business conferencing

Reverting to phones over video conferencing… Really ?

A recent article in Forbes came to our attention titled ‘Surprising Reasons To Switch From Video-Conference To The Phone.’ And, whilst this article was interesting to read, it was fairly clear that it had missed some fundamental points of why businesses use video conferencing, and why it is so important to choose your service wisely.

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The Battle of Workstream Collaboration - Microsoft vs Cisco

There is change afoot in the enterprise collaboration space. This change is not however simply about new technology; it is much bigger, and involves the attitudes and desires of both the service owners and users within companies around the globe.

This change is being led by Microsoft and Cisco...

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The change to Webex Teams from Spark, what’s the difference?

Cisco have re-branded Spark to become Webex Teams and integrate the service into the Webex family. This is more than just a name change however, as the Spark and Webex application have started to become one, taking the best features from each.

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Are businesses losing money because of presenteeism culture?

How can video conferencing and collaboration help presenteeism?

Presenteeism has become a big problem in the UK; it has tripled since 2010 according to the latest CIPD report, and 52% of workers are going into work when their performance has been negatively affected by health issues according to a 2017 report by Fellowes. Fellowes also goes on to suggest that this means that a sub-standard level of work is likely to be happening due to the fact that employees are not 100% fit, well or happy.

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Is your company a TEAM player?

Wherever you look in the collaboration space at the moment, the talk is all around having a single application that can cater for all your user’s requirements…meeting spaces, persistent chat, instant messaging, video conferencing, audio calling, whiteboards, file sharing, live content annotation and more. The desire is driven by the changes taking place within companies, whereby employees are demanding more flexibility and the chance to fit their work around their life, and not the other way around.

Is there a silver bullet for the all-in-one collaboration app? Or is it all just a bit confusing? Let’s look at the main players. Slack, Microsoft and Cisco.

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The benefits of a fully managed collaboration platform

Collaboration within enterprise businesses, is a service that is business critical if companies want their employees to be efficient, productive and making the most from their time. Whilst there may be many options on how businesses may choose to collaborate, ensuring that the service is a great fit for the varying styles, uses and applications that employees may want to achieve when using it is key.

A good collaboration solution should provide you with a feature rich and truly smart platform that is fully managed, automated and intelligently delivered to ensure video collaboration performs as expected across the enterprise and beyond.

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