Mike Robinson

The year 2020 saw significant business disruptions, which caused many organizations to adopt new technology strategies, repurpose or resize infrastructure, and honestly assess the suitability of existing solutions moving forward. Amid all this introspection, one general theme seems apparent: Automation should be a key component of any business strategy not only in the office but…

Darin Burleigh and Will Kerr also contributed to this post. This summer, with support and guidance from our partners at Cisco, coworkers from CDW came together for a friendly Meraki hackathon. Over the course of two days, each of the four teams worked on designing and implementing applications based on Cisco Meraki wireless technology. Learn…

[sayit]Cisco Meraki is a cloud-based IT company specializing in wireless, switching, security, enterprise mobility management and security cameras. Across all verticals, Meraki has changed the way organizations manage their networks. See the company’s many customer stories to get an idea. Discover how CDW can assist you with your network infrastructure management needs. Out of the…

[sayit]We at CDW pride ourselves on developing automation tools to make our collaboration deployment engineers’ jobs easier. We have created tools to automate just about everything there is to automate with Cisco on-premises products: Communications Manager, Unity Connections, Contact Center Express/Enterprise and Voice Gateways, to name a few. Learn about CDW’s workplace communication services and…

CDW recently participated in a Cisco workplace transformation hackathon to create a proof-of-concept solution to showcase the changing workplace. What exactly is workplace transformation? It is the process of reimagining the workplace to adapt to the changing needs of workers and ever-evolving technology, as well as accommodating different types of work within the same organization.…

At CDW, we’re proud to boast over a dozen accredited Cisco Webex Ambassadors who’ve reached the “Professional” level of accreditation (and two “Masters”). The Professional level is for developers or aspiring developers, and through their studies, these individuals have become experts in the APIs of Cisco Webex Teams and Webex Meetings and applying them to…

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been getting a lot of attention lately, but for a technology company like CDW, looking to provide valuable solutions to customers, it can be challenging to create a new service offering in this area. For one thing, the term AI is very abstract and can transcend many technology areas such as…

Python is a programming language that has been around since 1989 but has recently become even more popular because of an increase in the use of bots, the popularity of data science and the benefits of using application programming interfaces (APIs) for technology not previously associated with automation, such as Cisco routers. Regardless of your…

Due to the popularity of collaboration platforms such as Facebook, Microsoft Teams, Slack and so on, the usage of bots has become increasingly common. Running bots on these platforms can increase productivity, inspire innovation and provide the opportunity for employees to learn new skills. Interested in creating your own bots but unsure how to get…

CDW recently participated in a Microsoft four-day hackathon to create a proof-of-concept solution that would provide a more customized workspace and solve the problem of an overburdened IT department that uses ServiceNow as its customer relationship management (CRM) platform. How It Came Together CDW's idea for a solution was twofold: First, we aimed to decrease…

One of the reasons I love working with Cisco Unified Communications (UC) is the flexibility they provide within their solutions to create custom applications. Just about every application within Cisco UC allows for some form of automation or customization. Examples include Communications Manager, Unity Connection, CTIOS Client (a Windows-based agent desktop built on the .Net…