Collaboration is key to be successful in business. If you want to grow your business the whole team has to find a way to work together. In the past you got stuck in meeting room after meeting room. Nowadays there a many digital tools to help you collaborate.
There are different ways you can let people work together. The most common thing is to digitalize the meeting room. There are many videoconferencing systems which let you setup a virtual meeting, with audio or with audio and video. Most well known is probably Cisco WebEx, but new players like Zoom are also very popular.
The next step after videoconferencing is unified communications. You can collaborate on more different ways than audio and video. For example by sending text messages to each other. Tools like Microsoft Teams, Cisco Teams, Slack, Yammer are all good examples of tools that can help people work better together.
Besides unified communications there are a lot of platforms that come close to offering a way to collaborate. Task managers for multiple users like Asana, or tools in which coworkers can work together in realtime on the same document or presentation. There are many tools that can increase productivity and collaboration, you just have to find the right one for your business.
Cisco will release a number of updates for Cisco Webex Meetings. The update includes access to live streaming in the Webex Meetings app. Some new video features, improved sound quality and other quality-of-life updates have also been added. The live streaming feature is available in beta, throug... Read more
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Microsoft continues to expand the reach of its Teams business collaboration tool with the launch of a public preview on Linux. This is the first time that an application from the Office suite has been officially launched on Linux. The Linux version supports all core functionality of Teams, inclu... Read more
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Logitech recently announced the MeetUp. This is the latest addition to Logitech's portfolio of products intended for video collaboration. It's also the product that completes the line-up, we recently learned during a meeting with Logitech's Country Manager, Dennis van Baaren. As promised in that ar... Read more
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IBM Watson Media has launched a mobile video streaming app targeted towards enterprise customers seeking to improve workplace communication across different locations. The new product offers an end-to-end solution for live mobile video streaming. It is available on iOS and Android and is said t... Read more
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Slack now claims to have over 12 million active users every day. These users are also more involved in the tools they use than the people who use competing Microsoft Teams, says the company. Of those 12 million users who are active every day, six million are paying customers. These figures mean... Read more
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Avaya and RingCentral have started a strategic partnership, with RingCentral providing cloud technology to its partner. RingCentral also makes an investment of 500 million dollars (455 million euros). Avaya has been producing hardware systems that provide unified communication services for many ... Read more
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Webex has been around for years and is the standard conferencing tool in many enterprise organizations. The focus on Cisco Webex has been significantly less for a number of years, but the tool is completely back on the radar. Cisco competes with parties like Slack, Teams and Hangouts like never bef... Read more
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Skype has added a series of improvements to its chat options, hoping to stand out from the competition. The message function now includes concepts and bookmarks. The option for concepts works similar to e-mail. Users write a message, but don't send it yet. The message is then saved in the conversati... Read more
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