What's your IT Collaboration maturity?
[ Source: ITinvolve ]
November 2012-
Some believe IT collaboration is the next big thing, and others say it's nothing new. By reading this thought leadership paper you will gain new understanding into how IT collaboration is defined, its benefits, and how to assess your own IT collaboration maturity.
Web Conferencing for SMBs: 3 Key Considerations for IT Teams at Small to Midsized Firms
[ Source: ReadyTalk Audio and Web Conferencing ]
November 2012-
This white paper will look at three issues of particular concern to SMB information technology professionals weighing the pros and cons of a new or different Web conferencing solution.
Achieve Process Innovation through Business Process Management
[ Source: IBM ]
October 2012-
A more thorough approach to BPM interconnects processes throughout your organization?and beyond. When you can engage your business users in process improvement directly, visibility and control improve throughout your interconnected processes. It becomes easier for your colleagues to make quick decisions. Process innovation can transform your business operations right from the start, because it is a more systemic approach to visibility, governance and collaboration.
Put the "BPM" in process innovation. It is ...
ESG - Optimizing Collaboration Environments for Maximum Productivity
[ Source: Riverbed ]
October 2012-
Microsoft SharePoint is a powerful collaboration tool proliferating throughout enterprises. Download this white paper to learn about the challenges of optimizing a web-based SharePoint environment and how to address all the requirements across the application and technology stack to deliver the best return on investment and productivity for the business.
The ROI of Cloud Apps
[ Source: BOX ]
October 2012-
Cloud applications continue to gain momentum in enterprise applications as buyers are attracted to fast deployment speeds, low upfront costs, and ongoing flexibility to scale up or down as needs change. But as firms spend more and more of their closely guarded IT dollars on cloud applications, executives must scrutinize the long-term value of these investments.
Today's cloud investments represent millions of dollars of annual IT spend for some larger consumers of cloud. ...
Mobilize Your Collaboration Strategy
[ Source: BOX ]
October 2012-
The days when a Windows application and a server cluster in the data center could handle your collaboration needs are over. An increasingly mobile and remote workforce with experiences forged by Angry Birds and Google Maps has killed it. Mobile employees' expectation of a great user experience on any device can only be met with collaboration solutions architected with native apps and cloud delivery, an architecture Forrester calls the mobile app Internet. And that means ...
Secure File Sharing and Collaboration in the Cloud: Maximizing the Benefits While Minimizing the Risks
[ Source: Accellion ]
September 2012-
The rampant use of free, cloud-based dropbox-type of applications has created new security vulnerabilities for enterprise organizations. Employees using mobile devices are increasingly taking advantage of these services to share confidential or protected information and collaborate with people outside the organization-without providing adequate security, tracking, or visibility for the IT department.
Employee use of unmanaged cloud-based services puts your organization at risk for a data breach or non-compliance with industry and government regulations.<...
Putting IT Back in Control of BYOD
[ Source: Accellion ]
September 2012-
Osterman Research conducted a survey of 760 individuals with regard to the BYOD issues they face in their organizations. Personally owned Apple iPhone and iPads, as well as Android smartphones and tablets, are more common than their company-supplied counterparts.
The research also found widespread use of third party, cloud-based storage and file synchronization offerings that are sometimes used with IT's blessing, but more often not. Dropbox, for example, is used in 14% of 1,000+ employee organizations ...
The Need for Enterprise-Grade File Sharing and Synchronization
[ Source: Accellion ]
September 2012-
Cloud-based file-sharing and synchronization solutions are among the most popular applications used in the workplace.
Many of these solutions, classified as "consumer-focused" because they are typically deployed by individual users and not as part of a coordinated IT plan, offer tremendous usability. By synchronizing files across a variety of platforms-desktop, laptop, smartphone and tablet-these tools enable users to have near real time access to all of their content from any platform and any ...
Evaluating Cloud File Sharing and Collaboration Solutions
[ Source: Accellion ]
September 2012-
Consumerization has had a broad impact on IT-users are bringing in their own devices and subscribing to their own applications without waiting for the IT department' permission. Users want and need to be able to access documents from multiple devices and are subscribing to consumer applications like Dropbox to share files between devices and collaborators.
This creates a tremendous challenge for IT, which is in charge of managing and protecting corporate information assets, ...