unified communications - News, Features, and Slideshows

• ​Doing business with Peter Chidiac of Avaya: ‘Dare to change’

  ‘Be brave, creative and bold enough to put things into practice that have never been done before.’

• ​EXCLUSIVE: Fujitsu delivers Microsoft’s Skype for Business to NZ Govt

  “Citizens and businesses will now be able to use Skype to message, talk to, and video call Government agencies."

• In Pictures: 15 screen-sharing apps for easy collaboration

  Need to hold a virtual meeting complete with screen sharing? Or maybe you just need to remotely access a colleague’s computer to help him with a quick fix. Here are 15 ways to get the job done -- for free.

• Unify adds connectors, features, Android app to its unified comms service Circuit

  When Unify invited visitors at last year's Cebit to test a new unified communications service, Project Ansible, it was nothing but a tightly scripted demo.

• NZ’s unified communications market tipped to grow over 3 per cent in next two years

  But traditional vendors will face competition from a new breed of cloud-based players, reports Audrey William of Frost & Sullivan.

• Law Firm CIO Makes the Case for Microsoft Lync

  Law firm Holland & Knight already had a who's who of best-of-breed communications products deployed when the firm's IT team decided it needed to replace the tangled mess of PBX systems that provided voice lines at its many offices. It chose to jettison them all in favor of an infrastructure built on Microsoft Lync Server 2013.

• Why enterprises are moving to Google Apps, Gmail

  Though it started selling software to universities and small businesses, Google has pervaded more large businesses during the past year with Google Apps, the company's suite of messaging and productivity software. Analysts say Google Enterprise, the division of Google that runs Apps, has added many features to the product that make it more attractive to enterprise IT departments.

• Picturing the Future of Office Technology Today

  We all have a tendency to only look directly at what we're doing today, and not step back and say: "What do I, what does my company, need to be focusing on now, for the future?" Taking that step back is the step toward innovation and away from stagnation.

Whitepapers about unified communications

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  Webinar: Are You Ready for Skype for Business?

  With Skype for Business now launched, existing Microsoft Lync customers now have the opportunity to trial the new platform as part of their evaluation process before full deployment. But just how will the new Skype for Business client, server and online service integrate within your existing UC environment? How will it impact your current telephony, video and content sharing solutions and how will you be able to protect your current collaboration infrastructure investments? Watch the webinar to discover how to ensure that in this new era of workplace communications it's ‘business as usual’.

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  Evolve or die: adapt to BYOD or face extinction

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  Leveraging Bring Your Own Device programs

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  Flexibility evolved: connecting mobile conversations