Collaboration is one of the hottest topics in the workplace today as market and technology trends drive changes in how employees work together. This paper looks at those trends and suggests ways for information technology (IT) organizations to enable and support the changes that are affecting the way their employees work. Read on to learn more. 

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. 

Read this transcript of the 'Considerations for IT' podcast to learn why companies have chosen Google Apps to improve their IT infrastructures. Learn which technical and business factors drove one company to adopt this technology. Determine how this technology can be used in your IT environment to improve Web application performance. 

This paper builds a model of enterprise social computing by analyzing business goals. It builds the architectural components and the relationships between them by starting from a basic definition of social computing and the most common goals. 

This paper takes an introductory look at the new categories of Group Policy, but anyone moving to Windows Server 2008 technologies would do well to consider the changes and additions to the existing policy categories, too. 

This eBook explores how organizations can connect and nurture relationships with prospects and customers by effectively leveraging social media and real-time collaboration tools. 

If users are the lynchpin of Identity Management, then groups are the catalyst to security and productivity. Your organization wants to provision users into Active Directory and keep that data accurate. When an organization provisions a user, they want them to be automatically added to the correct security groups and distribution lists. 

An April 2008 Forrester report predicts that the Enterprise Web 2.0 and social computing market will grow from $455M in 2007 to $4.6B in 2013. This paper summarizes: 1) Why Companies Are Pursuing Social Computing 2) What Enterprise Social Computing Really Is 3) How To Implement Social Computing Successfully 

IT executives no longer need to justify their use of Voice over IP—the technology works. It saves companies money, and it enables communication across global boundaries. As companies grow more global, and workers more virtual, employees must be able to communicate with co-workers, partners, customers and suppliers anytime, anywhere. 

This paper makes that case that, just like email and telephony, web conferencing should be deployed as part of a regular enterprise-wide toolset. 

Enterprises are always seeking to cut costs and optimize resource utilization. Now, in this harsh economic climate, the need is more compelling than ever. This paper highlights potential savings exceeding $5,000,000 per year for each 1,000 employees through the application of Microsoft Unified Communications to your business and IT operations. 

Double-Take Availability provides the only complete protection solutions for your SharePoint implementations. It protects the data, customizations and Web Parts, SharePoint configuration and the server state. Download this paper to see how Double-Take Availability protects your Sharepoint implementations across the enterprise. 

This new Quantum Leap Marketing white paper explores how to successfully market and sell services with Webinars so that you get maximum mileage out of your marketing budget.