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Many organizations fail to adequately budget for their collaboration implementations, leading to cost and time overruns. This tool will help you budget for initial platform deployment and ongoing collaboration solution design.

London, ON – June 15, 2011 – A recent Web Conferencing Vendor Landscape report published by Info-Tech Research Group and titled, “Select a Web Conferencing Vendor,” ranked Adobe Connect and Cisco WebEx as “Champions” in the Web Conferencing...

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The Web Conferencing market has matured, and the new features to evaluate are real-time communications as a service platform and mobile functionality.

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While you likely know the names, leading Web Conferencing vendors have different philosophies, and not all products solve all problems.

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Witness the power of this fully armed and operational collaboration system, and ensure you make the best Web conferencing decisions for the enterprise.

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Info-Tech conducted its own market evaluation of six leading Web Conferencing solutions. Use this tool to narrow the vendors to a shortlist of solutions that best satisfy the organization's requirements, before sending out RFPs and scheduling...

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Initial collaboration platform deployment consists of a number of discrete steps, from creating the front-end, support model, and back-end to designing and executing pilot projects. This tool will help serve as the basis for platform deployment...

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Unified Communications (UC) is an integrated approach to enhancing end-user communications and accelerating key business processes. Enterprises embarking on initial or follow-on UC implementations should leverage the UC Financial Calculator to...

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Unified Communications (UC) is an integrated approach to enhancing end-user communications and accelerating key business processes. Enterprises embarking on initial or follow-on UC implementations should leverage the UC Optimization Business...

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Unified Communications (UC) is an integrated approach to enhancing end-user communications and accelerating key business processes. Enterprises looking to maximize the return on UC investments need to focus on business requirements and execute...

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Unified Communications (UC) is an integrated approach to enhancing end-user communications and accelerating key business processes. Enterprises looking to maximize the return on UC investments need to focus on business requirements and execute...

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To successfully implement a collaboration platform, put the right people behind the implementation. If the budget allows, hire a dedicated resource to execute the implementation to increase user uptake. The Collaboration Business Analyst plays a...

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Building a library of collaboration solutions for ad-hoc and persistent teams is essential for enabling effective collaboration. This tool assists IT architects and business analysts conducting collaboration pattern matching (pairing the...

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Info-Tech's Annual Audit Template will help you conduct an annual assessment of the existing collaboration environment. It will consider a variety of different factors to construct a strategy for the ongoing operation of the collaboration system.

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Successfully implementing a collaboration platform is essential for realizing business value. The implementation should be split into two distinct phases: initial platform deployment and ongoing solution design. IT managers are familiar with the...

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Successfully implementing a collaboration platform is essential for realizing business value. The implementation should be split into two distinct phases: initial platform deployment and ongoing solution design.

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Documenting social collaboration and E2E interaction strategy into a business plan is a crucial step in planning a social tool implementation. This template builds on the results from the Social Collaboration Maturity and Readiness Assessment...

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Social collaboration tools are invaluable for enhancing employee-to-employee collaboration, but some organizations are better positioned to immediately take advantage of social tools than others. Use this tool to determine, based on your answers...

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Social tools are now being offered by a number of collaboration vendors. Many organizations are unsure of how to integrate social tools with existing team workflows. Managers must embrace, rather than hinder, integration of social collaboration...

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Social tools are now being offered by a number of collaboration vendors. Many organizations are unsure of how to integrate social tools with existing team workflows. It's important for managers to embrace, rather than hinder, integration of...

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Unified Communications (UC) is an integrated approach to enhancing end user communications and accelerating key business processes. Watch this video to learn more about how you can get your UC initiative started on the right track.

This solution set will help enterprises identify and rate the best fit candidates in terms of their ability to deliver on the organization's UC strategy.

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Unified Communications (UC) is an integrated approach to enhancing end user communications and accelerating key business processes. Enterprises exploring the potential benefits and challenges of this approach should leverage the UC Fit...

Geographically distributed enterprises are realizing tangible travel savings and productivity benefits following the implementation of videoconferencing systems. Learn from the experiences of early adopters in the field and start building the...

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Ensure that traveling employees are aware of what is considered an acceptable expense and what expenses are eligible for reimbursement by the organization. Establish guidelines by drafting, implementing, and communicating a travel expense policy.

The travel budget is a popular target for IT cost-management. To effectively manage travel expenses, IT decision-makers should examine the drivers behind significant travel budgets. The basis for employee travel needs to be identified and the...

Collaboration tools are etching themselves into the corporate IT landscape. With so many ways to share and communicate, Info-Tech provides the research necessary to get IT leaders started on a collaboration strategy.

Web conferencing cuts costs, gains efficiencies, and meets customer demands without heavy investment. By learning how to use it in the business, IT managers can derive value for the enterprise even under a tightening economy.

Web conferencing has become a common tool for collaboration among employees, customers, and partners. While core Web conferencing features have become commodities, vendors are bringing specialized products to market for training, sales and team...

By delivering enhanced collaborative capabilities to end users, Unified Communications (UC) solutions can create new telework opportunities for a great number of job roles in an organization. Small enterprise IT leaders should understand the...