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Collaboration software and productivity software

• March 22, 2022 22 Mar'22

  Kurmi brings UC, CC provisioning automation to the cloud

  Software developer takes on-premise platform to a hosted model to deliver faster and easier access to the tools required to streamline and optimise the day-to-day administration of Unified Communication platforms

• March 21, 2022 21 Mar'22

  Wellness essential as hybrid work to see total redesign of the office

  Almost one-fifth of companies are asking employees to return to the office full-time, as new workspaces with quiet zones, Zoom pods and wellness areas are seen as key to retaining and attracting talent

• March 21, 2022 21 Mar'22

  Mavenir makes business communications software pivot

  Network software provider transitions from radio access network software solutions towards offering SaaS portfolio of business communications for CSPs, channels and systems integrators

• March 18, 2022 18 Mar'22

  Electronic patient records key to NHS digital transformation

  Getting EPR systems rolled out across NHS organisations will help boost digital transformation efforts, and are key to fulfilling government healthcare plans

• March 17, 2022 17 Mar'22

  Verizon Business enriches mobile endpoint for Microsoft Teams

  Business solutions provider becomes one of the first operators to join forces with IT giant to enable enterprise customers to experience the full power of communications and collaboration system

• March 14, 2022 14 Mar'22

  UK businesses struggling to support flexible work

  Research reveals that as hybrid becomes the norm, a clear majority of firms say the pandemic caused them to re-evaluate what they value in the workplace

• March 14, 2022 14 Mar'22

  More Tableau-Salesforce integrations on the cards

  Tableau and Salesforce are looking to deliver more ‘pre-integrated’ offerings that embed analytics capabilities into the latter’s portfolio of software-as-a-service applications

• March 10, 2022 10 Mar'22

  Hybrid cements place in working life as employees choose flexibility

  Research from automation platform advises that focusing on technologies that improve employee and IT experiences is critical for future of work success and retaining talent in the hybrid world

• March 09, 2022 09 Mar'22

  Glide connects Proximity Edge 8 datacentre to Birmingham dark fibre ring

  Second-city initiative with infrastructure and utilities business designed to bring increased diversity and additional low-latency connectivity options to edge colocation customers

• February 24, 2022 24 Feb'22

  Workers demand universal high-performance broadband to succeed with hybrid work

  Cisco Broadband Index finds just more than two-fifths of UK workers now rely on their home internet to work from home or run their own business, but almost three-quarters think broadband services need to dramatically improve to enable them to work ...

• February 23, 2022 23 Feb'22

  IT leaders primed to drive innovation and hybrid work

  As organisations move beyond the pandemic, survey shows IT leaders are being given greater levels of responsibility

• February 22, 2022 22 Feb'22

  Mondelēz moves global operations to digital workspace with Orange Business Services

  Snack giant transforms legacy infrastructure to digital platform, enabling communication and collaboration on a global scale, with analytics and AI used to improve customer experience and personalise service for employee workplace needs

• February 17, 2022 17 Feb'22

  Unified communications and collaboration set for automation surge in hybrid world

  Research reveals hybrid working world unified communications and collaboration now seen as improving productivity, but challenge exists for organisations managing UCC at scale to provision users across multiple apps and communications platforms

• February 15, 2022 15 Feb'22

  New world of work sees emergence of hybrid holiday

  Research from Virgin Media O2 suggests 2022 will be the year when working from anywhere becomes a reality for businesses across the UK

• February 09, 2022 09 Feb'22

  CPaaS key to enabling customer experience to drive digital transformation

  IDC study shows nearly four-fifths of enterprises are set to implement conversational customer engagement to improve customer experience

• February 04, 2022 04 Feb'22

  Vodafone Business teams with RingCentral to deliver cloud communications

  New cloud-based comms platform set to enable UK operator’s mobility and 5G capabilities to give customers more choice, flexibility and simplicity in workforce collaboration and remote working

