Avoiding common collaboration mistakes
Collaboration is vital to an agile business, plus it is one of the best ways to be effectively creative. That is, by bringing together limited resources, people and great ideas, collaboration plays an important role in companies rising above the rest and remaining...
Taking video collaboration to the cloud
The benefits of video conferencing (VC) are widely acknowledged – the technology enables face-to-face communication on demand, without the need to travel, improving productivity and enhancing collaborative abilities, says Divesh Nathoo, pre-sales manager at Kathea....
IM landscape changes rapidly in SA
The rapid growth of the WhatsApp instant messaging (IM) client and the decline in the volume of chat messages going through MXit over the past 12 months in South Africa, are indicative of the change in the way people are using their mobile phones to communicate with...
Kathea announces new Polycom product
Kathea, a distributor of video communications solutions, has announced the availability of the Polycom RealPresence CloudAXIS Suite, a software addition to the Polycom RealPresence Suite that extends secure, reliable and high-quality enterprise-grade video...
KEMP wins Microsoft accreditation
KEMP Technologies has announced it has achieved dual gold certification by Microsoft in Messaging and Communications, a unique distinction among application delivery solutions vendors. To gain these certifications, KEMP underwent a rigorous approval process by...
Mitel, Vidyo offer cloud telepresence
Mitel and Vidyo have partnered to deliver a single, comprehensive offering that will integrate Vidyo's HD video and telepresence solutions across Mitel's entire line of unified communications and collaborations (UCC) products. Through this reseller and distribution...
How tech is changing the way businesses talk
Networked-based communications – or Voice over IP (VoIP) – is responsible for a radical overhaul of the role of the business PBX. Previously a mere utility that switched voice calls, today’s IP-PBX offers unprecedented efficiencies, flexibility and functional variety,...
MicroStrategy integrates with Cisco UC
MicroStrategy Incorporated, a leading worldwide provider of enterprise software platforms, has unveiled a solution to further transform the way people work. MicroStrategy’s Mobile App Platform now integrates with Cisco’s Unified Communications (UC) platform, providing...
WiFi plays a role in effective UC
While many organisations have made the move to the cloud and virtualised applications and servers in their data centres, they have been slow to virtualise unified communications (UC) applications says Ruckus Wireless. However, with the technological advancements made,...
Avaya launches video collaboration solution
Avaya has announced the Avaya Video Collaboration Solution for IP Office, an all new video collaboration solution designed specifically for the small and midsize enterprise segment (SME). The Avaya Video Collaboration Solution for IP Office provides simple, affordable...
Integr8 advocates linking up to UC
The relevance of social networking to unified communications (UC) and the impact these resources have on business today cannot be over-estimated. Robert Sussman, joint CEO of South African managed ICT services provider Integr8 believes that Microsoft’s offerings in...
Companies need to integrate communications
Nowadays companies are increasingly expecting their employees to be able to communicate any time and from anywhere – and it appears that unified communications (UC) technologies are coming of age, and are providing this much-needed capability by consolidating a number...