1) Aviva implemented a global intranet using Microsoft SharePoint and collaboration tools like Microsoft Lync to replace hundreds of file servers and enable flexible working worldwide.
2) Employees can work from anywhere using non-corporate devices like laptops and iPads with single sign-on and secure data access. Hot desking and reduced office space has increased productivity.
3) Aviva uses tools like SMART Boards, Bridgit software, and Sketchflow to enable remote and distributed collaboration on documents and apps, including rapid prototyping of an app to model flood risk using data from various sources.
The document discusses a new collaborative software delivery platform that integrates Lotus Connections' social and collaborative capabilities with Rational Team Concert and the Rational Software Development Platform to enable improved collaboration across distributed software development teams and geographies. An example use case is provided that demonstrates how various IBM collaboration tools can be used together to support a social software development process.
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1) The document discusses how collaboration technologies can transform businesses by empowering, engaging, and enabling innovation among employees.
2) It highlights key collaboration trends like the growth of mobile users and video traffic that businesses need to adapt to. Collaboration allows locating and accessing remote experts, enabling mobile and BYOD workers, and collaborating with external organizations.
3) The presentation argues that combining mobility, social, visual, and virtual collaboration technologies can increase productivity, innovation, and growth by facilitating interactions anywhere, finding expertise, and extending communications beyond the organization.
Axiom8 is developing software that aims to connect people for communication regardless of their location or devices. The software stores user profiles and connection information to determine the best way to reach someone by pager, phone, email or other means with just a click. It also allows users to control their availability and manage incoming communications. The founders believe this software can facilitate more impromptu virtual meetings and collaboration beyond current technology. Early investors are confident the software can have significant impact given the growing need for remote collaboration.
The document discusses the rise of shadow IT and consumerization of IT. It notes that over the last 3 years, user-driven IT has added more to productivity than corporate IT. Reasons for the rise of shadow IT include rigid corporate IT policies, lack of choice and fun usability. The document outlines how IT is evolving to become more flexible and driven by end user needs, including accepting bring your own device (BYOD) and moving to cloud-based solutions. It argues that standardization will mean creating a more dynamic IT environment that removes technology constraints and allows self-service options.
The document discusses Cisco's applications strategy and opportunities for developers. It highlights trends in video usage, cloud adoption, and mobile workforces. Cisco aims to support developers through its developer program, which provides SDKs, APIs, documentation, training, and a marketplace. Developers can also use Cisco AppHQ to securely deploy and manage apps for enterprises.
The document discusses a new collaborative software delivery platform that integrates Lotus Connections' social and collaborative capabilities with Rational Team Concert and the Rational Software Development Platform to enable improved collaboration across distributed software development teams and geographies. An example use case is provided that demonstrates how various IBM collaboration tools can be used together to support a social software development process.
Servcorp futurebooks cloud computing for smesFuturebooks
Cloud computing is a rental service of hardware and software, delivered to users via the internet.
Cloud is a business accelerator - it provides SMEs enterprise-level applications without the head ache of ownership.
During Servcorp's Business shorts event in Singapore, we try to demystify cloud and offer solutions SMEs in Singapore can immediately begin using.
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1) The document discusses how collaboration technologies can transform businesses by empowering, engaging, and enabling innovation among employees.
2) It highlights key collaboration trends like the growth of mobile users and video traffic that businesses need to adapt to. Collaboration allows locating and accessing remote experts, enabling mobile and BYOD workers, and collaborating with external organizations.
3) The presentation argues that combining mobility, social, visual, and virtual collaboration technologies can increase productivity, innovation, and growth by facilitating interactions anywhere, finding expertise, and extending communications beyond the organization.
Axiom8 is developing software that aims to connect people for communication regardless of their location or devices. The software stores user profiles and connection information to determine the best way to reach someone by pager, phone, email or other means with just a click. It also allows users to control their availability and manage incoming communications. The founders believe this software can facilitate more impromptu virtual meetings and collaboration beyond current technology. Early investors are confident the software can have significant impact given the growing need for remote collaboration.
The document discusses the rise of shadow IT and consumerization of IT. It notes that over the last 3 years, user-driven IT has added more to productivity than corporate IT. Reasons for the rise of shadow IT include rigid corporate IT policies, lack of choice and fun usability. The document outlines how IT is evolving to become more flexible and driven by end user needs, including accepting bring your own device (BYOD) and moving to cloud-based solutions. It argues that standardization will mean creating a more dynamic IT environment that removes technology constraints and allows self-service options.
