The Unified Comms market is worth a staggering $56bn in 2019. Despite this, the tech, the brands, and most importantly the people of Unified Comms remain a mystery to some SMBs and enterprises. One vendor, Ribbon Communications, went as far as saying that some businesses are unaware of Unified Comms, at an event hosted by ...
Last year, we queried why Slack was not included in the UCaaS Magic Quadrant published by Gartner or even the UC (Unified Comms) version. Since 2018, Gartner has opted to scrap the UC version altogether. The 2019 version of the UCaaS Gartner Magic Quadrant was released this month with some major changes. It does not, ...
Microsoft today confirmed the Skype for Business Online end of life date as July 31, 2021. In this post, we shed some light on the steps Microsoft is taking and have sourced some helpful links to help plan your migration. Common FAQs include: Our recently published Workplace Messaging Report should also help your journey from ...
The comparison of Microsoft Teams vs Skype for Business is an inadequate one. Both tools have changed the way we communicate. Both tools offer excellent user interfaces and a fantastic collaboration experience. However, they are incredibly different ways of working. This post walks through key differences in technology, but also in processes and the way ...
Chatter in the Microsoft community is all about Skype for Business 2019. Either Skype for Business Server 2019 or simply concern around using Skype this year and what next year should look like. Whilst these are totally different topics, they are extremely related. Businesses opting to stay with Skype for Business, rather than immediately moving ...
In the first half of 2019, Mio analyzed usage and plans for over 200 SMBs and enterprises’ workplace messaging apps. In this post, we’ll walk through our findings. Contents Methodology Part 1: The facts as presented in the data Current usage of messaging apps | Reducing workplace messaging apps | Increasing workplace messaging apps |End ...
In November 2018, Microsoft announced they are ready to upgrade Skype for Business Online users to Microsoft Teams. Some small business users are being alerted to the automatic upgrade notification on their Skype for Business tenant. The message simply suggests that your upgrade of Skype for Business to Microsoft Teams has been scheduled. Which is ...
If you’ve invested in Microsoft Office 365, are upgrading from Skype for Business or simply adding Microsoft Teams into your collaboration strategy, you probably think you need to migrate from Slack to Microsoft Teams. Most early adopters of collaboration tools started their strategy with Slack. It was the first app to introduce a new way ...