EXPLORING TOP UC&C TECH TRENDS

he lure of hybrid working is now the crux of creating a successful business alongside preserving a happy workforce. In turn, organisations should be aware of such technology trends to implement them seamlessly into their businesses.

UC&C tech developments

A UC&C strategy is vital to organisations looking to make huge advancements in video conferencing Video communication is widely facilitated with the likes of Microsoft Teams and Zoom, improving an organisation’s productivity whatever the sector

Zoom Rooms

Bridging the gap between people working remotely and those in the office Zoom Rooms offers UC&C solutions to businesses� With a brand new layout, the speaker or content is placed front and centre of the gallery meaning remote workers have a front row seat in online meetings This ensures everyone can fully participate in the meeting, wherever they are because they can see and hear everyone clearly

Microsoft Unified VR

Mesh is Microsoft’s take on unified VR, enabling organisations to create custom immersive experiences that provide a new way to connect with features such as avatars and spatial audio. Overtime it is stipulated that Mesh will integrate with Microsoft Teams Rooms which means that users will be able to perform Microsoft Teams meetings actions inside VR.

Innovations like this could effectively cut across locational barriers and make hybrid work as seamless as ever.

UC&C trends

Innovative cloud-based integration

In a multi-cloud model, an organisation can utilise a combination of on-premises, private cloud and public cloud servers to build, operate and access applications consistently

Having multiple cloud-based UC&C systems at part of an organisations workflow can aid in making business processes leaner and simpler by enabling regional availability, reducing costs and maintaining privacy all the while maintaining a high level of communication and collaboration

AI

Excited or apprehensive about it, AI is slowly becoming part of technology workflows and soon will be considered the norm - from data insights to chatbots and small assistants� AI in a UC&C strategy can help automate processes throughout the business, improve accessibility with speech-to-text transcriptions and even facilitate collaboration with file retrieval and scheduling

But what we should focus most on, is improving the connection between people and IT We already have the technology to do so much in communications; the most important thing now is to find better ways of utilising it As UC&C technology trends advance the possibilities are set to become limitless for businesses