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Communication in the workplace should be more powerful than personal communications tools, because the more we accomplish during our work day the more flexibility and freedom we enjoy in our personal lives. Luckily, unified communication suites seamlessly integrate voice, HD video, instant messaging, email integration and mobility and allows for these solutions to be fully accessible from any PC, Mac, deskphone, smartphone or tablet.
With a unified communications infrastructure in place that is both easy to install and maintain, any business can see multiple benefits including reduced costs, as well as increased productivity and efficiency.
Unified Communications and How It's Empowering Workforces to Leverage the BYOD Trend
With recently revealed statistics showing that nearly 82 percent of surveyed companies this year allow either some or all of their workers to use employee-owned devices and 38 percent of U.S. CIOs began to support a bring your own device (BYOD) environment by the end of last year, what are some of the primary factors driving the increasing popularity of this trend? Surprisingly, the answer falls under the categories of productivity and satisfaction rather than a reduction in expenses, which may …
05/22/2013
Toshiba America Releases Call Manager, A BYOD Mobile Application
Toshiba America information Systems Inc.'s Telecommunications Systems Division has finally made its popular Call Manager Mobile application available through various app stores. The manager is now available in the Apple App Store, the Apple iTunes store, and the Android Market.
05/21/2013
India's Jaypee Group Selects Polycom RealPresence Video Solutions
While the major cities in India have busy traffic, many areas in rural India are hard to reach. A number of companies operating in the country are now looking for technological alternatives to overcome this problem.
05/21/2013
ConnectSolutions Addresses SMB Market for Affordable UC
It has been years since unified communications technology has been put to commercial use. But the technology still largely remains the prerogative of a few big companies. The complications of using this technology and its cost often make it unusable for small and mid-sized companies.
05/21/2013
Yorktel Unifies Unified Communications on One Screen
Yorktel recently unveiled a very comprehensive video communications platform. With this new solution, it hopes to go further than the future demands of its users. The goal of Yorktel's new solution, called VideoCloud, is to bring different methods of enterprise communication under one roof. Solutions such as Avaya's Aura, Cisco's Call Manager and Microsoft's Lync can be put into one platform that will "unify" them.
05/20/2013
Arkadin Opens New Operations Center and Hosts Lync Webcast
As Arkadin continues to expand, it needs a new operations center. As such, it's setting up a new primary regional operations center in Schaumburg, IL, where it will continue its advancement as it provides audio, Web and video conferencing services and unified communications solutions.
05/20/2013
Crosspeer Partners with Ezuce to Offer Unified Communications in the Cloud
Unified communications is becoming an integral part of many organizations that help connect people, information, and teams, to enable comprehensive and effective collaborative experiences. Many companies are now collaborating to introduce effective and reliable UC solutions to the market.
05/20/2013
TMCnet Unified Communications Week in Review
There is no other area of technology that is growing as fast as the unified communications (UC) space. Companies around the world are realizing that this platform, which encompasses key functions including instant messaging, video conferencing and intelligent presence, can help them to not only keep current customers happy, but continuously attract new ones.
05/18/2013
Echoworx Gives Global PGP Users Access to the Cloud
Echoworx, a provider of e-mail encryption services, will enable PGP to be used as a fully functioning cloud service.
05/15/2013
SimpleSignal Partners with Park Bench Solutions to Provide a Unified Communications Experience
Due to technology advancements happening in Cloud Unified Communications and Collaboration (UC&C), companies of all sizes are looking for unified communications options that can increase the productivity of their employees in the current fast-paced environment. To provide a single solution and an entirely new unified communications experience to companies, SimpleSignal has partnered with Park Bench Solutions LLC to launch a new unified communications platform called "Organizes Development and In…
05/15/2013
Innovative Cloud UC Solutions Launched in EMEA By Thinking Phone Networks
Thinking Phone Networks recently confirmed that it had opened a new regional office in Amsterdam and has officially launched its services into Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region as well as Europe to answer the global demand for cloud services, particularly in these areas.
05/14/2013
Video App from Mozilla Brings New Life to Unified Communications
Video conferencing has brought a variety of benefits to the corporate environment including dramatically slashing expenses related to travel in addition to bringing the level of efficiency throughout geographically separated divisions to an unparalleled level. And unified communications (UC) platforms have proved highly advantageous for businesses as they can streamline operations overall and enable customers to communicate with the company through whatever channel they feel most comfortable usi…
05/14/2013
Unified Communications Industry News
Revolutionary online educator captures Andover
Major New Study Finds Application Performance Problems Are Becoming Increasingly Frequent across the Globe
HP Expands Thin Client Solutions for Mobility and Unified Communications; HP Velocity, extended support for Citrix enhance reliability, security
The Portsmouth Grammar School uses Archive One to bolster staff mailboxes.
Supermicro Server Platforms use NVIDIA GRID Technology to Deliver Graphics-Accelerated Performance to Virtual Desktops
AVANADE EXTENDS CLOUD SERVICES MANAGER WITH NEW SERVICE CATALOG TO HELP REDUCE COST AND COMPLEXITY OF DEPLOYING AND MANAGING BUSINESS SERVICES ACROSS CLOUDS
Gainward GeForce GTX 780 3GB - The Pure Performance
HP Expands Thin Client Solutions for Mobility and Unified Communications
AMD Amplifies Mobile Experience with Responsive Performance, Rich Graphics, Elite Software and Long Battery Life
Big Blue Robot Executive Offers Advice to Millennial's and College Graduates on Online Reputation Management
BroadConnect Is Offering New Hosted PBX Bundle Pricing for New Customers, Eliminating VoIP Adoption Barriers
Featured White Papers
Building A Business Case For Unified Communications
The hype surrounding any emerging technology often shrouds the private sector with mixed feelings, as decision-makers try to decipher whether new offerings will enhance operations, hinder productivity or introduce some bizarre mixture of the two.
Instant Cashflow Improvement and Rapid ROI with Unified Communications
The up-and-down economy of the past several years has highlighted the need to operate more effi ciently and cut costs wherever possible. In most situations, these two notions would seem contradictory, but a number of emerging technologies - cloud computing, virtualization and the bring-your-own-device movement among them - are helping companies accomplish these goals.
The Top Four Pitfalls of Unified Communications
Today's enterprise needs to be agile if decision-makers wish to remain competitive and relevant in the eyes of consumers. As more companies and customers around the world begin leveraging innovative devices like smartphones, tablets and next-generation laptops, the need to deploy unified communications grows alongside it. Neglecting to implement the technology may result in dire consequences that could spell the end of an organization.
Featured Solutions
Teo has reinvented UC.
In our personal lives we use multiple technologies for the various modes of communication we utilize throughout our day, primarily accessible from a smartphone.
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What Are They Saying?
"Teo UC's platform-independent interface lets administrators effectively manage their communications infrastructure, with a reduced downtime risk based on system redundancy, enhanced mobility features, and a robust feature set accessible from anywhere. Teo UC is already being implemented and sought by several different businesses of all sizes."
- Robbie Pleasant, UC Expert at ucstrategies.com