Connecting the Team Seamlessly

by Gary Audin Did you know that 37% of workers spend at least day working remotely? If they are members of a team, the tools they use for meetings need to be simple, intuitive, and flexible. You can have an on-premises system or use the cloud. You should have analytics applied to the collaboration technology so you determine what teams work best and which ones need improvement. Stefan Zschiegner, VP Product Management at ShoreTel www.shoretel.com and Gary Audin delve into the world of collaboration technologies in this podcast recorded at the Enterprise Connect conference. Stefan answers, “Why the cloud?” Messaging, file sharing, and task assignments are an integral part of today’s collaborative meetings. He continues with insights that can be used in selecting the best collaboration solution. Stefan talks about the benefits of users creating their own dashboards. ShoreTel Connect https://www.shoretel.com/why-shoretel/hello-connect is a platform built on a single software code base that means you can design your communications system any way you choose: as a managed service from the cloud, as a hardware system you manage yourself, or as a hybrid deployment where some locations and applications are managed in the cloud and others are managed onsite. This flexibility means that you can also choose how you want to expense your communications system – as a monthly subscription operating cost where ShoreTel manages everything for you, or as a licensed product capital expense that you control and amortize over time. Because it is based on a single code base, adds, changes, and updates are simple and include complete parity of features across both types of deployment.