Cisco held its annual Cisco LIVE event this week, and the company made several announcements of new product releases, touching on everything from networking, security and collaboration to help IT professionals guide their organizations into new ways of working. Chief among the announcements were the company’s improvements to its networking and security offerings, including new […]
Microsoft is launching Viva Sales, which the Redmond, Wash. IT giant calls a new seller tool that combines any customer relationship management (CRM) technology, Microsoft 365 and Teams to provide a streamlined and intelligence selling experience. Microsoft bills the new offering as a way to keep hybrid and remote salespeople productive while navigating between CRMs, […]
Videoconferencing solutions such as Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Webex, Google Meet and others became household names over the last two years as organizations adopted – at first – a remote work environment that morphed into hybrid work as employees began coming back to the office. The collaboration industry and the hardware and software companies that provide […]
Editors note: My TechDecision’s sister-site Commercial Integrator has teamed up with the IMCCA, the New York-based non-profit industry association for unified communication and workplace collaboration, to produce a quarterly supplement that focuses on all things collaboration from multiple perspectives. Together, the organizations launched Collaboration Today and Tomorrow. When I was asked to write a piece […]
Collaboration solution providers are harnessing AI to deliver better audio for hybrid work. Microsoft recently announced its use of machine learning and AI for Microsoft Teams and now Cisco is unveiling its latest calling innovations in its Webex Suite. WebEx’s most recent calling updates include: Site survivability to ensure businesses can make and receive Public […]
Jabil is a prominent name in advanced technology solutions, global manufacturing and supply-chain management. It has more than 260,000 employees across 100 locations in 30 countries. Jabil chose St. Petersburg, Fla. as the location of its new world headquarters. The vision was to bring together employees in a modern, environmentally friendly and highly connected campus. […]
Microsoft is adding new machine learning and artificial intelligence-based features to Microsoft Teams to help improve the sound quality of meetings and calls to help reduce echo, allow users to speak and listen at the same time and reduce reverberation for users in rooms with poor acoustics. These new improvements expand on the company’s AI-enabled […]
Crestron Electronics, the Rockleigh, N.J.-headquartered audiovisual workplace solution provider demonstrated its Crestron Sightline room experience and DM NVX AVoIP video encoding platform at InfoComm last week. Sightline assembles the core platforms of Crestron, including Crestron Flex Digital Workplace Technologies, DigitalMedia Content Distribution, and Control and Management, to create the ideal meeting experience by promoting natural […]
Global audiovisual and collaboration services provider AVI-SPL says it has launched version 6.0 of its Symphony platform to help IT departments manage, monitor and control multi-vendor collaboration systems and meeting environments. According to the Tampa, Fla.-based company, the new version of the Symphony platform provides a revamped user interface that provides clarify and efficiency for […]
The pandemic changed many of our work behaviors, but none quite as significantly as the overwhelming amount of time spent in virtual meetings. According to Microsoft’s Work Trend Index, weekly virtual meeting time on Teams more than doubled during the pandemic, climbing 252% since February 2020. Zippia found the average employee spends 6% of their […]
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