Every year, Gartner releases its Magic Quadrant for Managed Mobility Services which evaluates leading MMS technology providers on their completeness of vision and their ability to execute.

For all Wallabies aficionados, Australia’s opening campaign of the Rugby World Cup 2019 kicks off against Fiji on Saturday, 21 September in Sapporo, Japan. No doubt, Australian fans will be hoping to see the Wallabies super-fit and fully-prepared to return to their former glory days. Meanwhile, at around the same time, in a business district near you, the copper network switch off will get underway. Telstra will start disconnecting copper ISDN services as NBN Co brings business-grade networking solutions online.

With technology evolving at a rapid clip and transforming the way people work, it’s becoming increasingly important to digitalise an organisation’s end-to-end processes and unify communications. Fluid communication has always been essential, but now, as organisations undergo broader digital transformation, and embrace new ways of working, implementing a Unified Communications (UC) strategy is just as important for overall flexibility as it is to the bottom line.

As mobility permeates all aspects of business processes and transforms how companies operate, many firms are still playing catch-up in terms of updating their IT infrastructure to empower mobile users. With the mobile landscape becoming more complex and less secure, IT teams need to take control of devices as well as the business-related applications, content, and data living on them. In modern workplaces, core enterprise mobility management (EMM) components are now essential for providing this control.

See a headline with 5G in it, and it’s often accompanied by the term ‘game-changer’. If you’re like me, this puts you on automatic high alert for PR spin. However, in the case of 5G, merely describing it as a game-changer may well be underselling its true value and impact.