Cisco® Unified Access establishes a framework that securely, reliably, and seamlessly connects anyone, anywhere, anytime, using any device to any resource. This framework empowers all employees with advanced services, taking advantage of an intelligent, enterprise-wide network to increase revenue, productivity, and customer satisfaction while reducing operational inefficiencies across the business. Cisco Unified Access includes services-rich network edge systems and combines a core network infrastructure embedded with integration of productivity-enhancing advanced technologies, including IP communications, mobility, security, video, and collaboration services.

With 50 to 100 billion things expected to be connected to the Internet by 2020, we are now experiencing a major paradigm shift that is revolutionizing business. More and more of the objects we use every day—including those in our factories, utilities, and railroads—are used to capture and distribute information that is helping us know more and do more. The TechWiseTV team and guest experts take an in-depth look at how industries like these are utilizing the data they are gathering from the factory floor all the way out to the field. This exploration into how the Internet of Things actually works in the real world and what your organization must do to take full advantage of it is a great opportunity to understand the practical challenges and specific technology involved in bringing all this potential to life.

Historically, the speed of a wired connection at the access edge has always been faster than that of a wireless connection. This means workers had to choose between the performance of wired connectivity and the convenience of a wireless connection. Consequently, workers often had to modify the way they worked— first, finding a wired port to use for high-bandwidth applications, such as video or streaming media, and then shifting to wireless connections when the need to be mobile was more important than having the performance of wired.

Cisco Mobility Express is a software-based controller function integrated on Cisco 1800 series Wave 2 AccessPoints. It is a simplified, low cost, feature rich WiFi architecture with enterprise level WLAN capability streamlined for small and mid-sized deployments. In a Cisco Mobility Express network, AccessPoint (AP) running the wireless controller function is designated as the Master AP. The other AccessPoints which are managed by this Master APare referred asSubordinate APs.

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is flooding today’s industrial sector with data. Information is streaming in from many sources — equipment on production lines, sensors at customer facilities, sales data, and much more. Harvesting insights means filtering out the noise to arrive at actionable intelligence. This report shows how to craft a strategy to gain a competitive edge. It explains how to evaluate IIoT solutions, including what to look for in end-to-end analytics solutions. Finally, it shows how SAS has combined its analytics expertise with Intel’s leadership in IIoT information architecture to create solutions that turn raw data into valuable insights.

Executives, managers and information workers have all come to respect the role that data management plays in the success of their organizations. But organizations don’t always do a good job of communicating and encouraging better ways of managing information. In this e-book you will find easy to digest resources on the value and importance of data preparation, data governance, data integration, data quality, data federation, streaming data, and master data management.

What can you see and discover when you’re able to explore trends and make predictions with your organization’s data? If you’re a midsize home delivery business, you can discover new ways to make customers happy. If you’re a local government agency, you can predict where your resources are needed most. And if you’re a growing hospital, you can bring life-changing patient data directly to doctors and nurses. In this e-book, we’ve profiled six organizations that are using self-service visual exploration to make big improvements in the way they work. From college administrators to professional sports teams, everyone makes better decisions with easy access to powerful, interactive analytics.

Expanding and enriching the educational experience through a streamlined, broadened networkBYOD in the classroom and one-student-one-device trends meant Kentucky’s Bullitt County Public Schools needed an easily configurable, reliable and scalable network. Read this case study to discover the benefits of WLAN technology in the educational world >

Overcoming the obstacles to deliver the modern learning demands of a smart campusFrom secure BYOD to robust WiFi and comprehensive video surveillance, the IT challenges schools face to ensure smart, safe campuses are not minor. This on-demand webinar details how schools like yours seamlessly integrated new technology on a budget >

Thinking about a web conferencing solution switch? Then this IT Buyer’s Guide to Web Conferencing is for you. The positive impact of a web conferencing solution is well-established. But a web conferencing tool can become just another pain point for IT teams. To reduce the resource and budget burdens your team, it is imperative to find the right solution from the start. Download PGi’s IT Buyer’s Guide to Web Conferencing to use as a reference tool for your research.

