Modern Collaboration

Communications technology has been an enabler of two significant trends. The rise of the remote, mobile and home worker and the reduction in the amount of office space that businesses require.  These smaller offices are quickly being redesigned to take advantage of open floor plans to increase collaboration and in-office communications. These open offices have many benefits, but the resultant reduced privacy can negatively impact employees' ability to do heads-down work and stay on task.  In this podcast interview with Mitch Friend, president of Plenom, the maker of the BusyLight and other 'presence management' related technology, we discuss these trends, where they're headed and how businesses are helping employees adapt to these new realities.

Only 20% of U.S. businesses were using SIP Trunking (session initiation protocol) for their communications in 2014, but 75% of businesses interviewed claimed they were planning on implementing it by the end of 2016.  Whoa.  Check out this handy infographic for more SIP market details.

In this informative conversation with Steven Johnson, North American president of InGate Systems, we discuss the basics of SIP Trunking and what businesses need to know to implement SIP effectively.  If you are considering migrating to SIP, this is a must listen.

In this informative podcast with Daryl Hutchings, the CEO of Collaboration Squared and maker of Ubeity, we discuss the state of video in corporate collaboration and how making all devices and video platforms play nice together finally means we are seeing businesses adopt a 'video first' corporate culture.  What does interoperability mean, how can it change how companies communicate and what how can it help outfit small conference and huddle rooms?  Listen to the podcast now to find out.

Communications was always as separate from business applications as the phone on your desk was from your computer.  Now, developers are embedding communication functionality like voice, video and text, directly into applications to take customer interactions - and satisfaction - to a whole new level. 

Listen to this podcast with Manav Khurana from Twilio as we discuss the benefits of embedding communications into business apps.  We review their approach, their platform and the back end infrastructure that has convinced 750,000 developers to join their community.  

In this informative podcast with Shawn Coyle, VP of Sales at ANPI, learn about how small and medium businesses are looking at Unified Communications, VoIP and Hosted PBX.  What is driving them to invest, what concerns do they need to address and how can they leverage best practices to increase adoption so they realize the business benefits of this technology.

Listen to this informative podcast featuring Urban Gillis, the VP of Sales for headset maker Jabra, as we discuss how evolving communications technology, mobility and the move towards open office spaces is changing corporate culture.  What does it mean to be part of a team when most of the people you work with aren't in the same building?

In this episode we're talking wireless and mobility and what that means to the Wifi backbone we all take for granted as we wander all over our offices or workplace campuses on whatever devices we have handy.   I’m pleased to be joined by Christian Gilby, the Director of Product Marketing at Aruba Networks. Aruba has been a market leader on the cutting edge of wireless networking for years and this May they were acquired by HP. Take a listen to learn how companies need to adapt their wireless backbone to support enhance communications and collaboration going over Wifi.

In this podcast, we dig into how medium and larger businesses are leveraging UC and the role the cloud plays in their plans. I’m joined by Henry Dewing a Strategic Marketing Executive and Senior Evangelist at Avaya to get his take on how the marketplace is evolving and how Avaya is helping customers migrate from legacy systems to more integrated UC-driven solutions to increase productivity and engagement.

An interview with Jupiter Systems about how video streams, sensor data and other operational are making their way into collaborative environments so teams can act and react more effectively.