The document discusses Cisco's applications strategy and opportunities for developers. It highlights trends in video usage, cloud adoption, and mobile workforces. Cisco aims to support developers through its developer program, which provides SDKs, APIs, documentation, training, and a marketplace. Developers can also use Cisco AppHQ to securely deploy and manage apps for enterprises.
The document discusses the benefits of social collaboration technologies in the workplace. It summarizes views from several industry analysts that predict increased adoption of social tools for business communication and collaboration. The document then outlines Atos' approach to social collaboration, called "Zero email", which aims to reduce workplace email use. Atos provides examples of deploying social collaboration solutions for various clients and shares the benefits experienced, such as increased productivity, employee engagement, and speed of communication.
This document discusses the consumerization of IT infrastructure and the rise of cloud computing. It notes that 80% of large enterprise IT managers are at least in trial stage for cloud computing initiatives and that 70% of IT budgets are spent maintaining inflexible and siloed data center equipment. It also states that 84% of organizations have a remote workforce and that 4 million millennials will enter the workforce each year.
An expert summarizes the key points from the document in 3 sentences:
The document discusses trends in developing effective corporate intranets, including stakeholder engagement, information architecture, content management, design, innovation, and tools to enable collaboration. It provides examples of how one large multinational company has improved its intranet to better communicate with a global workforce. While social media tools like Twitter could enable communication, their misuse risks distracting from important company messages unless robust governance policies are established.
What can IBM Connections Cloud do for my business?Alan Hamilton
In this presentation we explore some common use cases applicable to any business, and demonstrate how IBM Connections Cloud can help build productivity, effectiveness, stronger relationships with customers and potential reduce travel costs.
The document discusses creating a workplace of tomorrow through activity-based working. It notes challenges such as inability to attract and retain top talent, leaking institutional knowledge, and gaps in innovation due to traditional workspaces. It promotes activity-based working which relies on designing workspaces tailored to different activities, supported by workplace technology, policy, and culture changes. This new approach aims to improve employee productivity, collaboration, and satisfaction while reducing real estate costs.
This document provides updates and tips for social media marketing. It discusses setting up a content marketing program with regular blog posts. It promotes embedding videos in blogs and using Twitter to share interesting facts from reports. Mobile apps and curating factoids are also presented as ways to engage customers. An alumni company, Wirehead Technology, is featured for its curated mobility blog.
This document summarizes a sales pitch for Google Apps. It discusses how Google Apps provides a 100% web-based solution for collaboration, communication and productivity. Key benefits highlighted include innovation, mobility, consumerization and collaboration. Google is positioned as uniquely able to deliver this vision through its web native platform, enormous scale and engineering excellence. Pricing and functionality of Google Apps products like Gmail, Calendar and Docs are outlined. Customer case studies are provided as examples of organizations using Google Apps to reduce costs while improving user experience. Next steps proposed include workshops and proof of concepts to demonstrate value and facilitate adoption.
You may have heard that Microsoft NextGen Portals are coming. And maybe you are already using tools like Delve that are the first generation of these NextGen Portals. But many questions around NextGen Portals have gone unanswered.
Get the answers you need to better understand and use Microsoft NextGen Portals.
In this webinar, Portal Solutions’ Daniel Cohen-Dumani and Josh Steiner discuss the most frequently asked questions about NextGen Portals.
- What are NextGen Portals anyway?
- Why are NextGen Portals important?
- When are NextGen Portals coming?
This report uncovers major themes, key trends and opportunities to help you grow your business and progress your career into the future. Available in different formats to buy or just preview, the themes of PSFK's Future of Work report cover the Ideal Workforce, Empowered Culture, Intuitive Connection and Agile Workplaces. PSFK extends its 'Future of' reports with the 140 page document that covers the new ways we are working and the implications for business and for workers.
Within each theme we describe 4 trends and each trend is supported by 4 examples, supporting statistics and implications defined by our PSFK Labs team. During this process we spoke to a number of experts to understand the trends better. Their feedback can be found in quotes and interviews throughout the report.
As a bonus, we also turned to a number of creative agencies to bring the trends to life. We asked them to imagine the future of work and you will find their concepts within this document. At the end of the report, you will also discover the submission of examples of progressive work environments. These were submitted by the readers of PSFK.com after we asked for their input into the report in 2012.
