dynamic, highly competitive markets, meaning that they must quickly embrace emerging technologies to...
I attended the Mitel Next conference in Phoenix last week. Though no big announcements came out of the conference, there were some key takeways. Mitel executives conveyed the message to customers and partners that they’re not abandoning on-premises Unified Communications (UC) or contact center customers. Unlike...
At most organizations, conference rooms are less than perfect--and that affects the productivity of any meeting. Inconsistency is the cornerstone of meeting room space, whether it's the power outlet locations, wired or wireless connectivity, brand of digital whiteboard, or video conferencing capabilities. That's why many...
Team collaboration apps like Slack, Spark, Glip, and Microsoft Teams are taking the enterprise market by storm. Given the more than 20 apps now on the market, where do IT leaders begin? In this webinar series, we'll provide insight and guidance based on Nemertes' 2018 Unified...
If you're considering a move to Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) or hosted UC, the chance that you'll realize cost savings is low, particularly in the first year but in subsequent years, as well. The key driver for cloud UC is agility--beating "perceived cost...
This webinar reveals the results of Nemertes Research's latest comprehensive study on everything Unified Communications and Collaboration. We provide insights into the characteristics of a successful UCC strategy and also cover: • Optimal organizational and management strategies • Platform trends and use of the cloud • Cost comparisons...