In an effort to decrease maintenance costs from its legacy payroll system, full service manufacturer Wisconsin Plastics, Inc. (WPI) chose to implement the payroll and time and attendance modules offered by its enterprise resource planning (ERP) vendor. Read this case study to learn about the rapid return on investment that WPI experienced. 

On October 24, 2005, Hurricane Wilma made landfall in Florida. Damage in Florida alone totaled more than $26 billion, and in some areas power was out for two weeks. This 2-page case study explroes how 

Access this podcast and learn how one CIO's innovative thinking lead to the creation of Video Remote Interpreting (VRI). Gain insight into what inspired the innovation, how it was created, 

In this white paper, we will discuss how SharePoint workflows work and how you can implement them to im­prove existing business processes. We will look at the existing predefined workflows that come with SharePoint and you will see how to create your own using the SharePoint Designer. 

Part two of SearchUnifiedCommunications.com's three-part guide on collaboration products offers expert insight into gathering pertinent information into the technical information necessary to move forward in the process. 

<p>This video examines various types of collaboration, including conferencing, video, and instant messaging. Discover how integrating communications can increase resource utilization, strengthen security, and reduce costs.</p> 

This paper outlines the benefits and challenges of collaboration. It offers a guide to implementing an integrated collaboration environment based on Microsoft SharePoint and Dell servers with Intel processors that is designed for performance, availability, and the changing requirements of an SMB poised for growth. 

This video describes how to deliver unified communications (UC) quickly, easily, and to virtually any users in any location with a comprehensive, hosted, fully managed UC solution. 

Visit SearchUnifiedCommunications.com’s IT Decision Center that focuses on Business Collaboration technology in the marketplace today. Hear from the experts and get their advice on collaboration tools and management for businesses deciding on new solutions that can address everything from productivity, innovation, efficiency and cost-cutting. 

<p>In this exclusive E-Guide from SearchUnifiedCommunications.com, learn more about the intelligent network and how telepresence and visual collaboration is changing the modern enterprise. Uncover the extranet and desktop video requirements driving 2012 telepresence trends and how the iPad is changing enterprise video-conferencing strategies.</p> 

<p>This Forrester Consulting research examines the total economic impact and potential return on investment enterprises may realize by using Cisco Catalyst Access Switches in their organization. Read now to learn how these switches address the major market discontinuities enterprises often face in their campus access networks.</p> 

Hosted unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) helps organizations deploy collaboration tools to their workers more quickly and efficiently than premise-based solutions. This whitepaper explores the benefits of hosted UC&C, how to get started, what to look for in a solutions provider, and more. 

In this exclusive podcast, listen as Steve Mallard, IT manager and computer IT master teacher at the Tennessee Technology Center, discusses IT consumerication and Mallard's advice on how to prepare students for careers in IT.