We hope that you find inspiration in every section of PSFK's Future of Work report. For copies, downloads or an in-person presentation please visit: http://bit.ly/VghG9z
This is the presentation from our recent business breakfast. This event looked at current collaborative platforms such as SharePoint, Jive, Yammer and how they can fit together to communicate effectively with your employees.
Collaboration is key for agile organizations to promote information sharing, encourage experimentation and learning, and function as a network of employees, customers, and partners. For teams to excel, they need a common collaboration platform that provides a seamless experience across devices. Cisco aims to provide this through technologies like Cisco Spark, WebEx, and video conferencing to support pervasive team collaboration. The future of work involves flexible, agile teams that can work from anywhere using tools optimized for different workstyles and the mobile workforce.
This 150-page report from PSFK Labs describes 16 trends within 4 macro themes related to the future of work. It identifies 64 examples of these trends being implemented, illustrates 12 future work concepts, and provides reactions from executives, research, and 80 recommended next steps. The report aims to help companies understand how work is changing and evolve accordingly.
This document discusses whether virtual worlds are still relevant for business applications. It provides several examples of how companies like IBM have used virtual worlds for various uses such as collaboration, recruitment, education, and training. While there are technological, legal, organizational, and cultural challenges to virtual worlds, they can provide benefits like establishing trust, saving time and costs, and enabling remote and immersive learning.
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expensive servers and software licences).
The document discusses key points about using cloud services for charities. It notes that within 2 years, using cloud services will be the norm rather than exception. A survey found that 67% of charities employ no staff to maintain technology, so cloud solutions could offer more stable and secure infrastructure while saving money. The document provides tips for charities considering cloud services, such as using free tools first before spending, investing in training, starting with crucial tools, backing up data, and ensuring new tools help achieve goals. Commenters discuss embracing cloud strategically but also properly assessing costs, risks, and legal frameworks. They note cloud can help collaboration but requires investment and staff resources
I am a Test Engineer: Why should I care about DevOps?Anand Deshpande
This document discusses how test engineers should embrace DevOps. It notes that born digital companies are innovating rapidly using DevOps to keep pace with business needs. DevOps helps improve efficiency, reduce costs and team sizes by shortening the cycle between development, testing and operations. The document advises that as a tester, one's future is best served by being part of a DevOps team through embracing a culture of collaboration without blame, automating processes, using lean principles and continuously measuring and improving. It suggests expanding testing skills to include automation, behavior driven development and chaos engineering approaches.
The document discusses flexible workstyles and solutions for enabling employees to work from anywhere using multiple devices. It describes a changing work environment where employees expect to access corporate systems remotely using smartphones, tablets, and laptops. The proposed solutions include unified device management, secure access to corporate networks from mobile devices, virtual desktop infrastructure to optimize hardware costs, and personalized Windows experiences across different devices. Personas of various employees are provided along with scenarios of how the proposed solutions would meet their needs.
What is workspaces for tomorrow?
What makes it different from other workstyles?
What is Dimension Data doing in this space and our consultative approach?
How do technology solutions enable workspaces for tomorrow?
Why consider Dimension Data?
In today’s consumer technology world,
the quality of the experience is
everything. So why shouldn’t the
business IT experience be as good as
the one we enjoy at home, during our
leisure time?
Although digital disruptions have been happening for a few decades, no one would have imagined the transparency and efficiency technology brought to remote working.
The document discusses the benefits of social collaboration technologies in the workplace. It summarizes views from several industry analysts that predict increased adoption of social tools for business communication and collaboration. The document then outlines Atos' approach to social collaboration, called "Zero email", which aims to reduce workplace email use. Atos provides examples of deploying social collaboration solutions for various clients and shares the benefits experienced, such as increased productivity, employee engagement, and speed of communication.
This document discusses the consumerization of IT infrastructure and the rise of cloud computing. It notes that 80% of large enterprise IT managers are at least in trial stage for cloud computing initiatives and that 70% of IT budgets are spent maintaining inflexible and siloed data center equipment. It also states that 84% of organizations have a remote workforce and that 4 million millennials will enter the workforce each year.
