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.
They claim the new features make their videoconferencing platform "more fun". This week Google announced a slew of enhancements and feature additions to their Google Meet video calling solution. The new additions include tiled views and new options for presenting. While not as popular as its... Read more
3 years ago
Google announced today that it is partnering with Siemens to advance AI deployments for industrial use cases. Specifically, Google is looking to integrate its Google Cloud data analytics and AI tools into Siemens' Digital Industries Factory Automation portfolio. The integration will offer Google... Read more
3 years ago
Zoom has introduced the Zoom Apps Fund. It is a fund of 100 million dollars (83 million euros) to encourage third parties to build Zoom Apps. In this way, the company hopes to build a broad app ecosystem. Partners who demonstrate viable products and incipient market traction can expect hefty inv... Read more
3 years ago
Stories about collaboration platforms often revolve around what you as a user look at and think about when you hear the names Webex, Teams, Meet or Zoom. This is logical, because this is where people and platforms visibly and physically meet. At Cisco, however, they have a slightly different way of... Read more
3 years ago
The negotiations between social medium Discord and Microsoft about a possible acquisition are at an advanced stage. The company is said to have no other potential buyers in mind. There is talk of a takeover sum of more than 10 billion dollars. The Wall Street Journal writes this based on its own... Read more
3 years ago
Trust has announced its IRIS webcam. It is a webcam intended for use in office spaces. The camera is plug & play and offers some smart features for video calls. IRIS is equipped with a 4K camera with wide-angle lens and can automatically zoom in on the person who is talking. Furthermore, the... Read more
3 years ago
Discord seems to be toying with the idea of putting itself up for sale. Microsoft is one of the possible buyers, but an IPO is also being considered. The sale should generate over 10 billion dollars. Bloomberg sources report this. Discord is said to be talking to several parties about an acquisi... Read more
3 years ago
Telecommunications company Avaya has released a new update for its collaboration platform Spaces. The update brings improvements in image and sound quality and some AI features. Avaya announced the changes in the new update in a press release. The company has made it easier to initiate phone cal... Read more
3 years ago
Atlassian has released a new version of Confluence. The company has added some new features to improve the readability of contributions on the platform. The new features in Confluence are outlined on Atlassian's website. To better serve employees in different time zones, Atlassian has added the ... Read more
3 years ago
If the EU and the Joe Biden administration fail to agree on a global framework for committing to a unilateral tax on big tech, EU leaders are prepared to affirm their commitment and go it alone. Supposedly, all of this should happen by the middle of this year. In a summit later this month, th... Read more
3 years ago
