On Wednesday, April 8, at 11 a.m. PST/2 p.m. EST/7 p.m. GMT, @eWEEKNews will host its 85th month-to-month #eWEEKChat. The subject will probably be “Trends in Collaboration Tools.” It will probably be moderated by Chris Preimesberger, eWEEK’s Editor in Chief.
Some fast information:
Topic: #eWEEKchat April 8: “Trends in Collaboration Tools”
Date/time: Wednesday, April 8, 11 a.m. PST/2 p.m. EST/7 p.m. GMT
Tweetchat deal with: You can use #eWEEKChat to comply with/take part by way of Twitter itself, nevertheless it’s simpler and extra environment friendly to make use of the real-time chat room hyperlink at CrowdChat. Instructions are on that web page; log in on the prime proper, use your Twitter deal with to register, and the chat begins promptly at 11am PT. The web page will come alive at the moment with the real-time dialogue. You can take part or just watch the dialogue as it’s created. Special due to John Furrier of SiliconAngle.com for creating the CrowdChat app.
Our in-chat specialists will embrace: Andrew Filev, CEO of Wrike; Peter Burris, IT business analyst; Simon Harrison, CMO of Avaya; Kurt Schrader, CEO of Clubhouse; David Mario Smith, founder and principal analyst at InFlow Analysis and strategist for digital office; Eric Jost, CTO of Dynamic Workplace Services; Tom Randall, Research Specialist at infotechRG; Mike Jumper, CEO of Glyptodon and PMC chair of Apache Guacamole; Molly Presley, Global Product Marketing at Qumulo; William Moxley, Chief Product Officer and SVP @ RingCentral; Barry Russell, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Cloud, Qumulo.
Chat room real-time hyperlink: Use https://www.crowdchat.net/eweekchat. Sign in together with your Twitter deal with and use #eweekchat for the identifier.
‘Trends in Collaboration Tools’
Business collaboration instruments have by no means been extra necessary to enterprises than they’re at present, because of the worldwide COVID-19 pneumonia pandemic, which so far has contaminated practically 1 million individuals and killed 55,000 in a span of about three months. Workers have been pressured to function from residence, and plenty of who’ve by no means had to do that are required to learn to schedule and create videoconferences, ship workloads by way of numerous channels to company storage areas and collaborate on inner social network-like instruments, akin to Slack, Zoom, Teams, Box and others.
As analyst and eWEEK contributor Zeus Kerravala wrote: “This shift presents new challenges for IT departments, such as connecting a distributed, remote workforce to business apps and services both in data centers and in the cloud. All employees and their home networks are now treated as remote branches that IT must support with existing resources. At the same time, IT must ensure that those connections are secure and dependable. Historically, for most people, remote access was something used once in a while. Now it needs to be as available and reliable as the company network, because people are working from home for an indefinite period of time.”
Pandemic or no pandemic, you’re most likely utilizing some form of enterprise collaboration software, even proper now. Our…
