What are Unified Communications?
Unified Communications refers to the way different sorts of communication tools within the digital workforce, interact, and collaborate. There are various communication channels available, here are just a few of the collaboration tools commonly in use: Email Telephony (fixed-line, mobile, VoIP-based phone system) Audio / video conferencing Instant Messaging Status (as an example, consider your list of contacts on Facebook, and the relevant icons that show individual contacts to be online or away) Social media (think Twitter, Facebook, What's App, Instagram, and so on…) Some of these communication channels are of the “store-and-forward” type, in the sense that the information is delivered in one direction, and remains accessible (almost) indefinitely for the remote parts to view at their leisure; e-mail is the grand-daddy of this communication style. Others, however, are “real-time” and require rapid response (often interrupting other tasks); a phone call is the obvious largest con...