Returning to the office, optimizing virtual work, and building community are some key focus areas for IT leaders in 2021. Each year Nemertes conducts a study of enterprise collaboration, gathering data from over 500 end-user organizations on what apps they are using now, what they are...
The CFO Imperative: Leveraging UCaaS to Drive Business Transformation, Optimize Spending, and Enable Productivity in the Age of Work-From-Home This ebook provides insights into how CFOs can minimize costs, maximize productivity, and increase revenues by adopting cloud-based, integrated communications and collaboration technologies. In this ebook, we'll...
In this new work-from-home world, IT leaders must move quickly to deploy and manage technologies that support remote work. This means providing sufficient performance, reliability, and security, as well collaborative tools to enable employee and customer engagement regardless of location. It also means enabling management...
Even before the Covid-19 pandemic went global in the first quarter of 2020, organizations were already rapidly moving their unified communications applications, including calling, messaging, and meetings, to the cloud. Nemertes Research’s 2020 Cost Benefit Analysis: Workplace Collaboration and Contact Center global study of approximately...
Can IT leaders save money by moving to the cloud? According to the research, some companies are already seeing significant cost savings with UCaaS. When it comes to cloud migrations in the enterprise, IaaS and PaaS typically show compelling cost savings over on-premises alternatives. But one...
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...