When it comes to handling customers, not everybody has the same ideas. Marketing people may want to launch an exciting promotion to bring in new customers, but the likely flood of calls to the company contact centre requires close co-ordination with th...
Collaboration – working together with information and ideas to create new knowledge, concepts, products, solutions and other business value – is a powerful, central force in the information age. Collaboration is prominent in enterprise valu...
Interest in collaboration is rising rapidly in Australia. This is abundantly reflected in Australian organisations’ increasing engagement with all kinds of collaboration tools and technologies, and the tools’ growing use in business. Access...
OK you IT dudes out there – I have a prediction and a challenge for you.
The next big thing in IT is… productivity Mark II – connected communities. This revolution will feature executive and professional productivity driven throug...
Convergence is reforming the way we conduct business and transforming our daily lives. The now clichéd “blurring” of traditional roles through modern methods is creating paradigm shifts such as that of content between user and publis...
Collaboration is not something you can buy. It is not a product. It is not even a solution. It is an approach to doing business. As such, collaboration initiatives must be viewed more as a transformative business project with IT support. Large-scale, m...
Building a major communications network is always challenging, but it’s doubly difficult when you’re trying to do it in the remote reaches of far north Queensland. Angus Kidman looks at how the Cape York Digital Network overcame its technic...
Les Wark, a leading Sydney-based technology consultant, asks why visual collaboration technologies have become unnecessarily complex, and offers his suggestions on simple solutions for Australian CIOs.
Australian companies are facing several critica...
VoIP unifies the modern workflow system
According to Gerard Neiditsch, Mallesons' Executive Director Business Integration & Technology, the catalyst for the firm's VoIP deployment was, initially, replacing legacy PABX's in Australia. Buildin...
Cisco’s annual Networkers conference in Brisbane let networking and IT experts from around the country learn about the latest technological developments, and how they can be harnessed to deliver collaborative solutions that offer real business be...
Philip Goldie, Director,
Enterprise Product Marketing,
Nortel, Asia answers our questions
SP: A lot of terms are now being brought to market – and with them some confusion – does Nortel see a difference between unified communications a...
One on one executive insight
Looking at collaboration with Mark Tatham-Thompson
SP: All enterprise desktops today have a phone and a computer. Three to five years from now, which device do you think knowledge workers will reach for when they go...