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Polycom unveiled its top seven technology predictions for 2015 and beyond:
1. Globalising companies will rapidly adopt and use collaboration tools
The future of business requires collaboration tools that extend business and defy distance and time. In 2015, more tools that enable visual communication from people to content will help break down communication borders and enable more global success.
2. Integration, not just interoperability
Video conferencing is quickly becoming one of the most used collaboration tools and is expected to overtake email as the preferred tool by 2016. New technologies such as WebRTC, standards-based video, rich software development kits and a deeper understanding of unified communications applications, make this a reality. New industry-specific solutions—particularly in healthcare, government, financial services and retail—will increase the use and relevance of video this year.
3. The workspace itself will evolve
To reduce real estate space and related expenses, some companies are moving from rows of cubicles to more open workspaces and offering employees flexible work arrangements. New technology innovations, like noise cancellation, lighting adjustments and digital white-boarding, will support this transformation. These technology innovations, coupled with a stronger desire for open collaboration, will render the current office-based workspace obsolete.
4. The Age of ‘Supermobility’
In 2015, device-to-device communication will enable contextual-based collaboration. This “supermobility,” which will include more use of near field communications (NFC), Wi-Di, Ultrasonic and other wireless technologies, will give mobile device users easier and more secure access to an enterprise’s visual collaboration tools.
5. SMB market will accelerate the use of cloud-based collaboration solutions
More than ever, large scale movement of small- to medium-sized businesses (SMB) to cloud-based VoIP, video and content sharing services will grow. Traditional PSTN infrastructure is becoming outdated, and with a regulatory mandate to move all voice services off PSTN within the next five years, cloud-based voice, video and content use will rise dramatically.
6. Browser-based collaboration solutions will become the tool of choice
Enabled by WebRTC, companies globally will come to depend more on the browser to perform communication functions within work streams. Simplicity will ultimately rule this change, as more businesses look to make video an easy to use option.
7. Meetings as you know them are changing for the better
Better quality and easier to use collaboration solutions are making it feel as natural as being there—so users have a common experience regardless of their location or device. Video conferencing solutions also will easily connect to third-party audio services, such as Skype for Business (Microsoft Lync), increasing business-to-consumer (B2C) and business-to-business (B2B) communications.
