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Unified communications: integrating voice, video, messaging and collaboration

Tuesday, 03 March 2026 by Viki Asimov

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Is unified communications mainly a technology decision? Only on the surface. In practice it’s a delivery decision: how your organisation turns a fast conversation into an owned action, and how quickly someone else can pick up the thread when priorities shift. Hybrid working is now normalised in many organisations. In the CIPD’s 2025 report, 74% of organisations said the majority of employees work in a hybrid way. Flexible and hybrid

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Teams or Slack: Making the Right Collaboration Platform Choice for Your Business

Friday, 23 January 2026 by Viki Asimov

Most organisations choose collaboration platforms by comparing features. Then wonder why adoption fails. Here’s what we’ve learned implementing these platforms across UK businesses: the organisations that succeed aren’t the ones who chose the “right” platform by feature comparison. They’re the ones who committed completely and forced the change. Microsoft Teams reached 360 million monthly active users by

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When Client Campaigns Leak: Protecting Creative IP in the Digital Age

Wednesday, 21 January 2026 by Pratik Patel

Protecting your IP for your Creative Agency

How vulnerable are creative agencies to cyber attacks targeting valuable client intellectual property? Extremely vulnerable. Your agency’s most valuable assets aren’t sitting in the studio. They’re on your servers. Unreleased campaigns, brand strategies in development, and client briefs marked “confidential” represent millions invested in marketing and months of creative work. 43% of businesses experienced breaches in the past year.

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The Access Control Crisis: Managing Identity When Teams Double Every Quarter

Friday, 21 November 2025 by Raphael Waller

Access Control Crisis and Managing Identity

Your Series A just closed. You’ve hired 15 people in six weeks. Your engineer who left last month still has AWS access. Your CTO doesn’t know who can see customer payment data. Sound familiar? Picture this scenario at a fast-growing London fintech start-up. Monday morning – The operations lead gets a Slack message. “Can’t access GitHub.”

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Migrating from Google Workspace to Microsoft 365

Monday, 03 October 2022 by Liam Wray

Organisations of all sizes are moving from Google Workspace (formerly G Suite) to Microsoft 365 as their primary productivity platform. The move will help your business and your employees – we’ll get more into how later – but any IT project has the potential to cause issues, especially when it involves moving data across platforms.

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It is time to switch your ISDN to SIP for your business calling

Wednesday, 27 July 2022 by Liam Wray

A few years ago, Openreach announced that ISDN phone lines will be switched off in 2025. If your business is still using the outdated network, now is the time to switch. ISDN’s successor, SIP Trunking, is a faster, cheaper, and more flexible alternative. Any change can be daunting. Luckily, the switch from ISDN to SIP is likely

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