Box announces deep integration with Microsoft Office Online
Secure collaboration and file sharing specialist Box has announced a deep integration with Microsoft Office Online that will transform collaboration for joint customers. The update extends the reach of...
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IBM and Box Announce Global Partnership to Transform Cloud Collaboration
IBM and cloud collaboration specialist Box have announced a global partnership that will combine technologies and resources from both companies to transform they way users work in the cloud and offer...
View ArticleCisco announces new Internet of Things portfolio
Networking giant Cisco has launched a new Internet of Things system. But what is it for, and what are the implications for unified communications? Chris Middleton investigates. Cisco has announced the...
View ArticleMicrosoft offers sneak preview of new Skype for Business enterprise features
Microsoft has released preview versions of some of the new enterprise-grade features that Office 365 subscribers can expect from the upcoming release of its UC solution, Skype for Business. Of interest...
View ArticleVideo set to drive mobile data traffic growth to 2020, says Ericsson Mobility...
Mobile video is forecast to grow by around 55 per cent annually through to 2020, when it will account for around 60 per cent of all mobile data traffic, according to the latest Ericsson Mobility Report...
View ArticleEverything Voice chooses Circuit to boost collaboration
Specialist SMB unified communications provider Everything Voice has deployed Unify’s Circuit collaboration tool within the organisation. Circuit – which debuted last autumn – allows Everything Voice to...
View ArticleCisco’s Chambers looks back as he hands control to Robbins
At the end of this week, Cisco chief John Chambers steps down after two decades. Chris Middleton looks back, and to the future. John Chambers, outgoing CEO of networking equipment giant Cisco, began...
View ArticleIDC profiles 12 top UC&C players
Analyst group IDC has published 2015 research profiling 12 vendors in the global unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) market. The IDC MarketScape report ranked Cisco, Microsoft, and...
View ArticleCisco: Good results and leading Gartner’s Magic Quadrant, but challenges...
IT industry bellwether Cisco has issued better than expected quarterly results. The networking equipment giant has reported Q4 profits of $2.3 billion (up 3.2 per cent), on revenues of $12.8 billion...
View ArticleCollaboration core to enterprise cloud success, says Harvard
The key benefit of the use of enterprise cloud technologies is increased collaboration and agility, says a new report from Harvard Business Review Analytics Services. “As cloud services have matured...
View Article‘Frenemies’ Microsoft and Salesforce intensify cloud collaboration
Microsoft and cloud-based CRM services giant Salesforce.com have announced plans to extend the two companies’ strategic partnership to link the Salesforce Customer Success Platform to Microsoft Office....
View ArticleBox cosies up to Apple with new app, and ‘fireside chat’
Cloud collaboration pure-play Box announced a number of new products and platform updates at its annual BoxWorks customer conference – and made significant advances to Apple, whose CEO, Tim Cook,...
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Infographic: How people waste their time at work
This infographic, originally produced by cloud-based ‘social performance management’ platform Rypple (now part of Salesforce.com) explores some of the overall ways in which cloud-based unified...
View ArticleEXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Fuze CEO Steve Kokinos on the future and the cloud
UCinsight caught up with Steve Kokinos, CEO of unified communications as a service (UCaaS) provider, Fuze, at UC EXPO, where the company was showcasing a new desktop client that unifies voice, video,...
View ArticleUC EXPO: Cloud collaboration driving digital transformation, say IT leaders
Cloud-based unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) now form the bedrock of enterprise digital transformation, claimed IT thought leaders at UC EXPO in London. Cisco’s Donald McLaughlin,...
View ArticleWhy the lowest common denominator dictates the success or failure of UC
UC&C technologies should be thought of as a ‘total experience’ that satisfies business needs, rather than as point solutions to technology problems. However, people’s real-world experience of using...
View ArticleThe UK’s Huddle celebrates one million users. But should we?
UK-founded Cloud collaboration vendor Huddle has announced that it has exceeded one million business and government users worldwide – its core market. “We are really beginning to saturate our key...
View ArticleHow to manage the culture change and customer experience sides of UC to make...
The success of enterprise UC&C is as much to do with a cultural change within the organisation as it has to do with technology, and the focus should be on business need, not IT. That’s the belief...
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Infographic: Visual collaboration in the customer buy cycle
Unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) technology should never be thought of as a purely internal tool set; it can enhance relationships and collaboration in the extended enterprise, too:...
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Infographic: Is your network future-ready for UC and collaboration?
Over the next two years, 34 per cent of organisations will introduce unified communications and collaboration tools, such as Skype for Business or VoIP. However, only half of all organisations have...
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