Enterprise IT

Breaking Barriers: How Today’s Conferencing Tools Remove Silos and Optimize Productivity

Silos separating different departments can become major drains on any organization’s overall productivity. But their effects are often most acutely felt by remote and mobile teams, who can easily become isolated from their faraway colleagues and clients. With out-of-office work on the rise, a combination of well-designed workflows and modern collaboration tools is more necessary than ever to remove these silos and optimize team collaboration. This white paper on organizational silos and collaboration tools, will provide insight into:

  • Why organizational silos exist in the first place, and the extent to which they can negatively influence everyday operations.
  • Current trends in mobile and remote work, and how they raise the stakes for selecting the best possible collaboration software.
  • Other challenges (beyond silos) to cross-company collaboration, including delivering an acceptable user experience across multiple locations and for people on the go.
  • The four most important criteria for evaluating any modern collaboration suite, from its service quality to its multi-layered security.
  • The productivity gains achievable after silos, such as less reliance on tools with overlapping functionality and elimination of distracted multitasking on conference calls.

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Enterprise IT

The Buyer’s Guide to Collaboration Software

When selecting collaboration tools, it’s important to evaluate each solution holistically. You should look closely at how the options stack up not only in terms of their respective features, but also their security measures, hosting structures, application ecosystems and pricing plans. This approach will pay dividends for your entire organization’s productivity, especially in the age of rising mobile and remote work.

Focusing on what makes a difference in modern collaboration: A peek at this eBook you will learn:

  • The stakes – in terms of everyone’s productivity – for picking the right collaboration software for your organization.
  • Why it’s important to have a suite that combines multiple functions, such as chat and video conferencing, into one consolidated experience.
  • How comprehensive search within a collaboration platform helps teams overcome common challenges in juggling multiple apps and data sources.
  • The costs of data breaches today, and what security features are necessary in collaboration tools to ensure your communications are reliably protected from harm.
  • How to avoid confusion when looking at spec sheets and pricing plans for different collaboration solutions, and make an informed decision.
  • The key differences in technology and cost between hosted and cloud-based collaboration platforms.
  • Why a large ecosystem of compatible apps and integrations is essential in getting the most out of collaboration software.

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