Social business is the norm. Many applications have a communications layer, but not always a social layer. We've largely kept assembly line procedures, but not the assembly line. Leading organizations who see the possibilities will have a distinct advantage.

This brand refresh accurately reflects the trusted guidance that IDC is known for - and is so important for today.

What do you want to know?.

I write about #collaboration and #multimodality. That includes multisensory experiences - and now includes multisensory branding.

Underway at #Ciscolive. Keynote day 2

Ready for #ciscolive keynote in Vegas.

The day before #GoogleIO, Google rolls out an HP partnership taking Project Starline (3D copresence/holographic video #conferencing) out of the lab. The lifelike conferencing platform will support several existing conferencing apps.

"We're going to see a revolution in terms of infrastructure and how infrastructure gets renovated to address the problems that's being created" of data everywhere. - @Craw at #IDCDirections.

Great spending time with the team at @MiroHQ recently!.

Great start to #RingCentralSummit with strong intelligence additions, significant improvements to RingCentral Events, and experience focused updates.

{For the record, I am posting less here. Thank you for asking}.

Copilot still steals show at #MSIgnite, to work across the M365 platform. " We are the copilot company. We believe in a future where they will be a copilot for everyone and everything you do. ".

Microsoft announces 320 million MAUs on Teams; ."Our vision for Teams . bring together everything you need in one place across collaboration, chat meetings and calling." Next Year: Mesh for 2D and 3D. #MSIgnite

"Copilot will be the new UI that helps us gain access to the world's knowledge and your organization's knowledge." @satyanadella at #MSIgnite opening.

To my friends, please enjoy a very Happy #diwali !

Looking forward to hosting this @TheCR panel today with Shannon Barnhart from @Khoros and Jon Allen from @Verint . #CTS2023

NY Work Innovation Summit: ". Smart summaries powered by #AI, @asana will instantly create summaries and action items. " Victoria Guzman, Chief of Staff, Product.

Alex Hood, CPO at NY event: @Asana "intelligence is going to be more than just a co-pilot for individuals. It also can be an air traffic control for your organization."

It does appear Microsoft Teams is launching it's Town Hall (virtual events) feature in October.

Lots of love for new dashboard themes, AI insights and summarization capabilities at #SmartsheetEngage . "Your data is not shared or commingled. Or added to public models.

Ben Canning looks at the product use cases through 3 lenses: work, people and content. I like the focus, especially in light of new announcements.