AN OVERVIEW OF TODAY'S ENTERPRISE COLLABORATION LANDSCAPE Collaboration technologies bring significant performance improvements in today’s business landscape, presenting a new dimension of productivity, real-time collaboration, information-sharing, and team management. As we discussed in a recent article, a new era of collaboration across people is leading companies to more effective business outcomes. In this article, we would like to present you the collaboration technologies that make today’s business landscape so innovative and efficient.
Social Collaboration Aberdeen Group, the leading provider of fact-based research focused on the global technology-driven value chain, released in the late 2013 a research that highlights some concrete business benefits that can result from social collaboration. Aberdeen Group defined Enterprise social collaboration (ESC) as a term that describes the technologies, processes and services used to boost collaboration in the workplace. The ESC concept uses social media to promote teamwork, the sharing of ideas and knowledge specifically to improve business outcomes. Enterprise adoption of social collaboration technologies has accelerated lately as companies looking for more competitive advantages understood that a more knowledge-sharing environment will increase productivity and innovation. Video and web conferencing A recent survey conducted by Quomu to learn more about employee use of video within the enterprise, found three scenarios where video is beneficial - training, internal communications and collaboration. Companies these days are integrating video into their enterprise collaboration landscape as a way to share information and teach employees. Web conferencing is now a key part of enterprise collaboration, providing companies with benefits of audio, web and video technologies - all in one technology solution. Mobility and the Cloud Even though the trend for people to use their own devices - smartphones, tablets, netbooks -within the workplace poses significant compliance and security risks, companies are starting to embrace a collaborative environment based in the cloud, while learning how to better protect their businesses. This new way of working provide employees with easy and real-time exchange of information capabilities, encouraging them to work more effectively with suppliers and customers and to break the dependence on outdated, linear workflows. The revolution in IT has transformed the way in which companies operate. With a collaborative environment, based on social media, mobility, cloud computing, and video capabilities, the new workplace is in a continuous change, making room for increased productivity and efficiency.
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