Pat Sullivan

[sayit]When the coronavirus pandemic prompted a massive increase in remote work across the country in mid-March, countless customers came to CDW asking to purchase videoconferencing tools. Makes sense, right? Yes — until you consider that some of these companies were already paying for collaboration suites that have videoconferencing capabilities; the companies simply had never used…

Meetings: All companies need them. But for some reason, no one seems to like them. Of course, organizations have to hold meetings to get teams on the same page, gather input from employees, communicate important information from management and spark collaboration. But employees often view them as a waste of time. Even if a particular…

Meeting technology has changed a lot in the past 10 years. A decade ago, most videoconferencing solutions were far from user friendly. Setting up or starting a video meeting usually required help from the IT department. The equipment tended to be expensive, especially if you wanted to deploy a solution with high picture quality or…

Organizations are constantly looking for ways to reduce costs, boost productivity and increase revenues, and they are turning to collaboration tools to do so. However, with the dizzying array of options and the daily enhancements to endpoints, applications and infrastructure, it’s hard to keep up with the right approach or what to choose. So to…

It’s a fact: organizations struggle to conduct quality meetings. Despite what you may think, in many cases, IT has given end-users the tools they need to meet (with style!). They have installed many video-enabled conference rooms with technology from Cisco, Polycom or other vendors; they have rolled out web-conferencing tools such as WebEx; and from…

An increasingly mobile workforce — and an influential part of that workforce — is changing how people collaborate across video, audio and web conferencing platforms. Millennials (folks born between 1982 and 2002) make up the largest growing generation of workers today. But most important to IT teams supporting users, millennials prefer to communicate differently compared…

Your Computer is now your Phone. In fact, your monitor is also your phone.  And the same holds true for that display on the wall.  Read on to see how Cisco’s DX80 brings everything you need to be productive in one sleek integrated device. Today there are so many ways to communicate: via phone, instant…