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 has announced a number of updates to Webex Teams, the company's collaboration tool. The update should lead to a consistent user experience on all devices using Webex Teams. The update should also make Webex Teams more compatible with the design of other Cisco collaboration apps. Among other... Read more
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CloudCherry, a startup for customer analytics, has been acquired by Cisco. The CloudCherry software helps companies achieve a better customer experience. Cisco will probably use the expertise of the acquisition for its contact center products. CloudCherry has a platform that allows companies to c... Read more
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Chat application Slack comes up with some useful new features in the latest version of the app, including the ability to get in touch with the right people within an organization more quickly. The question is whether that will suffice. Slack's getting better. The corporate chat app comes with som... Read more
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G Suite users can continue to use Hangouts at least until June next year. Google is postponing the end of the chat service, which was scheduled for early October, by almost a year. Google actually wants users to migrate to Hangouts Chat (chat and collaboration) and Hangouts Meet (videoconferencin... Read more
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Avaya has considered a bid from Mitel to take over the company, reports Bloomberg. According to sources, the deal would ultimately create a telecom company worth more than $5 billion (€4.5 billion). The American and Canadian telecom tower had been in conversation since April. There were rum... Read more
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Asana has launched a new feature for its paying users, which should help to prevent burnouts. The Workload feature does this by making it easier for companies to distribute work fairly across teams and redistribute it if necessary. Asana is a work management platform led by Facebook co-founder Du... Read more
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Slack has launched new APIs for its platform, which allow IT admins to more easily manage the internal chat channels within their company. The APIs are specifically aimed at enterprise customers with many workspaces. One of the APIs focuses on external services, writes Silicon Angle. Slack has an ec... Read more
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With the Polycom Studio, you can provide most meeting rooms with a universal video conferencing solution. By universal, we mean in this case that the Polycom Studio can handle any videoconferencing application. Polycom and Plantronics have merged, and the new company has for some time been calle... Read more
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Atlassian has launched premium options for the Confluence Cloud and Jira Software Cloud. The premium versions of the products come with unlimited storage, compared to the 250 GB of the standard versions. With its premium options, Atlassian also promises an uptime of 99.9 percent, writes DevClass. In... Read more
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Cisco has announced that it is taking over Voicea. This specialist offers real-time transcripts of meetings, speech search and highlights. The tools must be added to the WebEx platform. WebEx is currently used by more than 130 million people per month. With the acquisition of Voicea, Cisco says t... Read more
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