Deciding on Emerging Technologies

One thing is for sure in today's tech industry:  There is always something faster, bigger, cheaper, prettier, and more efficient than the purchase you just made.  This is not necessarily a reason to keep with the curve.  While there are definite competitive advantages to early-adopting new technologies, you must be prepared as a business to absorb potential issues when riding ahead of the wave.  In the course of a technology assessment, TCS Vision can advise you on benefits and pitfalls to your business.  A few examples of technologies emerging in the today's mainstream market include:

Web 2.0/Software As a Service

The adoption by pop culture of ubiquitous web social-networking sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, MySpace, and Twitter has created a further industry trend of hosting specialized collaborative softwares via the internet.  As internet bandwidth and server hardware become faster and cheaper, we are now witnessing the offload of many productivity applications, having traditionally been performed in desktop applications, to the 'Cloud'.  While there are both strength and weaknesses associated with outsourcing business processes to internet-based hosting services, it is clear that that the already mass adoption of these services will only increase.  If social networking is right for your business, you must consider TCO and ROI of hosting a collaboration platform internally or outsourcing to an internet-based service.  TCS Vision walks you through the deployment and adoption of internal collaborative services such as MicrosoftT SharePoint, Zimbra, and LotusT Domino.

VoIP

By leveraging the available bandwidth of your current high-speed data pipe, VoIP provides an lower cost, managed, reliable, high quality replacement for traditional PSTN to PBX internal phone systems.  Many providers will allow you to combine data and voice services, turning into raw cash savings on monthly data and voice charges.  Software-based services which allow phone calls to landlines from PCs may be ideal for smaller  or branch-office environments.  Specialized phone adapters integrate these services into smaller scale PBX systems.  TCS Vision can help you determine the advantage of VoIP for your business telecommunications needs.

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