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Return on investment for unified communications

Spearline Testing

Return on Investment: Unified Communications (UC) providers must ensure that their resources are being used efficiently. Importance of Unified Communications: Ofcom, the UK's communication regulator reported a 17% decline in the volume of calls made in recent years.

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Video conferencing trends for 2021

Spearline Testing

Likewise, platforms that require the user to download specific software or applications onto their device are likely to decline in popularity; it is believed that browser-based video platforms will replace these. Video conferencing commonly has capabilities for screen sharing, virtual whiteboards, live transcriptions, and video clipping.

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Thriving in a Cloud, Big Data, Mobility and Security World

Cloud Musings

Cloud/Client Computing - The convergence of cloud and mobile computing will continue to promote the growth of centrally coordinated applications that can be delivered to any device. Over time, applications will evolve to support simultaneous use of multiple devices.

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Understanding The Challenges Telco's Have Faced During COVID-19

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And in the conferencing/collaboration space, the volume of audio calls continues to increase as more and more workers began to meet virtually. Hayes stated, the initial series of business and societal lockdowns in countries from APAC to the Americas, starting in January through to April had a profound impact on the telecoms industry.

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5 hot IT budget investments — and 2 going cold

CIO Business Intelligence

Hot: AI and VR/AR With digital transformations moving at full throttle, and a desire to stay innovative, it should come as no surprise that use cases for virtual reality, augmented reality, and artificial intelligence continue to grow in several verticals. And it’s not just applications development where such tools are having an impact.

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Will cognitive networks enable better conversations in the future?

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In parallel, modern enterprise networks have evolved from being mainly hardware-driven to a software-driven fusion of virtual and physical networks. With keen competition in the market, customer experience management is now a vital focus for telecoms and unified communications providers. Connectivity is now a basic need.

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Smart Manufacturing Is Cloud Computing

Cloud Musings

Digital Thread is a communication framework that connects traditionally siloed elements in manufacturing processes in order to provide an integrated view of an asset throughout the manufacturing lifecycle. Enterprise integration platforms - Platforms that have the ability to receive data broadcast from equipment via secure open standards.

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