The latest upgrades to Microsoft Teams’ collaboration platform is moving collaboration beyond the desk, and they are not alone on that front. Cisco is innovating in exciting ways, with myriad integrations and cognitive collaboration. Slack is fine-tuning and working to woo the enterprise customer. Dropbox is getting in the game—and those are just a handful of the many players in the $30 billion dollar market for workplace collaboration services.
Zoom Zero Day Vulnerability: A Real Problem For Zoom And Its Users
Early this week, news broke from security researcher, Jonathan Leitschuh he had discovered a vulnerability in Zoom that allowed unauthorized access to as many as 4 million webcams of Zoom users on Mac OS by simply getting a user to click on a link. These links are the standard (and delightfully simple) links that allow any user to easily join …
UCaaS Should Be the Next Service You Add
As companies are moving more infrastructure to the cloud and service offerings they should consider going to UCaaS for cost and flexibility.
Why You Should Go to Zoomtopia
Zoomtopia is the annual gathering of Zoom, their partners, and passionate user base that gives everyone a roadmap to to where the video conferencing platform is headed. Here’s why you should definitely go.
Unified Communications is a Central Focus of the Annual InfoComm 2019 Show
The annual InfoComm show puts unified communications at the center of their trade show and the audiovisual industry showcasing the importance of UC in AV.
Dropbox Targets Collaborative Workspace Transformation
So what’s the real deal here? Where’s the value? We’ve done a lot of research and advised a lot of clients in the area of workplace transformation, and one issue that keeps coming to light is that enterprise users rely on a lot of applications and collaboration tools — perhaps even too many. What is consistently missing is a unifying “mother of all tools” and that is exactly what Dropbox is bringing to the table.
Zoom Earnings — Crushing It, But There Are Big Hurdles Ahead
Zoom’s growth should be commended, as for the simplicity that they have brought to point-to-point desktop and mobile video. But I think their next hurdle is a big one and it will lead to slowed growth and a requirement to build more 3rd party integrations, improve their hardware stack and look beyond video for their ecosystem.
Slack Has a Product People Love to Use — Is It Enough?
Slack has a product people love to use, but is it enough? While it’s an exciting time for the company, a much-anticipated IPO, and people love a good unicorn, long term, it might not be enough. Growth is the answer, and a path to profitability.
Cisco Live — Collaboration Goes Cognitive and Interoperable
Cisco Live 2019 was about the future of collaboration, which is all about cognitive collaboration and interoperability. The Cisco ecosystem has always had vastly more collaboration tools (contact center, VoIP, on and off-prem) than many of the upstart cloud players, but in the age where less is more and simple wins hearts, Cisco has needed a wildcard to differentiate their meeting tools.
4 Ways Collaboration Platforms Make Your Business More Productive
How often is your department – or even your team – in the same place at the same time? Exactly. A combination of on-site and remote employees is the norm. Mobility reigns. Getting things done across teams, departments and even continents means we are using collaboration platforms more than ever. When collaboration technologies are well integrated into operations and company …