How well do your people work together? When it comes to increasing business growth and output, making it easier for your people to collaborate is key to enabling higher productivity and increasing engagement. To bring teams together, unified communication and collaboration tools are now vital.

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.

We’re getting ready for Telstra Vantage™ 2018 which is on in Melbourne from 17-20 September at the Melbourne Conference & Exhibition Centre.

This annual showcase of ideas and technology is designed to get everyone thinking. With spectacular experiences and hands-on demonstrations of transformational technologies and innovation, delegates will get to explore new ways of solving today’s biggest challenges. It’s also a great opportunity to hear from a number of world-class speakers sharing their latest ideas.

Flexible working has become a cornerstone of the modern workplace. As an employer, providing employees with flexible work arrangements is critical to attracting and retaining the best talent. Of course, to underpin such flexibility you need collaboration and communication tools that ensure your people are never more than a tap or two away from connecting to other colleagues, clients, systems, data, and applications.