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Growing Businesses Should Keep Their Heads in the Cloud

By moving business models to the cloud, companies can improve agility, productivity, and speed of implementation and deployment.

November 1, 2016 Rachel Quetti Leave a Comment

Quick—name four wildly successful companies that are easily accessed through mobile devices. Did Facebook come to mind? What about Uber? Alibaba? Airbnb? Even if you didn’t name the aforementioned companies, it’s likely you’re familiar with or have even been a customer to these businesses at some point. These companies represent the epitomy of what other […]

15 Online Tools for Students and Teachers to Create Presentations

Presentations can be an equally daunting task for students and educators to put together and deliver.

October 18, 2016 Gloria Kopp Leave a Comment

If presentations are not done right, they could lead to boring, mind wandering time wasters, where the message doesn’t really get through properly. But, help is available in the form of great online tools that’ll help you create engaging presentations, whether you’re a student or a teacher. Keep their attention, get your message across, and […]

Videoconferencing Lends Help to Dental Practices Thanks to Operation Smile

The beautiful story of Operation Smile is something to smile about.

October 12, 2016 Andy Cuneo Leave a Comment

At the beginning of each day, I look for a motivational story for that little extra boost. Sometimes it’s a news story, a popular video or a personal anecdote from a friend of a family member. And each day as I reflect back on that story, I look forward to applying it to my work […]

The Digital Workplace: Current Trends Shaping Enterprise Communications

Never before have enterprise software and technology solutions played such an important role on the employee communications and human resources front.

October 10, 2016 Maria Porco Leave a Comment

Enterprise communications is undergoing a fundamental shift. These solutions are connecting employees, keeping them engaged, supporting social collaboration, enabling a wider variety of workspaces as well as devices, and ultimately, keeping employees productive and talent retained. Looking beyond 2016, there are several trends to take notice of that are creating a new way to work […]

Are Virtual Security Operations Centers in Your Future?

The next wave of campus physical security may be VSOCs, which leverage the cloud to deliver efficiencies, cost savings and improved security.

September 26, 2016 Brian Tuskan Leave a Comment

Being responsible for the physical security of a campus environment can be a daunting task. Campuses may share similarities, but every campus is different and requires a strategy for master planning before going out and wasting a lot of time and money. Campus security departments are usually under staffed, under budgeted and, historically, have had […]

MU-MIMO Empowers SMBs to Say Goodbye to Network Congestion and Hello to Faster Wi-Fi

Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) with multiple users sharing limited access points are increasingly feeling the strain of wireless connectivity issues.

September 22, 2016 Nandan Kalle Leave a Comment

As technology has evolved, faster connection speeds have helped to slightly ease that burden. However, because currently installed access points are typically comprised of older wireless technology, they often struggle to compete with the speed and reliability of wired connections. In fact, the number of users and devices simultaneously operating at many SMBs can easily […]

How Does Internet of Things Work in the Real World?

The Internet of Things is going to make a serious impact on how we interact with the world. You’ve heard that a lot, but what does it mean?

September 16, 2016 Jonathan Blackwood Leave a Comment

“Who here has read Flatland?” asks Andrew Milne, Ph.D., the CEO of Tidebreak. The novella takes place in a two-dimensional world wherein the inhabitants tell each other apart by making contact and discovering the shape of those around them. The main character, a square, one day comes across a circle. That circle then shrinks and […]

Utilizing Collaboration Software for Your Enterprise

Collaboration software is a necessity for many businesses, but making sure it is used correctly comes down to more than just choosing the right solution.

September 9, 2016 TechDecisions Staff Leave a Comment

With so many companies moving operations to the cloud, collaboration software – which thrives in a cloud environment – is becoming more prevalent than ever before. Collaboration software helps teams stay connected and up-to-date, especially in today’s world of remote employees. The benefits of collaboration software go as far as employees, and their manager, are […]

UCaaS Market Will Grow to Over $28 Billion by 2021

New report conducted by Markets And Markets finds that the UCaaS market size is expected to grow from $17.35 Billion in 2016 to $28.69 Billion by 2021, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 10.6 percent during the forecast period.

September 7, 2016 TechDecisions Staff Leave a Comment

Unified Communication as a Service (UCaaS) is a market by which companies are able to pay a third party provider for communication and collaboration services, delivered over an IP Network. These services include telephony, unified messaging, conferencing – basically anything you use to communicate in the workplace. Market And Market, a global market research firm, […]

CEO Says AI Will Become a Big Part of B2B Sales

Shelly Kramer, CEO of V3 Broadsuite, says that artificial intelligence will be fueling your sales effort one day.

August 23, 2016 TechDecisions Staff Leave a Comment

Artificial Intelligence is a technology that many companies, such as Deepmind, have been fervently working to perfect in the past few years. Sooner or later, it seems, AI is going to be a real part of our lives. It will go far beyond Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri, or Microsoft’s Cortana. One day we will be […]