Whitepaper - Dangerous Collaboration Practices in a Challenging Economy

The changing economy presents daunting security challenges. Companies collaborate with outside partners, often sharing confidential information. The demand for speed drives users to share data outside the firewall without a safe collaboration platform -- putting companies at risk of serious security breaches.

Top Story - Collaboration Tools Worth The Money

A recent global survey of business and IT managers found that their companies got back benefits perceived as equal to four times their investment, on average, in unified communication and collaboration technologies.

Top Story - IBM’s online collaboration services

IBM/Lotus has launched the first major piece of its LotusLive online strategy, its biggest move yet to deliver collaboration services online to corporate users.

Top Story - Unified Communications, Collaboration Can Help Save Cash

Considering the current economic climate, some companies might not see an immediate need for unified communications and collaboration tools, but IT leaders argue the technology can help businesses increase productivity, cut costs and reduce their carbon footprint.

Top Story - Jive Adds App to Collaboration Suite

Jive has developed an idea generation and management application to its SBS collaboration suite, adding functionality that is becoming increasingly popular in groupware products.

Article - The Collaboration Gap and How to Bridge It

Everyone admits that collaboration for innovation is good. It is also rare. And when it works, it's beautiful. We tell you how to define project metrics that make sense for both parties and why personal relationships are a critical success factor.

Article - Enterprise 2.0 Companies Clash Over Collaboration of Applications And Strategy

For several years, Microsoft's SharePoint has looked dysfunctional and pricey compared with innovative packages from start-ups. But it has a new version en route. Will the Enterprise 2.0 market win over buyers, or be beaten by SharePoint ?

Case Study - Perfetti Brings in Business Efficiency with Collaboration Tools

In a world filled with data, complexity and unfriendly technology, it’s the simple that often gets heard. Basant Kumar Chaturvedi lived that credo when he introduced unified communications at Perfetti and changed the way India’s largest candy maker did business.

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Article - Innovation's Cutting-edge Collaboration

Collaborative applications can move CIOs beyond being mere technology innovators.

Whitepaper - For evidence of savings from collaboration solutions, look no further than Polycom

Organisations looking for hard evidence of the bottom-line benefits of high definition (HD) video and voice collaboration need look no further than Polycom, Inc.
In late 2008, Polycom took steps to ensure its competitiveness in a tough economy, targeting cost centres and eliminating any travel that wasn't absolutely necessary. The company realized an immediate return, including a 30 percent reduction in airline ticket purchases. In the process, Polycom has dramatically intensified its reliance on its enterprisewide collaboration environment, arguably the most extensive in the world. That environment allows Polycom's 2,600 employees, partners, suppliers and even customers to engage with one another through any combination of voice and video communications, content sharing, presence awareness and instant messaging.