In 2020, videoconferencing gained an enterprise foothold. Now what?
The pandemic continues, and changes it brought to the workplace — the wholesale move to remote work — appear to be here to stay.
Stories by Charlotte Trueman
Cisco overhauls Webex with an eye on seamless collaboration, smart hybrid work
Cisco has unveiled a slew of new features - and three devices - designed to help users make virtual meetings as good as the real thing.
Asana adds new integrations to help connect distributed teams
Asana has unveiled integrations with Atlassian Jira, Microsoft Teams, Slack and Zoom to help improve productivity and reduce the duplication of work.
Atlassian looks to revolutionise ITSM market with Jira Service Management
As the ITSM landscape continues to grow, Atlassian’s latest move aims to bring IT operations and development teams closer together.
Zoom looks to super-charge videoconferencing
As the Covid-19 pandemic continues to lurch on, Zoom announced a slew of new features to help improve its offering for remote workers.
Wire targets Zoom, Teams and others with secure video upgrades
Wire, which touts its ability to offer secure video communications, now allows up to 10 users on a video call in an encrypted environment.
Zoom’s outage causes chaos, especially for educators, teachers
Though schools and universities appeared to be hardest-hit by the outage, the outage highlights the need for back-up plans and alternatives.
Atlassian unveils new efficiency tweaks for Confluence and Trello
The new features are designed to help improve efficiency for employees forced to work at home, far from their office colleagues.
Asana touts new Microsoft Teams integrations
Work management platform Asana has expanded its ties with Microsoft Teams, solidifying efforts by the two companies to make task management easier.
BlueJeans touts new security, collaboration features
As global work-from-home initiatives continue, the Verizon-owned firm is unveiling upgrades to bring it in line with rivals like Zoom, Webex and LogMeIn.
How voice tech could shape the post-pandemic workplace
As companies start thinking about how to reopen offices, contactless interfaces could be key to ensuring employees stay safe.
Facebook’s Workplace embraces video, touts new users amid pandemic
At the same time CEO Mark Zuckerberg unveiled a new remote work policy, Facebook moved to strengthen the collaboration capabilities in Workplace.
Atlassian acquires help desk firm Halp
Software vendor best known for its Jira, Trello and Confluence platforms hopes the acquisition will make it easier for users to handle help desk requests.
Zoom unveils a host of new privacy, security features
As part of its 90-day security plan, the troubled video conferencing platform is upgrading its encryption in Zoom 5.0.
Google, Microsoft talk up security after Zoom firestorm
As Zoom continues to fight continuing privacy and security concerns, Microsoft and Google look to reassure users that their platforms are safe.