An expert summarizes the key points from the document in 3 sentences:
The document discusses trends in developing effective corporate intranets, including stakeholder engagement, information architecture, content management, design, innovation, and tools to enable collaboration. It provides examples of how one large multinational company has improved its intranet to better communicate with a global workforce. While social media tools like Twitter could enable communication, their misuse risks distracting from important company messages unless robust governance policies are established.
What can IBM Connections Cloud do for my business?Alan Hamilton
In this presentation we explore some common use cases applicable to any business, and demonstrate how IBM Connections Cloud can help build productivity, effectiveness, stronger relationships with customers and potential reduce travel costs.
The document discusses creating a workplace of tomorrow through activity-based working. It notes challenges such as inability to attract and retain top talent, leaking institutional knowledge, and gaps in innovation due to traditional workspaces. It promotes activity-based working which relies on designing workspaces tailored to different activities, supported by workplace technology, policy, and culture changes. This new approach aims to improve employee productivity, collaboration, and satisfaction while reducing real estate costs.
This document provides updates and tips for social media marketing. It discusses setting up a content marketing program with regular blog posts. It promotes embedding videos in blogs and using Twitter to share interesting facts from reports. Mobile apps and curating factoids are also presented as ways to engage customers. An alumni company, Wirehead Technology, is featured for its curated mobility blog.
This document summarizes a sales pitch for Google Apps. It discusses how Google Apps provides a 100% web-based solution for collaboration, communication and productivity. Key benefits highlighted include innovation, mobility, consumerization and collaboration. Google is positioned as uniquely able to deliver this vision through its web native platform, enormous scale and engineering excellence. Pricing and functionality of Google Apps products like Gmail, Calendar and Docs are outlined. Customer case studies are provided as examples of organizations using Google Apps to reduce costs while improving user experience. Next steps proposed include workshops and proof of concepts to demonstrate value and facilitate adoption.
You may have heard that Microsoft NextGen Portals are coming. And maybe you are already using tools like Delve that are the first generation of these NextGen Portals. But many questions around NextGen Portals have gone unanswered.
Get the answers you need to better understand and use Microsoft NextGen Portals.
In this webinar, Portal Solutions’ Daniel Cohen-Dumani and Josh Steiner discuss the most frequently asked questions about NextGen Portals.
- What are NextGen Portals anyway?
- Why are NextGen Portals important?
- When are NextGen Portals coming?
This report uncovers major themes, key trends and opportunities to help you grow your business and progress your career into the future. Available in different formats to buy or just preview, the themes of PSFK's Future of Work report cover the Ideal Workforce, Empowered Culture, Intuitive Connection and Agile Workplaces. PSFK extends its 'Future of' reports with the 140 page document that covers the new ways we are working and the implications for business and for workers.
Within each theme we describe 4 trends and each trend is supported by 4 examples, supporting statistics and implications defined by our PSFK Labs team. During this process we spoke to a number of experts to understand the trends better. Their feedback can be found in quotes and interviews throughout the report.
As a bonus, we also turned to a number of creative agencies to bring the trends to life. We asked them to imagine the future of work and you will find their concepts within this document. At the end of the report, you will also discover the submission of examples of progressive work environments. These were submitted by the readers of PSFK.com after we asked for their input into the report in 2012.
We hope that you find inspiration in every section of PSFK's Future of Work report. For copies, downloads or an in-person presentation please visit: http://bit.ly/VghG9z
This is the presentation from our recent business breakfast. This event looked at current collaborative platforms such as SharePoint, Jive, Yammer and how they can fit together to communicate effectively with your employees.
Collaboration is key for agile organizations to promote information sharing, encourage experimentation and learning, and function as a network of employees, customers, and partners. For teams to excel, they need a common collaboration platform that provides a seamless experience across devices. Cisco aims to provide this through technologies like Cisco Spark, WebEx, and video conferencing to support pervasive team collaboration. The future of work involves flexible, agile teams that can work from anywhere using tools optimized for different workstyles and the mobile workforce.
This 150-page report from PSFK Labs describes 16 trends within 4 macro themes related to the future of work. It identifies 64 examples of these trends being implemented, illustrates 12 future work concepts, and provides reactions from executives, research, and 80 recommended next steps. The report aims to help companies understand how work is changing and evolve accordingly.
This document discusses whether virtual worlds are still relevant for business applications. It provides several examples of how companies like IBM have used virtual worlds for various uses such as collaboration, recruitment, education, and training. While there are technological, legal, organizational, and cultural challenges to virtual worlds, they can provide benefits like establishing trust, saving time and costs, and enabling remote and immersive learning.