The need for high-throughput wireless access was especially acute at Ligonier Valley High School, where hundreds of students, especially those in math and science classrooms located in one wing of the building, vied for simultaneous wireless connectivity to applications such as Larson Math and Science and the ALEKS one-on-one instructional system. Whether in the math and science wing or other areas of the school, bandwidth-intensive streaming video, multicast within classrooms, is common.

The Cisco UCS solution provides all management and configuration services at the centrally located Fabric Interconnects, so you can manage large-scale deployments from a single location. This method lets you consolidate hardware and streamline management. The IBM Flex System solution uses a distributed management model with chassis-level control. This method adds to the complexity to the hardware configuration, which can increase management needs.

Read this complimentary infographic to learn more about how Unified Communications can deploy easily and benefit organizations of all sizes.

UCaaS enables businesses to transition their enterprise communications costs from a capital-expenditure (CapEx) to an operational-expense (OpEx) model, transforming the upfront costs related to on-premises PBX and UC deployments to a flexible per-user pricing model, which allows them to quickly scale the number of UC users up or down as business needs dictate.

“Bring your own device,” or BYOD, enables your employees be productive and collaborate wherever they are, but it also introduces concerns around security and compliance. Austin Herrington, Windstream Director of Enterprise/CPE Product Marketing, explains how Unified Communications (UC) can help you address these challenges and focus on your core business. See how Windstream experts team up with your business to design a customized UC solution that’s right for you.

“Bring your own device,” or BYOD, enables your employees be productive and collaborate wherever they are, but it also introduces concerns around security and compliance. Austin Herrington, Windstream Director of Enterprise/CPE Product Marketing, explains how Unified Communications (UC) can help you address these challenges and focus on your core business. See how Windstream experts team up with your business to design a customized UC solution that’s right for you.

UCaaS enables businesses to transition their enterprise communications costs from a capital-expenditure (CapEx) to an operational-expense (OpEx) model, transforming the upfront costs related to on-premises PBX and UC deployments to a flexible per-user pricing model, which allows them to quickly scale the number of UC users up or down as business needs dictate.

Read this complimentary infographic to learn more about how Unified Communications can deploy easily and benefit organizations of all sizes.

Discover top trends and best practices for moving UC to the cloud in this Nemertes Report.

Selecting the right enterprise resource planning (ERP) software often poses a challenge for many businesses in the manufacturing industry. With so many options out there, it’s difficult to break down each potential application and choose the one that’s the best fit for your business. This Gartner report explains how ERP selection teams can come to a consensus and establish an understanding of all options by jointly populating and prioritizing a hierarchical, weighted ERP evaluation model. A structured evaluation model helps put all the cards on the table by explaining and justifying to internal stakeholders, external auditors, and vendors how and why an ERP software decision was made. Read the Gartner report and establish your own ERP evaluation model to see if the Epicor ERP solution is the right fit for your manufacturing business.

CMOs face a major dilemma: While 75% of CEOs want marketing to become more ROI-focused and attribute revenue to efforts, they’re also being tasked to innovate and lead their companies into the digital age. Read how the Oracle Marketing Cloud provides marketing leaders with data-driven solutions to unify marketing resources and empower Modern Marketing teams to deliver personalized customer experiences across each channel.

In order to appeal today’s empowered audiences, you have to deliver highly personalised marketing experiences that respond to their needs and behaviour. Read this report for actionable insight into customer-centric marketing.

Support organizations are implementing new technologies and processes to better connect customers with technical support teams, and customer satisfaction is paramount. However, most organizations admit they're not proactively aligning their priorities with their customers’ expectations. Are the needs of the support team different from what customers want and expect? Recent research by HDI delves into the two groups’ expectations and priorities— according to support professionals—and explores how closely they're aligned. Download this white paper to learn more.

In most companies, sales and marketing fight each other as much as the competition. But research shows that companies with tight sales-marketing alignment have 38% higher win rates and generate 208% more revenue. Tracy Eiler shares her takeaways from the webinar with Forrester’s Laura Ramos, “5 Ways to Get Sales & Marketing Aligned” in this article. Learn how to start aligning your sales and marketing teams.

Service virtualization offers a solution. Service virtualization tools simulate software components so end-to-end testing can proceed even when dependent components are not available. That means teams can perform integration tests sooner and more often, accelerating the delivery of high-quality, thoroughly tested applications.