Sipcom meets stringent PSN compliance standards
Sipcom, the UK’s leading provider of UC and voice transformation solutions, has announced it meets the Public Service Network (PSN) Code of Connections level of certification, demonstrating the company is compliant with the controls and regulations of PSN connection. Sipcom has a substantial and growing customer base in the public sector. The fact the company […]
Sipcom opens new UK data centre for government contracts
Sipcom has opened a new UK data centre dedicated to Government contracts. The rapidly growing UC transformation specialist is poised to deliver increased efficiency, improved value, and transparency of data centre hosting utilisation to the entire UK Public Sector. At the core of Sipcom’s offering is a desire to give Public Sector organisations a secure, […]
Sipcom bolsters US presence with purchase of New York based IP Theory
UK headquartered cloud transformation specialist Sipcom has kicked off its US expansion strategy with the purchase of New York based IP Theory. IP Theory, previously MicroV, is a boutique provider of cloud-based telephony services and has a client base covering New York state with a data centre in Virginia. With a strong foothold in the […]
SIPCOM brings clients into the 21st century and prepares them for the GDPR
How Microsoft 365 enabled EC3 Brokers to transform its business When insurance and reinsurance brokerage EC3 Brokers first settled into its new office, it knew it had some work to do. A relatively new business originally established in 2013, EC3 Brokers inherited older equipment including a telephony system that was near end of life and […]
How Microsoft Teams will transform the workplace
We’ve blogged several times recently about Microsoft Teams, one of the latest additions to Microsoft’s Office 365 portfolio and one of the most exciting development in collaboration and team working technology that we have seen for years. This is a product that truly can transform working practices in a multitude of ways. Here are of […]
Why you should be a (Microsoft) Teams player
Slack’s cloud-based set of tools and services, available on a ‘freemium’ basis, has long been a popular choice. However, it is rapidly being superseded by Microsoft Teams, launched in 2017. Here’s why you should consider it for your business. Rich features One way of thinking about Microsoft Teams’ core features is to categorise them as […]
Market trends increase demand for UCaaS in the workplace
Unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) made its debut more than a decade ago but, until recently, adoption lagged and UC&C failed to deliver on its promise of transforming how businesses communicate, collaborate, work, and share information. UC&C is now gaining more and more ground in the enterprise especially as UC is more readily accessible via […]
Strategies to combat Shadow IT
Shadow IT snuck into the spotlight in 2014 and, according to research, the phenomenon is set to grow ever more prevalent throughout 2015. Netskope’s January 2015 Cloud Report found that on average there are now 613 cloud apps in use within an organisation, up from 579 in Q3 2014. Shadow IT is right up there […]
The Anywhere Office is now a reality
Long commutes and being in an office at a certain time with limited flexibility is gradually becoming a thing of the past. Workplace mobility and flexibility are becoming attractive features in employee recruitment and retention, whether that be flexible working hours or working from home. Accoring to VMware, 29% of the global workforce is made […]
Understanding Unified Communications
Unified Communications – this term nearly always crops up in discussions about the way IT is transforming the modern workplace. However, the meaning of these two words is not always clear. In a marketplace that contains multiple vendors and a huge number of end users with extremely diverse requirements, unified communications means different things to […]
Four simple rules: How CSPs need to respond to the internet of Things
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a massive business opportunity. Never before has technology offered such a hugely rich, diverse – and yes – complex – array of possibilities for organisations to collaborate, innovate and offer new services to employees and customers. Yet the core of the IoT remains simple – the transmission of data […]
Are you cloud ready?
The cloud market is progressing rapidly. The stats speak for themselves… By 2018, at least half of IT spending will be cloud based, reaching 60% of all IT infrastructure and 60–70% of all software, services, and technology spending by 2020 (IDC). IT spending is steadily shifting from traditional IT offerings to cloud services (cloud shift). The aggregate […]