The discussion of BYOD or “Bring Your Own Device” has become a hot topic among service providers, IT teams and users themselves. We have clearly entered an age of “extreme compatibility”. By that I mean, each and every device can (or should) be able to interoperate with any other system, on a technical level. Hence, [...]
For many communications technology professionals, myself included, one of the most promising and exciting IP-based technologies to enter the marketplace in the past 10 years has got to be collaboration tools. The ability to initiate and conduct video and web conference calls, share documents, and remain productive while on the road has certainly impacted many [...]
Service providers and vendors are rapidly enabling presence federation, intercompany video conferencing and document sharing enabling collaboration across enterprise boundaries. Meanwhile many business users aren’t waiting for IT and are leveraging consumer or cloud-based services to foster external collaboration. As companies embrace these services what are the risks? The opportunities? And the rewards? What is [...]
It is safe to say that there are very few true “killer apps”. One test of the true killer app is whether its use persists across time. In other words, do people use it, and have people been using it for a long time. Few apps qualify on this characteristic alone, however, voice is certainly [...]
What is a phone number? Is it simply a “way” for someone to contact you or your company? It is possible that you may have never considered the power of the corporate phone number beyond the basics. What if the phone number was you? By that I mean, what if your identity (or your company’s [...]
So you have heard about Cloud services or Cloud Communications and its beginning to sound a like another marketing buzz word. Well, don’t give up hope yet because the Cloud is indeed a real proposition that is actually quite easy to understand and we will discuss it here.
