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A retail centre management company is benefiting from business continuity and employee safety throughout the COVID-19 crisis, thanks in part to SCC’s home working solution. A great collaboration between SCC and SCC AVS has delivered a secure VPN solution, as well as video and audio conferencing via WebEx and Jabber soft clients, to ensure employees...

A key utilities provider, one of the 14 electricity distribution network operators, contacted SCC in the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic with an urgent request for a videoconferencing solution, to enable a virtual board meeting. Less than a week after receiving the request, the solution was supplied, resulting in a successful virtual meeting and...

With an immediate requirement to upgrade videoconferencing suites and multi-disciplinary team services, a midlands-based NHS trust received support from SCC AVS on-site in under four hours. Our amazing team, led by Project Manager Jamie Liston, responded to the call the moment it was received, understanding the importance of our NHS throughout the on-going COVID-19 situation....

Our SCC AVS team is working tirelessly to help keep the amazing NHS functioning and delivering health services to as many people as possible. For one trust last week, we helped 12,000 doctors carry out video consultations, and we are currently creating 33 meeting rooms to act as safe environments to connect their sites across...

Age-old business processes are holding us back and preventing us from being more imaginative, innovative and creative. But by making good use of collaboration technologies, we can change that and adopt more inspirational, open, free-thinking and entrepreneurial working environments. We have all witnessed the phenomenal growth of businesses like Amazon, Google, AirbnB and Uber. These...

Customers are starting to warm to the idea of taking audiovisual solutions on a subscription basis, along with the required consultancy, installation, software, service and support. ‘As a service’ models are everywhere in IT now. It’s much easier for everyone to manage software applications and keep them up to date when they are in the...

We have become almost totally dependent on email, even though it is inefficient and time-consuming – we need to adopt better ways of communicating and working together. Email seems to rule our working lives. It has become the primary form of communication between customers, suppliers, partners and colleagues. We all spend hours struggling against the...

Users who want to will find a way to collaborate and work together, even by using social media, so it’s much better to provide them with a consistent, stable and secure solution that will meet their needs – and ensure data stays inside the organisation. Shadow IT has become a real problem for many organisations....

While we have certainly got better at it, there are still real issues with the way we connect, communicate and collaborate. We have email, SMS, instant messaging, and multiple voice and video conferencing systems. We can use all these tools on our PCs, notebooks, tablets and smartphones. Yet we are still not communicating in a...

For collaboration solutions to be truly effective in organisations, even the most techno-phobic users need to feel comfortable with them – simplification is key. The best solutions are often the simplest ones. This stands to reason. If something is easy to use, people will use it. If it’s difficult, they won’t. For far too long,...

Managing Director of AV Services Graham Fry discusses the business requirements influencing the trends in the collaboration market. Collaboration is all anyone speaks about at the moment and leadership teams across the world are searching for answers to: “How do we enable our people to work collaboratively?” Businesses are under pressure to outperform competitors and...

HR is an integral part of any business and an efficient department ensures everything runs smoothly. And as the HR heroes amongst us know (yes, that’s you!), as an organisation grows fluid communication and collaboration are essential for success, whether you’re reinforcing your company’s culture, sourcing the best talent or managing issues professionally. In the...