Realizing Rapid Cost Efficiencies Whilst Maintaining Business Performance

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Polycom

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Mar 16, 2011

This Whitepaper helps CIOs address how organisations can dramatically cut operational costs, especially discretionary budget line items, increase productivity to enhance profitability, without the need for extra resources, and share information instantly and securely to maintain compliance and market responsiveness.PDF DownloadWhite paper sponsored by Polycom

The Compelling Case for Video Telephony in Unified Communications-Why Integrating Video with Telephony Call Control Makes Sense?

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Polycom

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Sep 09, 2009

Enterprise class video telephony provides the richness of video communications with the ease of making a phone call. To enable video telephony, video endpoints must be able to register with and be controlled by a call control engine, typically an IP PBX or telephony server. In this white paper we discuss the video solutions available today and provide a snapshot of the current video market. We discuss how video can be integrated with a telephony server such as an IP PBX, why this is a good idea, and the benefits that organizations will get by creating a video telephony solution. We show how video fits into an overall unified communications strategy and framework, and we provide the ROI and customer evidence to illustrate that video telephony is useful to real businesses. We close with compelling use case examples in which video is integrated with telephony as part of an overall collaboration/UC framework.

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Building a Continuity Culture-A Survey of Canadian Decision Makers on Business Continuity Planning

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Polycom

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Sep 09, 2009

Business continuity planning assumes a worst-case scenario, in which an external event renders the primary business location totally inaccessible or otherwise unusable for an extended period of time. In today’s environment, business continuity planning is increasingly seen as a strategic business investment whose benefits far outweigh its costs. The effects of a long-term interruption of critical business functions may be devastating to the business. The development of a business continuity plan must, therefore, involve not only the providers of the organization’s information technology services, but also the business areas using those services, and senior management responsible for the life and health of the organization. A key challenge is to keep management focused on the importance of sustained attention to consideration of business continuity in planning, operational and budgeting activities.

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The Art of Teleworking

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Polycom

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Sep 07, 2009

There is a new class of workers out there-working from their homes nearly autonomously. Some call them teleworkers, some telecommuters. Armed with remote access to their organization's network, with tollfree numbers, VPN's and mobile phones, they escape traffic jams, bad weather, and high fuel prices, and are able to find the right balance between personal and professional life. But when does teleworking really work? How can a teleworker be equally or even more productive than an employee in the office? This paper analyzes the teleworker's primary challenges and offers ideas for overcoming them. It highlights the advances of technology that make teleworking truly successful and of greater benefit to both teleworkers and their organizations.

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