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Those of us who have been a part of high performing, innovative teams know the exhilaration of reducing time-to-market, cutting out unnecessary processes and costs, and simply producing better products for our customers through improved collaboration. So how do we create those innovative teams, who not only vastly improve our business but also energize our workers?

Video conferencing is an increasingly important technology to improve employee and partner collaboration, especially for increasingly virtual organizations supporting rising numbers of mobile and home workers. But many companies still struggle to justify their investments in video conferencing, and not to understand potential cost differences among competing solutions - not just hardware and software expenses, but also investments required for bandwidth and operational support. Comparing various video conferencing solutions requires examining deployment models, licensing arrangements, network, hardware, and operational costs for leading video conferencing solution vendors in a variety of scenarios, using real-world data gathered from actual buyers of video conferencing products and services. The result: Significant differences in costs across all areas, especially for varying deployment models.

Organizations need to be more proactive in their approaches to designing and deploying unified communications solutions. This best practices guide will provide tips to eliminate surprises, and give you a few key steps to ensure top performance.

In a January 2012 market research study, 71 percent of the businesses surveyed said that mobile devices have caused an increase in security incidents.

How a contact center deploys and manages eServices - non-voice interaction channels such as email, chat, SMS and social media - is the key to offering electronic services that attract modern tech-savvy customers. Learn about eServices best practices from Sheila McGee-Smith, founder of McGee-Smith Analytics, and Tim Passios, Director of Solutions Marketing at Interactive Intelligence, and how three diverse companies successfully utilize eServices to their advantage.

By 2014, smartphones and tablets will put power in the pockets of a billion global consumers, including your employees and partners and customers. However, mobile is not simply another device for IT to support with a shrunken website or a screen-scraped application. Rather, mobile is the visible manifestation of a much broader shift to systems of engagement that marry physical context and digital intelligence to deliver service directly into a person's hands. This shift will add value and take cost out of every business service, workflow process, and business application. But mobile engagement will also require wholesale changes to your app design, service delivery, IT skills, technology assets, and even your business model. This report lays out a vision for mobile engagement and introduces the strategic elements developed further in The CIO's Mobile Engagement playbook.

Successful mobile apps, especially enterprise mobile apps, typically need to interact with a well-architected set of back-end services, but most mobile app developers are more skilled at client-side front-end development. Enter mobile back-end-as-a-service (BaaS), a new set of hosted platforms that addresses the gap between front-end development proficiency and back-end infrastructure requirements. Enterprise-class back-end-as-a-service addresses scalability while providing an integration platform into existing enterprise services. Use this research as your guidebook to navigating the emerging BaaS landscape.

Smartphone, tablet computer and ultrabook purchases number in the hundreds of millions per year. This onslaught of devices underscores the move to mobility in many organizations. Read on to learn how CDW helps in building end to end mobile strategy.

Enabling real-time collaboration to connect global employees and virtual teams is a growing trend among organizations seeking a competitive advantage.

The fact is that IT may be in the dark about who is using mobile devices to access company data.

For anywhere, anytime, any-device mobile engagement, implementing a stateless architecture calls for building protection in the application layer, moving from device management to risk-based device inspection, performing real-time threat detection and mitigation, and leveraging cloud technologies.

Following the sale of a company division housing its corporate data center, Source Interlink had to relocate core IT operations. Teaming with CDW, they were able to not only relocate, but lower capital and operating costs, reduce their carbon footprint, and increase efficiency.

Read about how Symantec provides the security needed to protect valuable information without hindering productivity. This white paper documents how Symantec helps identify, authorize, inspect and protect, so companies feel comfortable with their employees working from anywhere and from any device.

As with many enterprises today, your data center houses critical IT components that your business depends on. But are they fully secure and protected from potential threats such as intruders or natural disasters? A data recovery plan is very important to be fully prepared in the event of a disaster.

The world's mobile networks are quickly evolving from 3G to 4G technologies, specifically Long Term Evolution (LTE). Over the next few years, LTE will move from initial trials to providing commercial service in each region of the world.

Applying Lessons Learned from the Transition to 10 Gigabit Ethernet

Mobile is not simply another device for IT to support with a shrunken Website or a screen-scraped SAP application. Rather, mobile manifests a broader shift to new engagement systems. CIOs must plan now for them and empower customers, partners, and employees with context-aware apps and smart products.

IBM social content management provides content in context -- to share ideas, locate expertise, and access relevant knowledge via professional social networks.

The BYOD demand was initially created by the popularity of the iPhone and the iPad from Apple. Relying on the closed iOS operating environment, these devices presented a fairly straightforward challenge for businesses that wanted to allow access to corporate apps without compromising the security of company data. Read to find out more.

This case study focuses on the retail industry and how one of the world's most visible global brands employed a self-service application, powered by Apperian's EASE platform - on Apple iPads in their retail outlets. Learn how Apperian's EASE helps this company deploy and manage their applications for a global user base, in an easy-to-use and easy-to-update manner.

With more mobile workers using personal smartphones and tablets to conduct business, 2011 is being heralded as the year of mobile apps in the enterprise. The benefits of mobile apps initiatives will far outweigh the challenges of getting them into the enterprise, in the form of increased work productivity and customer response, analysts say.

This executive insight examines the needs for organizations to deploy a holistic enterprise mobility management solution that goes well beyond mobile device management.

The explosive growth and superior performance of the iPhone and iPad has changed the definition of mobile computing. As more employees ask to use their iPhones and iPads for business purposes, companies are facing increased demand to provide enterprise application management.

You'll learn about the high-level software architectural options, the importance of design and user experience, application development tools and techniques, and best practices for deploying applications and managing iPads in the enterprise.

Uncover the benefits of BYOD and learn how the proper technology combined with effective policies can enable employees to increase productivity while protecting your company assets at the same time.