Mobility and the remote workforce are current hot topics buzzing around the modern day water cooler. There’s a ton of talk about the hows and whys of adopting these new approaches to conducting business. However, there is a considerable gap between what is being discussed in meetings, conferences, and webinars, and what is actually being done. Enterprise Mobility Leaves a …
BYOD: Is the Debate Over?
This post is sponsored by Samsung Business. All thoughts and opinions are my own. For the longest time, we hotly debated whether or not BYOD is good for business. And why not? Few trends in IT have managed to generate as much hype and headache in recent times as BYOD. Over the past few years, the surveys and studies regarding BYOD …
What Does a Disruptive CIO Look Like in the Age of Digital Transformation?
To say that the role of a CIO (chief information officer) has become more complicated and challenging today is an understatement, to say the least. Everything in our business space is changing at a mind-boggling speed. Organizations are embracing more agile and nimble business practices. The combined forces of cloud, mobile, big data, analytics, and IoT—as well as many other …
The Public Cloud’s Growth is a Perfect Storm for MSPs
Cloud computing is everywhere, and the public cloud is leading the charge. Businesses can use the public cloud for applications or storage in a shared, accessible network on either a free or pay-per-usage basis. That’s the long way of saying something simple—that the public cloud is the happy home of applications like Google Drive, Dropbox and Salesforce. Many more examples …
Digital Transformation Isn’t Just a Technology Thing, It’s a People Thing
We are living in a world where almost four out of every five companies are embarking upon a digital transformation. However there’s a big gap between what digital transformation really is and what most businesses think it is. Not surprising, few are able to make a successful transition. An MIT Sloan and Capgemini study data-backed what most companies are already …
Data Analysts and Scientists More Important Than Ever For the Enterprise
The business world is now firmly in the age of data. Not that data wasn’t relevant before; it was just nowhere close to the speed and volume that’s available to us today. Businesses are buckling under the deluge of petabytes, exabytes, and zettabytes. Within these bytes lie valuable information on customer behavior, key business insights, and revenue generation. However, all …
Small Innovation May Be the Biggest Innovation in Tech
We frequently hear things like, “The next mobile device will have an X percent bigger screen than the last one.” Do these things sound impressive anymore? Not in a world where a new device update hits the market every couple of months, if not weeks. At the recent Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), people weren’t that excited (at least not …
Mobile Video Communication: Enterprise Ready or Consumer Toy?
We are all becoming more familiar with mobile video apps. The availability of Skype and FaceTime allows us to call home or chat face to face with a friend from anywhere. These apps work, they are simple, and they integrate with our mobile lifestyle. These tools have exponentially increased our comfort level with mobile video conferencing. Many of us are …
Omni-Channel: The Critical Role Mobile Plays
This post is sponsored by Samsung Business. All thoughts and opinions are my own. Omni-channel is a hot topic that’s getting a lot of attention these days from brands worldwide. And, why not? Buying has changed since the dawn of the omni-channel shopper. Today, it can take months for someone to decide to buy, a process that can connect them to …
Is Unified Communications, Unifying Communications
In the integration space, particularly the AV integration space, unified communications (UC) has long been a highly discussed, yet rarely understood topic. For many years, AV professionals have been debating about what is included in a unified communications solution—is it voice and video? Does it include messaging or presence? What about real time web collaboration? And how is social media …