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expensive servers and software licences).
The document discusses key points about using cloud services for charities. It notes that within 2 years, using cloud services will be the norm rather than exception. A survey found that 67% of charities employ no staff to maintain technology, so cloud solutions could offer more stable and secure infrastructure while saving money. The document provides tips for charities considering cloud services, such as using free tools first before spending, investing in training, starting with crucial tools, backing up data, and ensuring new tools help achieve goals. Commenters discuss embracing cloud strategically but also properly assessing costs, risks, and legal frameworks. They note cloud can help collaboration but requires investment and staff resources
I am a Test Engineer: Why should I care about DevOps?Anand Deshpande
This document discusses how test engineers should embrace DevOps. It notes that born digital companies are innovating rapidly using DevOps to keep pace with business needs. DevOps helps improve efficiency, reduce costs and team sizes by shortening the cycle between development, testing and operations. The document advises that as a tester, one's future is best served by being part of a DevOps team through embracing a culture of collaboration without blame, automating processes, using lean principles and continuously measuring and improving. It suggests expanding testing skills to include automation, behavior driven development and chaos engineering approaches.
The document discusses flexible workstyles and solutions for enabling employees to work from anywhere using multiple devices. It describes a changing work environment where employees expect to access corporate systems remotely using smartphones, tablets, and laptops. The proposed solutions include unified device management, secure access to corporate networks from mobile devices, virtual desktop infrastructure to optimize hardware costs, and personalized Windows experiences across different devices. Personas of various employees are provided along with scenarios of how the proposed solutions would meet their needs.
What is workspaces for tomorrow?
What makes it different from other workstyles?
What is Dimension Data doing in this space and our consultative approach?
How do technology solutions enable workspaces for tomorrow?
Why consider Dimension Data?
In today’s consumer technology world,
the quality of the experience is
everything. So why shouldn’t the
business IT experience be as good as
the one we enjoy at home, during our
leisure time?
Although digital disruptions have been happening for a few decades, no one would have imagined the transparency and efficiency technology brought to remote working.
Polycom provides video and voice technology solutions to help organizations leverage their talent and resources in real time. The document discusses how work is changing with different generations, faster business speeds, and digital transformation. It describes how a global team of 10 people across 6 countries needs to collaborate effectively to meet a deadline. Polycom offers seamless, easy, and integrated solutions on any device to meet collaboration needs and expectations of both end users and IT.
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Customer Name:
International HIV/AIDS Alliance
Industry:
Charity
Location:
Brighton, United Kingdom
Number of Employees:
450
Challenge:
œ Facilitate communication and
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network of partner organisations
œ Reduce travel costs and save
resources
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œ Saved more than 25 percent on
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Customer Name: iSpot
Industry: Business Advisory
Location: Scotland Head Office
Number of Employees: 6
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• Transform business model for proven strategic business software tool
• Enable direct, hands-on facilitation without travel or physical meetings
• Bring in multiple participants from any location, using any connected device
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• Cisco WebEx collaborative platform enables powerful pre-sales demos
• WebEx online desktop-sharing via multiple devices with live audio and video
• Easy access to conference recordings for quick linkage to mind-maps
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• WebEx reach and scalability support global business model
• Average travel-related cost avoidance for meeting of ten people is £65,000 a day
• 100 percent sales conversion success rate from Cisco WebEx sales presentations
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Podio is a collaborative work platform that allows users to organize projects, exchange ideas, assign tasks and review work. It facilitates communication and collaboration for teams regardless of location. Podio makes collaboration simple through features like customizable workspaces, an activity stream, and over 700 free apps. It integrates with services like GoToMeeting to manage meetings and share files from within workspaces.
Podio is a collaborative work platform that allows users to organize projects, exchange ideas, assign tasks and review work. It facilitates communication and collaboration for teams regardless of location. Podio makes collaboration simple through features like customizable workspaces, an activity stream, and free mobile apps. It integrates with other tools like GoToMeeting to further improve project management and communication.
Emmelibri, a leading Italian book distributor, implemented a Cisco collaboration solution to improve communication between employees and partners. The solution included Cisco Jabber, Unified Communications Manager, and TelePresence technologies. This allowed employees to stay connected from any location via mobile devices and enabled faster response times to customers through improved collaboration. The new system increased productivity and efficiency through more streamlined operations and significant cost savings on travel.
