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June 2, 2020The move to Unified Communications as a Service is one that requires substantial planning and close examination of the needs of multiple “constituents within your organization. There are the department leads, key managers, and the finance people who must attend to the conversion from a budgetary point of view. -
May 12, 2020Unified Communications as a Service (UCaaS) is one technology that fits with virtually every vertical market. Some of the most prominent ones, however, include Gov/Ed, Healthcare, IT, Manufacturing, Media, Retail, Travel/Hospitality, Transportation, and Utilities. “We’ve seen a lot of use cases in retail,” said Mitel’s Jim McGarry.
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May 11, 2020CHICAGO – May 11, 2020 — AVANT Communications (“AVANT”), a platform for IT decision-making for next generation technologies announced today that CRN®, a brand of The Channel Company, has named three women leaders – Jennifer Gallego, Shannon Orr and Bana Qashu – to its esteemed 2020 Women of the Channel list.
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April 30, 2020Stratosphere Networks and AVANT Communications Rally Chicago’s IT Community to Build McCormick Place Alternate Care Facility’s IT & Telecom Network in Two Weeks Largest Convention Center in North America Transformed into COVID-19 ACF CHICAGO – April 29, 2020 – Stratosphere Networks, a trusted advisor for technology services, and AVANT Communications (“AVANT”), a platform for IT decision-making for next generation technologies, today announced the two companies, along with their IT partners Evolve IP, Ignyte, RapidScale, Spectrotel, Synoptek, and Trustwave, led the rapid transformation of the McCormick Place Convention Center into the McCormick Place Alternate Care Facility (ACF); a dedicated COVID-19 facility to act as a relief valve on the local hospital system.
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April 7, 2020To most of us, video capability at the desktop is not a new thing. It was that dusty button that most people ignored during web-based conference calls. If we were working from home, we were even less likely to use it.
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March 31, 2020The value proposition of Unified Communications-as-a-Service (UCaaS) is about enhancing the customer experience through newer capabilities such as SMS, video, and even certain types of social media. UCaaS also supports the gathering of data and analytics so that interactions with customers and other constituents can be effectively measured.
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March 24, 2020If, thirty days ago, you’d asked anyone in the tech industry if we live in cloud-based virtual communities, the answer would almost certainly have been yes. They would have been right (sort of). As it turns out, the training wheels are now coming off of our virtual lives, and this has been happening in a way that was unpredictable to many of us.
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March 17, 2020As covered in this blog space last week, AVANT has launched its latest 6-12 Report. This one is on IT Security. The mission of the 6-12 Report is to provide the enterprise decision maker with a detailed assessment of the featured technology so that they can make an educated decision on whether to pull the trigger on that technology within the next six to 12 months.
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March 10, 2020Designed to help enterprise decision-makers evaluate their company’s IT security framework for the next six to 12 months. CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AVANT Analytics, the market research division of AVANT Communications (“AVANT”), a platform for IT decision-making and the nation’s premier distributor for next generation technology, today released its 6-12 Report for IT Security.
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March 9, 2020AVANT will introduce Zoom’s cloud-based video-first unified communications solutions through its subagent community. CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--AVANT Communications (“AVANT"), a platform for IT decision-making, today announces that it has joined forces with Zoom Video Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: ZM) to offer the company’s video-first unified communications platform, which aims to bring people together to get more done in a frictionless video environment, through AVANT's network of Trusted Advisors.
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March 6, 2020More than 300 Trusted Advisors, key vendors and members of the AVANT leadership were on hand for the February 27th ribbon-cutting of AVANT Communications’ 6,000 square foot “HQ-2” in Dallas, Texas. The million-dollar, 18-month initiative underscores our company’s commitment to enabling technology sales all over North America and beyond.
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March 3, 2020As I write this blog, the news is dominated by coverage of the Coronavirus. So, I’m considering this to be a no-setup-required kind of message. There’s no way you don’t know about this insidious disease, unless you’re off-the-grid. And if you’re off-the-grid, you’re not reading this anyway.
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February 25, 2020The days of the private branch exchange (PBX) are rapidly coming to a close. This old-school phone system is facing extinction as Unified Communications as a Service approaches its tornado phase. At one time, a company could buy a proprietary key system or PBX from a brand name vendor and know that their telecommunications needs would be fully met, far into the foreseeable future.
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February 18, 2020Adding new IT solutions within your technology infrastructure can sometimes be a tricky proposition, even in circumstances where the upgrade provides a solid business benefit to your company. Aside from the potential budgetary impacts and the inevitable hoops to jump through, the internal realities of most enterprise corporations require a certain level of political skill to move the technology from an idea to an approved reality.
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