IBM Collaboration Solutions Announces Acquisition of XCC
Web Content & Custom Apps Extension for IBM Connections Today I am pleased to announce that IBM has acquired XCC- Web Content & Custom Apps Extension for IBM Connections from TIMETOACT. XCC is a digital workspace hub designed to enhance and complement the user experience of IBM Connections. The acquisition signals IBM’s intention to continue to lead the collaboration […]
Social Email Keeps Just-in-Time Parts Moving at Power Metal
In China’s hyper-competitive landscape for consumer electronics parts suppliers, being able to respond to orders faster than the competition is a matter of survival. That ability to respond quickly and efficiently requires having the right people in place, and giving those people the right tools to deliver on the increasingly demanding expectations placed on the […]
Get Ready to THINK in 2018
Collaboration solutions are all about bringing together people, information and technology to enable new innovations and drive business impact. The future of the collaboration market is evolving quickly with tighter integrations of advance technologies in cognitive, machine learning, data, internet of things and security. Any organization that is implementing a collaboration platform needs to do […]
Collaboration Helps TAV Airports Employees Make Connections
Missing a flight can ruin an important business trip or an entire family holiday, so airports put a lot of thought and effort into helping passengers make their connections. It’s a core part of their customer service. TAV Airports of Istanbul, Turkey realized that to deliver that great service, it’s just as important to make […]
Those Who Cannot Remember the Past …
… are condemned to repeat it. ~ George Santayana AI, Back to the Future: All of us who work in, and are impacted by, AI should sear that quote into our collective memories. We will be living it for the foreseeable future. On April 9, 2017, United Airlines dragged passenger Dr. David Dao from an […]
Sign off Securely with IBM Connections and DocuSign Integration
Exchanging files, especially sensitive ones, requires a secure environment. Too often that security breaks down at a document’s very last phase when somebody pulls it out of its native platform to provide a final signature. If a document environment isn’t secure from beginning to end, it really isn’t secure at all. That’s why any file-sharing […]
How Oblong Mezzanine Amplifies Watson Cognitive Computing
Fortune 500 companies’ urgent need to drive innovation and performance is being satisfied by the integrated ecosystem of cognitive apps and tools for collaboration converging around Watson Work Collaborations Solutions. This integration is part of a larger trend in which customers and companies are using new collaborative and social technologies to transform the way teams […]
CloseUp with Eileen McDargh
When you meet with someone whose professional title is “Chief Energy Officer,” you know you’re dealing with a person who’s tough to keep down. Eileen McDargh has made a career out of helping people not just bounce back but bounce upward and onward. In the #LeadersRead featured book for April, Your Resiliency GPS: A Guide […]
Now Available – Collaboration Solutions with IBM and Cisco
Today is a significant day for the IBM and Cisco Collaboration Partnership as we reach a key milestone to Redefine Everyday Work. If you’ve been following our progress, you’ll know that we announced the expansion of our strategic partnership to include Collaboration in June 2016 ( read the announcement here) and we completed Chapter One […]
Resiliency: A Key to Engagement
Turn the key in your car’s ignition and you engage the motor. Perhaps. If it’s a bad connection, the battery drains and you’re stuck calling AAA or Lyft. But if it’s a good connection, a spark flies and you’re on your merry way. Let’s use the same analogy but in human terms. First, a re-definition […]