Johannesburg, 13 Apr 2015
Enterprises' dependency on knowledge-based innovation, digital channels and social networks has highly increased in today's time. Moreover, the need for timely and effective exchange of information and insight within and beyond corporate walls has intensified due to scattered workforce, increased globalisation and distributed customer market. Thus, enterprises today are increasingly taking important steps to enable an intimate degree of collaboration and unified communication across functional departments, organisational borders and time zones.
Unified communication and collaboration is all about enabling instant messaging, document sharing, Web conferencing, real-time reporting with Intranets, messengers, dashboards, wikis, message boards and e-mails.
However, with growing dynamics and segregation of people, processes and information, these platforms have evolved and expanded to become more mobile, data and business-oriented. In that, conventional in-house implementation of collaboration and communication platforms are becoming less attractive to enterprises, since they do not offer the flexibility to access information and communicate with people from anywhere, at any time, and eventually render the data and processes redundant.
Fortunately, the revolution of collaboration and unified communication is reaching fever pitch, as new crops of cloud-focused collaboration strategies are achieving broader attention and adoption among enterprises. Cloud offers a better alternative to collaboration deployments since it makes it easier to extend communication and sharing of information to outside stakeholders.
Cloud-based collaboration brings together advances of cloud computing and collaboration for firms that are operating in an increasingly globalised and distributed network. Cloud collaboration provides unique ways to improve co-ordination, processes and communication with minimal cost, effort and disruption. Thus, it acts as a medium to quickly and effectively drive employee engagement, manage organisational information and assets, and promote world-class collaboration and communication that results in the following benefits:
* Better business results due to tight integration of cloud-based infrastructure with business processes;
* Reliable, timely and up-to-date availability of information with anywhere, anytime access;
* Quick communication resulting in better productivity and improved customer experience;
* Closely aligned processes and efficient workforce; and
* The ability to leverage a wider range of functional and geographic resources with unified communication and information sharing.
There are several collaborative tools that can quickly help enterprises implement cloud collaboration strategies easily, some of which include Microsoft Office 365, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Lync Online, IBM Smart Cloud, Google Apps and many more.
Cygnet Infotech, being a Microsoft partner, offers enterprise collaboration solutions leveraging its strong expertise in Microsoft SharePoint and Office 365. It assists enterprises looking to transform their performance and business efficiency by helping them implement, architect, design and manage cloud collaboration solutions.
"Cloud-based collaboration helps enterprises improve business processes and co-ordination, stimulate innovation and drive more flexibility to make smart business decisions. Additionally, it breaks down the barriers between time zones and functions, which enhances the entire organisational productivity. We at Cygnet helps enterprises with these manifold benefits by implementing and integrating public, private and hybrid cloud infrastructure in their collaboration platforms, with our experience in leading cloud computing technologies," says Jay Mehta, SharePoint Consultant and Architect at Cygnet Infotech.
Between 22 and 24June 2015, Cygnet Infotech is participating at Share Conference, in Johannesburg, where Mehta, with Cygnet Infotech's Business Development Manager, Premal Dave, will be talking about cloud collaboration, in their presentation: "Let's cloud-a-borate, any time, anywhere!" The presentation will be focused on the challenges of implementing collaboration and UC across the enterprise, and ways to derive a solution with a hybrid SharePoint cloud architecture. During the conference, they will be available at booth number six.
"Enterprises today face a lot of challenges in implementing a collaboration and unified communications platform that can drive employee engagement and productivity further ahead in the day-to-day business operations. The core issues lie in increasing agility, enabling innovation while managing information security. Taking this concern ahead, at Share Conference, we will be sharing insights on how this can be solved by exemplifying a case of one of our esteemed clients in banking and financial services. We are excited and looking forward to make a splash with cloud collaboration," said Dave.
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