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Competition is stiff, but retailers know what it takes to compete

CIO

Challenge: Consumers want to shop on their own terms Recent research shows that 77% of consumers today buy through a mix of digital and physical shopping, while just 17% buy only online or only in physical stores (IDC Retail Insights: Consumer Sentiment Survey, 2024 — Findings and Implications, July 2024).

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Extra Crunch roundup: Clubhouse UX teardown, YC Demo Day favorites, proptech VC survey, more

TechCrunch

Alex Wilhelm dug into Discord’s possible $10 billion exit to Microsoft and explored IPO price ranges for real estate tech company Compass and Intermedia Cloud Communications, a unified-communications-as-a-service company.

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Can you have too many security tools?

CIO

According to IDC’s North American Tools/Vendors Consolidation Survey (November 2023), organizations plan to add even more security tools to their arsenals over time. She often writes about cybersecurity, disaster recovery, storage, unified communications, and wireless technology. But are more security tools always the answer?

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Evaluating the relative cost of edge computing

CIO

IDC’s EdgeView 2024 survey found that 36% of businesses say new investments in edge will include managed edge services. The same IDC survey found that 49% of organizations say their edge investments will include cloud service provider edge solutions. The three options are: Managed edge services. Edge as a service.

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5 hot IT budget investments — and 2 going cold

CIO

The numbers are higher from Foundry’s 2023 State of CIO survey , which finds that 91% of CIOs expect their tech budgets to either increase or stay the same in 2023. Enterprise communications services saw slow but steady 1.6% The unified communications market’s meager 1.6% in 2023, the firm says.

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Investors double down on tech stocks in massive DoorDash, Airbnb, C3.ai IPOs

TechCrunch

Gorny founded Nextiva in 2008, focused on what it describes today as “UcaaS,” or unified communications as a service. Survey: Americans think Big Tech isn’t so bad after all. Hear the latest from Kayhan Space and Firehawk Aerospace at TC Sessions: Space. Give the gift of Extra Crunch for 25% off. Across the week. TechCrunch.

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Key considerations when building your unified communications strategy

Strategy Driven

Unified communications are a hot topic at the moment among businesses, with a unified communications strategy having the potential to offer huge savings and impressive increases in efficiency if it is done right. How many platforms are currently used in your office? It would also offer massive environmental benefits.