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 launched a range of new Artificial Intelligence (AI) driven features for Webex. Webex is a videoconferencing tool that is used by about 130 million people per month. The new features should help users to more easily set up meetings and easily find out more about the people they are meeting... Read more
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HP and Zoom announced a partnership during HP Reinvent. This translates into three ready-made HP Zoom Rooms solutions, on which Zoom's video conferencing software is already configured out of the box. The solutions are scalable, easy to use and easy to implement and manage. This makes them interesti... Read more
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Trello, the collaboration and project management tool, features thirteen new features for business users. These improve the control, security and management function. The new features have been rolled out over the past six months and represent the largest update to the platform since its launch in 2... Read more
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Slack Technologies is expanding its cybersecurity capabilities in an effort to acquire more business customers. To this end, the company is launching Slack EKM, a tool that enables companies to encrypt correspondence between employees using their own encryption keys, among other things. Slack curre... Read more
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Plantronics and Polycom continue as Poly. The tech company focuses on the human experience of communication and collaboration and aims to make communication via the telephone or the internet as rich and natural as a physical conversation. Poly mainly wants to present itself as the most important sol... Read more
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Microsoft has unveiled its plans to integrate Yammer, the private social network for companies, into Teams. Users can now add a Yammer tab to their channels in the chat app. Teams are increasingly at the heart of Microsoft's productivity offering for companies. Gradually, the company has consolidate... Read more
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In large companies it can be difficult to book a meeting room. It's a waste of precious time. Although the problem itself may seem rather small, the costs can be high because it is an obstacle for far too many employees. That's why Zoom.ai is introducing a new function to reserve meeting rooms. Thi... Read more
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The market for business communication services is still crystallising. While Slack is currently dominant with 10 million daily active users, Facebook Workplace is also gaining in popularity. According to CEO Mark Zuckerberg's company, there are now 2 million paying users on the service. Facebook doe... Read more
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Snom launches a completely new interface for its hardware portfolio. It is version 10 and a complete redesign of the user interface. There are also some new features in Snom version 10, which make it easier to set up conference calls. That's what the UC Today site writes on the basis of an interview... Read more
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Atlassian wants to make part of its Jira platform invisible. At the same time, it is trying to gain a foothold in the field of integrated development environments (IDEs), in which developers build computer software. Jira is at the basis of a new tracking platform, which Atlassian wants to use to hel... Read more
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