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Data Collection

How IT Pros Can Collect Data to Improve Business Operations

To collect data and better understand what their organization needs, IT pros need to deploy the right tools in the right places.

October 27, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Collecting data on your business’ practices can being about valuable insights and help inform your company’s leaders as they make critical decisions that could affect the organization for years to come. Data like productivity, meeting room utilization, IT infrastructure performance, ticket response time and security analytics can help set the organization up for future success, […]

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Duquesne University’s Impressive Audio System

Duquesne’s COVID-19 Master Plan involved a need for a quality unversity audio system in the classrooms. Nureva stepped in to help.

October 26, 2020 TechDecisions Staff Leave a Comment

Founded in 1878, Duquesne is consistently ranked among the nation’s top Catholic universities for its award-winning faculty and tradition of academic excellence. Duquesne, a campus of nearly 9,500 graduate and undergraduate students, has been nationally recognized for its academic programs, community service and commitment to sustainability. The Tech Decision The university recently outfitted more than […]

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Schools Have to Address These Distance Learning Cybersecurity Threats

As administrators struggle to ensure connectivity and accessibility, many aren’t addressing distance learning cybersecurity threats.

October 22, 2020 TechDecisions Staff Leave a Comment

Perhaps no single industry has struggled to adjust more to COVID-19 than education. The pandemic has greatly accelerated the broad adoption of e-learning solutions. Those school districts that invested in robust IT systems have been validated and are continuing to build out their resources. Meanwhile, those districts that did not already have e-learning technologies in […]

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Virtual Events, Apps, SDKs Coming to Zoom

Zoomtopia included announcements of new products and features like virtual events, Zoom apps, SDKs, UC enhancements and more.

October 16, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

In addition to its phased approach to rolling out an end-to-end encryption offering to better secure calls, Zoom announced several new products and features during its fourth annual Zoomtopia. The event, held virtually this year, comes as the platform is experiencing a gargantuan increase in users due to the COVID-19 pandemic and remote work. That […]

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Poly Sync

Poly Announces Poly Sync Family of Speakerphones

Poly is leaning into the rising remote and hybrid work culture as it releases Poly Sync, a new line of smart, USB and Bluetooth speakerphones at this year’s Zoomtopia.

October 15, 2020 TD Staff Leave a Comment

Poly is leaning into the rising remote and hybrid work culture as it releases Poly Sync, a new line of smart, USB and Bluetooth speakerphones at this year’s Zoomtopia. The speakers – three separate products of varying sizes and capabilities – are designed for use in both the home office and conference room and are […]

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audio technology in education

Solving for an Unknown Variable: The Future of Audio Technology in Education

While the “right now” looks at videoconferencing tools, the next big discussion in our education environments is going to be on professional audio.

October 15, 2020 Dudley McLaughlin Leave a Comment

Technology managers in the education market are keenly aware that their jobs today look far different than in years past. They’re living the day-to-day reality of needing to find solutions for an ever-changing model of digital and hybrid-learning that – for many districts – is still being worked out. It is not uncommon that districts, […]

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Cisco Webex

Cisco Releases New Features, Devices for Webex

Cisco is announced new Webex features and devices that make it easy to connect with remote workers and enable a healthy return to the office.

October 9, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Cisco is introducing new features and devices for Webex that aim to improve the videoconferencing experience, help remote workers stay connected and employees return to the office safely. The new features come as a new global survey finds the overwhelming majority of workers are uncomfortable about returning to the office, a future dependency on remote […]

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Asynchronous Collaboration

Why Asynchronous Collaboration is Just as Important as Videoconferencing

If those long video calls are doing more harm than good, consider moving some of your remote workforce's workflow to asynchronous collaboration.

October 6, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

In the early days of quarantine and the COVID-19 lockdowns, teams relied heavily on video calls and other collaboration tools that required everyone to be doing the same thing at the exact same time. That means a remote worker on the West Coast would have to get up early for a 9 a.m. call on […]

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Slack is Experiencing Connection, Performance Issues

Slack is investigating the cause of the issue after the platform said its connection and performance were affected Monday.

October 5, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Slack is reporting unexplained issues with connecting and degraded performance today. According to Slack’s states page, users began experiencing slowness with desktop, browser and mobile versions starting around 10 a.m. EDT. “The issue is sending messages and troubles with API calls,” the company said. “Our team is looking into it and we will follow up […]

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