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Microsoft Cloud PBX
Microsoft began selling their Cloud PBX service with Office 365 on December 1st. It can be purchased with either the E3 license as an add-on or with the E5 license, where it’s bundled in the license. Price If you purchase Cloud PBX with the E5 license and international dialing, the...
OneNote Updates for Desktop, Web, and Mobile Apps
Last week, Microsoft announced new updates for OneNote web, desktop, and mobile apps. Before regularly using OneNote for notetaking, I used a mixture of Word documents and handwritten notes to keep track of my lists. This ran the risk of losing important notes, and it also built a backlog of...
Ice Cream, Push-ups, and Toe Nails
What Do These Things Have in Common? While promoting his book Team of Teams, General Stanley McChrystal, commander of the Joint Special Operations Task Force in Afghanistan, talks about how he built focus and cohesion among multiple teams on the ground and intelligence teams behind the scenes using video conferencing....
The Difference Between Skype and Skype for Business
Skype Vs Skype for Business In April 2015, Microsoft re-branded its office communication tool, Lync, to Skype for Business. Its a change that gives it better brand recognition but has created much confusion as to how it actually differs from the consumer version of Skype we are all accustomed to....
ShareFile Named a Leader for Enterprise File Synchronization and Sharing
ShareFile from Citrix was recently named a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise File Synchronization and Sharing. This should come as no surprise. I detailed in a previous blog why businesses should choose ShareFile over competitors in the file sync and sharing space. Gartner states, “Leaders provide mature offerings...
Office 365 Updates and Patching
One of the biggest benefits of the Office 365 suite, and of subscription-based software as a whole, is the constant support. Traditional software was sold with an implicit time limit for everyone that purchased it. Sure, the software license might last indefinitely – but there was no guarantee that...
American productivity, European Lifestyle : How to invoke margin in the fast-paced, nonstop demands of business culture
As a small business, we get to create our culture and build our business with the values that we have. One of the values we hold to is to do excellent work. We transform businesses. We do it well. We’ve done it repeatedly. We facilitate a change in technology, processes...
Skype For Business – Perfect For CRE
Skype for Business has emerged as the state of the art for Unified Communication. Voice and video calling, presence and instant messaging, conferencing and desktop collaboration are all one click away in a single platform. Team members know when each other are available through presence and can choose the channel...
What is Cloud File Storage Nirvana for Business?
There are numerous cloud-based file storage solutions on the market today. Most are focused on consumers, with only a few offering features that enterprises and small businesses would need to move their file storage and sharing to the cloud. TecFac recently compared and tested a few of these solutions to aid...