- Unify is a global provider of enterprise communications solutions and services with worldwide revenues of $2.6 billion in 2013 and the #2 market share globally and #1 in Europe.
- The document discusses Unify's history of innovation in communications technologies dating back to 1847 and its recent focus on solutions that improve virtual team engagement and collaboration through its Circuit platform.
- Circuit is presented as Unify's new collaboration and communications platform that brings together voice, video, messaging, screen sharing and file sharing in a single interface to improve teamwork for organizations with virtual and mobile workforces.
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Laura Yecies, Acting CEO of Catch.com, discusses next generation collaboration technologies and trends. Mobile devices are driving growth of cloud services like file syncing and sharing. Catch allows users to capture ideas, notes, and documents and easily collaborate with teams on any device. Catch provides secure team accounts for enterprises, with admin controls and mobile device management integration, to maximize collaborative storage and ideation.
Next Generation Collaboration - Presentation at ICT Spring 2013Laura Yecies
Laura Yecies, the acting CEO of Catch.com, discussed next generation collaboration technologies and trends. Mobile devices are driving growth in cloud services like file syncing and sharing. Notes and ideas are also moving to the cloud as users collaborate on mobile. Catch provides a solution for capturing ideas, organizing notes, searching content, and collaborating securely across teams on any device. It aims to be the leading mobile app and enterprise solution for collaborative notes.
1) IBM's SmartCloud for Social Business collaboration services allow organizations to become social businesses by integrating social collaboration tools like messaging, file sharing, and online meetings with business processes.
2) A social business deepens customer relationships, drives operational effectiveness, and optimizes workforces by enabling trusted networks where people can share ideas and expertise.
3) IBM's cloud-based social business platform reduces costs and complexity for organizations by providing integrated social collaboration and email services without requiring new infrastructure investments.
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The document summarizes an online workspace called New Day at Work that aims to provide customizable business software solutions for SMBs. It allows users to work from anywhere on any device, offers automated processes, and streamlines workflows. Customers can access all files and share information. Pricing is on a per user monthly subscription model starting at $10-$30. The company focuses on customizing solutions for each business based on their processes within 1 day.
Avaya is reorganizing its product and R&D functions around three divisions: Avaya Networking, Avaya Collaboration Infrastructure, and Avaya Applications and Emerging Technology. The Applications and Emerging Technology division combines the former Unified Communications, Contact Center, and Emerging Products & Technology groups. This realignment emphasizes applications in response to demands from Avaya users for more consumer-oriented technologies and context-driven communications that provide a consistent experience across devices and locations. The goal is to more quickly move ideas from research into testing and delivery of new applications and services to market.
This white paper discusses whether tablets with wireless data plans make sense for businesses compared to Wi-Fi only tablets. It notes that Wi-Fi only tablets are suitable when employees work in fixed locations with secure Wi-Fi, but wireless data allows mobile employees to work productively anywhere. The paper also warns that public Wi-Fi poses security risks to sensitive business data and that wireless carriers can provide more robust security than most public hotspots. It concludes that the total costs of a wireless data plan may be offset by gains in employee productivity and mobility.
The rapid advancement of technology has transformed the way we live, work, and interact with the world around us. In recent years, the concept of "working from home" has gained tremendous momentum, largely due to the advancements in technology. This article explores the rise of remote work and how technology has played a pivotal role in enabling individuals and businesses to thrive in a virtual environment.
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1. locations. The value of that session goes up A new global intranet based on Microsoft
greatly for all parties involved. We’re now able to SharePoint replaced hundreds of file servers
work a lot more effectively with global partners worldwide, resulting in capital and operational
than we could before, and I feel more confident expense savings. SharePoint was made available
in offering solutions to talk to people around the both internally and externally over the internet,
world,” said Martyn. with Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway
used to add additional protection, providing the
“I don’t think I have meetings with more than ability to assess a particular access request based
three people when one of them isn’t on the on the user, the device, geo-location, and the
phone,” he said. “The goal long term is to get content requested. Ismayeel said: “We’ve gone
this type of collaboration technology rolled dongle-less, so staff can use a non-corporate
out across the business. As you would expect, laptop, with SSL for secure data delivery, and
we use Microsoft Lync, which allows us to do two-factor authentication.”
