The speed of technology continues to increase at an unprecedented rate. Product lifecycles grow shorter and the need for innovation is now a necessity. Organizations upgrading their IT equipment must also consider how to decommission their outdated equipment. Before the era of cyber theft, intellectual property rights, and data storage compliance regulations, IT departments regularly tossed hardware into the trash bins …
What’s New in Classroom Collaborative Learning
The world we live in continues to change at the speed of technology. Innovations in technology shape our interactions with one another, our gathering of information, and our decision making. Educational institutions are integrating more technology in classrooms to increase collaboration and engagement among students. Solving real-world problems using groups of students interacting with one another is referred to as …
Telemedicine: Enhancing Patient Care
The level of patient care has drastically evolved throughout the last decade. The rise of the internet age brought with it profound changes for the practice of telemedicine. The proliferation of smart devices, capable of high-quality video transmission, opened up the possibility of delivering remote healthcare to patients in their homes, workplaces or assisted living facilities as an alternative to …
Crestron Mercury: Video Conferencing
The concept of business collaboration has radically changed over the years. Organizations have adopted both large video conferencing room designs for company meetings and smaller huddle space collaboration areas for everyday situations. In the past, automating room conferencing features have proven complex, costly, and required different types of hardware/software. In today’s business collaboration environment, an integrated and scalable control system …
Optimizing Audio in Conference Rooms
Access to conference rooms provides organizations the ability to discuss important business topics among staff, partners or customers. Sharing ideas and collaborating resources enable companies to innovate products, refine processes and engage key personnel. Having an audio system in place to accurately and effectively give everyone a clear voice in meetings is crucial. Background noise, microphone interference, and audio “dead …
Strategic Communications ranked #47 Cisco Federal Partner for Cisco’s Fiscal 2017
Louisville, KY – 1/18/2018: Strategic Communications, an IT service provider and Audio-Visual integrator, has been recognized and ranked #47 among 1000 Cisco Federal Partners for Cisco’s Fiscal 2017. The ranking considers training, certifications and revenue targets as bases for merit. In 2016, Strategic Communications was certified as a Cisco Gold Partner and successfully renewed the certification last year. The ranking …
Optimize the Impact of Your Video Wall
Video wall displays are growing in popularity among organizations in all vertical markets. Businesses and government agencies alike lean on visual presentations and displays to achieve their objectives. Organizations realize we as humans take in more information about our environment with our eyes than we do with taste, touch, smell and hearing combined. Therefore, we often tend to observe, learn, …
New cloud features and tools from Amazon Web Services (AWS)
The adoption of the cloud has been widespread and has been increasing at an astonishing rate. Organizations from all verticals and sizes have looked to migrate their IT environment from an on-premise platform to the cloud. Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been on the forefront of this trend. The benefits of migrating to a hosted cloud environment are being realized …
Room scheduling optimizes collaboration
Businesses count on streamlined collaboration and communication to spur innovation, improve processes and increase efficiencies. Having the latest in video conferencing and collaboration technology is only as effective as what processes manage them. The larger the business, the more of a need to manage meeting rooms, conference rooms and huddle spaces arise. IT departments can utilize room scheduling technologies with …
The Cloud: Revolutionizing Business Collaboration
Sharing information and ideas at anytime from anywhere has been long sought after by businesses. Companies must continually innovate their processes and products to maintain competitive advantage. Internal and external collaboration is a critical component of product innovation, process improvement, and a healthy environment for organic growth. Businesses migrating their IT environment into the cloud have been doing so at …