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News in Networking: The Best Network Speeds, Cuba’s DIY Internet, and the Cost of Automation

Kentik

Mitel to Buy ShoreTel for $430M to Create Unified Communications Powerhouse (TechCrunch) Telecommunications company and UC provider Mitel is buying competitor ShoreTel. Viacom Out of the Running for Scripps Networks (Wall Street Journal) Media conglomerate Viacom has bowed out of the bidding to buy Scripps Networks Interactive.

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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. Unified communication. UC is also incorporating social media and otherwise moving beyond the telephony and IM space to become much more strategic. Employee social network.

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

CIO

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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Managing an Online Travel Agency: How Back Office System of an OTA Works

Altexsoft

Social media integration. Interacting with customers on social media platforms makes communication less formal and engages people further. Unified communication software. Unified communication software is a set of technologies for handling all your customer service and support operations via one platform.

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What We Know About Making Enterprise Social Networks Successful Today

Dion Hinchcliffe's Web 2.0 Blog

In particular, these early offerings were based on the early successes of consumer social media and social networking, namely services like Facebook and MySpace, as well highly successful online communities for business like the SAP Community Network. A Signature Lesson: People Must Change with the Tech, So Guide Them.

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