• February 04, 2022 04 Feb'22

  Cisco pitches into private 5G, reveals hybrid work technology slate

  Comms and collaboration technology services giant introduces new technologies to help businesses rapidly scale networks and digitise operations

• February 01, 2022 01 Feb'22

  Dutch software engineers join campaign for research funding

  Software researchers from all over Europe are sounding the alarm: to maintain a strong international competitive position, more financial resources must be committed to software research

• February 01, 2022 01 Feb'22

  Citrix joins Tibco in Vista enterprise IT portfolio

  Vista, the investment firm backing enterprise software business, has acquired Citrix to flesh out its hybrid work portfolio

• January 21, 2022 21 Jan'22

  Majority of UK employees prefer hybrid work

  Survey reveals the importance of hybrid working and shows a degree of WFH fatigue following Omicron, with firms assessing when it will be possible to return to in-person work

• January 19, 2022 19 Jan'22

  Arizona State University taps Verizon for 5G Innovation Hub

  Verizon 5G Ultra Wideband and mobile edge compute services enable researchers to develop and test real-world solutions to enhance immersive education, remote learning, virtual reality and data analytics

• January 13, 2022 13 Jan'22

  2021 a blockbuster year for mobile apps

  Research from App Annie reveals most mobile-first environment ever seen, with more time than ever before spent in mobile apps, reaching 4.8 hours a day in the top mobile-first markets

• January 12, 2022 12 Jan'22

  IT teams give remote tech the thumbs up, but worry about extra work

  With people continuing to work from home, remote access technologies have become key tools in supporting a hybrid workforce

• January 04, 2022 04 Jan'22

  BlueJeans and Google join forces to unlock value for remote workforces

  Leading US comms provider re-bundles flagship collaboration platform so it can be preloaded on Google’s Glass Enterprise Edition 2

• December 23, 2021 23 Dec'21

  Avaya comms support Santa-as-a-service tracking

  As sleigh bells ring, Avaya’s OneCloud contact centre services let you chart Father Christmas’s journey

• December 23, 2021 23 Dec'21

  Renault, Dassault Systèmes strengthen partnership to accelerate car manufacturing

  Leading car manufacturer is adopting 3DEXPERIENCE on the cloud globally to power the next phase of its mobility journey and develop programmes for new vehicles and mobility services

• December 22, 2021 22 Dec'21

  Top 10 end-user computing stories of 2021

  Office work has largely remained hybrid this year. Here are Computer Weekly’s top 10 end-user computing stories of 2021

• December 21, 2021 21 Dec'21

  UK IT shapes up for hybrid new normal in 2022

  The latest Computer Weekly IT Priorities survey shows that secure connectivity and cloud remain at the core of enterprises’ needs for the foreseeable future

• December 15, 2021 15 Dec'21

  Avaya enhances educational and logistics environments with UCaaS and cloud

  Supply chain leader supports business expansion and supercharges agent retention with cloud comms platform, and enables ‘exceptional’ education experiences for thousands of students with unified comms as a service

• December 10, 2021 10 Dec'21

  More than 50% of UK workers would quit without hybrid work

  Research provides insight into the views of UK workers regarding splitting time between the office and home

• December 01, 2021 01 Dec'21

  IT Priorities 2022: IT a focus for business recovery

  The pandemic has accelerated IT initiatives – we look at what impact this will have on the CIO agenda for 2022

• November 30, 2021 30 Nov'21

  Rapidly changing hybrid workforce sees IT departments struggle to keep up

  Research finds faulty technology is leaving businesses ill-equipped to support the future of working, warning that tech-savvy workers will expect more from their employers

• November 24, 2021 24 Nov'21

  Zoom boom rolls on over to Q3 2021

  Partial return to the office fails to stop momentum of breakout collaboration technology giant in the third quarter of 2021

• November 23, 2021 23 Nov'21

  Ericsson boosts business play with $6.2bn Vonage acquisition

  Acquisition of IP communications provider expands Ericsson’s presence in wireless enterprise and broadens its global offerings, creating a global network and communication platform for open innovation

• November 18, 2021 18 Nov'21

  AstraZeneca looks at the bigger picture in enterprise social media

  How do you work with people in different time zones and from different cultures and what happens when people leave the company?

