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The Keys to the Office: Metro Bank Secures Office 365 for Mobile Employees

Metro Bank is Britain’s first new High Street bank in over 100 years. With a focus on the customer, Metro Bank provides unparalleled levels of service and convenience to its customers. Learn how Metro Bank ramps up employee productivity and collaboration with secure access to Office 365 apps.

Forrester: Business Applications Take Innovation Beyond The Cloud

As the shift to the cloud broadens across more business application types, application development and delivery, professionals are torn between maintaining key operational systems and making investments in innovative platforms that drive better customer experiences and business process innovation.

This report highlights five key predictions for 2015 in the context of your applications budget, portfolio mix, selection criteria, and the evolving vendor landscape.

ShoreTel Outranks Microsoft, Avaya, Cisco In Nemertes 2014 UC & Collaboration PilotHouse Report

This must-read report features independent research conducted by Nemertes in the spring of 2014. A demanding group of 500 IT professionals were asked to identify and rank their primary providers in the following technology areas:

IP Telephony
Integrated Unified Communications
Video Conferencing
Document Collaboration
Social Software

What are your VoIP options?

The versatility of VoIP has made it the leading choice for companies seeking an updated phone system that enables them to do more for less. Coming to the conclusion that you want VoIP is fairly simple; however, the next question you must answer is: which VoIP is best for my business?

To ensure you make the best choice for your business and budget, it’s important to compare the two types of VoIP available today: Basic and Managed. Finding the answer is easier than you think, mainly because we’ve done all the research for you. So call R&D and tell them you don’t need their VoIP comparison spreadsheet — you’ve got your own. Simply download the e-book "Which Hosted VoIP Solution is More Cost Effective for You" and you’ll be poised to make an informed decision in mere minutes.

Unified Communications Buyers Guide: The Top Ten Requirements for a UC Solution

This document offers an overview of the current top ten requirements to consider for a premise-based UC solution, with features called out as well as a ShoreTel case study.

9 Things to Consider Before Choosing a Cloud Phone Provider

In today’s economy, flexibility and speed are essential to success. It’s no surprise that more companies are turning to VoIP phone systems to give them the freedom they need to grow and accommodate clients near and far. But, how do you know which VoIP provider is best for your business?

To answer that question, first you must ask yourself if you want basic hosted VoIP or managed VoIP. Like the names sound, basic is a no-frills, DIY approach, while managed comes with all the latest features, including a team of experts to manage your system for you.

To make the best choice for your business and budget, download the e-book "9 Things to Consider Before Choosing a Cloud Phone Provider.”

SharePoint Best Practices 2013

SharePoint is a valuable collaboration tool. But your organization could be vulnerable if you don't take the right steps. There’s no silver bullet for securing SharePoint because each deployment is unique. However, there are 10 best practices that everyone should follow when using this collaboration tool.

Equinix’s Ad-IX ecosystem grows – why it matters to the enterprise

Equinix introduced the concept of the Ad-IX ecosystem for video advertising in April in hopes of finding the next launchpad that would help grow low-latency interconnect and colocation services. The company is reporting back six months later that it is, indeed, growing a valuable ecosystem of video advertising participants – 85 ad-tech companies that are counted as part of the Equinix customer base are part of Ad-IX.

Improving Collaboration by Adding Social Capabilities to Email

This paper looks at why email remains the primary mode of communication in business today and the fact that more and more organizations are looking at social software and other real-time communication methods to add to the email experience. Analyst firm IDC expects that organizations will use software, such as Notes and Domino 9x Social Edition which seamlessly combines email with social capabilities both on-premises and in the cloud, to complement existing tools and address the business need of getting the right data to/from the right people at the right time for the foreseeable future. Share this paper with your clients.

Applying social business: The repeatable patterns that improve business processes and provide return

A shift of power in commercial relationships from producers and sellers to buyers has changed marketplace and leadership thinking toward greater collaboration with customers, partners and employees. Fortunately, new capabilities in technology and business practices can help organizations adapt and harness these marketplace dynamics. Read this white paper for more information about seven examples of repeatable approaches for using social business practices and capabilities to impact your business, to create competitive advantage and to gain identifiable and measurable ROI.

The Keys to Securing Data in a Collaborative Workplace

Losing data is costly. According to the Ponemon Institute, the average data breach costs US organizations an estimated $200 per record, or $5.4 million total per breach. And apparently these breaches are equally likely to be from criminal attack as from employee or contractor negligence. It makes sense then that surveys point to data loss via unsecured file sync and share solutions as one of IT’s biggest concerns. IT professionals have spent years learning how to protect their organizations from hackers, but how do you ward off both external and internal threats when employees are seeking ways to collaborate more and more?

Design Matters! Enabling better collaboration

Collaborative design management helps you address complexity both at the team level and at the individual developer level. It enables integration of Architecture, Design and Development disciplines with the rest of the life cycle and supports the ALM imperatives. It provides advanced Architecture, Design and Construction capabilities to help organizations be more productive delivering applications leveraging the latest in emerging run-times, technologies and standards.

Integrate Rational ALM applications with SAP Solution Manager

IBM Application Lifecycle Management, powered by Jazz, delivers the IBM vision for a collaborative Application Lifecycle Management process. The IBM Application Lifecycle Management platform can now also be integrated with SAP Solution Manager to enhance quality throughout enterprise applications lifecycle for SAP and heterogeneous projects. In the Technical White Paper you will understand how SAP Solution Manager is integrated with IBM ALM.

Design Matters! Enabling better collaboration

Collaborative design management helps you address complexity both at the team level and at the individual developer level. It enables integration of Architecture, Design and Development disciplines with the rest of the lifecycle and supports the ALM imperatives. Read the white paper to learn the details. Design and Construction capabilities to help organizations be more productive delivering applications leveraging the latest in emerging runtimes, technologies and standards.

The changing role of the developer: Intergrate, collaborate, optimize or become irrelevant

A new, exciting reality exists in which software is the driver of innovation and you as developers are critical to your organization and to the way in which business value is delivered. To thrive, you will need to embrace three key themes; integrate, collaborate and optimize; or be left behind.