Category Archives: Unified Communications

Cory Rehfeldt, Collaboration Practice Director, looks at the benefits and pitfalls associated with mid-market companies’ plans for unified communications – and advocates a carefully planned approach. According to KPMG, 60% of mid-market companies plan to increase capital spending in the near future, with the highest priority being information technology. More specifically, a Forrester Research survey […]

Earlier this year IDC Research predicted that cloud computing would grow even more rapidly over the coming years. In fact, IDC anticipates a tenfold increase in new cloud solutions, which is driven by what they call the ‘Third Platform’. Oliver Descoudres looks at its impact on CIOs. So what is the Third Platform? IDC has […]

Ian Cook looks at the Internet of things and asks how this idea might manifest itself and, more importantly, what businesses should be doing to capitalise on the concept. It’s not news that there are now more devices connected to the internet than there are people in the world. In the main these devices are […]

In the first of this two part series, Ian Cook, explored the role that communication and collaboration technologies can play in harnessing ‘informal innovation’.  In this second part, Logicalis UK MD, Tom Kelly, outlines the business and technology considerations that should guide the design of collaboration and communication infrastructure for harnessing innovation. As Ian rightly […]

Lucas Pinz, Senior IP Technology and Architectures Manager PromonLogicalis, examines the lessons businesses can learn from the ‘Virtual Choir’, a stunning illustration of the potential for creativity and innovation inherent in ‘mass collaboration’. “WE are smarter than ME.” This is the title of a very successful book written in 2007 by Barry Libert and Jon […]

Too much… or too little wireless? If you have taken a holiday away from home this summer, you might sympathise with Chris Gabriel who looks at his recent experiences of mobile communications and the minor revolutions that can occur when it’s not quite right! In truth this should be a podcast, not a blog – […]

Chris Gabriel, VP of Solutions Management at Logicalis Group, thinks ICT has too often been a limiting factor when it comes to innovation at the organisational edge.  He argues that the time, and the technology, is right for change. Is your organisation at the edge of innovation?  It’s time IT applied the final push For […]