• November 12, 2021 12 Nov'21

  Klaxoon enters US and launches next-gen meetings workshop platform for hybrid work

  French teamwork and smart work technology provider unveils its next-generation workshop platform and expands in the US with CEO and key executives

• November 11, 2021 11 Nov'21

  Financial Conduct Authority chooses Aiimi for improved information discovery

  The Financial Conduct Authority has awarded a three-year contract to UK enterprise search firm Aiimi to enable the regulator’s staff to find documents more easily and collaborate better

• November 09, 2021 09 Nov'21

  No device upgrade for most UK workers during pandemic

  Research finds that most workers are still using equipment issued before lockdowns, raising fears of a productivity gap as staff work from home

• November 08, 2021 08 Nov'21

  More than four-fifths of firms expect to keep hybrid work environment

  While business leaders are comfortable with and believe there are many benefits to hybrid work, most organisations are unprepared to deliver a seamless experience in a hybrid workplace, where the need for end-to-end data visibility and actionable ...

• November 03, 2021 03 Nov'21

  Windstream Enterprise and BlueJeans up the ante in collaboration

  Managed communications service provider makes additions to unified comms offerings to enable effective and scalable collaboration while Verizon-owned company announces support for Microsoft Direct Guest Join

• November 01, 2021 01 Nov'21

  India’s tech workforce braces for hybrid work

  A Nasscom study reveals that India’s tech workers and their employers are planning to return to offices thrice a week, paving the way for hybrid work

• October 29, 2021 29 Oct'21

  Facebook rebrands to Meta amid continuing controversies

  Facebook has changed its corporate name to Meta to support its work on the next generation of “social technologies”, but concerns around trust and privacy persist

• October 28, 2021 28 Oct'21

  Cisco supports hybrid workforce augmented reality meeting solutions

  IT giant evolves collaboration suite to combine Webex meeting functionality with real-time, photorealistic holographic experience

• October 26, 2021 26 Oct'21

  COP26: Is the tech sector ready to rise to climate challenge?

  There is growing recognition that the tech sector produces mountains of e-waste and consumes significant amounts of energy and natural resources

• October 26, 2021 26 Oct'21

  CIO interview: Dal Virdi, IT director, Shakespeare Martineau

  The law firm is increasingly digitising its business and readying its infrastructure for future merger and acquisition activity

• October 25, 2021 25 Oct'21

  Chancellor sets aside £2.1bn to fund NHS IT modernisation

  Improving efficiency, reducing waiting times and expanding tests and scans are among the key targets for £5.9bn of extra NHS funding

• October 22, 2021 22 Oct'21

  Flexible a fixture as technology critical to hybrid working future

  Survey shows knowledge workers in leading economies believe that having an office space will be considered an employee benefit, rather than a mandatory way of working

• October 21, 2021 21 Oct'21

  Gitex 2021: Batelco brings collaboration to Bahrain operations

  Aiming to deliver evolved teamwork capabilities to its customers to accelerate Bahrain’s transition to the digital workplace, digital communications solutions provider adopts new collaboration technology

• October 18, 2021 18 Oct'21

  Gitex 2021: Avaya builds up AI experience to boost collaboration

  New communications and collaboration ecosystem launched to enable customers to achieve better business outcomes in the experience economy and the new hybrid working mode

• October 14, 2021 14 Oct'21

  CIO interview: Cynthia Stoddard, CIO, Adobe

  Leading IT at one of the world’s best-known software companies brings its own challenges and opportunities around digital transformation