More often than not customers reach out to vendors because they have a real problem that their business is struggling to overcome. Likewise, more often than not, those vendors respond with Product X or Technology Y. When it comes to collaboration it’s important to engage a vendor that understands that products and technology are only…
IBM’s Connect 2013 conference was held in Orlando, January 27 – 31, and it was once again chock full of exciting product announcements, fun times with customers, and sessions filled with great content. Our team is very proud that CDW was recognized as a finalist for the Distinguished Business Achievement award. CDW was also recognized…
My coworker Srini Kilambi recently discussed Cisco’s new conferencing product, Cisco WebEx Meetings Server (CWMS) 1.0, from a features and licensing perspective. My peer Jon Nelson, CDW’s UC Technical Architect, and I recently setup several CWMS systems in our Early Field Trial (EFT) lab to test various deployments and features during the CWMS Beta. This…
Mobility is not just about devices, cell phone coverage, MDM and routers. An organization cannot effectively deploy a handful of home based wireless routers and provide a streamlined, high performance and secure service to its users and guests. On the other hand, if the best enterprise wireless hardware is deployed on an aged wired infrastructure,…
“Is my baby ugly?” I use this polling question during my Microsoft Lync demonstrations. The question always gets a laugh. My audience quickly realizes the feedback is anonymous, so the screen updates to indicate that some participants are switching their answers from ‘no’ to ‘yes’. I’ll hear more snickering on the audio conference as the…
In December, Cisco provided a tasty holiday treat by releasing their latest software that integrates Cisco’s telephony systems with IBM’s social communications platform, IBM Sametime. Cisco calls it CUCI-IBM (Cisco UC Integration for IBM Sametime), pronounced “Cookie” IBM. My wife would tell you I’m a fan of cookies in general, but I’m quite excited by…
