{"id":6924,"date":"2013-04-10T23:38:18","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T23:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2013\/apr\/11\/sizing-collaboration-how-measure-roi-your-unified-communications\/"},"modified":"2013-04-10T23:38:18","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T23:38:18","slug":"sizing-up-collaboration-how-to-measure-roi-on-your-unified-communications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/sizing-up-collaboration-how-to-measure-roi-on-your-unified-communications\/","title":{"rendered":"Sizing up collaboration: how to measure ROI on your Unified Communications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adrian Thirkill, Easynet UK MD<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dust off the bunting and hang the flags out: global IT spending is forecast to increase by 4.1% in 2013&nbsp; according to Gartner&rsquo;s latest worldwide IT spending forecast published in March.<\/p>\n<p>This is great news, but when considered within the still-quaking economy it also comes with a caution: it&rsquo;s more important than ever to make carefully-planned IT investments which add value to a business and create a Return on Investment in a defined time period. Now is not the time for IT Supermarket Sweeps, or for keeping up with the Jones&rsquo;.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Unified Communications (UC) is one particular investment which brings about an improved way of working with immediate, tangible business benefits. When securing board buy-in, a commitment to how quickly companies can see a Return on Investment (ROI) from its rollout is often one of the deciding factors. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To make the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adrian Thirkill, Easynet UK MD<br \/>\nDust off the bunting and hang the flags out: global IT spending is forecast to increase by 4.1% in 2013&nbsp; according to Gartner&rsquo;s latest worldwide IT spending forecast published in March.<br \/>\nThis is great news, b&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}