Richard English, the Director of Strategic Consulting for Avaya\u2019s Professional Services did an interview recently discussing Avaya\u2019s top trends for 2013.\u00a0 For the last four years Avaya has talked about their predictions of future years trends.\u00a0 Below is a summary of the trends they talk about:<\/p>\n
Simplified Complexity Drives the Agenda<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n With all the advancements in technology, things have gotten a bit complicated.\u00a0 Especially when trying to make everything work together smoothly.\u00a0 Richard says that the new goal is going to be to consolidate these processes and simplify things.\u00a0 Keep the same terrific functionality, but collapse the levels into a single common infrastructure.<\/p>\n Video Changes Business and Customer Expectation<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n We all know Video conferencing has been around awhile, so it may seem a strange prediction or trend of 2013, but English has a different view on it.\u00a0 Video conferencing has become very easy for users at home with Skype, FaceTime, Tango, and other programs or software on mobile devices.\u00a0 So why hasn\u2019t that ease of use traveled into the corporate world? We hope to see setup and \u201cclick to call\u201d style video conferencing become more prevalent in corporate environments.<\/p>\n Real Time Analytics Help Fine Tune the Customer Experience<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n Social media is more than just a fun (or stressful) way to waste time.\u00a0 Businesses have found them to be a useful tool to keep in communication with their customers and receive feedback.\u00a0 They can backfire however, if not monitored or responded to properly.\u00a0 An unused social media profile is worse than none at all.\u00a0 Analyze the content from various post and comments can help companies figure out what their customers wants and needs are, and can improve customer service.<\/p>\n Businesses Face the Private<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n I struggle to understand how their title is fitting of their explanation, but basically this trend falls under \u201cmoving to the cloud\u201d.\u00a0 As more companies move to the cloud they will find that some applications require that they have some private in house hosting, where others will allow for completely public facing connections.<\/p>\n Communication Support Goes Pro-Active<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n Like the first trend says, things are so complicated now, we are looking forward to a time where devices are smarter and Service Providers are more \u201cPro-Active\u201d.\u00a0 Instead of waiting for help desk, who in turn is waiting for the Vendor response, which is waiting for the specialist, all just to get back to you on a problem; wouldn\u2019t it be better to have devices or service providers that could fix items before you knew they were broken?\u00a0 That\u2019s the idea.<\/p>\n Managed Services Hit an Inflection Point<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n Companies are hitting a point that they are going to have to ask, should I move this service to the cloud?\u00a0 Should I have a service provider do this for me or pay my own staff to take care of it for me? Having to make the choice to continue managed services or move them to the cloud is a very tough one that many companies are going to have to make in 2013.<\/p>\n Mobile Muscles In<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n Avaya spokesman Richard English states that this relates mostly to the deployment of Unified Communications.\u00a0 He says that in 2013 he sees mobile devices having all the applications and abilities that you get from unified communications.\u00a0 Not just phone or emails, but video and data and everything else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Richard English, the Director of Strategic Consulting for Avaya\u2019s Professional […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[508],"tags":[892,893,894,417],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.poly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}