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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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Any business with multiple offices – globally or just in the UK – knows that the cost of inter-company travel is on the increase. Many are turning to video conferencing as a substitute, and the most successful implementations discover this has a positive impact not only on cost reduction, but on carbon emissions reduction, productivity, speed of decision-making and employee work-life balance.
Here’s how we helped Fujitsu successfully implement a telepresence solution across 21 locations.
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Ongoing technological advances in recent years have enhanced the pervasive nature of video conferencing, meaning that organisations of different shapes and sizes are relying more and more on video collaboration for their business communications. Depending on your company’s structure, the team responsible for video operations may not be the same as the team who owns and manages the virtual environment. This requires further coordination and planning in the design, deployment/installation, maintenance, and troubleshooting for the video applications.
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We speak to lots of IT managers and directors on a day to day basis and have noticed that for many, their focus for 2014 is on tools for collaboration, interoperability and end user experience. Furthermore, IT departments are involved not only in the technology but in driving user adoption – which in turn ensures that any IT spend is justified by the benefits driven by wide-spread usage.
One of the key tools for collaboration is video conferencing and IT departments are given the technical challenge of figuring out interoperability as well as the business issue of promoting its use.
Virtualising your video conferencing software can address both the technical and user adoption challenges and provide numerous other key benefits along the way.
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We are living in the most interconnected time in human history. We have found new and better ways to communicate with each other, meaning distance, time, cost and culture are no longer barriers to personal and business success. Our ability to communicate, collaborate and persuade no longer depends on our location, device or schedule.
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How can you empower an increasingly remote workforce?
A growing number of employees are opting to work remotely from home or telecommute using mobile devices – more than 40% of employees are working from home a few hours a month or more, while 28% do so at least one day per week. (Forrester)
The ability to work from home or on the go from remote devices affords employees a much greater degree of freedom and flexibility since their ability to work is not restricted by their location. And the need to communicate face to face can be reduced by using a secure mobile video conferencing solution for collaboration that will enable remote workers to be connected to each other from anywhere and on any device.
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