As technology evolves, there is a never-ending question to designers and implementers: "What is coming next?" The answer is "Collaboration." The move to collaboration is strengthened by the actions of Cisco and Microsoft, as they have each unveiled several collaborative technologies and the means to integrate them utilizing Web 2.0 programming. 

This E-Guide will help you develop plans and polices for video conferencing, ensuring you not only meet user demands and improve collaboration, but also deliver measureable ROI. 

According to a recent Nemertes study, a whopping 75% of companies polled indicate they're putting greater emphasis on video conferencing this year. This confirms our ever-growing trend towards the time- and cost-savings of video conferencing. To successfully deploy video conferencing services, avoid these eight common mistakes. 

This Wainhouse Research application brief explores the results of a groundbreaking survey on the next generation of audio conferencing. Get acquainted with Web-controlled audio conferencing, including business benefits, real-world impact and recommended best practices. 

As organizations look for ways to improve business outcomes while reducing costs and encouraging environmental sustainability, many are turning to software-based conferencing and collaboration solutions for audio and Web conferencing. This paper explains some benefits realized by companies who have deployed these unified communications solutions. 

Sawmill is a powerful hierarchical log analysis tool that runs on every major platform and operating system. 

This white paper discusses one of the most effective ways to extend CRM functionality to competitively enhance your customers' experiences. 

Read this paper to learn how important an efficient and effective contact center is and how Infor CRM Epiphany Contact Center enables carriers to create a highly efficient, customer-centric, multichannel contact center, providing a better customer service experience and increasing customer loyalty. 

This whitepaper presents a brief history of the evolution of video conferencing and introduces a new solution for video conferencing that provides high quality visual communication with low latency, point and click simplicity on portable personal devices, and low cost access that requires only a general purpose IP network. Read on to learn more. 

This paper takes a look at some of the advantages of video conferencing in terms of both cost savings and time savings, explains some of the problems and challenges in making video conferencing work, and gives advice for making the network ready to accommodate video conferences. 

For many organizations, the move to cloud computing is imminent. This paper features a range of practical insights into some key issues your organization should be aware of. It looks at some of the most pressing challenges cloud computing presents in terms of service level management and offers tips for overcoming these obstacles. 

Apache Solr is the definitive application development implementation for Lucene, and it is the leading open source search platform. This white paper describes the new features and improvements in the latest version, Apache Solr 1.4. 

Telepresence is the best video conferencing available. This Pocket E-Guide explains how telepresence looks, feels and works; identifies key telepresence providers; and provides information to help you determine if an investment in telepresence is right for your organization.