Smart Work for a smarter planet To work smarter, we’ll need smarter organizations – enhancing and benefiting from their people’s expertise, enterprise and creativity, rather than inhibiting them. Transforming the collaborative infrastructure and processes of our places of work will enable knowledge workers to take advantage of the full scope of an instrumented, interconnected and intelligent planet. And the good news is that many organizations around the world are showing the way. The Smart Work continuum depicts how we’ve changed as we increasingly embrace change. | IDC Vendor Spotlight: Lotus Blooms in 2009 Improving workplace efficiency in Canada. IDC reports that Collaboration helps address business efficiency which research shows as the top Canadian business priority, followed by faster decision making processes, improved communications channels and increased user satisfaction. | How should an enterprise move toward Unified Communications? Avaya defines Unified Communications as orchestrated communication and collaboration across locations, time, and medium to accelerate business results. It is achieved through the convergence of real-time, near-real-time, and non-real-time business communication applications including: calling, conferencing, messaging, contacts, calendaring, collaboration, and rich presence with voice, video, text, and visual elements. Users can access these capabilities using multiple modalities including voice, data, and speech access, through telephones, PCs, and mobile devices. These communications services are increasingly designed to be embedded into structured and unstructured business processes. This takes Unified Communications to the next level in terms of IP voice and video telephony; audio, web and video conferencing; unified messaging of voicemail, email, and fax; instant messaging and more | IP faxing vs conventional faxing: a critical analysis Today's organizations still rely heavily on faxing, usually for document security and compliance reasons. Faxing can account for up to 20% of an enterprise's overall telecommunications budget. So, it's imperative to reduce the total cost of ownership (TCO) of faxing, without a negative impact on productivity or service. Download this Frost & Sullivan white paper, entitled "IP faxing versus conventional faxing: a critical analysis"; it uses three case studies to explore costs and risks shared across three industries, and then highlights the areas where the use of an Internet Protocol (IP) faxing solution can reduce these challenges. | Top 5 IT Budget Killers You've heard it a million times: Do more with less. It may be good business, but as
budgets shrink and IT demands grow, you may start to wonder if the people who are
saying "do more with less" think that it's a magical incantation. Run the servers without
electricity! Wave a wand so your data center takes care of itself! While we're at it, let's conjureup some rabbits and train them to install security patches. |