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Increase in flexible working drives businesses to focus on unified communications, reveals research from the SAS Group
A survey of IT decision makers at 110 top UK businesses conducted by the SAS Group, an international provider of IP-based network and communication infrastructure services, has found that a critical number of companies are now investigating...

Financial sector leading the charge for IP telephony uptake, research from the SAS Group reveals
A survey of IT decision makers at top UK businesses conducted by the SAS Group*, an international provider of IP-based network and communication infrastructure services, has revealed that the financial sector is well ahead of other UK industries when it comes to adopting IP telephony (IPT) technology...

Green it not a priority for manufacturing companies, the SAS Group research reveals
A survey of IT decision makers at top UK businesses conducted by the SAS Group*, an international provider of IP-based network and communication infrastructure services, has revealed that the manufacturing industry is trailing behind other UK business sectors when it comes to green issues...

Three out of five UK firms have no green it procurement policy, reveals the SAS Group research
A survey of IT decision makers at top UK businesses conducted by the SAS Group*, an international provider of IP-based network and communication infrastructure services, has revealed that 60 percent of companies currently have no green IT procurement policy...

Selecting IPT systems based on technical features alone could result in wasted investment, warns the SAS Group
The SAS Group, an international provider of IP-based network and communication infrastructure services, is advising businesses to broaden their horizons when it comes to scoping new IP telephony (IPT) systems as...

92 percent of UK businesses wary of installing wireless IP telephony, reports the SAS Group
A survey of more than 100 IT and telecoms managers, conducted by the SAS Group, has found that nearly all UK firms have reservations about installing and supporting IP telephony (IPT) solutions over a wireless network...

Call cost reduction is main driver for IP telephony, research from the SAS Group reveals
A survey of 160 IT and telecoms decision makers from top UK companies, conducted by the SAS Group, an international provider of IP-based network and communication infrastructure services, has found that the main reason for businesses...

The SAS Group issues its five top tips for implementing IP telephony-enabled mobile infrastructures
The SAS Group, an international provider of IP-based network and communication infrastructure services, has announced its five key recommendations for ensuring that IP telephony (IPT) enabled mobility solutions deliver on their promises of...

UK manufacturers expect IT staff to manage wireless networks without training, finds the SAS Group
A new survey of IT and telecoms decision makers from top UK companies, commissioned by the SAS Group, has found that 50% of firms in manufacturing expect existing IT staff to take on the support of new wireless network implementations without any training...

Poor QoS management undermining IP telephony deployments, warns the SAS Group
Experts at the SAS Group are warning businesses with IP telephony (IPT) systems to ensure that their underlying networks are continually supporting QoS (quality of service), otherwise they are likely to experience performance degradation, which ultimately may result in applications failure...

Research from the SAS Group suggests UK IT decision makers may expect too much from IP telephony
According to new research carried out by the SAS Group, 84% of UK IT decision makers believe that upgrading their telephony systems to IP will both reduce costs and boost productivity...

Companies underestimate the complexities of IP telephony
Recent research carried out by the SAS Group, has found that most organisations are unaware of the level of complexity involved in implementing and supporting IP telephony (IPT)...

Convergence holds a bleak future for telecoms staff
Telecoms managers will need to retrain or risk replacement as convergence gathers pace in the enterprise workplace, so say technology specialists at the SAS Group...

SAS forecasts major skills shortage for IP communications projects in 2007
Latest research figures from convergence specialists at the SAS Group predict a nationwide skills shortage in IP communications (IPC) over the next 12-18 months...

UK companies are not looking for an ROI from IP telephony
A recent survey of ICT decision makers by the SAS Group has revealed that a massive 93% of companies have no expectation of a return on investment (ROI) for their IP Telephony (IPT) project...

Security the biggest concern for IP telephony deployment
Security fears are the biggest inhibitor to IP telephony (IPT) deployment, according to the findings of a recent survey by the SAS Group, but chief technology officer, Dameon Boyle, believes that many of these fears can be put down to lack of knowledge and experience with the technology...

Cost savings no longer the main driver for IP telephony
In a comprehensive study of IT decision makers, the SAS Group has found that most UK organisations are no longer implementing IP telephony (IPT) with cost reduction as their main objective...

Convergence market set to explode in 2006
Research by the SAS Group has found that most large organisations expect to be using IP telephony (IPT) in their business before the end of 2006...

SAS publishes top 10 rules for implementing mobile computing
Too few organisations have a coherent IT strategy when it comes to mobile computing, according to mobility experts at the SAS Group...

UK companies forget health and safety when it comes to home workers
Many UK companies are risking prosecution under the Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 by failing to ensure adequate safety for home workers...

Poor configuration is a passport to hackers' paradise
ICT security managers need to seriously augment their knowledge of networking protocols to have half a chance of staying ahead of the world's hackers...

SAS blames poor network admin for latest rash of corporate viruses
A lack of basic filtering, network monitoring and systems maintenance were the most likely causes of corporate network breaches in Microsoft software by the Zotob and Rbot worms...