video conferencing, audio conferencing, see
presence of people, share apps and data. The Over the intranet, lots of people can collaborate
SMART Boards make a good endpoint for those on editing the same document at the same
conversations and are soon to be fully integrated time, some of them using desktop PCs running
with Lync.” Microsoft Office, others using the web interface
and some using iPads. Microsoft Lync is used
Aviva for instant messaging, audio and video calling
and desktop sharing, which means there is a
Aviva is the world’s sixth largest insurance
standard communications infrastructure, and it’s
company providing customers with insurance,
possible to see whether somebody is present at
savings and investment products. It is the UK’s
any time, so that team members know whether
largest insurer and one of Europe’s leading
someone is available to talk.
providers of life and general insurance.
The company now also issues iPhones and
At our roundtable, Ismayeel Syed from Disruptive
iPads, at the discretion of the business unit
Vision and chief technical architect for global
and line manager, so they can truly work from
services at Aviva, told the story of Aviva’s
anywhere. Ismayeel explains: “We previously
journey towards enabling flexible working and
saw a shift from desktops to laptops. Now, with
collaboration as part of the Group CEO’s vision
thousands of iOS users, laptops stay Kensington-
of One Aviva. The goal being to unify a highly
locked at the office – few take them home.”
federated enterprise, with autonomous business
Clearly, the definition of what a mobile device
units, and disjointed communications and IT
is has changed as the iPad has seized the
infrastructure, while achieving demonstrable
public’s imagination.
productivity and agility improvements. “We felt
you couldn’t get productivity and agility without
With workers increasingly mobile, the company
mobility,” said Ismayeel.
is implementing hot desking, with lockers
provided for people to store their belongings
The project was guided by the principle that
when they go home. In some cases, an office
everyone should have access to communications
space reduction ratio of 1.5:1 has been
services, everywhere, and easily. “We couldn’t
achieved. “The challenge is: when people are
say we were building video conferencing for
not in the office, do they become a passive
the executives but not for the call centre,” said
consumer of the data being shared?” said
Ismayeel. “We built everything for everyone.
Ismayeel. “What happens if Visio is being used
Helping to maintain a healthy work/life balance
on the SMART Board in the meeting room, but
for its workforce is a priority for Aviva and we
I can’t interact with it because I don’t have an
wanted to make sure it continued or improved.”
interactive whiteboard at home?”
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2. Aviva uses Bridgit conferencing software from Conclusion
SMART to enable remote attendees equipped
From our roundtable, it seems flexible working is
with iPads to interact, through finger or stylus
neither a myth nor a reality in many companies
movements, with content being shared on the
today. With some notable exceptions (including
SMART Board in the meeting room. “Now you
Microsoft and Aviva), it’s a work in progress,
can walk into a meeting room you’ve scheduled
as companies try to work out the cultural and
in Outlook, use Active Directory to authenticate,
technology changes that will enable their
connect the SMART Board to your document
people to work effectively wherever they are,
library in SharePoint, write on the board and
and without compromising on collaboration.
have an audio-visual session in Microsoft Lync.
The technologies are available, though, and the
At the end of the meeting, the documents
discussions at our roundtables show there is a
can be saved to PDF and stored in SharePoint
lot of interest in this area. With the opportunity
automatically, or emailed to all attendees directly
to increase agility and resilience, attract and
from the board. There’s a short time to ramp up
retain the best talent, increase productivity and
a meeting and we can quickly close down the
collaboration, and cut costs, flexible working
room for the next meeting, all without losing
clearly has much to offer.
any materials or spending time writing up notes
at the end” explains Ismayeel.
Employees are asked to complete their
SharePoint intranet profiles with rich information
including skills, interests and languages spoken,
which can enable the company to quickly
create new collaborative project teams. This
approach has allowed Aviva to find employees
with the right software development skills
required to create several rapidly-prototyped,
mini-applications or “applets”. One such applet,
which provides an alternative way to display
flood risk, was built by a 15-strong development
team drawn from India, Poland, Hungary and
the UK who collaborated using the Sketchflow
prototyping software on SMART Boards. Built
within four working days, spread over two
weeks, the app combines data from various
sources and “mashes” it against Google Maps,
offering a visual representation of the financial
exposure caused by particular adverse weather
events in different UK locations. The app is a
powerful business tool prototype, but is also
an impressive demonstration of what can be
achieved using collaboration technologies and
distributed teams.
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