3. 3
TOP CIO PRIORITIES
Mobility Solutions and
Cloud Computing
made the biggest jumps
Top priorities remain
consistent
• Business Intelligence
• Mobility Solutions
• Virtualization
Source: The Essential CIO, IBM 2011
4. 4
MOBILITY: DEVICE OVERVIEW
Adoption of mobile technology in the last decade has been
• 2X faster than 1990s internet adoption
• 3X faster than social networking adoption, and
• 10X faster than 1980s PC adoption
8. 8
WE ARE THE MEETING EXPERTS
Data and observations from
• 20 years in collaboration technology
• Exclusive focus on collaboration
• 75% of Fortune 100 clientele
• Over 35,000 customers
• In the last five years:
• Connecting nearly 1-billion people
• From 137 countries
• In over 200 million meetings
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MISSED OPPORTUNITIES: WEB
CONFERENCING
• Over 60% of PGi customers agree that meeting online is more effective than phone
calls
• Yet only 30% of our customers are actually using BOTH audio and web
conferencing meetings at the same time!
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MISSED OPPORTUNITIES: MOBILITY SOLUTIONS
The devices are out there
Forrester estimates:
• 555 Million Information Workers will grow to
865 Million by 2016
• 70% of firms issue executives both a
laptop and smartphone
• 52% of information workers across 17 countries
report using three or more devices for work
But they are not being used in collaboration
• 34% of all conference call access was through a
mobile or VoIP device. (Wainhouse)
• 21% of meeting participants access via smartphone
(PGi customer survey)
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RECOGNIZED COLLABORATION BENEFITS
• A business and its IT department both benefit
from the rollout of collaboration technology
• Forrester research shows that collaboration tools
help business leaders
• reduce travel expenses,
• improve corporate communication, and
• improve project management while helping IT
leaders reduce their costs
• These benefits are attributable to improvements
that include communications technologies like
cloud-based conferencing services
Source: “Info Workers Will Erase The Boundary Between Enterprise And Consumer Technologies,” Forrester Research, 2012.
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COLLABORATION INVESTMENTS
• Firms are using more team workspaces, Web 2.0 tools, and real-time communications
Source: “Info Workers Will Erase The Boundary Between Enterprise And Consumer Technologies,” Forrester Research, 2012.
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INTEGRATING THE PIECES TOGETHER
MOBILITY
SOLUTIONS
COLLABORATION
CLOUD
COMPUTING
SELF SERVICE
PORTALS
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PROOF POINT: LYNC ONLINE INTEGRATION
Growth in Lync Online Audio Integration
usage
• From January 2012 to March 2013
Cloud Computing for IM/Chat & Audio
Conferencing
• Audio Conferencing Adapter for Lync
provides:
• Global PSTN audio conferencing
• Integrated with Lync Online VoIP
• Meeting scheduling from Lync
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When Collaboration technologies integrate with Mobile and Cloud technologies, you can
Transform how your employees work, meet and benefit from collaboration.
YOU COULD COLLABORATE BETTER
TODAY
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Notes de l'éditeur
SMBs see exciting reasons for moving applications to the cloud.+ Mobility: 64% of SMBs report improved satisfaction of business users with mobile access to business applications.+ Availability: With nearly always-on availability, SMBs can expand their reach anywhere, becoming digital 24/7/365 global businesses.+ Cost Savings: Without the additional hardware, software and manpower costs of on-premise solutions, SMBs are expanding their reach by leveraging strategic partnerships and resourcesto improve customer service, Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and innovation.Over three-quarters of SMBs who move to the cloud see reduced capital expenses and 84% see lower application costs