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Inter-Company Federation Challenges
One of the biggest challenges for the upcoming collaboration industry is communication between companies. Microsoft Teams, Slack, Cisco Webex Teams has one common thing, they designed to only work natively. So anyone, who is expected to collaborate with you, supposed to use the same tool. For example, if you are…
Remote Work, Unified Communications and Team Collaboration: From Privilege to Necessity
Covid-19 places a far greater challenge on the corporate world than it has ever experienced. Businesses have been forced to respond to the impacts and uncertainties of the Covid-19. Intense sanitation and isolations measures have become the norm. Some implemented safety measures include; Most countries have placed an embargo…
Healthy Vs Unhealthy Collaboration Cultures in the Workplace
Every institution must have shared values and beliefs that govern actions and attitudes. Businesses are no exclusion from this fundamental requirement for survival and progress. It begins with the vision which is the driving force behind every collaborative activity. In order to achieve this vision, there must be sets of…
The Rise of ‘Employee Experience’-focused HR and Its Relationship to Collaboration
For many reasons, employee experience has become a business hot topic. Employees today have become more demanding and selective about where they choose to work. An ‘Employee experience’-focused HR is the optimization of HR strategies to improve employee satisfaction. The focus used to be on product and service optimization for…
Microsoft Teams Interoperability Support
Team Collaboration (TC) platforms, such as Microsoft Teams, are closed applications with no built-in interoperability capabilities. As a result, IT needs a secure, cost-effective, and an easy to manage universal interoperability service. Universal interoperability means allowing your employees to use the platform of their choice to seamlessly collaborate with their…
Did Cisco Expressway Federation with Microsoft Skype for Business Suddenly Stop Working?
On February 24, 2020, we published a blog about Microsoft Teams external access is going away soon. In this blog post, we are elaborating on some additional issues related to external access and Cisco Expressway federations. Microsoft Teams external access allows external Microsoft Teams users from another domain (i.e., Contoso.com)…
5 Free Remote Work Resources to Utilize as a Small Business
World Health Organization (WHO) has finally declared the COVID-19 as a worldwide pandemic, people are beginning to panic and looking for measures to stay safe and uninfected. The workplace is not left out as companies are looking for more remote measures to keep the virus at bay and keep their…
How Will Coronavirus Affect Work? How It Will Increase Reliance on Team Collaboration and UC Platforms
No one expected that the year 2020 will come with the viral spread of the coronavirus disease. Despite efforts made so far, the disease has continued to spread across the globe. Even unaffected countries are experiencing the ripple effects of the disease outbreak. Due to the spike in the cases,…
How to Prepare Your Business for Remote Work
The covid-19 pandemic has compelled many businesses to embrace remote working. In fact, remote working is basically the only option for businesses in most covid-19 affected areas. At a time like this, remote working offers the most benefits. Employees are saved the stress of long commutes and the risk of…
NextPlane Response to COVID-19
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to evolve, we want to let you know that NextPlane has a comprehensive plan in place to ensure the highest level of security, uptime, resiliency, and availability. Being able to respond quickly to rapidly-evolving situations like this pandemic while maintaining uninterrupted service is part of…