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          Take Productivity to New Heights

          Collaboration is a Smart Investment

          It’s no surprise that today’s workforce, faculty, students and staff rely on more forms of communication than ever before. Open lines of communication are what make the difference between seizing an opportunity and missing it entirely. And new generations of tech-savvy users are joining the ranks of your workforce, campus and classroom, demanding more mobility and performance from their “workspace” tools and applications.

          There is no doubt that deploying tools that increase collaboration and productivity are smart investment. And a growing suite of collaboration and productivity applications are now being delivered via the cloud. SaaS-based business productivity apps are an even smarter investment, allowing you to quickly deploy these productivity-boosting, cloud-based services, while avoiding unnecessary IT capital investments.

          Let’s Meet in the Clouds

          Today, online meeting applications are a must-have solution for any organization, regardless of size or vertical. Web conferencing not only reduces employee travel time and expenses; it also offers a professional platform to offer interactive demonstrations, collaborate to edit critical documents and support continued organizational productivity in the event of inclement weather.

          Now, solutions like Microsoft Office Live Meeting, Cisco WebEx Connect, and Adobe® Connect™ offer SaaS-based solutions that to connect you with colleagues and customers through real-time meetings, training sessions, and events. These cloud products offer an online collaboration solution that lets you to securely share presentations and multimedia right from your desktop via a software subscription model that can be managed with minimal IT resources.

          Unified, Connected and Productive

          Our ever-expanding appetite for technology has multiplied into too many communication channels. With so many paths to be contacted, it’s hard to keep track of all the messages coming in.

           

          Solutions Begin with Us

          Add new technologies like VoIP, video conferencing, and smartphones into the mix, and the advantages of increased communication are soon outweighed by the complexity.

          Solutions like Cisco WebEx Connect, Adobe® Connect™ and Microsoft Lync Online integrate key collaboration capabilities—like presence, instant messaging, and video conferencing. And, now that these solutions are available via a SaaS model, your organization can achieve agility, productivity and simplicity, for minimal investment.

          Share and Share Alike

          Today’s organizations manage highly distributed workforces, sites and campuses, often with teams not physically co-located. Such users require web-based access to collaboration platforms to share files and work with team members in a shared workspace. SharePoint Online is a great SaaS-based solution for this need, bringing together the familiar SharePoint collaboration platform, now delivered as an online service. While Smith Micro’s SendStuffNow offers smaller organizations a cost effective and secure way to share files.

          Got Mail? Go Mobile

          While email is critical to organizational operations, it can be an extremely tactical and time consuming for internal IT. A SaaS offering like Microsoft Exchange Online offers a comprehensive messaging solution with a simple per-user monthly fee, reducing IT workload and freeing IT resources to focus on core strategic initiatives.

          Increase Productivity with SaaS

          From email, collaboration and beyond, its time to realize the productivity and operational savings possible through SaaS. GovConnection can help you chart your path to the cloud. Visit our SaaS showcase for productivity applications for more information.

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