Abstract
Saving on capital expenditures is the successful business owner’s superpower. Today, a lot of the strategic cost cutting that is being done is through collaboration. When you increase the productivity of your staff, you can do more with less. Let’s look at some of the tools being used by successful organizations to enhance their productivity.
Video Conferencing
Video conferencing tools were useful before the COVID-19 pandemic caused the implementation of stay-at-home orders. Now, it is a tool that everyone uses to catch up with people in all types of situations. For the business, it is a huge benefit to be able to meet from anywhere at the click of a button. Since commercial-grade video conferencing solutions need a little more than your individual-license ones, it is important to find one with the features a business needs. They include:
- Screen sharing
- Instant messaging and group chat features
- HD Video
- Recording
- Multiple-webcam options
- Encrypted file sharing
The quick innovation of video conferencing tools makes them an integral part of your business’ software roster going forward.
Collaboration Apps
Now there is software being developed that is specifically designed to enhance an organization’s collaborative abilities. They are part online forum, part instant messaging platform, but what they really provide is the ability to integrate dozens of useful management and productivity applications into the conversation.
Productivity Suites
The productivity suite is a computing staple, but today’s productivity apps require a bit more. The modern productivity suite offers secure email, cloud storage, sharing, and sync, and applications designed to get things done. What’s best is that today, they give individuals the ability to work with their contemporaries in real time in documents, spreadsheets, and on presentations–solutions that are pretty useful for any business today.
If you would like to talk about today’s most dynamic collaboration technologies, call the IT experts at NetMGM today at 888-748-2525.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Rafiq Masri
With over 25 years of experience in Information Technology, Rafiq is one of the most accomplished, versatile and certified engineer in the field. He has spent the past 2 ½ decades administering and supporting a wide range of clients and has helped position Network Management, Inc. as a leader in the IT Managed Services space.
Rafiq has built a reputation for designing, building and supporting top notch IT infrastructures to match the business objectives and goals of his clients.
Embracing the core values of integrity, innovation, and reliability, Rafiq has a very loyal client base with some customer relationships dating back 20+ years.
Rafiq holds a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan and has completed graduate programs in Software Engineering and Business at Harvard and George Mason University. Rafiq is a former founder and CEO of Automation, Inc. in Ann Arbor, Michigan as well as a valued speaker on entrepreneurship and technology at industry events such as ExpoTech and others.