Kategori: IT

The CIO’s Perspective on Unified Communications

• technewsworld.com

The top pressures and strategic actions identified by Aberdeen’s study of Best-in-Class companies indicate that unified communications (UC) must support both internal and external business pressures. Although companies have traditionally used a bifurcated approach of external-facing contact center and internal-facing telecom deployment for employees or business-driven features versus user-driven features, this approach is increasingly irrelevant…
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New Rules Lay Out ‘Meaningful Use’ Requirements for Electronic Health Records

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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has released its final version of rules that define the parameters under which physicians and hospitals can qualify for funding to upgrade their electronic medical records systems. Included are new definitions for what will constitute “meaningful use” of electronic records to meet objectives of the programs. Changes…
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Testing the Waters Before Taking the Enterprise VoIP Plunge

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Now, more than ever, businesses want to work smarter and outdistance their competition to gain an edge. As a result, many are adopting converged communications technologies such as VoIP, collaboration, workforce mobility, and unified communications to accomplish these objectives. Converged communications technologies provide many business benefits, including reduced operating costs, expanded voice services, and integrated…
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Higher Learning, Higher Speed: Campuses Graduate to 802.11n

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In the March 2010 Aberdeen benchmark report “Multi-Site and Campus-Area Wireless LANs: Advantages of the Centralized Approach,” 163 institutions were surveyed regarding their use of multi-site and campus-area (“non-site-contiguous”) wireless local area networks (WLANs). This article provides an analysis into the pressures driving the higher education sector to 802.11n WLANs and how this affects the…
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