Category: Workplace Collaboration

April 5, 2021

Daniel Newman

Six Five Webcast

Cisco is Live, Armed with Updates – The Six Five Webcast

On this episode of The Six Five Webcast, hosts Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman discuss the tech new stories that made headlines this week including, a recap of Cisco Live, Microsoft’s Hololens win, Marvell and Samsung’s partnership, Arm’s new update, Qualcomm news and Dell’s new pledge.

5G, Cloud, Hybrid Cloud, Infrastructure, and Operations, Unified Communications, Workplace Collaboration

March 15, 2021

Shelly Kramer

Futurum Tech Webcast

How to Create More Meaningful Connections in a Remote World – Futurum Tech Webcast Interview Series

In this episode of Future of Work Talk and the Futurum Tech Webcast, host Shelly Kramer is joined by Shameem Smillie, the Director of Global Contact Center Solutions at Mitel for a conversation around connection, personalized customer experiences, and what ‘meaningful connections’ mean in a digital world, what the future of work looks like in post-pandemic times — and some practical ways businesses can think about strengthening their communication skills.

Customer Experience, Workplace Collaboration

March 5, 2021

Daniel Newman

Six Five Webcast

We Have Ignition – The Six Five Webcast

On this episode of The Six Five Webcast, hosts Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman discuss the tech new stories that made headlines this week including earnings reports from Zoom, HPE and Marvell, a recap of Zoho Days, and an overview of the announcements from MS Ignite.

5G, Cloud, Hybrid Cloud, Infrastructure, and Operations, Unified Communications, Workplace Collaboration

March 5, 2021

Fred McClimans

Research Note

Yac Inc. Raises $7.5M from GGV Capital & Slack for Voice-Based Collaboration

Yac, a provider of voice-based collaboration tools, has raised a new round of investment from GGV Capital and the Slack Fund. Futurum’s Fred McClimans discusses the potential of voice-based messaging as part of enterprise collaboration and why this approach is worth exploring further.

Workplace Collaboration

March 4, 2021

Olivier Blanchard

Research Note

What Voice Assistants Trained to Understand Atypical Speech Mean to The Future of Work

As remote collaboration continues to become the new bedrock of digital collaboration, voice-processing technologies are increasingly embedding themselves in the very platforms that organizations depend on for those types of communications. Improving the accuracy of voice-processing technologies by applying lessons learned from adapting to atypical speech will have significant impact across the board. Futurum’s Olivier Blanchard takes a look at what voice assistants trained to understand atypical speech mean to the future of work as well as a dive into some of the projects currently underway.

Digital Home, Workplace Collaboration

March 3, 2021

Daniel Newman

Research Note

Microsoft Deepens Integration Between Dynamics 365 and Teams

At this year's Microsoft Ignite, the company announced a set of deeper integrations between its Dynamics and Teams Platforms.

CRM, Workplace Collaboration

March 2, 2021

Daniel Newman

Research Report

Pexip’s Private Cloud: A Game-changer for Digital Collaboration, Video Conferencing, and Team Meeting Solutions

Collaboration Devices and Services, Workplace Collaboration

March 2, 2021

Daniel Newman

Research Note

The Zoom Boom Continues as Q4 Finishes Well Above Expectations

Zoom significantly outperformed the market in its fiscal Q4 beating estimates on the top and bottom line heading into the new year.

5G, Workplace Collaboration

February 22, 2021

Olivier Blanchard

Research Note

Microsoft’s 3 New Versions of Office Aim to Meet Customers Where They Are

Microsoft finally optimizing its unified Office mobile app for Apple’s iPad devices isn’t just great news for iPad users – it’s also a clear signal from Microsoft that it intends to be more proactive about servicing segments of its ecosystem that may have, until now, been under-prioritized. Microsoft has also designed for specific segments of the Office User ecosystem, which is impressive. This ability to understand the user preferences and nuances involved in these unique segments of its ecosystem makes it clear that Microsoft has spent time and resources learning what these users’ needs are and that it has developed solutions so as to best to meet them.

Digital Transformation, Workplace Collaboration

February 8, 2021

Olivier Blanchard

Research Note

Microsoft’s New Employee Experience Platform, Microsoft Viva, Connects Employee Productivity and Wellness to Smoother Work Experiences

Could Microsoft Viva’s plan to humanize the workplace be the key to boosting employee productivity, creativity, and retention? Seeing technology now being used to re-humanize the workplace, humanize workflows, and give people rather than systems more agency and initiative, seems to Futurum’s Olivier Blanchard to be a very positive and welcome change in the enterprise. Microsoft’s new Viva employee experience platform certainly appears to be aiming to deliver on that vision.

Digital Transformation, Workplace Collaboration

February 6, 2021

Shelly Kramer

Futurum Tech Webcast

Microsoft Launches Microsoft Viva, an Employee Experience Platform – Futurum Tech Webcast

In this new episode of the Futurum Tech Webcast, analysts Shelly Kramer and Daniel Newman take a look at Microsoft Viva, a newly launched Employee Experience Platform. Microsoft Viva is comprised of four basic components (today anyway), designed to facilitate connection, learning, topics/discovery, and insights, all designed to heighten and improve the employee experience, facilitate improved knowledge sharing, communication within the organization, teams, and groups, deliver insights designed to help employees and leaders, and provide learning management solutions that help facilitate creating a culture of continuous learning.