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5 hot IT budget investments — and 2 going cold

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Hot: AI and VR/AR With digital transformations moving at full throttle, and a desire to stay innovative, it should come as no surprise that use cases for virtual reality, augmented reality, and artificial intelligence continue to grow in several verticals. Enterprise communications services saw slow but steady 1.6%

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This Year’s Ten Digital Strategies for the Next-Generation Enterprise

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

I’ve omitted obvious items like BYOD and Big Data platforms like Hadoop, since virtually all organizations have these on their lists already. Enterprises much take charge, provide clear leadership, and anoint official social network(s) as appropriate. Unified communication. Gamified business processes.

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Flexential – Providing Enterprises with the Interconnected Data Center and Hybrid Cloud Solutions They Need

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They must also deliver the speed and low-latency great customer experiences require in an era marked by dramatic innovations in edge computing, artificial intelligence, machine learning, the Internet of Things, unified communications, and other singular computing trends now synonymous with business success.

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Why Flexibility Is Driving the Future of Business Success

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A cloud-based platform allows unified communications as a service (UCaaS), contact center as a service (CCaaS), communications platform as a service, and workstream collaboration to act together to accelerate innovation — allowing projects that once took months or years to be completed in weeks or even days. IT Leadership

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What We Know About Making Enterprise Social Networks Successful Today

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

In fact, one of the clearest lessons from the first decade of the rise of the ESN was that virtually all of the major challenges with ESN success are about people, not technology. Unlike generic communications systems, enterprise social networks perform at their best when they’re designed around specific business activities.

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