The benefits to extending unified communications and collaboration through the enterprise are well understood — but costs continue to deter organisations from implementing enterprise grade video conferencing in many smaller workspaces.
Many smaller groups end up having to manage with a lower quality experience on services like Skype running on a tablet/laptop/desktop. While the performance of…
Organisations (via their design teams) are getting more serious about creating collaborative workplaces — as this article from the Harvard Business Review shows in its exploration of Citrix's new office at Silicon Valley . It shares several design principles that architects and interior designers should adopt when they're in the process of creating corporate workspaces.
Some…
The primary role of Video collaboration and video conferencing is to provide businesses with an effective way to improve the speed and efficiency in business processes, and hence bring improvements in productivity. While this is certainly important to CIOs and CXOs undertaking video implementation, it’s often set aside once the process of selecting technology and…
Video collaboration is a powerful tool for enterprises — one that boosts productivity, saves costs and provides opportunities to transform work processes with improvements in efficiency. But for CXOs and CIOs, its also important to manage enterprise adoption to ensure a return on the investments made in setting up video collaboration infrastructure.
This 12-page survey report…
At Actis, we've been working on implementing Enterprise Collaboration or Unified Communications (UC) with clients for several years. The experiences we've had, point to problems in "Bridging the IT-AV divide" as a key issue that trips up implementation of enterprise collaboration. This is usually because either the IT and AV systems (or people) aren't working…
Enterprise AV standards are transitioning away from analog to digital standards - and this switch is being driven largely by video applications.
Ensuring that digital video can be incorporated into your organisation's or home's digital AV infrastructure while continuing to support legacy equipment is a challenge system designers need to plan for. With a wide array…
As cloud-based video conferencing solutions continue to mature, this NetworkWorld.com article provides some hints about the parameters that you need to consider when evaluating cloud versus hardware-based video conferencing systems.
NOTE: The article mentioned above has been contributed by Cisco Systems
The key factors that the author recommends that businesses consider are:
Simplicity, which is critical for user…
The buzz about 4k is already getting pretty loud, with consumer electronics manufacturers pitching it as the next upgrade you HAVE to get as the prices hit mainstream TVs.
But a closer looks suggests that 4K isn’t going to be perceptibly better for all screens (than FullHD) – and its impact on clarity and reducing pixel…
Making unified communications a reality for your business has long been easier said than done. But clearly this is a vision where the technology which is finally coming of age.
This report from Infocomm International (the global trade association representing the professional audiovisual and information communications industries) describes the "5 Trends Changing Unified Communications" and identifies…
Wired tells us, that the Hawaii Department of Education is switching to new, energy efficient classrooms because of high local power tariffs.
The new energy positive classrooms are "1,000-square-foot classroom projected to produce four times the energy it consumes—the result of eliminating the need for both artificial lighting and air conditioning."
Most interestingly, its slating,…