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Empowering People

Empowering People

Give people the capabilities they need to create more value for your organization: Faster access to actionable information; Tools that make collaboration easier and more straightforward; Communications capabilities that allow individuals and teams to work when, where and how they choose, without scarifying security or productivity.


Team IT

Team IT

New technologies have revolutionized the way enterprise teams work. This report explains how to get the most out of your workforce using collaboration software, messaging suites, Web 2.0, and other software tools.

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Source: Computerworld

Unified Communications

Unified Communications

Unified communications, including text-to-speech, can add value to a whole range of enterprise applications. So why not make that communications functionality available as an array of consumable services? The worlds of telecommunications and IT have been colliding for more than a decade, but that loud crashing noise may be reaching a crescendo thanks to SOA (service-oriented architecture). As with mainframe applications, what was once the isolated, proprietary office PBX, then the IP PBX, has started evolving into a set of abstracted software services for unified communications that can be interwoven with business app services and processes in an SOA, without specialized telecom or VoIP expertise.

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Source: Infoworld

The Electronic Team

The Electronic Team

A host of new collaboration tools is making it possible for a federation of workers stationed at remote company sites and within partner and customer organizations to work to a single end. Tasks are no longer bounded by what resources can be ushered into a handful of conference rooms at an appointed hour. Now it is possible to stitch together teams on the fly by quickly ascertaining who is available, who has what knowledge of an issue and who can access what communications capabilities. A look at how companies are empowering their front line teams.

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Source: Network World